Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo

Carroll, Sean B.

ISBN 10: 0393327795 / ISBN 13: 9780393327793

Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393327795
• ISBN 13: 9780393327793
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: acceptable

About this title

Synopsis

“A beautiful and very important book.”―Lewis Wolpert, American Scientist

For over a century, opening the black box of embryonic development was the holy grail of biology. Evo Devo―Evolutionary Developmental Biology―is the new science that has finally cracked open the box. Within the pages of his rich and riveting book, Sean B. Carroll explains how we are discovering that complex life is ironically much simpler than anyone ever expected.

About the Author

Sean B. Carroll is professor of genetics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His first book, Endless Forms Most Beautiful, was a finalist for the 2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Carroll’s seminal scientific work has been featured in Time and The New Yorker. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin.