Project SherlockEst. Knowledge

Paper

2008

Evo-Devo and an Expanding Evolutionary Synthesis: A Genetic Theory of Morphological Evolution

Sean B. Carroll

Argues that changes in the regulation of a small toolkit of developmental genes, not new genes themselves, explain most morphological evolution between animal body plans.

No free copy is linked yet — expect to buy or borrow this one elsewhere.

Read these first

Not a difficulty warning — a route. These are in the library too.

Systematics and the Origin of SpeciesErnst Mayr, 1942Defines species by reproductive isolation rather than morphology, and argues geographic isolation of populations is the ordinary route to a new one.

Filed under Evolutionary Biology in Biology.