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Apr 29, 2008 about this book the cerebral cortex is the crowning achievement of evolution and the biological substrate of human mental capacities. Evolutionary developmental biology without an understanding of an organisms evolution, we cannot make sense of why it functions as it does today, nor predict how it might respond to future challenges. This multiauthor, sixvolume work summarizes our current knowledge on the developmental biology of all major invertebra. Integral to this subject are developmental genetics and molecular biology, and, increasingly, systematics, paleontology, and population genetics as well. When we study developmental biology we are mostly looking at a. The study of development has become essential forunderstanding any other area of biology.
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