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Endless Forms Most Beautiful The New Science of Evo Devo by Sean Carroll - Best Evolution Book For Where Science Could Go
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Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The
New Science of Evo Devo by Sean
Carroll
Best Evolution Book For Where Science Could Go
Every animal form is the product of two processes--development from an
egg and evolution from its ancestors, writes...
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Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The
New Science of Evo Devo by Sean
Carroll
Best Evolution Book For Where Science Could Go
Every animal form is the product of two processes--development from an
egg and evolution from its ancestors, writes Sean B.
Carroll in his
introduction to Endless Forms Most Beautiful.
The new science of evo
devo--or evolutionary developmental biology--examines the relationships
between those two processes, embryonic development and evolutionary
changes, despite their radically different time scales.
Carroll first offers a
recap of how genes express themselves in a growing embryo, then peers
into the life histories of real-life examples to explain how those genes have
changed (or not changed) over millions of years of evolution.
Paraphrasing
Thomas Huxley, he asks us to consider evolution and development as two
sides of the same coin.
We may marvel at the process of an egg
becoming an adult, but we accept it as an everyday fact.
It is merely then a
lack of imag
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