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Evolution and Development

Report of the Dahlem Workshop on Evolution and Development Berlin 1981, May 10–15

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1982

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Editors:
  1. J. T. Bonner

    1. Department of Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, USA

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Part of the book series: Dahlem Workshop Report (DAHLEM, volume 22)

Part of the book sub series: Life Sciences Research Report (DAHLEM LIFE)

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Table of contents (16 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • J. T. Bonner
      Pages 1-16

  3. The Molecular Level

    1. Genomic Change and Morphological Evolution Group Report

      • I. Dawid, R. J. Britten, E. H. Davidson, G. A. Dover, D. F. Gallwitz, A. Garcia-Bellido et al.
      Pages 18-39

    2. Genomic Alterations in Evolution

      • R. J. Britten
      Pages 41-64

    3. Evolutionary Change in Genomic Regulatory Organization: Speculations on the Origins of Novel Biological Structure

      • E. H. Davidson
      Pages 65-84

  4. The Cellular Level

    1. The Cellular Basis of Morphogenetic Change Group Report

      • J. C. Gerhart, S. Berking, J. Cooke, G. L. Freeman, A. Hildebrandt, H. Jokusch et al.
      Pages 86-114

    2. A Catalogue of Processes Responsible for Metazoan Morphogenesis

      • N. K. Wessells
      Pages 115-154

    3. What Does the Comparative Study of Development Tell Us About Evolution?

      • G. L. Freeman
      Pages 155-167

    4. Pattern Formation and Change

      • L. Wolpert
      Pages 169-188

    5. Genes That Control High Level Developmental Switches

      • T. C. Kaufman, B. T. Wakimoto
      Pages 189-205

    6. Ontogenetic Mechanisms: The Middle Ground of Evolution

      • M. J. Katz
      Pages 207-212

  5. The Level of the Life Cycle

    1. Adaptive Aspects of Development Group Report

      • H. S. Horn, J. T. Bonner, W. Dohle, M. J. Katz, M. A. R. Koehl, H. Meinhardt et al.
      Pages 214-235

    2. The Role of Development in the Evolution of Life Histories

      • S. C. Stearns
      Pages 237-258

    3. Selection for Size, Shape, and Development Timing

      • J. T. Bonner, H. S. Horn
      Pages 259-276

  6. The Level of Evolution

    1. The Role of Development in Macroevolutionary Change Group Report

      • P. F. A. Maderson, P. Alberch, B. C. Goodwin, S. J. Gould, A. Hoffman, J. D. Murray et al.
      Pages 278-312

    2. Developmental Constraints in Evolutionary Processes

      • P. Alberch
      Pages 313-332

    3. Change in Developmental Timing As a Mechanism of Macroevolution

      • S. J. Gould
      Pages 333-346

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 347-358
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3 There are other trends in the attempt to meld evolution and development which immodesty permits me to add. I have been concerned over the years with the selection forces which might have produced larger organisms and therefore a development of increasing complexity. This is nowhere more evident than in the multiple evolutionary origins of multicellularity and all the variety of developmental mechanics that have gone with it. (I discuss this and related themes in various places, but see especially The Evolution of Development (1958; (1)) and Size and Cycle (1965; (2)). To some degree these examples of the bringing together of evolu­ tion and development are exceptions. By far the most important historical trends in this century have been the success of in­ dividual disciplines. Embryology had its great flowering be­ ginning in the last century, coming to a climax with the work of Spemann on induction in the first two decades of this cen­ tury. Genetics has had an extraordinary continuing series of revolutions beginning with the rediscovery of Mendel and pro­ gressing through Morgan to the flash flood of molecular genetics and the structure of DNA. This flood was a flash only in the sense that it rushed upon us with amazing speed; its effects in the form of important and exciting work produced has not subsided and we are still in a peak period of molecular genetics.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, USA

    J. T. Bonner

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Evolution and Development

  • Book Subtitle: Report of the Dahlem Workshop on Evolution and Development Berlin 1981, May 10–15

  • Editors: J. T. Bonner

  • Series Title: Dahlem Workshop Report

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45532-2

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Dr. S. Bernhard, Dahlem Konferenzen, Berlin 1982

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-45534-6Published: 29 February 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-45532-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 358

  • Topics: Zoology, Plant Sciences

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