Endless Forms Most Beautiful
The New Science of Evo Devo
Published on 17. April 2006
368 pages
978-0-393-06971-6 (ISBN)
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"A beautiful and very important book.”—Lewis Wolpert, American Scientist
For over a century, opening the black box of embryonic development was the holy grail of biology. Evo Devo—Evolutionary Developmental Biology—is the new science that has finally cracked open the box. Within the pages of his rich and riveting book, Sean B. Carroll explains how we are discovering that complex life is ironically much simpler than anyone ever expected.More details
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Sean B. Carroll is professor of genetics at the University of Wisconsin?Madison and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His first book, Endless Forms Most Beautiful, was a finalist for the 2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Carroll's seminal scientific work has been featured in Time and The New Yorker. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface: Revolution #3
- Introduction: Butterflies, Zebras, and Embryos
- Part I The Making of Animals
- 1 Animal Architecture: Modern Forms, Ancient Designs
- 2 Monsters, Mutants, and Master Genes
- 3 From E. coli to Elephants
- 4 Making Babies: 25,000 Genes, Some Assembly Required
- 5 The Dark Matter of the Genome: Operating Instructions for the Tool Kit
- Part II Fossils, Genes, and the Making of Animal Diversity
- 6 The Big Bang of Animal Evolution
- 7 Little Bangs: Wings and Other Revolutionary Inventions
- 8 How the Butterfly Got Its Spots
- 9 Paint It Black
- 10 A Beautiful Mind: The Making of Homo sapiens
- 11 Endless Forms Most Beautiful
- Sources and Further Reading
- Acknowledgments
