Title From embryology to evo-devo : a history of developmental evolution / edited by Manfred D. Laubichler and Jane Maienschein

Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 569 pages) : illustrations Series Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology. Contents Does history recapitulate itself? : epistemological reflections on the origins of evolutionary developmental biology / Manfred D. Laubichler -- Living with the biogenetic law : a reappraisal / Frederick B. Churchill -- William Bateson's physicalist ideas / Stuart A. Newman -- To evo-devo through cells, embryos, and morphogenesis / Jane Maienschein -- A century of evo-devo : the dialectics of analysis and synthesis in twentieth-century life science / Garland E. Allen -- The cell as the basis for heredity, development, and evolution : Richard Goldschmidt's program of physiological genetics / Marsha L. Richmond -- The relations between comparative embryology, morphology, and systematics : an American perspective / John P. Wourms -- Morphological and paleontological perspectives for a history of evo-devo / Alan C. Love -- Echoes of Haeckel? : reentrenching development in evolution / William C. Wimsatt -- Fate maps, gene expression maps, and the evidentiary structure of evolutionary developmental biology / Scott F. Gilbert -- Tracking organic processes : representations and research styles in classical embryology and genetics / James Griesemer -- The juncture of evolutionary and developmental biology / Elihu M. Gerson -- Tapping many sources : the adventitious roots of evo-devo in the nineteenth century / Brian K. Hall -- Six memos for ev-devo / Gerd B. Müller -- The current state and the future of developmental evolution / Günter P. Wagner Summary 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 Analysis SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/General Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Developmental biology -- History Evolution (Biology) -- History Comparative embryology -- History Developmental Biology -- history Embryology -- history Evolution History, 19th Century History, 20th Century SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Developmental Biology. Comparative embryology Developmental biology Evolution (Biology) Evolutionsbiologie Entwicklungsbiologie Wissenschaftstheorie Ontwikkelingsbiologie. Embryologie. Evolutie. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Laubichler, Manfred Dietrich Maienschein, Jane ISBN 9780262277976 0262277972 9781429465656 1429465654 1282098306 9781282098305 9786612098307 6612098309

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