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Author Raff, Rudolf A.

Title The shape of life : genes, development, and the evolution of animal form / Rudolf A. Raff.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  QH390 .R325 1996    Available  ---
Description xxiii, 520 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-491) and index.
Contents Over the ice for ontogeny and phylogeny -- Metazoan phyla and body plans -- Deep time and metazoan origins -- Molecular phylogeny : dissecting the metazoan radiation -- Recovering data from the past -- Developmental basis of body plans -- Building similar animals in different ways -- It's not all heterochrony -- Developmental constraints -- Modularity, dissociation and co-option -- Opportunistic genomes -- Evolving new body plans.
Subject Evolutionary genetics.
Evolutionary genetics.
ISBN 0226702669 paper alkaline paper
0226702650 cloth alkaline paper