Environment, development, and evolution [electronic resource] : toward a synthesis / edited by Brian K. Hall, Roy Douglas Pearson, and Gerd B. Müller.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Evolution as the control of development by ecology / Brian K. Hall -- Ryuichi Matsuda : his contributions to the integration of the environment, physiology, and evolution / Roy Douglas Pearson -- Epigenetics and environment : the historical matrix of Matsuda's pan-environmentalism / R.G.B. Reid -- Altenative ontogenies and evolution : a farewell to gradualism / Eugene K. Balon -- The determined embryo : homeodynamics, hormones, and heredity / Roy Douglas Pearson -- Ecology, development, and evolution : perspectives from the fossil record / Elisabeth S. Vrba -- Ryuichi Matsuda : a tribute and a perspective on pan-environmentalism and genetic assimilation / Mary Jane West-Eberhard -- A view of phenotypic plasticity from molecules to morphogenesis / Ellen W. Larsen -- A framework for studying the evolution of gene networks underlying polyphenism : insights from winged and wingless ant castes / Ehab Abouheif -- Conceptualizing heterochrony : it's time for change! or, which came first, the chicken or the egg? / Jonathon Stone -- Environmental effects, embryonization, and the evolution of viviparity / Marvalee H. Wake -- The origin of novel phenotypes : correlational selection, epistasis, and speciation / Barry Sinervo and Erik I. Svensson -- Thyroid hormone-mediated development in vertebrates : what makes frogs unique / Christopher Stewart Rose -- The impact of environmental and hormonal cues on the evolution of fish metamorphosis / John H. Youson -- Evolutionary aspects of thyroid hormone effects in invertebrates / K.G. Davey.

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