Environment, Development, and Evolution
Subtitle: Toward a Synthesis (Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology)
Contributors: Brian K. Hall (Editor); Roy D. Pearson (Editor); Gerd B. Müller (Editor)
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: November 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780262083195
Subjects: Evolution; Science; Science/Mathematics; Life Sciences - Biology - Developmental Biology; Life Sciences - Evolution; Science / Evolution; Developmental biology; Ecophysiology; Evolution (Biology)
Description: "Evolutionary developmental biology, also known as evo-devo or EDB, seeks to find links between development and evolution by opening the "black box" of development's role in evolution and in the evolution of developmental mechanisms. In particular, this volume emphasizes the roles of the environment and of hormonal signaling in evo-devo. It brings together a group of leading researchers to analyze the dynamic interaction of environmental factors with developmental and physiological processes and to examine how environmental signals are translated into pheno-typic change, from the molecular and cellular level to organisms and groups of organisms."--Jacket.