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KEYWORDS & CONCEPTS IN EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Edited by Brian K. Hall and Wendy M. Olson

(From book jacket)
The new field of evolutionary developmental biology is one of the most
exciting areas of contemporary biology. The fundamental principle of
evolutionary developmental biology ("evo-devo") is that evolution acts
through inherited changes in the development of the organism. "Evo-devo" is
not merely a fusion of the fields of developmental and evolutionary
biology, the grafting of a developmental perspective onto evolutionary
biology, or the incorporation of an evolutionary perspective into
developmental biology.  Evo-devo strives for a unification of genomic,
developmental, organismal, population, and natural selection approaches to
evolutionary change. It draws from development, evolution, paleontology,
ecology, and molecular and systematic biology, but has its own set of
questions, approaches, and methods.

Keywords and Concepts in Evolutionary Developmental Biology is the first
comprehensive reference work for this expanding field. Covering more than
fifty central terms and concepts in entries written by leading experts,
Keywords offers an overview of all that is embraced by this new
subdiscipline of biology, providing the core insights and ideas that show
how embryonic development relates to life-history evolution, adaptation,
and responses to and integration with environmental factors.

Foreword     ix
John Tyler Bonner

Introduction: Evolutionary Developmental Mechanisms     xiii
Brian K. Hall and Wendy M. Olson

Animal Phyla     1
Graham E. Budd

Atavism     10
Melanie L. J. Stiassny

Behavioral Development and Evolution     14
Gilbert Gottlieb

Canalization and Genetic Assimilation     23
Adam Wilkins

Cell Determination and Differentiation     30
Andres Collazo

Cell Types, Numbers, and Body Plan Complexity     35
James W. Valentine

Conserved Early Embryonic Stages     43
Frietson Galis and Barry Sinervo

Constraint     52
Kurt Schwenk and Günter P. Wagner

Development, Evolution, and Evolutionary Developmental Biology     61
Scott F. Gilbert and Richard M. Burian

Developmental Genetics     68
Scott F. Gilbert and Richard M. Burian

Developmental Mechanisms: Animal     74
Bruce M. Carlson

Developmental Processes That Generate Plant Form     83
Tsvi Sachs

Developmental Systems Theory     94
Jason Scott Robert

Direct Development     97
James Hanken

Embryonic Induction     102
Roger Sawyer and Loren Knapp

Environment     108
Carl D. Schlichting

Epigenesis and Epigenetics     114
Gerd B. Müller and Lennart Olsson

Evolution of Plant Body Plans and Allometry     124
Karl J. Niklas

Evolvability     133
John Gerhart and Marc Kirschner

Fossils and Paleobiology     137
Armand de Ricqlès and Kevin Padian

Gene Regulation     145
David Stern

Genome Size     152
Elizabeth L. Jockusch

Germ Cells and Germ Plasm     155
Mary Lou King

Growth     161
Joan T. Richtsmeier

Hierarchy     169
Stuart A. Newman

Homeotic Genes in Animals     174
Anne C. Burke and Susan Brown

Homeotic Genes in Flowering Plants     184
Hong Ma

Homology and Homoplasy     191
David B. Wake

Inheritance: Extragenomic     201
Jan Sapp

Inheritance: Genomic     209
Norman Maclean

Innovation     218
Gerd B. Müller and Günter P. Wagner

Larvae and Larval Evolution     228
Michael Hart

Life History Evolution     234
Marvalee H. Wake

Lineages: Cell and Phyletic     243
David R. Lindberg and Robert P. Guralnick

Micro-, Macro-, and Megaevolution     249
Wallace Arthur

Modularity     260
Gillian L. Gass and Jessica A. Bolker

Morphology     268
Marvalee H. Wake and Adam P. Summers

Ontogenetic Integration of Form and Function     275
Susan W. Herring

Phenotype and Genotype     279
Kenneth M. Weiss

Phenotypic Plasticity     288
Paul M. Brakefield and Pieter J. Wijngaarden

Phylogeny     298
Brent Mishler

Phylotype and Zootype     309
Jonathan M. W. Slack

Regeneration in the Metazoa     318
Alejandro SÔø‡Ôø‡nchez Alvarado

Segmentation     326
Grace Panganiban

Selection: Units and Levels in Developing Systems     332
Manfred D. Laubichler

Space, Time, and Repatterning     341
Miriam Zelditch

Speciation     349
Jukka Jernvall

Time     358
John O. Reiss

Variation     368
Benedikt HallgrÔø‡Ôø‡msson

References     379
Contributors     457
Acknowledgments     461
Index     463

Table of Contents online: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/contents/HALKEY_toc.html

BRIAN K HALL is University Research Professor, Department of Biology,
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

WENDY M OLSON is Assistant Professor of Biology, University of Northern
Iowa, Cedar Falls.  She is a former Postdoctoral Fellow at Dalhousie
University.

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ISBN:  0-674-00904-5 (hardcover) $59.95

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Posted Date: 7/26/04