Understanding Development
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Understanding Development

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Understanding Development

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Developmental biology is seemingly well understood, with development widely accepted as being a series of programmed changes through which an egg turns into an adult organism, or a seed matures into a plant. However, the picture is much more complex than that: is it all genetically controlled or does environment have an influence? Is the final adult stage the target of development and everything else just a build-up to that point? Are developmental strategies the same in plants as in animals? How do we consider development in single-celled organisms? In this concise, engaging volume, Alessandro Minelli, a leading developmental biologist, addresses these key questions. Using familiar examples and easy-to-follow arguments, he offers fresh alternatives to a number of preconceptions and stereotypes, awakening the reader to the disparity of developmental phenomena across all main branches of the tree of life.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9781108865500
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Biology
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Reviews
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright information
  6. Reviews
  7. Dedication
  8. Contents
  9. Foreword
  10. Preface
  11. Acknowledgements
  12. 1 Defining Development, if Possible
  13. 2 Cells and Development
  14. 3 Development as the History of the Individual
  15. 4 Revisiting the Embryo
  16. 5 Developmental Sequences: Sustainability versus Adaptation
  17. 6 Genes and Development
  18. 7 Emerging Form
  19. 8 The Ecology of Development
  20. Concluding Remarks
  21. Summary of Common Misunderstandings
  22. Classification
  23. References and Further Reading
  24. Index