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Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom

2006, Sean B. Carroll

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Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom is a 2005 book by the molecular biologist Sean B. Carroll. It presents a summary of the emerging field of evolutionary developmental biology and the role of toolkit genes. It has won numerous awards for science communication.

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