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How the leopard changed its spots : the evolution of complextiy
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How the leopard changed its spots : the evolution of complextiy

Author: Brian C Goodwin
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2001.
Series: Princeton science library.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Do genes explain life? Can advances in evolutionary and molecular biology account for what we look like, how we behave, and why we die? This intervention into biological thinking argues that such  Read more...

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Brian C Goodwin
ISBN: 0691088098 9780691088099
OCLC Number: 45223571
Notes: Originally published: New York : C. Scribner's Sons, 1994. With a new preface by the author.
Description: xx, 252 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Whatever happened to organisms? --
How the leopard got its spots --
Life, the excitable medium --
Living form in the making --
Evolution of generic forms --
New directions, new metaphors --
Science of qualities.
Series Title: Princeton science library.
Responsibility: Brian Goodwin.
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[Goodwin's] book genuinely illuminates the mysteries of biological development. -- David Papineau New York Times

 
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