Beyond Heterochrony The Evolution of Development

by Zelditch, Miriam Leah

• ISBN13: 9780471379737
• ISBN10: 0471379735
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-10-03
• Publisher: Wiley-Liss

Summary

The ten chapters in Beyond Heterochrony: The Evolution of Development explore the evolution of biological development from many different perspectives. They present their research and consider all sides of the often controversial concept of heterochrony without intellectual limits. In looking beyond heterochrony, this book attends to a variety of explanations for evolutionary development. The chapters present theoretical and practical approaches with real data, using examples from both extant and extinct forms of animal and plant life to present refreshing and at times divergent perspectives on the subject. Each chapter offers a substantive and original contribution to the literature, with case studies that explore the developmental basis of morphological evolution in a unique way. They address a number of issues and provide real data on which their conclusions rest, as well as the phylogenetic context of evolutionary interpretations. The book includes thorough analysis of the ontogeny and phylogeny of shape-for decades the very heart of studies of heterochrony-and also presents novel approaches with new hypotheses. The hypotheses considered are as diverse as their analytical methodologies: each goes beyond heterochrony in a different way and in so doing, steers the discussion of the evolution of development in fascinating new directions.

Author Biography

Miriam Zelditch received her BA in History from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and PhD in Zoology from Michigan State University. She came to Ann Arbor on an NSF postdoctoral fellowship, where she has remained, currently at the Museum of Paleontology at the University of Michigan. Zeldtich's research, from her dissertation to the present, has been focused on the interaction between evolutionary and developmental processes.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Brian K. Hall
Preface	xi
Contributors	xvii
The Developmental Basis of Morphological Disarmament in Prunum (Neogastropoda: Marginellidae)	1	(26)
Ross H. Nehm
Ortogenetic Sequences: Homology, Evolution, and the Patterning of Clade Diversity	27	(32)
Larry Hufford
A Detailed Scenario and Possible Tests of the Mostly Male Theory of Flower Evolutionary Origins	59	(46)
Michael W. Frohlich
Allometric Patterning in Trilobite Ontogeny: Testing for Heterochrony in Nephrolenellus	105	(40)
Mark Webster
H. David Sheetsand
Nigel C. Hughes
The Spatial Cdomplexity and Evolutionary Dynamics of Growth	145	(50)
Miriam Leah Zelditch
H. David Sheets
William L. Fink
Spatial and Temporal Growth Patterns in the Phenotypically Variable Littorina saxatilis: Surprising Patterns Emerge from Chaos	195	(34)
Robert Guralnick
James Kurpius
Pigment Patterns of Ectothermic Vertebrates: Heterochronic vs. Nonheterochronic Models for Pigment Pattern Evolution	229	(42)
David M. Parichy
Testing the Hypothesis of Heterochrony in Morphometric Data: Lessons from a Bivalved Mollusk	271	(34)
Peter D. Roopnarine
Testing Modularity and Dissociation: The Evolution of Regional Proportions in Snakes	305	(32)
P. David Polly
Jason J. Headand
Martin J. Cohn
Novel Features of Tetrapod Limb Development in Two Nontraditional Model Species: A Skink and a Direct-Developing Frog	337	(26)
Michael D. Shapiro
Timothy F. Carl
Index	363