Books in the Linnean Society Symposium series

Presents a synthesis of the modern approaches to the study of ontogeny and the interpretation of the fossil evidence for human origins. This book brings advances in developmental biology, molecular genetics, biomechanics, microscopy, imaging and morphometrics. It reviews important hot subject areas.

This volume presents the best and most appropriate papers from the 17th Linnean Society symposium, with an emphasis on the examination of the proper use of systematics in ecology and evolutionary biology.