Ron  Amundson. The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought: Roots of Evo‐Devo. (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology.) xiii + 280 pp., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. $75 (cloth).

Isis ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 97 (2) ◽  
pp. 375-375
Author(s):  
Frederick B. Churchill
Keyword(s):  
Cambridge University ◽  
Evolutionary Thought ◽  
Evo Devo ◽  
Changing Role

scholarly journals The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought: Roots of Evo–DevoR. Amundson (2005). Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press

2008 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-102
Author(s):  
Peter C. M. Molenaar
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Biology ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Hox Genes ◽  
Evolutionary Developmental Biology ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Evolutionary Thought ◽  
History Of ◽  
Evo Devo ◽  
Changing Role

AbstractEvolutionary developmental biology (evo–devo) has become an established field of research, especially since the spectacular results obtained in the 1990s regarding cross-species molecular homologies of (Hox) genes acting early during embryogenesis in insects, vertebrates, and beyond. Amundson summarizes some of these results, which justify a central assertion of evo–devo, namely that one must understand how bodies are built in order to understand how the process of building bodies can be changed, that is, how evolution can occur. But Amundson's book is not about these discoveries, but about the history of evo–devo.

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