Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The microscopic horse
- 2 What steers evolution?
- 3 Darwin: pluralism with a single core
- 4 How to build a body
- 5 A brief history of the last billion years
- 6 Preamble to the quiet revolution
- 7 The return of the organism
- 8 Possible creatures
- 9 The beginnings of bias
- 10 A deceptively simple question
- 11 Development's twin arrows
- 12 Action and reaction
- 13 Evolvability: organisms in bits
- 14 Back to the trees
- 15 Stripes and spots
- 16 Towards ‘the inclusive synthesis’
- 17 Social creatures
- Glossary
- References
- Index
References
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The microscopic horse
- 2 What steers evolution?
- 3 Darwin: pluralism with a single core
- 4 How to build a body
- 5 A brief history of the last billion years
- 6 Preamble to the quiet revolution
- 7 The return of the organism
- 8 Possible creatures
- 9 The beginnings of bias
- 10 A deceptively simple question
- 11 Development's twin arrows
- 12 Action and reaction
- 13 Evolvability: organisms in bits
- 14 Back to the trees
- 15 Stripes and spots
- 16 Towards ‘the inclusive synthesis’
- 17 Social creatures
- Glossary
- References
- Index
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- Chapter
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- Biased Embryos and Evolution , pp. 222 - 229Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004