A Conceptual history of modern embryology / edited by Scott F. Gilbert.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Plenum, [1991], ©1991.
Description
xiv, 266 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

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Subject(s)
Series
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • The rise of classical descriptive embryology / Frederick B. Churchill
  • Laurent Chabry and the beginnings of experimental embryology in France / Jean-Louis Fischer
  • The origins of Entwicklungsmechanik / Jane Maienschein
  • Curt Herbst's contributions to the concept of embryonic induction / Jane M. Oppenheimer
  • Spemann seen through a lens / Margaret Saha
  • Reminiscences on the life and work of Johannes Holtfreter / Johannes Holtfreter
  • The conceptual and experimental foundations of vertebrate embryonic cell adhesion research / Gerald B. Grunwald
  • The philosophical background of Joseph Needham's work in chemical embryology / P.G. Abir-Am
  • Induction and the origins of develomental genetics / Scott F. Gilbert
  • Boris Ephrussi and the synthesis of genetics and embryology / Richard M. Burian, Jean Gayon, and Doris T. Zallen
  • Concepts of organization : the leverage of ciliate protozoa / Jan Sapp.
ISBN
0306438429
OCLC
28344677
RCP
C - S
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