Limb diversity and digit reduction in reptilian evolution
citation_date
2006
Description
The study of morphological rules, or trends, offered classical biologists the opportunity to address the mechanisms underlying the evolution of anatomical designs. Regularities in evolution suggested that common functional or developmental rules governed the transformation of structures. Parallelism is one such example.
Type
text;
citation_publisher
University of Chicago Press
citation_firstpage
225
Citation_lastpage
244
citation_keywords
Digit loss; Morphology; Adaptation
citation_language
eng;
Bibliographic Citation
Shapiro, M. D., Shubin, N. H., & Downs, J. P. (2006). Limb diversity and digit reduction in reptilian evolution, in Hall, B. K. (eds.). Fins into limbs: evolution, development, and transportation. 225-44.
