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PART 1: PRINCIPLES OF DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY - Developmental Biology:The Anatomical 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 - PART 2: EARLY EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT -Fertilization: Beginning a New Organism - Early Development in SelectedInvertebrates - The Genetics of Axis Specification in Drosphilia - EarlyDevelopment and Axis Formation in Amphibians - The Early Development ofVertebrates: Fish, Birds and Mammals - PART 3: LATER EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT -The Emergence of the Ectoderm: The Central Nervous System and the Epidermis -Neural Crest Cells and Axonal Specificity - Paraxial and IntermediateMesoderm - Lateral plate Mesoderm and Endoderm - Development of the TetrapodLimb - Sex Determination - Metamorphosis, Regeneration, and Aging - The Sagaof the Germ Line - PART 4: RAMIFICATIONS OF DEVELOPMENT BIOLOGY - AnOverview of Plant Development; S.R.Singer - Medical Implications ofDevelopmental Development - Environmental Regulation of Animal Development -Developmental Mechanisms of Evolutionary Change