The Character Concept in Evolutionary Biology edited by Gunter Wagner, Academic Press, $79.95, ISBN 0127300554
A LOT of time and energy is going into investigating the relationship between evolution and development. Å®ÉúСÊÓƵs want to understand how changes in the development of organisms caused by changes in gene activity can account for the evolution of the enormous variety of animal forms. A key question is, are all the different shapes of animals due to changes in just a few small groups of genes or modules?
Early on, Gunter Wagner defines a “character” as any structure or function in an organism governed…
