Evo-Devo Bundle 3 Paperback Book Set
Quirks of Human Anatomy, How the Snake Lost its Legs, Deep Homology?
Published on 28. September 2017
Book
870 pages
978-1-108-35552-0 (ISBN)
Description
Echos of the Cambrian Explosion still resonate in the genomes of modern bilaterian animals. Relics of that ancient 'operating system' have recently been unearthed by the burgeoning field of evolutionary developmental (evo-devo) biology, but these discoveries are not widely known. Like the artifacts in Tut's tomb, they offer a window into the distant past, and they deserve wider notice. To that end, Drosophila geneticist Lewis I. Held, Jr has written a trilogy of books: Quirks of Human Anatomy shows how the human body is sculpted by bilaterian gene circuits. How the Snake Lost its Legs surveys how other animals acquired their distinctive anatomies. And Deep Homology? compares humans and flies so as to triangulate the urbilaterian ancestor. All three books are encyclopedic but accessible in their exposition: scholarly, yet light-hearted. Overall this timely trilogy should appeal to a broad audience, from undergraduates to experts, especially young researchers aspiring to solve deep mysteries.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 255 mm
Width: 179 mm
Thickness: 45 mm
Weight
1580 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-35552-0 (9781108355520)
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Person
Lewis I. Held, Jr is a fly geneticist who has taught human embryology for thirty years. He studied molecular biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S., 1973), investigated bristle patterning under John Gerhart at the University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D., 1977) and conducted postdoctoral research with Peter Bryant and Howard Schneiderman at the University of California, Irvine (1977-86). Deep Homology? (Cambridge, 2017) is his fifth scholarly monograph, following Models for Embryonic Periodicity (1992), Imaginal Discs (Cambridge, 2002), Quirks of Human Anatomy (Cambridge, 2009) and How the Snake Lost its Legs (Cambridge, 2014).
Content
Quirks of Human Anatomy: 1. Background; 2. Symmetry and asymmetry; 3. Mysteries of the midline; 4. Merism and modularity; 5. Sexual dimorphisms; 6. Silly, stupid, and dangerous quirks; 7. Mind and brain; How the Snake Lost its Legs: 1. The first two-sided animal; 2. The fly; 3. The butterfly; 4. The snake; 5. The cheetah; 6. An evo-devo bestiary; Epilogue; Deep Homology?: 1. Body axes; 2. Nervous system; 3. Vision; 4. Touch and hearing; 5. Smell and taste; 6. Limbs; 7. Heart.