Making Evo-Devo Comparative

摘要

Spurred by advances in development and genetics, evolutionary developmental biology ("evo-devo") has emerged during the last 25 years as a new discipline. The field's growth has led to several recent books, mostly written from a "devo-" perspective. Alessandro Minelli's The Development of Animal Form stresses "evo-" and, I believe, is destined to play an important role in the progressive development of the field because it effectively frames new questions and reinterprets old ones.