Homology, Genes, and Evolutionary Innovation / / Günter P. Wagner.

Homology-a similar trait shared by different species and derived from common ancestry, such as a seal's fin and a bird's wing-is one of the most fundamental yet challenging concepts in evolutionary biology. This groundbreaking book provides the first mechanistically based theory of what ho...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (496 p.) :; 25 halftones. 105 line illus. 4 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: What This Book Aims to Do and What It Is Not
  • Part I. Concepts and Mechanisms
  • Part II. Paradigms and Research Programs
  • References
  • Index