Ecological developmental biology : integrating epigenetics, medicine, and evolution /
Gilbert, Scott F.,1949-
Epel, David.
Sunderland, Mass. : Sinauer Associates,
c2009.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The environment as a normal agent in producing phenotypes -- How agents in the environment effect molecular changes in development -- Developmental symbiosis: co-development as a strategy for life -- Embryonic defenses: survival in a hostile world -- Teratogenesis: environmental assaults on development -- Endocrine disruptors -- The epigenetic origin of adult diseases -- The modern synthesis: natural selection of allelic variation -- Evolution through developmental regulatory genes -- Environment, development, and evolution: toward a new synthesis -- Coda: philosophical concerns raised by ecological developmental biology.
Phenotypic plasticity.
Developmental biology.
Epigenesis.
Evolution (Biology)