Developmental Biology: A Very Short Introduction by Lewis Wolpert

Developmental Biology: A Very Short Introduction

Very Short Introductions

Lewis Wolpert

132 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction science informative slow-paced

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From a single cell--a fertilized egg--comes an elephant, a fly, or a human. How does this astonishing feat happen? How does the egg "know" what to become? How does it divide into the different cells, the separate tissues, the brain, the fingernail...

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