Minelli, Alessandro.

The Development of animal form : ontogeny, morphology, and evolution / Alessandro Minelli - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003 - xviii, 323 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

The nature of development -- Everything begun to the service of development: cellular darwinism and the origin of animal form -- Development: generic to genetic -- Periodisation -- Body regions: their boundaries and complexity -- Differentiation and patterning -- Size factors -- Axes and symmetries -- Segments -- Evo-devo perspectives on homology

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Developmental biology.
Ontogeny.
Morphology.
Evolution (Biology)

571.3 / M664D