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  • EDITION:
    1st Edition
  • ISBN:
    0393327795
  • ISBN-13:
    9780393327793
  • PUB. DATE:
    April 2006
  • PUBLISHER:
    Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
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Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo / Edition 1 by Sean B. Carroll, Jamie W. Carroll (Illustrator), Josh P. Klaiss (Illustrator)

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Good introduction, but flawed.by Neemay

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This book certainly succeeds in educating the everyday man. It provides a solid ground for dispelling the notion that mutations are the heart of natural selection and devastates the creationist arguments based on it with effective, gene logic. Overall, to the non-scientific layman this can function is as a great introduction to evolutionary theory in general, especially since it focus on a field (evolutionary...

Must be read in tandem with "The Making of the Fittest"by CatoTheEldest

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See my review of both books under "The Making of the Fittest", by the same author. They are really one book in two volumes and should be read together.

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Endless Forms Most Beautiful

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  • Pub. Date: April 2006
  • Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
  • Sales Rank: 154,331

Synopsis

For over a century, opening the black box of embryonic development was the holy grail of biology. Evo Devo—Evolutionary Developmental Biology—is the new science that has finally cracked open the box. Within the pages of his rich and riveting book, Sean B. Carroll explains how we are discovering that complex life is ironically much simpler than anyone ever expected.

Biography

Sean B. Carroll is professor of genetics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His first book, Endless Forms Most Beautiful, was a finalist for the 2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Carroll’s seminal scientific work has been featured in Time and The New Yorker. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin.