Shaping life
Subtitle: genes, embryos, and evolution
By: John Maynard Smith.
Series: Darwinism today; Darwinism today (New Haven, Conn.)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 50
Subjects: Adaptation (Biology); Developmental genetics
Description: "During the past ten years, there has been a revolution in our understanding of developmental biology, as scientists apply the ideas and techniques of genetics and embryology to the processes of development. In this book, John Maynard Smith gives an account of the progress that has been made in this field - in our knowledge of both the development of individuals and the evolution of the species."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Originally published: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 46-50).