Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Part I. Introduction: Why Consider Development?
5. 1 Nothing in Biology Makes Sense . . . Anymore 1
6. 2 Rodents’ Teeth and Raptors’ Toes 12
7. 3 How the Turtle Got Its Shell 20
8. 4 Understanding the Debates 38
9. Part II. How Development Works
10. 5 Opening the Black Box 51
11. 6 Five General Principles of Development 72
12. Part III. The Developmental Bases of Evolutionary Processes
13. 7 Developmental Bias 83
14. 8 Plasticity-Led Evolution 100
15. 9 The Causes of Selection 119
16. 10 Inheritance beyond the Gene 144
17. Part IV. Implications of the Developmental Perspective
18. 11 Novelty and Innovation 173
19. 12 The Developmental Origins of Evolvability 189
20. 13 Human Evolvability 206
21. 14 The Structure of Evolutionary Theory 227
22. Notes 249
23. References 337
24. Index 413