Evolutionary Developmental Biology

Although evolutionary developmental biology is a new field, its origins lie in the last century; the search for connections between embryonic development (ontogeny) and evolutionary change (phylogeny) has been a long one. Evolutionary developmental biology is however more than just a fusion of the fields of developmental and evolutionary biology. It forges a unification of genomic, developmental, organismal, population and natural selection approaches to evolutionary change. It is concerned with how developmental processes evolve; how evolution produces novel structures, functions and behaviours; and how development, evolution and ecology are integrated to bring about and stabilize evolutionary change. The previous edition of this title, published in 1992, defined the terms and laid out the field for evolutionary developmental biology. This field is now one of the most active and fast growing within biology and this is reflected in this second edition, which is more than twice the length of the original and brought completely up to date. There are new chapters on major transitions in animal evolution, expanded coverage of comparative embryonic development and the inclusion of recent advances in genetics and molecular biology. The book is divided into eight parts which: place evolutionary developmental biology in the historical context of the search for relationships between development and evolution; detail the historical background leading to evolutionary embryology; explore embryos in development and embryos in evolution; discuss the relationship between embryos, evolution, environment and ecology; discuss the dilemma for homology of the fact that development evolves; deal with the importance of understanding how embryos measure time and place both through development and evolutionarily through heterochrony and heterotrophy; and set out the principles and processes that underlie evolutionary developmental biology. With over one hundred illustrations and photographs, extensive cross-referencing between chapters and boxes for ancillary material, this latest edition will be of immense interest to graduate and advanced undergraduate students in cell, developmental and molecular biology, and in zoology, evolution, ecology and entomology; in fact anyone with an interest in this new and increasingly important and interdisciplinary field which unifies biology. Front Matter....Pages i-xviii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Evolution and Development: Terms and Concepts....Pages 3-15 Types of Animals: Kingdoms, Phyla, Relationships....Pages 17-37 Fossils of the Burgess Shale....Pages 39-54 Front Matter....Pages 55-55 Types and the Geoffroy—Cuvier Debates: A Crossroads in Evolutionary Morphology....Pages 57-67 Embryological Archetypes and Homology: Establishing Evolutionary Embryology....Pages 69-91 Baupläne ,Constraints and Basic Phases of Development....Pages 93-109 Inheritance Systems: Zygotes, Maternal, Epigenetic....Pages 111-120 Front Matter....Pages 121-121 Model Organisms, Conserved Stages and Processes....Pages 123-139 Where Generations Converge: Germ Lines and Body Plans....Pages 141-153 Building Vertebrate Embryos: Heads and Tails....Pages 155-175 Building Organ Systems....Pages 177-196 Integrating Organ Systems, Developmental Canalization and Asymmetry....Pages 197-209 Front Matter....Pages 211-211 Innovation, Novelty and the Origin of Multicellularity....Pages 213-222 Complexity and the Origin of the Metazoa....Pages 223-238 Chordate and Vertebrate Origins and Diversification....Pages 239-253 Transitions in Animal Evolution....Pages 255-279 Integrated Change in Vertebrate Evolution....Pages 281-293 Front Matter....Pages 295-295 Evolution as the Control of Development by Ecology....Pages 297-306 Evolution, Genetic Variability and the Environment....Pages 307-320 A Quantitative Genetics Model for Morphological Change in Development and Evolution....Pages 321-332 Front Matter....Pages 333-333 Development Evolves: The Dilemma for Homology....Pages 335-352 Ontogeny Evolves: The Dilemma for Larvae....Pages 353-361 Front Matter....Pages 363-363 Time and Place in Development....Pages 365-373 Time and Place in Evolution: Heterochrony and Heterotopy....Pages 375-391 Front Matter....Pages 393-393 Evolutionary Developmental Biology: Principles and Processes....Pages 395-401 Back Matter....Pages 403-491