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Embryos in deep time the rock record of biological development

Title: Embryos in deep time [electronic resource] : the rock record of biological development / Marcelo R. Sánchez.
Author: Sánchez-Villagra, Marcelo R.
Publication: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012.

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1 online resource (xiv, 256 p.) : ill.

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Embryos in deep time (Online)

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Embryos in deep time (Online)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Contents

Fossils, ontogeny, and phylogeny -- Evo-devo, plasticity, and modules -- Fossilized vertebrate ontogenies -- Bones and teeth under the microscope -- Proportions, growth, and taxonomy -- Growth and diversification patterns -- Fossils and developmental genetics -- "Missing links" and the evolution of development -- Mammalian and human development -- On trilobites, shells, and bugs -- Epilogue : is there a moral to developmental paleontology?.

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