Principles of Development

Completely updated and revised in a new edition, Principles of Development presents major principles and concepts in the field for an undergraduate audience. Emphasizing gene control as the key to understanding development, the third edition is written in accessible prose, utilizing an impressive art program - 650 full color figures - as well as summaries and diagrams throughout the text to illuminate conceptually challenging material. In addition, the third edition presents carefully selected articles for further reading that expound on principles covered in the text.

Lewis Wolpert, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University College London

Jim Smith, Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, Cambridge

Tom Jessell, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, University of Columbia, New York Peter Lawrence, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Elizabeth Robertson, The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford

Elliot Meyerowitz, California Institute of Technology