The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought: Roots of Evo-Devo

Cambridge University Press (2005)
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In this book Ron Amundson examines two hundred years of scientific views on the evolution-development relationship from the perspective of evolutionary developmental biology. This perspective challenges several popular views about the history of evolutionary thought by claiming that many earlier authors had 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 with the Evolutionary Synthesis. It concludes with an examination of the contrasts that persist between mainstream evolutionary theory and evo-devo. This book will appeal to students and professionals in the philosophy and history of science, and biology.

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reprint Amundson, Ron (2012) "The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought: Roots of Evo-Devo". Cambridge University Press

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