The Shape of Life¶
Raff, R. A. (1996). The Shape of Life: Genes, Development, and the Evolution of Animal Form. University of Chicago Press.
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Primes¶
- Theme And Variation
- Biological evolution and development. A body plan (the vertebrate tetrapod) re-instantiated across species under systematic transformation — limb length, digit count, surface texture — with the bauplan as the theme and allometric scaling and heterochrony as the transformation operations.
This sourceTreats the body plan (bauplan) as a conserved invariant re-instantiated across a clade via developmental transformations such as heterochrony and allometric scaling.
- Biological evolution and development. A body plan (the vertebrate tetrapod) re-instantiated across species under systematic transformation — limb length, digit count, surface texture — with the bauplan as the theme and allometric scaling and heterochrony as the transformation operations.
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