Sean B. Carroll - Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo torrent download



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 Title............: Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom

 Author...........: Sean B. Carroll

 Read By..........: Arthur Morey

 Genre............: Nonfiction - Biology - Evolution

 Publisher........: Brilliance Audio 2009

 Unabridged.......: Yes

 Language.........: English



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 Number of MP3s...: 12 (Chaptered)

 Total Duration...: 8 hours 26 minutes

 Total MP3 Size...: 227 MB

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Amazon.com Review


"Every animal form is the product of two processes--development from an egg and evolution from its ancestors," writes Sean B. Carroll in his introduction to Endless Forms Most Beautiful. The new science of "evo devo"--or evolutionary developmental biology--examines the relationships between those two processes, embryonic development and evolutionary changes, despite their radically different time scales. Carroll first offers a recap of how genes express themselves in a growing embryo, then peers into the life histories of real-life examples to explain how those genes have changed (or not changed) over millions of years of evolution. Paraphrasing Thomas Huxley, he asks us to consider evolution and development as two sides of the same coin.





    We may marvel at the process of an egg becoming an adult, but we accept it as an everyday fact. It is merely then a lack of imagination to fail to grasp how changes in this process that assimilated over long periods of time, far longer than the span of human experience, shape life's diversity." 





The book's second half is where Carroll really gets at the meat of evo devo, explaining how regulatory genes control such mysteries as individual and population changes in butterfly's spots, jaguar fur, and hominid skulls. Evo devo is one of the hottest areas of study in 21st-century biology, and Carroll's outline of the field is a great place to start understanding it. --Therese Littleton 





From Booklist


*Starred Review* Evo Devo is short for evolutionary developmental biology, a new science that explores the biological processes that give rise to both the shared traits and the wild diversity of animal anatomies. Carroll is at the vanguard of this promising field, and he is also a lucent and lively popular science writer deeply inspired by the order, ingenuity, and beauty of the molecular choreography he brings to light. Evo Devo has not only proven that human beings have a surprising number of genes in common with other animals, including the humble fruit fly, it has also revealed the startling fact that every animal species on earth is derived from the same small set of "tool-kit genes." In explicating these unexpected discoveries, Carroll describes in stunning detail the geography of a growing embryo, how genes mark out a diagram of the body to come, and how exactly, thanks to "genetic switches," the "hotspots of evolution," one group of genes can produce such variations on a theme as butterflies, birds, leopards, and whales. Carroll's highly detailed and well-illustrated technical discussions are enriched by his appreciation for the philosophical, aesthetic, and ethical implications of the biological wonders he decodes, adding up to a vital and enjoyable introduction to a field with profound implications. Donna Seaman
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