Understanding development
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Understanding development
（Understanding life / series editor, Kostas Kampourakis）
Cambridge University Press, 2021
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-173) and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 1. Defining development, If possible
- 2. Cells and development
- 3. Development as the history of the individual
- 4. Revisiting the embryo
- 5. Developmental sequences: sustainability vs adaptation
- 6. Genes and development
- 7. Emerging form
- 8. The ecology of development
- Concluding remarks.
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