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Nature 435, 1029-1030 (23 June 2005) | doi:10.1038/4351029a; Published online 22 June 2005
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Switching on evolution
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BOOK REVIEWED-Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo
by Sean B. Carroll
W. W. Norton: 2005. 350 pp. $25.95
Aimed at the interested lay reader, Endless Forms Most Beautiful (the title comes from the last paragraph of Darwin's Origin of Species) is a paean to recent advances in developmental genetics, and what they may tell us about the evolutionary process. The book's centrepiece is the unexpected discovery that the genes that control the body plans of all bilateral animals, including worms, insects, frogs and humans, are largely identical.
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