Creatures of accident : the rise of the animal kingdom / Wallace Arthur.
Creatures of accident : the rise of the animal kingdom / Wallace Arthur.
Creatures of accident : the rise of the animal kingdom / Wallace Arthur.
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New York : Hill and Wang, 2006.
Date
2006.
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N591.38/10
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English
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255 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents
1. Hand luggage only -- 2. The biased Buddhist -- 3. Sandcastles and their children -- 4. A deafening silence -- 5. Cork prisons -- 6. Building a castle of cells -- 7. Dances with genes -- 8. Life through time -- 9. The embryo wars -- 10. Darwin and his legacy -- 11. Possible creatures, probable cre...
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New York : Hill and Wang, 2006.
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1st ed.
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New York (State)
Date Published
2006.
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"In Creatures of Accident, an internationally renowned expert on the new science of evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo, for short) addresses the most important unanswered question in evolutionary theory today: How do complex, advanced creatures arise from simple, primitive ones? This "vertical" dimension of evolution has been downplayed i...
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Creatures of accident : the rise of the animal kingdom / Wallace Arthur.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N591.38/10
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74VKKkaVxymb
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKKkaVxymb
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0809043211 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780809043217 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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591.38
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991021947069702626
