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Gilbert (biology, Swarthmore College and U. Helsinki, Finland) presents this tenth edition of his popular developmental biology textbook with a renewed focus on using recent research to integrate prev

Scott Gilbert's Developmental Biology has metamorphosed into the Gilbert and Barresi Developmental Biology.

"When the molecular processes of epigenetics meet the ecological processes of phenotypic plasticity, the result is a revolutionary new field: ecological developmental biology, or "eco-devo." This new

Acclaimed theorist and social scientist Donna Jeanne Haraway uses the work of pioneering developmental biologists Ross G. Harrison, Joseph Needham, and Paul Weiss as a springboard for a discussion about a shift in developmental biology from a vitalism-mechanism framework to organicism. The book deftly interweaves Thomas Kuhn's concept of paradigm change into this wide-ranging analysis, emphasizing the role of model, analogy, and metaphor in the paradigm and arguing that any truly useful theoretical system in biology must have a central metaphor.