Bøker av Brian K. Hall

Many changes that occur during the embryonic development of an individual animal can be seen as a parallel to changes that have occurred in species or groups of species during evolutionary time. This book covers the interaction between developmental and evolutionary changes in animals.

A presentation of all aspects of neural crest cell origins (embryological and evolutionary), development and evolution; neural crest cell behavior (migration) and anomalies (neurocristopathies and birth defects) arising from defective neural crest development.

Although evolutionary developmental biology is a new field, its origins lie in the last century; Evolutionary developmental biology is however more than just a fusion of the fields of developmental and evolutionary biology.