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PRINCIPLES OF DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY - Developmental Biology: TheAnatomical Tradition - Life Cycles and the Evolution of DevelopmentalPatterns - Principles of Experimental Embryology - The Genetic Core ofDevelopment - The Paradigm of Differential Gene Expression - Cell-CellCommunication in Development - EARLY EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT - Fertilization:Beginning a New Organism - Early Development in Selected Invertebrates - TheGenetics of Axis Specification in Drosphilia - Early Development and AxisFormation in Amphibians - The Early Development of Vertebrates: Fish, Birdsand Mammals - LATER EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT - The Emergence of the Ectoderm:The Central Nervous System and the Epidermis - Neural Crest Cells and AxonalSpecificity - Paraxial and Intermediate Mesoderm - Lateral plate Mesoderm andEndoderm - Development of the Tetrapod Limb - Sex determination -Metamorphosis, Regeneration, and Aging - The Saga of the Germ Line -RAMIFICATIONS OF DEVELOPMENT BIOLOGY - An Overview of Plant Development;S.R.Singer - Medical Implications of Developmental Development -Environmental Regulation of Animal Development - Developmental Mechanisms ofEvolutionary Change