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Axis and circumference : the cylindrical shape of plants and animals
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ISBN: 0674057007 9780674057005 Year: 1988 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press


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A Theory of the Evolution of Development
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ISBN: 0471919748 9780471919742 Year: 1988 Publisher: Chichester Wiley

The geometry of evolution
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ISBN: 052184942X 9780521849425 9780511618369 9781107407497 9780511261169 0511261160 0511260598 9780511260599 1107164850 9781107164857 1280749172 9781280749179 9786610749171 6610749175 0511259344 9780511259340 0511618360 0511319967 9780511319969 0511259999 9780511259999 Year: 2007 Publisher: Cambridge, UK New York Cambridge University Press

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The metaphor of the adaptive landscape - that evolution via the process of natural selection can be visualized as a journey across adaptive hills and valleys, mountains and ravines - permeates both evolutionary biology and the philosophy of science. The focus of this 2006 book is to demonstrate to the reader that the adaptive landscape concept can be put into actual analytical practice through the usage of theoretical morphospaces - geometric spaces of both existent and non-existent biological form - and to demonstrate the power of the adaptive landscape concept in understanding the process of evolution. The adaptive landscape concept further allows us to take a spatial approach to the concepts of natural selection, evolutionary constraint and evolutionary development. For that reason, this book relies heavily on spatial graphics to convey the concepts developed within these pages, and less so on formal mathematics.

The development of animal form
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ISBN: 0521808510 0511063954 9780511063954 9780521808514 0511057628 9780511057625 0511072414 9780511072413 0511119941 9780511119941 9780511541476 0511541473 1280160926 9781280160929 0521025184 9780521025188 1107131669 9781107131668 9786610160921 6610160929 1139147501 9781139147507 0511331002 9780511331008 Year: 2003 Publisher: Cambridge, UK New York Cambridge University Press

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Contemporary research in the field of evolutionary developmental biology, or 'evo-devo', has to date been predominantly devoted to interpreting basic features of animal architecture in molecular genetics terms. Considerably less time has been spent on the exploitation of the wealth of facts and concepts available from traditional disciplines, such as comparative morphology, even though these traditional approaches can continue to offer a fresh insight into evolutionary developmental questions. The Development of Animal Form aims to integrate traditional morphological and contemporary molecular genetic approaches and to deal with post-embryonic development as well. This approach leads to unconventional views on the basic features of animal organization, such as body axes, symmetry, segments, body regions, appendages and related concepts. This book will be of particular interest to graduate students and researchers in evolutionary and developmental biology, as well as to those in related areas of cell biology, genetics and zoology.

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