Plant Evolutionary Developmental Biology: The Evolvability of the Phenotype. By Alessandro Minelli; photographs by Maria Pia Mannucci. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. $84.99. xii + 458 p. + 8 pl.; ill.; taxonomic and subject indexes. ISBN: 978-1-107-03492-1. 2018.

2019 ◽  
Vol 94 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-90
Author(s):  
Michael Christianson
2008 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-102
Author(s):  
Peter C. M. Molenaar

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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