On the Nature of Limbs
Subtitle: A Discourse
Contributors: Mary P. Winsor (Introduction); Kevin Padian (Introduction); Jennifer Coggon (Introduction); Brian K. Hall (Preface)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; The University of Chicago Press
Published: January 15, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 119
ISBN-13: 9780226641942
Subjects: Developmental biology; Science; Science/Mathematics; History; Life Sciences - Anatomy & Physiology; Life Sciences - Biology - Developmental Biology; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Science / History; Life Sciences - General; Evolution; Extremities (Anatomy)
Description: Richard Owen's theory of the archetype and his view on species origins were first offered to the general public in this 1849 text. It reemerges here in a facsimile edition with introductory essays by prominent historians, philosophers, and practitioners from the modern evo-devo community.