TY - BOOK ID - 30668057 TI - From embryology to evo-devo AU - Laubichler, Manfred Dietrich AU - Maienschein, Jane PY - 2007 SN - 1282098306 0262277972 9786612098307 1429465654 026231164X 9780262277976 9781429465656 9780262122832 0262122839 9780262513340 026251334X 9781282098305 6612098309 PB - Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press DB - UniCat KW - Developmental biology KW - Evolution (Biology) KW - Comparative embryology KW - History. KW - Embryology, Comparative KW - Development (Biology) KW - Embryology KW - Biology KW - Growth KW - Ontogeny KW - SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science KW - BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/General UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30668057 AB - Historians, philosophers, sociologists, and biologists explore the history of the idea that embryological development and evolution are linked.Although we now know that ontogeny (individual development) does not actually recapitulate phylogeny (evolutionary transformation), contrary to Ernst Haeckel's famous dictum, the relationship between embryological development and evolution remains the subject of intense scientific interest. In the 1990s a new field, evolutionary developmental biology (or evo-devo), was hailed as the synthesis of developmental and evolutionary biology. In From Embryology to Evo-Devo, historians, philosophers, sociologists, and biologists offer diverse perspectives on the history of efforts to understand the links between development and evolution. After examining events in the history of early twentieth century embryology and developmental genetics--including the fate of Haeckel's law and its various reformulations, the ideas of William Bateson, and Richard Goldschmidt's idiosyncratic synthesis of ontogeny and phylogeny--the contributors explore additional topics ranging from the history of comparative embryology in America to a philosophical-historical analysis of different research styles. Finally, three major figures in theoretical biology--Brian Hall, Gerd Muller, and Gunter Wagner--reflect on the past and future of evo-devo, particularly on the interdisciplinary nature of the field. The sum is an exciting interdisciplinary exploration of developmental evolution. ER -