This is the first and only book, so far, to deal with the causal basis of evolution from an epigenetic view. By revealing the epigenetic "user" of the "genetic toolkit", this book demonstrates the primacy of epigenetic mechanisms and epigenetic information in generating evolutionary novelties. The author convincingly supports his theory with a host of examples from the most varied fields of biology, by emphasizing changes in developmental pathways as the basic source of evolutionary change in metazoans. Original and thought-provoking -€a radically new theory that overcomes the present dif.
- ISBN10 012415851X
- ISBN13 9780124158511
- Publish Date 14 May 2014 (first published 1 January 2011)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Elsevier
- Format eBook
- Pages 847
- Language English