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Author : Rudolf A. Raff,Thomas C. Kaufman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Developmental genetics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105115181385
Author : Rudolf A. Raff,Thomas C. Kaufman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0608093580
Author : John Maynard Smith,John Smith
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0300080220
During the past ten years, there has been a revolution in our understanding of developmental biology, as scientists apply the ideas and techniques of genetics and embryology to the processes of development. In this book, John Maynard Smith gives an account of the progress that has been made in this field -- in our knowledge of both the development of individuals and the evolution of the species. Maynard Smith points out that there is a parallel between the developmental changes that convert an egg into an adult and the evolutionary changes converted simple single-celled ancestors into the existing array of multicellular animals and plants. Genetic studies provide the necessary link between development and evolution: natural selection explains how information is incorporated in the genome, and development shows what use is made of it during the development of each individual. Traditionally, two very different views have been held about development. Maynard Smith argues that the differences between them are not so much scientific as ideological -- one can be considered reductionist and the other holistic. But because of advances in the science underpinning both viewpoints, he says, the possibility of a dialogue between them is great, which will be beneficial to the entire discipline.
Author : Jason Scott Robert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781139449953
Historically, philosophers of biology have tended to sidestep the problem of development by focusing primarily on evolutionary biology and, more recently, on molecular biology and genetics. Quite often too, development has been misunderstood as simply, or even primarily, a matter of gene activation and regulation. Nowadays a growing number of philosophers of science are focusing their analyses on the complexities of development, and in Embryology, Epigenesis and Evolution Jason Scott Robert explores the nature of development against current trends in biological theory and practice and looks at the interrelations between development and evolution (evo-devo), an area of resurgent biological interest. Clearly written, this book should be of interest to students and professionals in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of biology.
Author : Brian K. Hall
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401139618
Although evolutionary developmental biology is a new field, its origins lie in the last century; the search for connections between embryonic development (ontogeny) and evolutionary change (phylogeny) has been a long one. Evolutionary developmental biology is however more than just a fusion of the fields of developmental and evolutionary biology. It forges a unification of genomic, developmental, organismal, population and natural selection approaches to evolutionary change. It is concerned with how developmental processes evolve; how evolution produces novel structures, functions and behaviours; and how development, evolution and ecology are integrated to bring about and stabilize evolutionary change. The previous edition of this title, published in 1992, defined the terms and laid out the field for evolutionary developmental biology. This field is now one of the most active and fast growing within biology and this is reflected in this second edition, which is more than twice the length of the original and brought completely up to date. There are new chapters on major transitions in animal evolution, expanded coverage of comparative embryonic development and the inclusion of recent advances in genetics and molecular biology. The book is divided into eight parts which: place evolutionary developmental biology in the historical context of the search for relationships between development and evolution; detail the historical background leading to evolutionary embryology; explore embryos in development and embryos in evolution; discuss the relationship between embryos, evolution, environment and ecology; discuss the dilemma for homology of the fact that development evolves; deal with the importance of understanding how embryos measure time and place both through development and evolutionarily through heterochrony and heterotrophy; and set out the principles and processes that underlie evolutionary developmental biology. With over one hundred illustrations and photographs, extensive cross-referencing between chapters and boxes for ancillary material, this latest edition will be of immense interest to graduate and advanced undergraduate students in cell, developmental and molecular biology, and in zoology, evolution, ecology and entomology; in fact anyone with an interest in this new and increasingly important and interdisciplinary field which unifies biology.
Author : Jon Gerhart,Marc Kirschner
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1997-06-04
Category : Science
ISBN : UCSD:31822025799586
Gerhart and Kirschner aim to explain the origins of phenotypic variation and evolutionary adaptation from within eukaryotic cell biological and developmental processes. Their examples are drawn from paleontology, developmental and cell biology.
Author : Ron Amundson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 1139443429
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.
Author : Wallace Arthur
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004-05-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521541611
What determines the direction of evolutionary change? This book provides a revolutionary answer to this question. Many biologists, from Darwin's day to our own, have been satisfied with the answer 'natural selection'. Professor Wallace Arthur is not. He takes the controversial view that biases in the ways that embryos can be altered are just as important as natural selection in determining the directions that evolution has taken, including the one that led to the origin of humans. This argument forms the core of the book. However, in addition, the book summarizes other important issues relating to how embryonic (and post-embryonic) development evolves. Written in an easy, conversational style, this is the first book for students and the general reader that provides an account of the exciting new field of Evolutionary Developmental Biology ('Evo-Devo' to its proponents).
Author : Natalie K Gordon retired,Richard Gordon
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814740692
The greatest mystery of life is how a single fertilized egg develops into a fully functioning, sometimes conscious multicellular organism. Embryogenesis Explained offers a new theory of how embryos build themselves, and combines simple physics with the most recent biochemical and genetic breakthroughs, based on the authors' prediction and then discovery of differentiation waves. They explain their ideas in a form accessible to the lay person and a broad spectrum of scientists and engineers. The diverse subjects of development, genetics and evolution, and their physics, are brought together to explain this major, previously unanswered scientific question of our time. As a follow up on The Hierarchical Genome, this book is a shorter but conceptually expanded work for the reader who is interested in science. It is useful as a starting point for the curious layman or the scientist or professional encountering the problem of embryogenesis without the formal biology background. There is also material useful for the seasoned biologist caught up in the new rush of information about the role of mechanics in developmental biology and cellular level mechanics in medicine.
Author : Jekely Gaspar
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781786342553
This unique story offers an introductory conversation to genetics, embryology and evolution, taking us on a historical journey of biology through the ages. Using a series of dialogues between the Greek philosopher Democritus and his disciple Alkimus, we travel through time visiting eminent scientists throughout the centuries, from Lazzaro Spallanzani and Theodor Boveri to Francis Crick, Max Perutz and Christiane Nüsslein–Volhard. We find ourselves at the intersection of competing theories in biology and witness the progression from the debunking the theory of spontaneous generation to the mapping of the genome. Attention is given not only to the great successes in the field but also to the equally important and exciting failures. Originally published in Hungarian, The Story of Genetics, Development and Evolution provides a historical background to the life sciences, with complex scientific concepts stripped down and explained carefully for academics and anyone interested in going back to the roots and philosophies of scientific progress. Translated from: Jékely G Master, are you awake? A fictitious dialogue on genetics, development and evolution. 2006, Bratislava: Kalligram Contents: PrefaceAt the HarbourAt the MarketPart One: The Mystery (and Sperm) of Life's OriginsDeux Ex MachinaThe World EggSpontaneous Generation and Meat Broth — Lazzaro SpallanzaniTypes and Rhythms of Embryos — Karl Ernst Von BaerCell From a CellThe Feats of the Sea UrchinPart Two: Chromosomes, Mendelian Factors and EvolutionRoasted CaponThe Immortal GermplasmReduction DivisionA London Pigeon Sale — Thomas Henry HuxleyThe Orchard of EvolutionPeas and Minotaur — William BatesonGalton and MendelTwo Sperm, One Ovum — Theodor BoveriPart Three: The Triumph of GenesTrickster Mendelians — Thomas Hunt MorganSex ChromosomesThe Telltale White EyeGenetic MappingPart Four: Forces and ReactionsThe Mathematics of Life — D'arcy Wentworth ThompsonThe Two-Headed NewtZeus's BeardEvolutionary SynthesisThe Casting Moulds of Genes — Hermann Joseph MullerFronts On the Wings of a Moth — Alfred KühnThe Birth of PatternsPart Five: The Atoms of LifeHormones in Larva BloodOne Gene, One Enzyme — George Wells BeadleThe Protein-GenesThe Principle of Transformation — Oswald Theodore AveryThe Triple Helix — Linus PaulingDNA with AmbrosiaPart Six: Codes and LinksThe Central Dogma — Francis CrickThe Diamond Code of ProteinsThe Genetic CodeA Molecular Lung — Max Ferdinand PerutzSugar-Consuming Bacteria — Jacques MonodPart Seven: Genes in the MortarEpigenesis and Genetics — Conrad Hal WaddingtonA Recipe for Making Mice — Sydney BrennerThe Wiring of a Worm's BrainRecombinant DNAStriped Embryos — Christiane Nüsslein-VolhardOur Worm Ancestors — Detlev ArendtThe Age of Genomics — Eugene KooninPart Eight: Beyond GenesPostcard to ThraceThe Cedar Forest of AbderaThe Philosophy of Biology — Ernst MayrThe Genetics of the BiosphereBiscuits Baked in AshOn the Island of Bensalem — Pál Nagy-Juhász
Author : Rudolf A. Raff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226256573
Rudolf Raff is recognized as a pioneer in evolutionary developmental biology. In their 1983 book, Embryos, Genes, and Evolution, Raff and co-author Thomas Kaufman proposed a synthesis of developmental and evolutionary biology. In The Shape of Life, Raff analyzes the rise of this new experimental discipline and lays out new research questions, hypotheses, and approaches to guide its development. Raff uses the evolution of animal body plans to exemplify the interplay between developmental mechanisms and evolutionary patterns. Animal body plans emerged half a billion years ago. Evolution within these body plans during this span of time has resulted in the tremendous diversity of living animal forms. Raff argues for an integrated approach to the study of the intertwined roles of development and evolution involving phylogenetic, comparative, and functional biology. This new synthesis will interest not only scientists working in these areas, but also paleontologists, zoologists, morphologists, molecular biologists, and geneticists.
Author : Gordon Richard
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 1932 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1999-07-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814500395
Over the past few decades numerous scientists have called for a unification of the fields of embryo development, genetics, and evolution. Each field has glaring holes in its ability to explain the fundamental phenomena of life. In this book, the author shows how the phenomenon of cell differentiation, considered in its temporal and spatial aspects during embryogenesis, provides a starting point for a unified theory of multicellular organisms (plants, fungi and animals), including their evolution and genetics. This unification is based on the recent discovery of differentiation waves by the author and his colleagues, described in the appendices, and illustrated by a flip movie prepared by a medical artist. To help the reader through the many fields covered, a glossary is included.This book will be of great value to the researcher and practicing doctors/scientists alike. The research students will receive an in-depth tutorial on the topics covered. The seasoned researcher will appreciate the applications and the gold mine of other possibilities for novel research topics.
Author : Marcelo Sánchez-Villagra
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520952300
How can we bring together the study of genes, embryos and fossils? Embryos in Deep Time is a critical synthesis of the study of individual development in fossils. It brings together an up-to-date review of concepts from comparative anatomy, ecology and developmental genetics, and examples of different kinds of animals from diverse geological epochs and geographic areas. Can fossil embryos demonstrate evolutionary changes in reproductive modes? How have changes in ocean chemistry in the past affected the development of marine organisms? What can the microstructure of fossil bone and teeth reveal about maturation time, longevity and changes in growth phases? This book addresses these and other issues and documents with numerous examples and illustrations how fossils provide evidence not only of adult anatomy but also of the life history of individuals at different growth stages. The central topic of Biology today—the transformations occurring during the life of an organism and the mechanisms behind them—is addressed in an integrative manner for extinct animals.
Author : G. R. De Beer
Publisher : Caven Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781443720663
EMBRYOS AND ANCESTORS by G. R. DE BEER. PREFACE: TEN years ago I published a book under the title Embryology and Evolution, in which I made an attempt to show that after rejecting the theory of recapitulation, a much better synthesis could be made of our knowledge of embryonic development and evolutionary descent, opening up new fields for observation and co-ordination of studies in embryology, genetics, and evolution. This work has for some little time been out of print, and I have yielded to the demands of my friends to produce it again. During the intervening years a great deal of new evidence has become available, and these fresh data have fitted into place in my scheme like pieces of a puzzle, for I have seen no reason to alter the plan of my former book in the slightest degree. The present book is my previous one brought up to date and enlarged. I have recently been engaged in a study of the bearings of embryology on homology, taxonomy, and other special aspects of zoology. My views on these matters have been published in Evolution Essays presented to Professor E. S. Goodrich, edited by myself, and in The New Systematics, edited by J. S. Huxley. I have therefore not felt called upon to repeat them here, except in so far as they bear directly on the problem of the relations between embryology and evolution. It has been very encouraging to me to note the lively interest in these problems shown in recent years. The first necessity in Biology will always be further observation and experiment but as Dr. Woodger aptly points out, progress in thought is necessary as well. Outworn theories are not only dull in them selves, but they are actually harmful in thwarting the framing of new working hypotheses which take account of recent pro gress made in the various experimental branches of Biology. Such an outworn theory I believe Haeckels theory of recapitulation to be. I lay no claims to proficiency in metaphysics, and I have no doubt that many of my expressions will appear sinful to my philosophical friends. But I am aware of many of the dangers, and when I say that paedomorphosis does this, that, or the other I am merely saving time and space, and not endowing an abstract concept with the powers of a subject of a transitive verb. I should like to acknowledge my debt to M. Jean Rostand who translated my previous book into French. Few exercises are as helpful for testing the soundness of ones deductions and conclusions as the expression of them in another language. I wish likewise to record my indebtedness to Dr. J. S. Huxley, Professor W. Garstang, and Professor J. B. S. Haldane for their helpful criticism, and to Professor R. A. Fisher for very kindly reading the proofs. April 1940. G. R. DE B. Contents include: List of Illustrations . . . . ix I. Stages of Development and Stages of Evolution i II. Ontogeny . . . . . .10 III. Speeds of the Processes of Development . . 15 IV. Phylogeny . . . . . .22 V. Heterochrony and Phylogeny . . .27 VI. Caenogcnesis . . . . .32 VII. Deviation . . . . . .38 VIII. Neoteny . . . . . .46 IX. Vestigial Structures due to Reduction . . 58 X. Adult Variation . . . . .62 XI. Vestigial Structures due to Retardation . . 64 XM. Hypermorphosis . . . . .65 XIII. Acceleration . . . . .71 XIV. Paedomorphosis and Gerontomorphosis . . 78 XV. Repetition ...... 90 XVI. Conclusions . . . . . .96 XVII. Bibliography . . . . - 99 Index . . . . . .106
Author : Jane Maienschein
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674369733
Jane Maienschein examines how understanding of embryos evolved from the speculations of natural philosophers to bioengineering, with its life-enhancing therapies. She shows that research on embryos has always seemed promising to some but frightening to others, and makes the case that public understanding must be informed by scientific findings.