Alessandro Minelli

Understanding Development

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Using familiar examples and easy-to-follow arguments, this concise book offers fresh alternatives to a number of widespread misconceptions about development. It will appeal to anyone interested in novel views and ideas in biology, including biologists, science educators, philosophers, students and general readers.

Produktdetails

• Understanding Life
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 175mm x 124mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 230g
• ISBN-13: 9781108799232
• ISBN-10: 110879923X
• Artikelnr.: 60642443

Autorenporträt

Alessandro Minelli is a former Professor of Zoology and, in retirement, a senior scientist at the University of Padova, Italy. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society and the Italian Society for Developmental and Cell Biology. He is the author of numerous books on evolutionary and developmental biology, including The Development of Animal Form (Cambridge, 2003), Plant Evolutionary Developmental Biology (Cambridge, 2018) and The Biology of Reproduction (Cambridge, 2019).

Inhaltsangabe

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.