Keywords and Concepts in Evolutionary Developmental Biology
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Keywords and Concepts in Evolutionary Developmental Biology

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Keywords and Concepts in Evolutionary Developmental Biology

About this book

The new field of evolutionary developmental biology is one of the most exciting areas of contemporary biology. The fundamental principle of evolutionary developmental biology ("evo-devo") is that evolution acts through inherited changes in the development of the organism. "Evo-devo" is not merely a fusion of the fields of developmental and evolutionary biology, the grafting of a developmental perspective onto evolutionary biology, or the incorporation of an evolutionary perspective into developmental biology. Evo-devo strives for a unification of genomic, developmental, organismal, population, and natural selection approaches to evolutionary change. It draws from development, evolution, paleontology, ecology, and molecular and systematic biology, but has its own set of questions, approaches, and methods.

Keywords and Concepts in Evolutionary Developmental Biology is the first comprehensive reference work for this expanding field. Covering more than fifty central terms and concepts in entries written by leading experts, Keywords offers an overview of all that is embraced by this new subdiscipline of biology, providing the core insights and ideas that show how embryonic development relates to life-history evolution, adaptation, and responses to and integration with environmental factors.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Introduction: Evolutionary Developmental Mechanisms
  7. Animal Phyla
  8. Atavism
  9. Behavioral Development and Evolution
  10. Canalization and Genetic Assimilation
  11. Cell Determination and Differentiation
  12. Cell Types, Numbers, and Body Plan Complexity
  13. Conserved Early Embryonic Stages
  14. Constraint
  15. Development, Evolution, and Evolutionary Developmental Biology
  16. Developmental Genetics
  17. Developmental Mechanisms: Animal
  18. Developmental Processes That Generate Plant Form
  19. Developmental Systems Theory
  20. Direct Development
  21. Embryonic Induction
  22. Environment
  23. Epigenesis and Epigenetics
  24. Evolution of Plant Body Plans and Allometry
  25. Evolvability
  26. Fossils and Paleobiology
  27. Gene Regulation
  28. Genome Size
  29. Germ Cells and Germ Plasm
  30. Growth
  31. Hierarchy
  32. Homeotic Genes in Animals
  33. Homeotic Genes in Flowering Plants
  34. Homology and Homoplasy
  35. Inheritance: Extragenomic
  36. Inheritance: Genomic
  37. Innovation
  38. Larvae and Larval Evolution
  39. Life History Evolution
  40. Lineages: Cell and Phyletic
  41. Micro-, Macro-, and Megaevolution
  42. Modularity
  43. Morphology
  44. Ontogenetic Integration of Form and Function
  45. Phenotype and Genotype
  46. Phenotypic Plasticity
  47. Phylogeny
  48. Phylotype and Zootype
  49. Regeneration in the Metazoa
  50. Segmentation
  51. Selection: Units and Levels in Developing Systems
  52. Space, Time, and Repatterning
  53. Speciation
  54. Time
  55. Variation
  56. References
  57. Contributors
  58. Acknowledgments
  59. Index