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Animal Evolution : Genomes, Fossils, and Trees by NATURAL SCIENCES & MATHEMATICS (500);ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCES (590); & D. T. J. Littlewood is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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"Animal life, now and over the past half billion years, is incredibly diverse. Describing and understanding the evolution of this diversity of body plans - from vertebrates such as humans and fish to the numerous invertebrate groups including sponges, insects, molluscs, and the many groups of worms - is a major goal of evolutionary biology. In this book, a group of leading researchers adopt a modern, integrated approach to describe how current molecular genetic techniques and disciplines as diverse as palaeontology, embryology, and genomics have been combined, resulting in a dramatic renaissance in the study of animal evolution. The last decade has seen growing interest in evolutionary biology fuelled by a wealth of data from molecular biology. Modern phylogenies integrating evidence from molecules, embryological data, and morphology of living and fossil taxa provide a wide consensus of the major branching patterns of the tree of life; moreover, the links between phenotype and genotype are increasingly well understood. This has resulted in a reliable tree of relationships that has been widely accepted and has spawned numerous new and exciting questions that require a reassessment o

Author

NATURAL SCIENCES & MATHEMATICS (500);ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCES (590); & D. T. J. Littlewood

Publisher

OUP Premium

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199549429

Subjects

Science, Biology, Stem