The Origins of LarvaeMany biological facts are irreconcilable with the assumption that larvae and adults evolved from the same genetic stock. The author of this book draws attention to these, and presents his alternative hypothesis that larvae have been transferred from one taxon to another. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
OVERVIEW | 9 |
Larvae | 11 |
The Issues in Context | 20 |
EXAMPLES | 31 |
Blastulas Gastrulas and the First Animals | 33 |
Coelenterate Animals | 46 |
Trochophorate Animals Polychaetes Echiurans Sipunculans Molluscs | 62 |
Echinoderms SeaUrchins and BrittleStars | 138 |
Echinoderms Fossil Record | 152 |
Urochordates | 162 |
Arthropods | 169 |
SOLUTIONS | 199 |
Hybrids | 201 |
CONCLUSIONS | 215 |
Toward a New Zoology | 217 |
NearTrochophorate Animals Flatworms Nemerteans Bryozoans Lophophorates | 83 |
Echinoderms Adults and Larvae | 94 |
Echinoderms and Hemichordates | 108 |
Echinoderms Metamorphosis | 123 |
229 | |
Glossary | 239 |
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