This collection of essays focuses on the connection between biology and questions in ethics.

This book represents an effort to understand very old questions about biological form, function, and the relationships between them. The essays collected here reflect the ...

Raises questions about the future shape of Evolutionary Developmental biology as it matures as a field.

The second of a two-part work commissioned by the American Society of Zoologists to celebrate its centennial (the first was The American development of biology). Twelve essays ...

Historians, philosophers, sociologists, and biologists explore the history of the idea that embryological development and evolution are linked.

The first century of the MBL is celebrated here. A history of the institution, the biologists it nurtured, and their achievements. No index or bibliography. Annotation ...

Jane Maienschein examines how understanding of embryos evolved from the speculations of natural philosophers to bioengineering, with its life-enhancing therapies. She shows ...

Although modern cell biology is often considered to have arisen following World War II in tandem with certain technological and methodological advances—in particular, the ...