Humans do not have tails, but do we have “what it takes” for a tail? Hens don’t have teeth, but they have the genes for it. With atavism, it is as if our genomes serve as archives of our evolutionary ...

Is there only one optimal configuration an organism can reach during evolution? Is there a single formula that describes the trajectory towards the optimum? And can we 'derive' it in a purely ...

All vertebrate embryos follow a common developmental path due to their common ancestry. All have a set of very similar genes (the homeobox genes) that define their basic body plan. As they grow, the ...

Includes Malpighi's De formatione pulli in ovo (On the formation of the chick in the egg), v. 2, p. [932]-981; and his Appendix repetitas auctasque de ovo incubato observationes continens (Repeated ...

VERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY AN INTRODUCTION TO THE COMPARATIVE ANATOMY EMBRYOLOGY AND EVOLUTION OF CHORDATE ANIMALS BY GR DE BEER WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JULIAN S HUXLEY ...

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