Homology, genes, and evolutionary innovation / Günter P. Wagner.

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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 book provides a mechanistically based theory of what homology is and how it arises i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wagner, Günter P.
Language:English
Published: Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Developmental genetics.
Evolution (Biology)
Genetic regulation.
Biological Evolution.
Physical Description:xiii, 478 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction. What this book aims to do and what it is not
  • The intellectual challenge of morphological evolution : a case for variational structuralism
  • A conceptual roadmap to homology
  • A genetic theory of homology
  • Evolutionary novelties : the origin of homologs
  • Developmental mechanisms for evolutionary novelties
  • The genetics of evolutionary novelties
  • The long shadow of metaphysics on research programs
  • Cell types and their origins
  • Skin and a few of its derivatives
  • Fins and limbs
  • Digits and digit identity
  • Flowers
  • Lessons and challenges.