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Open access, freely available online Book Review/Science in the Media Bringing Evo Devo to Life Paul M. Brake?eld trajectories of morphological evolution. form, this is the book to read; for any evo devo researcher, this is a fascinating tale of how one of the leading ?gures in the ?eld views its contributions to science and its future directions. Carroll also reasons persuasively Any new ?eld in science needs its standard-bearers. In Sean Carroll evo devo has such a champion. His book, together with the new edition of an earlier book that he co-authored, called From DNA to Diversity [2], that evo devo provides wonderful opportunities for grabbing the interest of a new generation of biologists. His account illustrates how research in evo devo is fun as well as challenging. As he puts it, “Biology without evolution is like physics without gravity.” Evolution of form is change in development, and with the new insights, this process provides a route for inspirational teaching: there seems little doubt that, for many in the classroom, this will prove more attention-grabbing than a population-genetics approach based on the idea that “evolution is change in gene frequency.” Perhaps of no less importance than the up-to- date nature of the ?eld is the aesthetic beauty of many images of development, such as those that ?ll the two sections of color plates in this book. While biologists have always been enthralled by diagrams of adaptive radiations starring those “endless forms most beautiful,” I defy anyone not to ?nd Carroll’s images of the patterns of gene expression in development just as captivating, especially when one appreciates how they reveal the underlying principles. covers the whole research ?eld. Evo devo illustrates as never before how Darwin’s “endless forms most beautiful” have been and are still being made. Embryology has always been an integral component of the evidence for evolution and the principle of common descent. In Darwin’s time, it was a chal