In his 1894 book, Materials for the Study of Variation, William Bateson coined the term Homoeosis with the following prose: The case of the modification of the antenna of an insect into a foot, of the eye of a Crustacean into an antenna, of a petal into a stamen, and the like, are examples of the same kind. It is desirable and indeed necessary that such Variations, which consist in the assumption by one member of a Meristic series, of the form or characters proper to other members of the series, should be recognized as constituting a distinct group of phenomena. ...I therefore propose...the term HOMOEOSIS...; for the essential phenomenon is not that there has merely been a change, but that something has been changed into the likeness of something else. The book was intended as a listing of the kinds of naturally occurring variation that could act as a substrate for the evolutionary process and Bateson took his examples from collections, both private and in museums, of materials displaying morphological oddities. Interestingly the person who also coined the term "Genetics" proffered little in the way of speculation on the possible genetic underpinnings of these oddities. It wasn't until the early part of the next century that these changes in meristic series were shown to be heritable.
Produktkennzeichnungen
Herausgeber
Jean S. Deutsch
ISBN-10
1441966722
ISBN-13
9781441966728
eBay Product ID (ePID)
161989998
Produkt Hauptmerkmale
Sprache
Englisch
Anzahl der Seiten
Xxiii Seiten
Verlag
Springer-Verlag Gmbh, Springer Us
Autor
Jean S. Deutsch
Buchtitel
Hox Genes
Format
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsjahr
2010
Buchreihe
Advances in Experimental Medicine And Biology
Zusätzliche Produkteigenschaften
Hörbuch
No
Item Length
26cm
Item Height
2cm
Item Width
17cm
Nummer Innerhalb der Serie
689
Item Weight
482g
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