Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology: The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought (Hardcover)
Ron Amundson
Cambridge University Press
9780521806992
0-521-80699-2
In this book Ron Amundson examines 200 years of scientific views on the evolution-development relationship from the perspective of evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo). This new perspective challenges.
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several popular views about the history of evolutionary thought by claiming that many earlier authors made history come out right for the Evolutionary Synthesis. The book starts with a revised history of nineteenth-century evolutionary thought. It then investigates how development became irrelevant to evolution with the Evolutionary Synthesis. It concludes with an examination of the contrasts that persist between mainstream evolutionary theory and evo-devo.
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