The shape of life :

Raff, Rudolf A.

The shape of life : genes, development, and the evolution of animal form / Rudolf A. Raff. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996. - xxiii, 520 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Over the Ice for ontogeny and phylogeny - Metazoan Phyla and body plans - Deep time and metazoan origins - Molecular phylogeny: Dessecting the metazoan radiation - Recovering data from the past - The developmental basis of body plans - It´s not all heterochrony - Developmental constraints - Modularity, dissociation, and co-option

0226702650 (cloth : alk. paper) 978-0-226-70266-7 0226702669 (paper : alk. paper)


Evolutionary genetics.

575.1 / R136