Topobiology

An Introduction To Molecular Embryology

By: Gerald Edelman

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Paperback | 21 July 1993 | Edition Number 1

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Edelman links genetics, development, behavior, and evolution.. If you had a complete copy of a dinosaurs DNA and the genetic code, you still would not be able to make a dinosauror even determine what one looked like. Why? How do animals get their shape and how does shape evolve? In this important book, Nobel laureate Gerald M. Edelman challenges the notion that an understanding of the genetic code and of cell differentiation is sufficient to answer these questions. Rather, he argues, a trio of related issues must also be investigatedthe development of form, the evolution of form, and the morphological and functional bases of behavior. Topobiology presents an introduction to molecular embryology and describes a comprehensive hypothesis to account for the evolution and development of animal form.

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Non-Fiction Science Science in General Psychology Biology, Life Sciences Zoology & Animal Sciences Animal Reproduction Developmental Biology Miscellaneous Items Molecular Biology

Preface	p. xiii
Form from Place	p. 1
Animate Form	p. 3
Selected References	p. 8
Code, Scale, and Place	p. 9
Selected References	p. 15
Development	p. 16
Selected References	p. 26
Pattern	p. 27
Selected References	p. 43
Morphologic Evolution	p. 45
Selected References	p. 55
Molecular Mechanisms of Epigenesis	p. 57
Mechanochemistry and Cellular Driving Forces	p. 59
Selected References	p. 85
Morphoregulatory Molecules	p. 86
Selected References	p. 124
The Morphoregulator Hypothesis: Mechanochemistry Linked to Developmental Genetics	p. 127
The Developmental Genetic Question	p. 129
Selected References	p. 154
The Evolutionary Question	p. 155
Selected References	p. 171
Development and Behavior	p. 173
Developmental Variation and Somatic Selection: Neural Darwinism	p. 175
Selected References	p. 209
Coda: the Other Side of Biology	p. 210
Abbreviations	p. 213
Glossary	p. 214
Credits	p. 229
Index	p. 231
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