Ecological developmental biology:integrating epigenetics, medicine, and evolution
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Sinauer Associates,
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Publisher Address: | Sunderland, Mass. |
Publication Dates: | c2009. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | xv, 480 p.: ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780878932993 (paperbound) 0878932992 (paperbound) |
Index Number: | Q11 |
CLC: | Q11 |
Call Number: | Q11/G466-1 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. The environment as a normal agent in producing phenotypes -- 2. How agents in the environment effect molecular changes in development -- 3. Developmental symbiosis: co-development as a strategy for life -- 4. Embryonic defenses: survival in a hostile world -- 5. Teratogenesis: environmental assaults on development -- 6. Endocrine disruptors -- 7. The epigenetic origin of adult diseases -- 8. The modern synthesis: natural selection of allelic variation -- 9. Evolution through developmental regulatory genes -- 10. Environment, development, and evolution: toward a new synthesis -- Coda: philosophical concerns raised by ecological developmental biology. |