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Foreword; Introduction; I. ORIGINS OF ANIMALS; 1. The earliest fossilrecord of the animals and its significance; 2. The Ediacaran emergence ofbilaterians: congruence between the genetic and the geologic fossil records;3. Genomic, phylogenetic, and cell biological insights into metazoan origins;4. The mouth, the anus and the blastopore - open questions about questionableopenings; II. THE BILATERIA; 5. Metazoan body plan origins: the larvalrevolution; 6. Assembling the spiralian tree of life; 7. The evolution ofnervous system centralisation; 8. The origins and evolution of the Ecdysozoa;9. Deciphering deuterostome phylogeny: molecular, morphological andpalaeontological perspectives; 10. Molecular genetic insights intodeuterostome evolution from the direct-developing hemichordate Saccoglossuskowalevskii; III. THEMES AND PERSPECTIVES; 11. Invertebrate Problematica:kinds, causes, and solutions; 12. Improvement of molecular phylogeneticinference and the phylogeny of Bilateria; 13. Beyond linear sequencecomparisons: the use of genome-level characters for phylogeneticreconstruction; 14. The animal in the genome: comparative genomics andevolution; 15. MicroRNAs and metazoan phylogeny: big trees from little genes;16. The evolution of developmental gene networks: lessons from comparativestudies on holometabolous insects; 17. Conserved developmental processes andthe evolution of novel traits: wounds, embryos, veins, and butterfly eyespots