Haeckel's Embryos
Haeckel's Embryos

Author: Nick Hopwood

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2015-05-11

Total Pages: 397

ISBN-13: 022604694X

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Emphasizing the changes worked by circulation and copying, interpretation and debate, this book uses the case to explore how pictures succeed and fail, gain acceptance and spark controversy. It reveals how embryonic development was made a process that we can see, compare, and discuss, and how copying - usually dismissed as unoriginal

The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought
The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought

Author: Ron Amundson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-03-14

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9781139443425

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In this book Ron Amundson examines two hundred years of scientific views on the evolution-development relationship from the perspective of evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo). This perspective challenges several popular views about the history of evolutionary thought by claiming that many earlier authors had made history come out right for the Evolutionary Synthesis. The book starts with a revised history of nineteenth-century evolutionary thought. It then investigates how development became irrelevant with the Evolutionary Synthesis. It concludes with an examination of the contrasts that persist between mainstream evolutionary theory and evo-devo. This book will appeal to students and professionals in the philosophy and history of science, and biology.