Talk:K12 Comparative Embryology
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Other Species Stages
Chicken: Chicken stages | Hamburger Hamilton Stages | Witschi Stages
Exercise Documents
- Exercise 1 - Embryo Size File:K12_Comparative_Embryology_Exercise_1.doc | File:K12_Comparative_Embryology_Exercise_1.pdf
- Exercise 2 - Embryo Stages File:K12_Comparative_Embryology_Exercise_2.doc | File:K12_Comparative_Embryology_Exercise_2.pdf
Online Resources
- Search PubMed Comparative Embryology
- Developmental Biology. 6th edition. Comparative Embryology
- PBS PDF
Access Log
- 25 June 2012, at 01:59 page has been accessed 105 times.
References
Gavin Rylands de Beer: how embryology foreshadowed the dilemmas of the genome
Nat Rev Genet. 2006 Nov;7(11):892-8.
Horder TJ.
Source Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford OX1 3QX, UK. tim.horder@anat.ox.ac.uk
Abstract
Gavin de Beer is remembered, at best, as a shadowy figure among those who gradually built up our current view of evolution and the role of genetics. This view derives from the Modern Synthesis - the recognition that emerged in the 1930s that genetics can adequately explain Darwinian evolution and speciation through natural selection. I argue that de Beer's theories of embryology had a crucial role in the Modern Synthesis, and that his work indirectly continues to influence how we think about the genome, evolution and developmental biology.
PMID 17047688 Nat Rev Genet.
Good discussion of historic background to comparative embryology in relation to evolution.
