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The shape of life : genes, development, and the evolution of animal form
- Title
- The shape of life : genes, development, and the evolution of animal form / Rudolf A. Raff.
- Author
- Raff, Rudolf A.
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | QH390 .R325 1996 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xxiii, 520 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 435-491) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Over the Ice for Ontogeny and Phylogeny -- 2. Metazoan Phyla and Body Plans -- 3. Deep Time and Metazoan Origins -- 4. Molecular Phylogeny: Dissecting the Metazoan Radiation -- 5. Recovering Data from the Past -- 6. The Developmental Basis of Body Plans -- 7. Building Similar Animals in Different Ways -- 8. It's Not All Heterochrony -- 9. Developmental Constraints -- 10. Modularity, Dissociation, and Co-option -- 11. Opportunistic Genomes -- 12. Evolving New Body Plans.
- ISBN
- 0226702650 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226702669 (paper : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 95049224
- OCLC
- ocm33664782
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries