The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought: Roots of Evo-Devo (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521703970)

In this book Ron Amundson examines 200 years of scientific views on the evolution-development relationship from the perspective of evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo). This new perspective challenges several popular views about the history of evolutionary thought by claiming that many earlier authors made history come out right for the Evolutionary Synthesis. The book starts with a revised history of nineteenth-century evolutionary thought. It then investigates how development became irrelevant to evolution with the Evolutionary Synthesis. It concludes with an examination of the contrasts that persist between mainstream evolutionary theory and evo-devo.

Author: Ron Amundson
ISBN-10: 0521703972
ISBN-13: 9780521703970
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/06/2007
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.60d