The Shape of Life

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PrefaceAcknowledgments1: Over the Ice for Ontogeny and Phylogeny 2: Metazoan Phyla and Body Plans3: Deep Time and Metazoan Origins4: Molecular Phylogeny: Dissecting the Metazoan Radiation5: Recovering Data from the Past6: The Developmental Basis of Body Plans7: Building Similar Animals in Different Ways8: It's Not All Heterochrony 9: Developmental Constraints10: Modularity, Dissociation, and Co-option11: Opportunistic Genomes 12: Evolving New Body PlansReferencesIndex

Résumé
In "Embryos, Genes, and Evolution", Raff and his co-author proposed a synthesis of developmental and evolutionary biology. In this book, Raff analyzes the rise of this experimental discipline and lays out research questions, hypotheses and approaches to guide its development.