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Just as Darwin's ideas continue to propel the modern study of adaptation, so too Richard Owen's contributions fuel the interest in homology, organic form, and evolutionary developmental biology. This title offers his theory of the archetype and his views on species origins.

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"I look at Owen's Archetypes as more than ideal, as a real representation as far as the most consummate skill and loftiest generalization can represent the parent form of the Vertebrata." - Charles Darwin, marginalia in his copy of On the Nature of Limbs"

On the Nature of Limbs

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    A Hardback by Richard Owen, Ronald Amundson, Brian K. Hall

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 1/15/2008 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226641942, 978-0226641942
      ISBN10: 0226641945
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      Developmental biology Evolution / Evolutionary biology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Just as Darwin's ideas continue to propel the modern study of adaptation, so too Richard Owen's contributions fuel the interest in homology, organic form, and evolutionary developmental biology. This title offers his theory of the archetype and his views on species origins.

      Trade Review
      "I look at Owen's Archetypes as more than ideal, as a real representation as far as the most consummate skill and loftiest generalization can represent the parent form of the Vertebrata." - Charles Darwin, marginalia in his copy of On the Nature of Limbs"

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