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Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo

Sean B. Carroll

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May 10, 2019 Petra X rated it liked it

Shelves: reviewed, dnf-or-never-read, medicine-science, animals-ethology, 2019-100-reviews

Dnf'd. Not because it is a bad book, boring or not well-written, but because it turns out that my appetite for evolutionary biology does not extend as far as embryology. I just cannot summon up the interest to concentrate and have to keep rereading and looking (again and again) at the illustrations. Maybe this is one for the future?

Notes on reading Not getting on with this, I'm not really fascinated that fingers might have once been 8 digits with different functions and this is how they might ha ...more

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Jul 16, 2012 David Rubenstein rated it it was amazing

Shelves: biology

This is a fascinating book about developments in genetics and evolution in the past twenty years. Sean Carroll is a leading researcher in the field; his lucid writing style and lively approach make this book a "must-read" for anybody interested in the subject. Plenty of illustrations and drawings help to bring the subject to life.

There are several big mysteries in genetics; humans and primates share 99% of their genes, so why is their development so different? The answer lies in "genetic switche ...more

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