BIOL4397 - Evolution of Development

 Lecture 2 - Overview

Lecture Notes [pdf]    (Note: links fixed)

Slides [pdf]

Required Reading

  • Raff RA (2000) Evo-devo: the evolution of a new discipline. Nature Reviews Genetics 5: 74-79. [pdf]

Recommended Reading
  • Gould SJ (1977) Ontogeny and Phylogeny. Belknap Press.

  • Love AC & Raff RA (2003) Knowing your ancestors: themes in the history of evo-devo. Evolution & Development 5: 327-330. [pdf]

  • Mayr E (1982) The Growth of Biological Thought. Belknap Press.

  • Raff RA (1996) The Shape of Life: Genes, Development, and the Evolution of Animal Form. Univ Chicago Press.

  • Richardson MK & Keuck G (2002) Haeckel's ABC of evolution and development. Biological Reviews 77: 495-528. [pdf]

  • Wilkins AS (2001) The Evolution of Developmental Pathways. Sinauer.