Form and Function in Developmental Evolution

Manfred D. Laubichler is Professor of Theoretical Biology and History of Biology and Affiliated Professor of Philosophy at Arizona State University. He is co-editor with Gerd B. Muller of Modeling Biology: Structures, Behaviors, Evolution (2007). Jane Maienschein is Regents' Professor, President's Professor, and Parents Association Professor Director at the Center for Biology and Society, Arizona State University. She is author of Whose View of Life? Embryos, Cloning and Stem Cells (2003, 2005) and co-editor with Manfred D. Laubichler of From Embryology to Evo-Devo: a History of Developmental Evolution (2007).

• 1. Introduction Andrew L. Hamilton, Manfred Laubichler and Jane Maienschein; 2. Form and function in Evo Devo: historical and conceptual issues Manfred D. Laubichler; 3. Deducing plant function from organic form: challenges and pitfalls Karl J. Niklas; 4. Evolution in the light of embryos: seeking the origins of novelties in ontogeny Rudolf A. Raff and Elizabeth C. Raff; 5. A focus on both form and function in examining selection versus constraint Paul M. Brakefield; 6. Innovation and diversity in functional morphology Peter C. Wainwright; 7. The developmental evolution of avian digit homology: an update Günter P. Wagner; 8. Functional analysis and character transformation Richard A. Richards; 9. The nature of constraints Roger Samson; 10. Towards a mechanistic Evo Devo Andrew L. Hamilton.