Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom

Carroll, Sean B.

ISBN 10: 0393327795 / ISBN 13: 9780393327793

Published by W.W. Norton, New York, 2006

About this Item

8vo, 550 pp., First printing of the softcover edition.

Seller Inventory # 098613

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom
• Publisher: W.W. Norton, New York
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393327795
• ISBN 13: 9780393327793
• Binding: softcover
• Illustrator: Illustrated
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine copy
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biology

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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.