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    <body><![CDATA[A great introduction and review of the work linking the developmental impact of reusing the master regulatory proteins to control a changing galaxy of specific proteins to alter the final organisms form to fit its habitat.<br/>He details the emergence of the body axes under the Hox proteins and how ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45940225">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Let's face it: You don't know jack about genetics, DNA, or the way that life actually perpetuates in this crazy world. I certainly didn't. Then I read this book.<br/><br/>Sean Carroll is a popular writer on evolution and DNA and this book is an excellent place to begin to learn about how life deve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80947948">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An excellent and clear introduction to the science of evo-devo.<br/><br/>Caroll lays out beautifully what he and colleagues are learning through combining embryology with evolution, and shows how the union solves a number of mysteries that have been puzzling scientists for decades.<br/><br/>Although...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57176589">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a great book on evolution! Its so captivating, enlightening, and flawless in its arguments that I'm just disgusted at how evolution was taught so dryly and uninterestingly in college... and with so much less insight! This book really introduced the discipline of evolutionary development (evo-de...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44504037">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book illustrates the ways in which the new fields of Evo Devo and bioinformatics are revolutionizing biology.  The art of interpreting fossils has given way to the new hard science of genome analysis.  If you really want to know how evolution works and where complexity comes from, you need to r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27925731">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Every animal form is the product of two processes--development from an egg and evolution from its ancestors,&quot; writes Sean B. Carroll in his introduction to Endless Forms Most Beautiful. The new science of &quot;evo devo&quot;--or evolutionary developmental biology--examines the relationsh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72918832">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was somewhat led astray by the wonderful title of this book, as well as its striking cover. While clear in presentation, the writing is somewhat technical lacks something of the poetry that I would have liked for anyone presenting the breathtaking grandeur of evolutionary theory. That said, the co...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74613407">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm giving this book five stars because I really want people to read it. It was, for me, a really difficult book to read-- 300+ pages of hard science. It was also amazing, and revealing, and all in all a book I'm really glad I happened across. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39096.Endless_Forms_Most_Beautiful_The_New_Science_of_Evo_Devo" title="Endless Forms Most Beautiful  The New Science of Evo Devo by Sean B. Carroll">Endless Forms Most Beautiful  The New Science of Evo Devo</a>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52165836">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ok, this book attempts to address two different problems. The first problem is how an egg is turned into an adult animal. Everyone can appreciate that this is quite an amazing process, but ever thought of its details? As the original single cell stars splitting, how does each cell – all carrying t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33347915">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book opened up some great ground on recent developments in biological sciences, namely the evolutionary development aspects. <br/><br/>The text is ample with the results (and author's interpretations) of various recent studies and the effect of the whole is a feeling of a well rounded insight...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8841585">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Here's why this book blew my mind.  I remember almost everything I learned in high school biology (more than 20 years ago), and there were some things that no one could then explain.  What, for instance, triggers some cells to become liver cells while others become skin cells?  And, why, once a cell...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4526575">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The new science of evolutionary developmental biology finally exposed the molecular toolkits life uses to build species, whether fish or termites or us. <strong>Wildly<strong> important book, in spite of his acceptance of 1 quoted study I find incorrect.</strong></strong>]]></body>
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