To some potential readers of this book the description of Biological System- atics as an art may seem outdated and frankly wrong. For most people art is subjective and unconstrained by universal laws. While one picture, play or poem may be internally consistent comparison between different art produ[...]
What comes first, form or function? Trumpeted as the future of biological science, evolutionary developmental biology (or 'evo-devo') answers this fundamental question by showing how evolution controls the development of organisms. In "Forms of Becoming", Alessandro Minelli, a leading international [...]