From egg to adult
Subtitle: what worms, flies, and other creatures can teach us about the switches that control human development
By: Maya Pines, editor
Contributors: Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Publisher: Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Bethesda, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 56
Subjects: Human Embryology; Developmental Biology; Molecular Biology
Notes: "A report from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute."

Cover title.
Table of contents: title: How does a fertilized egg turn into a fly, a chicken, you or me? / Robert Kanigel; title: The homeobox: something very precious that we share with flies / Peter Radetsky; title: Discovering the body plan / Peter Radetsky; title: Decisions, decisions ... watching cells choose their fate / Maya Pines; title: Building the world's most complex system: the brain / Larry Thompson; title: Some striking similarities.