'… a discerning and critical, yet loving, view of a dynamic field. I recommend it especially to graduate students and postdocs. It will be read with profit by those who seriously desire to mold evolutionary developmental biology.' Science

• Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. The nature of development; 2. Everything begun to the service of development: cellular Darwinism and the origin of animal form; 3. Development: generic to genetic; 4. Periodization; 5. Body regions, their boundaries and complexity; 6. Differentiation and patterning; 7. Size factors; 8. Axes and symmetries; 9. Segments; 10. Evo-devo perspectives on homology; Summary and conclusions; References; Index.

'… a discerning and critical, yet loving, view of a dynamic field. I recommend it especially to graduate students and postdocs. It will be read with profit by those who seriously desire to mold evolutionary developmental biology.' Science

• Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. The nature of development; 2. Everything begun to the service of development: cellular Darwinism and the origin of animal form; 3. Development: generic to genetic; 4. Periodization; 5. Body regions, their boundaries and complexity; 6. Differentiation and patterning; 7. Size factors; 8. Axes and symmetries; 9. Segments; 10. Evo-devo perspectives on homology; Summary and conclusions; References; Index.

'… a discerning and critical, yet loving, view of a dynamic field. I recommend it especially to graduate students and postdocs. It will be read with profit by those who seriously desire to mold evolutionary developmental biology.' Science

• Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. The nature of development; 2. Everything begun to the service of development: cellular Darwinism and the origin of animal form; 3. Development: generic to genetic; 4. Periodization; 5. Body regions, their boundaries and complexity; 6. Differentiation and patterning; 7. Size factors; 8. Axes and symmetries; 9. Segments; 10. Evo-devo perspectives on homology; Summary and conclusions; References; Index.