Before the Backbone: Views on the origin of the vertebratesSpringer Science & Business Media, 2007 M07 27 - 346 páginas We cannot catechise our stony ichthyolites, as did the necromantic lady of the Arabian Nights did the coloured fishes of the lake which had once been a city, when she touched their dead bodies with her wand, and they straightaway raised their heads and rephed to her queries. We would have many a question to ask them if we could - questions never to be solved. Hugh Miller, The Old Red Sandstone When I started this book in 1991, the subject of vertebrate origins was fusty and unfashionable. Early drafts for this preface read like an extend ed complaint at the lot of traditional morphologists, cast aside by the march of modern molecular biology. But no longer - this book should reach you at a time of renewed inter est in the origin of the vertebrates, our own particular corner of creation. For although the topic has excited interest for well over a century, molec ular biology has only lately achieved the maturity necessary to test its predictions. As a legitimate field of study, it is fashionable again. |
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... genome has already helped untangle the vexed question of the higher - order phy- logeny of arthropods ( Boore et al . , 1995 ) and work on the duplication of clustered homeobox genes ( more about them in Chapter 3 xii Preface.
... genome has already helped untangle the vexed question of the higher - order phy- logeny of arthropods ( Boore et al . , 1995 ) and work on the duplication of clustered homeobox genes ( more about them in Chapter 3 xii Preface.
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... arthropods and vertebrates ( Manak and Scott , 1994 ; De Robertis and Sasai , 1996 ) might not seem so surprising . Third , it could be that some of these ideas contain grains of truth that deserve further investigation in their own ...
... arthropods and vertebrates ( Manak and Scott , 1994 ; De Robertis and Sasai , 1996 ) might not seem so surprising . Third , it could be that some of these ideas contain grains of truth that deserve further investigation in their own ...
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The origins of vertebrates | 84 |
Head to head | 160 |
Jefferies Calcichordate Theory | 201 |
Conclusions | 287 |
References | 305 |
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