I was thinking what should be the content of my 100th post and after thinking for while i decided nothing could be better then giving you some details of about best evo devo books in the market ,written by great Scientific writers.Here are some of my picks from many evo devo books exists and accompanied by some links to their reviews already available on the web.

1) Endless form Most beautiful
By Sean B Carroll

Book Review by Paul M. Brakefield

In Endless Forms Most Beautiful, Sean Carroll shows how the central black box of development that maps phenotypes onto genotypes is revealing its secrets in many exquisite, and frequently unexpected, ways. This is at last enabling the whole evolutionary trail, from genes to adaptive phenotypes, to be traced—the promised synthesis begins to be realized. Changes in development generate the variation in morphology on which natural selection can act—no variation, no evolution

The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution
by Sean B. Carroll
Book review:

Book Description: DNA evidence not only solves crimes – in Sean Carroll’s hands it will now end the Evolution Wars.In the pages of this highly readable narrative, Sean Carroll guides the general reader on a tour of the massive DNA record of three billion years of evolution to see how the fittest are made. And what a eye-opening tour it is – one featuring immortal genes, fossil genes, and genes that bear the scars of past battles with horrible diseases. This book clinches the case for evolution, beyond any reasonable doubt.

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
by Stephen Jay Gould
Book review by Danny Yee

Wonderful Life is a description of one of the biggest fossil finds ever — a collection of invertebrate remains dating from the early Cambrian (550 million years ago) dug out of the Burgess Shale in British Columbia

Next one in the list is a master piece from James Valentine,On the Origin of Phyla.This book talks about various organisms found around us and i like especially the chapter on Fossils.This book deals with the important aspect of origin of phyla in so much depth making it a must for your personal library.

Book Review

Few if any authors can embrace these fields with the experience and authority of James W. Valentine, professor emeritus of integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley, who has been publishing novel and provocative ideas on the origin and nature of phyla for more than 30 years. His most recent book, On the Origin of Phyla, is an homage to the greatest biologist who ever lived by one of the greatest living paleobiologists..

This is one of favourite “The Material Basis of Evolution” by Richard Goldschmidt

Finally i end my 100th post with this magnificent book Evolving Pathways:Key Themes in Evolutionary Developmental Biology which is from Cambridge press.Contributors include more than 20 leading scientists in evolutionary developmental biology, to provide a structured overview of the broad range of approaches to study in evo-devo.

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