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Larvae and Evolution
Toward a New Zoology

By Williamson, Donald I.

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ISBN: 0412030810 Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub Published: Sep 1 1992 Weight: 1.10lbs. Height: 9.50" Width: 6.50" Depth: 0.75" Language: English

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Retired marine biologist Williamson (U. of Liverpool) proposes a radical solution to otherwise unexplained incongruities between the larval and adult form in a number of invertebrate phyla: that established adult lineages hybridized and acquired the larval form of others. Such evolution would be non-Darwinian, and if true, would change significantly our understanding of animal systematics. Accessible to nonspecialists. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.