Developmental Biology


Developmental Biology
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo
Life Unfolding: How the Human Body Creates Itself
Principles of Development
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
Coming to Life: How Genes Drive Development
First the Egg
From One Cell: A Journey into Life's Origins and the Future of Medicine
Homo Idioticus: Why We Are Stupid and What to Do About It
Prenatal Diagnostic Testing for Genetic Disorders: The revolution of the Non-Invasive Prenatal Test
Principles of Developmental Genetics
Other Minds
So Simple a Beginning: How Four Physical Principles Shape Our Living World
Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain Is Built
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
It is not birth, marriage, or death, but gastrulation which is the most important time in your life.
Louis Wolpert

Other researchers think that evolutionary transformations are best studied by the comparison of embryonic development and its underlying genetic causes. The conceptual justification for that approach is the claim that what is inherited from the parents and ancestors are not adult traits but rather developmental programs that regulate the development of adult traits.
Olivier Rieppel, Turtles as Hopeful Monsters: Origins and Evolution

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