Part 1. Environmental Modes of Normal Development
1. Developmental Plasticity: The Environment as a Normal Agent in
Producing Phenotypes
2. Environmental Epigenetics: How Agents in the Environment Effect
Molecular Changes in Development
3. Developmental Symbiosis: Co-Development as a Strategy for
Life
Part 2. Ecological Developmental Biology and Disease States
4. Developmental Physiology for Survival in Changing
Environments
5. Teratogenesis: Environmental Assaults on Development
6. Endocrine Disruptors
7. The Developmental Origin of Adult Diseases
8. Developmental Models of Cancer and Aging
Part 3. Toward a Developmental Evolutionary Synthesis
9. The Modern Synthesis: Natural Selection of Allelic Variation
10. Evolution through Developmental Regulatory Genes
11. Environment, Development, and Evolution: Toward a New
Evolutionary Synthesis
Coda: Philosophical Concerns Raised by Ecological Developmental
Biology
Appendix A: Lysenko, Kammerer, and the Truncated Tradition of
Ecological Developmental Biology
Appendix B: The Molecular Mechanisms of Epigenetic Change
Appendix C: Writing Development Out of the Modern Synthesis
Appendix D: Epigenetic Inheritance Systems: The Inheritance of
Environmentally Induced Traits
Scott F. Gilbert, a Senior Research Associate at Swarthmore College
and the Finland Distinguished Professor at the University of
Helsinki Institute of Biotechnology, teaches developmental biology,
developmental genetics, and the history of biology. After receiving
his B.A. from Wesleyan University, he pursued his graduate and
postdoctoral research at The Johns Hopkins University and the
University of Wisconsin. Dr. Gilbert is the recipient of
several awards, including the first Viktor Hamburger Award for
excellence in developmental biology education, the 2004 Alexander
Kowalevsky Prize for evolutionary developmental biology, honorary
degrees from the
Universities of Helsinki and Tartu, and the Medal of François I
from the Collège de France. He is a Fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, a corresponding member
of the St. Petersburg Society of Naturalists, and has been chair of
the Professional Development and Education Committee of the Society
for Developmental Biology. His research pursues the developmental
genetic mechanisms by which the turtle forms its shell.
David Epel is the Jane and Marshall Steel Jr. Professor Emeritus of
Biological Sciences at Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station
in Pacific Grove CA. He did his undergraduate studies at Wayne
State University and then graduate and postdoctoral studies at the
University of California, Berkeley and the University of
Pennsylvania. Dr. Epel has been a Guggenheim Fellow, is a Fellow of
the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the
California Academy of
Sciences, and an Overseas Fellow of Churchill College and Life
Fellow of Clare Hall at the University of Cambridge. His honors
include the Cox Medal for Fostering Undergraduate Research at
Stanford and the Ed Ricketts Memorial
Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Marine Sciences. Epel's
research focused on cell biology of development, especially the
activation of the egg at fertilization, the unique physiology of
the embryo and the cellular mechanisms of embryo protection. His
current interest is high school science education. One area is
highlighting early development of the sea urchin embryo to capture
the imagination and interest of high school students. New curricula
focus on the science of climate change and
how students can help to solve this problem.
"This second edition, written by two of its pioneers, serves as a
primer to the field and is intended for advanced undergraduate
students, although it is equally appropriate for graduate students,
faculty, and the broader public. The book is written in an
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Quarterly Review of Biology
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graduate interested in dwelling not only at the crossroads of
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Biology and Medicine
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