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The changing role of the embryo in evolutionary thought : roots of evo-devo / Ron Amundson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge studies in philosophy and biologyPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 280 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0511113269
  • 9780511113260
  • 9781139164856
  • 1139164856
  • 9780511198236
  • 051119823X
  • 1107131391
  • 9781107131392
  • 1280415169
  • 9781280415166
  • 9786610415168
  • 6610415161
  • 0511181485
  • 9780511181481
  • 0511112750
  • 9780511112751
  • 9780521703970
  • 0521703972
  • 0521806992
  • 9780521806992
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Changing role of the embryo in evolutionary thought.DDC classification:
  • 576.8/01 22
LOC classification:
  • QH360.5 .A48 2005eb
NLM classification:
  • 2005 N-477
  • QH 366
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- Part I. Darwin's century: beyond the essentialism story. Systematics and the birth of the natural system -- The origins of morphology, the science of form -- Owen and Darwin, the archetype and the ancestor -- Evolutionary morphology: the first generation of evolutionists -- Interlude -- Part II. Neo-Darwin's century: explaining the absence and the reappearance of development in evolutionary thought. The invention of heredity -- Basics of the evolutionary synthesis -- Structuralist reactions to the synthesis -- The synthesis matures -- Recent debates and the continuing tension.
Review: "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." "This book will appeal to students and professionals in the philosophy of science, and the philosophy and history of biology."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-274) and index.

Introduction -- Part I. Darwin's century: beyond the essentialism story. Systematics and the birth of the natural system -- The origins of morphology, the science of form -- Owen and Darwin, the archetype and the ancestor -- Evolutionary morphology: the first generation of evolutionists -- Interlude -- Part II. Neo-Darwin's century: explaining the absence and the reappearance of development in evolutionary thought. The invention of heredity -- Basics of the evolutionary synthesis -- Structuralist reactions to the synthesis -- The synthesis matures -- Recent debates and the continuing tension.

Print version record.

"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." "This book will appeal to students and professionals in the philosophy of science, and the philosophy and history of biology."--Jacket.

English.

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