Evolving Pathways: Key Themes in Evolutionary Developmental Biology - Softcover

Fusco, Giuseppe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107405459 ISBN 13: 9781107405455

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Synopsis

Evolutionary developmental biology, or 'evo-devo', is the study of the relationship between evolution and development. Dealing specifically with the generative mechanisms of organismal form, evo-devo goes straight to the core of the developmental origin of variation, the raw material on which natural selection (and random drift) can work. Evolving Pathways brings together contributions that represent a diversity of approaches. Topics range from developmental genetics to comparative morphology of animals and plants alike, and also include botany and palaeontology, two disciplines for which the potential to be examined from an evo-devo perspective has largely been ignored until now. Researchers and graduate students will find this book a valuable overview of current research as we begin to fill a major gap in our perception of evolutionary change.

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Book Description

Evolutionary developmental biology is the study of the relationship between evolution and development. Evolving Pathways brings together contributions representing a diversity of approaches. Researchers and graduate students will find this book a valuable overview of current research as we begin to fill the gap in our perception of evolutionary change.

About the Author

Alessandro Minelli is currently Professor of Zoology at the University of Padova, Italy. An honorary fellow of the Royal Entomological Society, he was a founding member and vice-president of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology. He has served as president of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, and is on the editorial board of multiple learned journals, including Evolution & Development. He is the author of 'The Development of Animal Form' (2003). Giuseppe Fusco is Assistant Professor of Zoology at the University of Padova, Italy. His main research work is in the morphological evolution and post-embryonic development of arthropods, with particular reference to the role of segmentation in the Chilopoda. The results of his work have been presented at many international congresses, including the European Society for Evolutionary Biology and the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107405459
• ISBN 13: 9781107405455
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 446
• Editor: Minelli Alessandro