Endless forms most beautiful : the new science of evo devo and the making of the animal kingdom / Sean B. Carroll ; with illustrations by Jamie W. Carroll, Josh P. Klaiss, Leanne M. Olds.
"The greatest spectacle of life is how a single cell - the fertilized egg - develops into a billion- or trillion-celled animal. In the case of humans, that single cell becomes the most complex machine in existence. Scientists have long known that if they could figure out how form and pattern em...
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New York :
Norton,
[2005]
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Table of Contents:
- Preface : revolution #3
- Introduction : butterflies, zebras, and embryos
- 1. Animal architecture : modern forms, ancient designs
- 2. Monsters, mutants, and master genes
- 3. From E. coli to elephants
- 4. Making babies : 25,000 genes, some assembly required
- 5. The dark matter of the genome : operating instructions for the tool kit
- 6. The big bang of animal evolution
- 7. Little bangs : wings and other revolutionary inventions
- 8. How the butterfly got its spots
- 9. Paint it black
- 10. A beautiful mind : the making of Homo sapiens
- 11. Endless forms most beautiful.