From Embryology to Evo-Devo
Subtitle
A History of Developmental Evolution
Edited by Manfred D. Laubichler and Jane Maienschein
This volume serves as a history of evolutionary thought and offers historic markers for the complex process by which two once connected and then independent theories of evolution and development have again became synthesized into the relatively new science of evolutionary developmental (evo-devo) biology. A compilation of papers developed at a forum of historians, biologists and philosophers gathered at the Dibner Institute at MIT, "Evo-Devo" challenges the reader to step outside black and white static worlds and acknowledge that everything under the sun is subject to adaptation and change, including the very way we think about change.
Bios
Manfred D. Laubichler is a professor of theoretical biology and history of biology, and affiliated professor of philosophy at the School of Life Sciences and Centers for Biology and Society and Social Dynamics and Complexity at Arizona State University.
Arizona State University Professor Jane Maienschein specializes in the history and philosophy of biology and the way biology, bioethics and bio-policy play out in society.
Praise for this book
An exceptionally well-integrated volume ... Its examination of what is required to integrate scientific disciplines, and what is accomplished thereby, is important. It also serves as a model of cooperation among historians, philosophers and scientists. For historians interested in the focal topics of the book, it is a major and inescapable starting point.
Richard Burian ISIS
