| 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.
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Evolution, Molecular.
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Molecular Biology.
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| ISBN |
0226702650 cloth alkaline paper |
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0226702669 paper alkaline paper |
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