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Evolutionary Development: Chicken Teeth - Crash Course Biology #17

Hank introduces us to the relatively new field of evolutionary developmental biology, which compares the developmental processes of different organisms to determine their ancestral relationship and to discover how those processes evolved. Also, fruit flies with eyes on their legs and chickens with teeth!

References:
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/5/47
http://blog.hmns.org/?tag=evo-devo
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/evolution/what-evo-devo.html
http://www.hoxfulmonsters.com/2008/05/setting-the-stage-for-hox-genes/
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evodevo_05
http://lepdata.org/monteiro/Evo-devo%20pdfs/Halder_et_al_1995.pdf
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5230538

Table of Contents
1) EVO/DEVO - 00:51
2) Developmental Regulatory Genes - 2:00
3) Gap Genes - 2:39
4) Homeobox / HOX Genes - 2:50
5) Messed-Up Experiment - 6:16
6) EVO/DEVO & Evolution - 7:26
a) Chickens with teeth - 8:14

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