Developmental Biology

Intimate and thoughtful Exciting [A] sweeping evolutionary history. Science The author of the bestselling Your Inner Fish gives us a brilliant, up...

Where did I come from? Why do I have two arms but just one head? How is my left leg the same size as my right one? Why are the fingerprints of iden...

From a single cell - a fertilized egg - comes an elephant, a fly, or a human. How does this astonishing feat happen? How does the egg 'know' what t...

One in two of us will develop cancer at some point in our lives and yet many of us don't understand how cancers arise. How many different kinds of ...

A revelatory tale of how the human brain develops, from conception to birth and beyondBy the time a baby is born, its brain is equipped with billio...

A newly revised edition of the standard reference for the field todayupdated with new terms, major discoveries, significant scientists, and illustr...

The study of differential growth in various animals, including humans, suggests that a similar growth pattern occurs throughout the bilateral anima...

Reveals the mind boggling neuroscience connecting brain, body, mind, and society, by examining a range of brain disorders, in the tradition of Oliv...

Providing a new conceptual scaffold for further research in biology and cognition, this book introduces the new field of Cognitive Biology: a syste...

Since the last edition of this definitive textbook was published in 2013, much has happened in the field of animal behavior. In this fourth edition...

Where did I come from? Why do I have two arms but just one head? How is my left leg the same size as my right one? Why are the fingerprints of iden...

The topic of stem cells has a high profile in the media. We've made important advances in our scientific understanding, but despite this the clinic...

The zebrafish (Danio rerio) is a valuable and common model for researchers working in the fields of genetics, oncology and developmental sciences. ...

In this book, the authors discuss the stages, mechanisms and clinical outcomes of embryo development. Topics include chick embryogenesis as a uniqu...

Cell division is a highly co-ordinated process by which the living organisms grow, develop and reproduce. This book presents original research resu...

As humans evolved, we developed technologies to modify our environment, yet these innovations are increasingly affecting our behavior, biology, and...

Genetic evolution appears to be somewhat predictable. This predictability emerges from the structure of developmental regulatory networks and from ...

In the ongoing debate about evolution, science and faith face off. But the truth is both sides are right and wrong.In one corner: Atheists like Ric...