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

Author/creator Raff, Rudolf A.
Format Book
Publication InfoChicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1996.
Descriptionxxiii, 520 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

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.
Local noteLittle-301880--305131007617Y
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 435-491) and index.
LCCN 95049224
ISBN0226702650 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0226702669 (paper : alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks QH390 .R325 1996 ✔ Available Place Hold