The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought

副标题: Roots of Evo-Devo

ISBN: 9780521806992

作者: Ron Amundson

出版社: Cambridge University Press

出版年: 2005-9

页数: 294

定价: GBP 65.00

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

In this book Ron Amundson examines two hundred years of scientific views on the evolution-development relationship from the perspective of evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo). 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.