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Rudolf A. Raff

The Shape of Life

Genes, Development, and the Evolution of Animal Form

544 pages, 2 halftones, 59 line drawings, 3 tables  6 x 9  © 1996

Paper $36.00

ISBN: 9780226702667   Published June 1996

Preface
Acknowledgments
1: Over the Ice for Ontogeny and Phylogeny
2: Metazoan Phyla and Body Plans
3: Deep Time and Metazoan Origins
4: Molecular Phylogeny: Dissecting the Metazoan Radiation
5: Recovering Data from the Past
6: The Developmental Basis of Body Plans
7: Building Similar Animals in Different Ways
8: It's Not All Heterochrony
9: Developmental Constraints
10: Modularity, Dissociation, and Co-option
11: Opportunistic Genomes
12: Evolving New Body Plans
References
Index
Subjects



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