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From Embryology to Evo-Devo : A History of Developmental Evolution.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (578 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262277976
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: From Embryology to Evo-DevoDDC classification:
  • 571.809
LOC classification:
  • QH491.F76 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- 1 - Introduction -- 2 - Does History Recapitulate Itself? Epistemological Reflections on the Origins of Evolutionary Developmental Biology -- I - ONTOGENY AND PHYLOGENY IN EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY BIOLOGY -- 3 - Living with the Biogenetic Law: A Reappraisal -- 4 - William Bateson's Physicalist Ideas -- 5 - To Evo-Devo Through Cells, Embryos, and Morphogenesis -- 6 - A Century of Evo-Devo: The Dialectics of Analysis and Synthesis in Twentieth-Century Life Science -- 7 - The Cell as the Basis for Heredity, Development, and Evolution: Richard Goldschmidt's Program of Physiological Genetics -- II - ROOTS AND PROBLEMS OF EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY -- 8 - The Relations Between Comparative Embryology,Morphology, and Systematics: An American Perspective -- 9 - Morphological and Paleontological Perspectives for a History of Evo-Devo -- 10 - Echoes of Haeckel? Reentrenching Development in Evolution -- 11 - Fate Maps, Gene Expression Maps, and the Evidentiary Structure of Evolutionary Developmental Biology -- 12 - Tracking Organic Processes: Representations and Research Styles in Classical Embryology and Genetics -- 13 - The Juncture of Evolutionary and Developmental Biology -- 14 - Tapping Many Sources: The Adventitious Roots of Evo-Devo in the Nineteenth Century -- 15 - Six Memos for Evo-Devo -- 16 - The Current State and the Future of Developmental Evolution -- About the Authors -- Index.
Summary: Historians, philosophers, sociologists, and biologists explore the history of the idea that embryological development and evolution are linked.
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Intro -- Contents -- 1 - Introduction -- 2 - Does History Recapitulate Itself? Epistemological Reflections on the Origins of Evolutionary Developmental Biology -- I - ONTOGENY AND PHYLOGENY IN EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY BIOLOGY -- 3 - Living with the Biogenetic Law: A Reappraisal -- 4 - William Bateson's Physicalist Ideas -- 5 - To Evo-Devo Through Cells, Embryos, and Morphogenesis -- 6 - A Century of Evo-Devo: The Dialectics of Analysis and Synthesis in Twentieth-Century Life Science -- 7 - The Cell as the Basis for Heredity, Development, and Evolution: Richard Goldschmidt's Program of Physiological Genetics -- II - ROOTS AND PROBLEMS OF EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY -- 8 - The Relations Between Comparative Embryology,Morphology, and Systematics: An American Perspective -- 9 - Morphological and Paleontological Perspectives for a History of Evo-Devo -- 10 - Echoes of Haeckel? Reentrenching Development in Evolution -- 11 - Fate Maps, Gene Expression Maps, and the Evidentiary Structure of Evolutionary Developmental Biology -- 12 - Tracking Organic Processes: Representations and Research Styles in Classical Embryology and Genetics -- 13 - The Juncture of Evolutionary and Developmental Biology -- 14 - Tapping Many Sources: The Adventitious Roots of Evo-Devo in the Nineteenth Century -- 15 - Six Memos for Evo-Devo -- 16 - The Current State and the Future of Developmental Evolution -- About the Authors -- Index.

Historians, philosophers, sociologists, and biologists explore the history of the idea that embryological development and evolution are linked.

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