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Science 14 September 2007:
Vol. 317. no. 5844, pp. 1502 - 1503
DOI: 10.1126/science.1145812

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EVOLUTION:
Putting the Pieces Together

Alan C. Love


Fins into Limbs
Evolution, Development, and Transformation
by Brian K. Hall, Ed.
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007. 459 pp. $110, £69.50. ISBN 9780226313368. Paper, $45, £28.50. ISBN 9780226313375.
The contributors synthesize information from functional morphology, developmental biology, vertebrate paleontology, and evolutionary biology that provides our current understanding of this classic case of evolutionary transformation.
The reviewer is in the Department of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. E-mail: aclove{at}umn.edu

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