Sean B. Carroll: Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo

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Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo

"Every animal form is the product of two processes--development from an egg and evolution from its ancestors," writes Sean B. Carroll in his introduction to Endless Forms Most Beautiful. The new science of "evo devo"--or evolutionary developmental biology--examines the relationships between those two processes, embryonic development and evolutionary changes, despite their radically different... (read more)

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