Keywords and concepts in evolutionary developmental biology / editors, Brian K. Hall, Wendy M. Olson.

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003.

xvi, 476 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Introduction : evolutionary developmental mechanisms / Brian K. Hall and Wendy M. Olson -- Animal phyla / Graham E. Budd -- Atavism / Melanie L.J. Stiassny -- Behavioral development and evolution / Gilbert Gottlieb -- Canalization and genetic assimilation / Adam Wilkins -- Cell determination and differentiation / Andrew Collazo -- Cell types, numbers, and body plan complexity / James W. Valentine -- Conserved early embryonic stages / Frietson Galis and Barry Sinervo -- Constraint / Kurt Schwenk and Günter P. Wagner.

Development, evolution, and evolutionary developmental biology / Scott F. Gilbert and Richard M. Burian -- Developmental genetics / Scott F. Gilbert and Richard M. Burian -- Developmental mechanisms : animals / Bruce M. Carlson -- Developmental processes that generate plant form / Tsvi Sachs -- Developmental systems theory / Jason Scott Robert -- Direct Development / James Hanken -- Embryonic induction / Roger Sawyer and Loren Knapp -- Environment / Carl D. Schlichting -- Epigenesis and epigenetics / Gerd B. Müller and Lennart Olsson.

Evolution of plant body plans and allometry / Karl J. Niklas -- Evolvability / John Gerhart and Marc Kirschner -- Fossils and paleobiology / Armand De Ricqlès and Kevin Padian -- Gene regulation / David Stern -- Genome size / Elizabeth L. Jockusch -- Germ cells and germ plasm / Mary Lou King -- Growth / Joan T. Richtsmeier -- Hierarchy / Stuart A. Newman -- Homeotic genes in animals / Anne C. Burke and Susan Brown -- Homeotic genes in flowering plants / Hong Ma -- Homology and homoplasy / David B. Wake -- Inheritance : extragenomic / Jan Sapp.

Inheritance : genomic / Norman Maclean -- Innovation / Gerd B. Müller and Günter P. Wagner -- Larvae and larval evolution / Michael Hart -- Life history evolution / Marvalee H. Wake -- Lineages : cell and phyletic / David R. Lindberg and Robert P. Guralnick -- Micro-, macro-, and megaevolution / Wallace Arthur -- Modularity / Gillian L. Gass and Jessica A. Bolker -- Morphology / Marvalee H. Wake and Adam P. Summers -- Ontogenetic integration of form and function / Susan W. Herring -- Phenotype and genotype / Kenneth M. Weiss.

Phenotypic plasticity / Paul M. Brakefield and Pieter J. Wijngaarden -- Phylogeny / Brent Mishler -- Phylotype and zootype / Jonathan M.W. Slack -- Regeneration in the Metazoa / Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado -- Segmentation / Grace Panganiban -- Selection : units and levels in developing systems / Manfred D. Laubichler -- Space, time, and repatterning / Miriam Zelditch -- Speciation / Jukka Jernvall -- Time / John O. Reiss -- Variation / Benedikt Hallgrímsson.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-455) and index.