Overview
- Explains how recent technical and conceptual advances are impacting animal evolution research
- Broadens readers’ understanding of the origin of animals
- Explains how big data approaches are now transforming our understanding of animal evolution and development
Part of the book series: Fascinating Life Sciences (FLS)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Animal Origins
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The Developmental View of Animal Evolution
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The Genomic View of Animal Evolution
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Theoretical Approaches to Animal Evolution
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About this book
Animal evolution has always been at the core of Biology, but even today many fundamental questions remain open. The field of animal ‘evo-devo’ is leveraging recent technical and conceptual advances in development, paleontology, genomics and transcriptomics to propose radically different answers to traditional evolutionary controversies.
This book is divided into four parts, each of which approaches animal evolution from a different perspective. The first part (chapters 2 and 3) investigates how new sources of evidence have changed conventional views of animal origins, while the second (chapters 4–8) addresses the connection between embryogenesis and evolution, and the genesis of cellular, tissue and morphological diversity. The third part (chapters 9 and 10) investigates how big data in molecular biology is transforming our understanding of the mechanisms governing morphological change in animals. In closing, the fourth part (chapters 11–13) explores new theoretical andconceptual approaches to animal evolution.
‘Old questions and young approaches to animal evolution’ offers a comprehensive and updated view of animal evolutionary biology that will serve both as a first step into this fascinating field for students and university educators, and as a review of complementary approaches for researchers.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Bruno C. Vellutini is an EMBO Fellow and postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics. He obtained his MSc in Zoology from the University of São Paulo, and his PhD in Molecular and Computational Biology from the University of Bergen, where he investigated the evolution of larval forms in marine invertebrates. His research focuses on understanding how changes in embryogenesis are connected to the evolution of animal morphology. Currently, he is combining genetic and live-imaging techniques to reveal the mechanisms that govern tissue morphogenesis in the fruit fly embryo.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Old Questions and Young Approaches to Animal Evolution
Editors: José M. Martín-Durán, Bruno C. Vellutini
Series Title: Fascinating Life Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18202-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-18201-4Published: 01 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-18204-5Published: 15 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-18202-1Published: 22 July 2019
Series ISSN: 2509-6745
Series E-ISSN: 2509-6753
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 284
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 42 illustrations in colour
Topics: Evolutionary Biology, Zoology, Paleontology