What mechanism can it be that results in the production of homologous organs, the same 'patterns' in spite of their not being controlled by the same genes? I asked this question in 1938, and it has not been answered.
Evolutionary biologist Gavin de Beer,
Homology: An Unsolved Problem (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971).
Table of Contents
Preface | v |
Introduction | 1 |
Defining Some Terms | 7 |
Issues in Question | 9 |
Universal Common Descent | |
Arguments For and Against | 13 |
Fossil Succession | 15 |
Case For | 16 |
Reply | 22 |
Further Debate | 30 |
Anatomical Homology | 39 |
Case For | 40 |
Reply | 43 |
Further Debate | 49 |
Molecular Homology | 51 |
Case For | 52 |
Reply | 57 |
Further Debate | 61 |
Embryology | 65 |
Case For | 66 |
Reply | 68 |
Further Details | 70 |
Biogeography | 73 |
Case For | 74 |
Reply | 76 |
Further Details | 79 |
The Creative Power of Natural Selection | |
Arguments For and Against | 81 |
Natural Selection | 83 |
Case For | 84 |
Reply | 90 |
Natural Selection and Mutation | 97 |
Case For | 98 |
Reply | 102 |
Further Details | 108 |
A New Challenge | |
Arguments For and Against | 114 |
Molecular Machines | 115 |
Case For | 116 |
Reply | 119 |
Further Details | 121 |
Special Studies | 125 |
Natural Selection as |
126 |
What Fossils Can't Tell You | 128 |
Conclusion | 141 |
The Nature of |
142 |
Glossary | 144 |
Selected Bibliography | 149 |
Credits & Authors | 154 |
Index | 157 |