Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo

For over a cen­tu­ry, uncov­er­ing the secrets of embry­on­ic devel­op­ment was biology’s holy grail. In End­less Forms Most Beau­ti­ful, Sean B. Car­roll intro­duces Evo Devo—the sci­ence that final­ly opened that black box—revealing how evo­lu­tion builds com­plex­i­ty from sim­ple genet­ic tools, and how life’s stun­ning diver­si­ty aris­es from sur­pris­ing­ly few genes.