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Much recent research in evolutionary developmental biology has focused on the origin of new body plans. However, most evolutionary change at the population and species level consists of tinkering: small-scale alterations in developmental pathways within a single body plan. Such microevolutionary events have been well studied on a population genetic level and from the perspective of adaptive phenotypic evolution, but their developmental mechanisms remain poorly studied.
This book explores both theoretical and practical issues of tinkering. It features a wide range of perspectives to address several fundamental questions. How does tinkering occur developmentally, and how is it manifested phenotypically? Are the developmental mechanisms by which tinkering occur different from those that underlie larger evolutionary changes? What are the developmental constraints on tinkering? And how do we test hypotheses about microevolutionary shifts in development from the fossil record?

Sommario:
Daniel E. Lieberman
The evolutionary developmental biology of tinkering: an introduction to the challenge.

Manfred D. Laubichler
Tinkering: a conceptual and historical evaluation

Rudolf A. Raff and Elizabeth C. Raff
Tinkering: new embryos from old-rapidly and cheaply.

James M. Cheverud
The relationship between development and evolution through heritable variation.

Adam S. Wilkins
Genetic networks as transmitting and amplifying devices for natural genetic tinkering.

Paul M. Brakefield
Butterfly eyespot patterns and how evolutionary tinkering yields diversity.

Günter P. Wagner and Anna Marie Pyle
Tinkering with transcription factor proteins: the role of transcription factor adaptation in developmental evolution.

Denis Duboule, Basile Tarchini, Jozsef Zàkàny and Marie Kmita
Tinkering with constraints in the evolution of the vertebrate limb anterior-posterior polarity.

Irma Thesleff, Elina Järvinen and Marika Suomalainen
Affecting tooth morphology and renewal by fine-tuning the signals mediating cell and tissue interactions.

Benedikt Hallgrimsson, Daniel E. Lieberman, Nathan M. Young, Trish Parsons and Steven Wat
Evolution of covariance in the mammalian skull.

David L. Stern
The developmental genetics of microevolution.

Jukka Jernvall and Isaac Salazar-Ciudad
The economy of tinkering mammalian teeth.

Michael A. Bell, Kaitlyn E. Ellis and Howard I. Sirotkin
Pelvic skeleton reduction and Pitx1 expression in threespine stickleback populations.

Michael I. Coates, Marcello Ruta and Peter J. Wagner
Using patterns of fin and limb phylogeny to test developmental-evolutionary scenarios.

Rebecca R. Ackermann
Craniofacial variation and developmental divergence in primate and human evolution.

Paolo Coccia

Paolo Coccia

Fondatore di Pikaia e appassionato bibliofilo, cacciatore di riferimenti bibliografici (evoluzionistici) ovunque si trovino. A tal proposito ho finalmente terminato la collana editoriale 150 ANNI DI STORIA DELL’EVOLUZIONE IN ITALIA. PERCORSI E ITINERARI BIBLIOGRAFICI, recensita qui su Pikaia man mano che pubblicavo i volumi. Sul mio blog https://darwininitalia.blogspot.com è disponibile la descrizione dell’intera opera. Email: pacoccia@gmail.com