Development, Evolution, and Evolutionary Developmental Biology

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword ix
4. Introduction: Evolutionary Developmental Mechanisms xiii
5. Animal Phyla 1
6. Atavism 10
7. Behavioral Development and Evolution 14
8. Canalization and Genetic Assimilation 23
9. Cell Determination and Differentiation 30
10. Cell Types, Numbers, and Body Plan Complexity 35
11. Conserved Early Embryonic Stages 43
12. Constraint 52
13. Development, Evolution, and Evolutionary Developmental Biology 61
14. Developmental Genetics 68
15. Developmental Mechanisms: Animal 74
16. Developmental Processes That Generate Plant Form 83
17. Developmental Systems Theory 94
18. Direct Development 97
19. Embryonic Induction 102
20. Environment 108
21. Epigenesis and Epigenetics 114
22. Evolution of Plant Body Plans and Allometry 124
23. Evolvability 133
24. Fossils and Paleobiology 137
25. Gene Regulation 145
26. Genome Size 152
27. Germ Cells and Germ Plasm 155
28. Growth 161
29. Hierarchy 169
30. Homeotic Genes in Animals 174
31. Homeotic Genes in Flowering Plants 184
32. Homology and Homoplasy 191
33. Inheritance: Extragenomic 201
34. Inheritance: Genomic 209
35. Innovation 218
36. Larvae and Larval Evolution 228
37. Life History Evolution 234
38. Lineages: Cell and Phyletic 243
39. Micro-, Macro-, and Megaevolution 249
40. Modularity 260
41. Morphology 268
42. Ontogenetic Integration of Form and Function 275
43. Phenotype and Genotype 279
44. Phenotypic Plasticity 288
45. Phylogeny 298
46. Phylotype and Zootype 309
47. Regeneration in the Metazoa 318
48. Segmentation 326
49. Selection: Units and Levels in Developing Systems 332
50. Space, Time, and Repatterning 341
51. Speciation 349
52. Time 358
53. Variation 368
54. References 379
55. Contributors 457
56. Acknowledgments 461
57. Index 463