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Hox Genes: Studies from the 20th to the 21st Century

Hox Genes: Studies from the 20th to the 21st Century

Deutsch, Jean S.

Paperback

Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, Book 689

Medical ReferenceBiology

ISBN10: 1493941135
ISBN13: 9781493941131
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Aug 23 2016
Pages: 169
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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.

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