This essay must be tempered throughout with humility. In the past 50 years, developmental
biology has recapitulated in rapid order the Industrial Revolution's succession of creator …

It is a matter of common agreement among scientists that not many ideas are new. Physicists
find new particles, evolutionary biologists and geneticists move toward new models of …

Two approaches to an integration of evolution and development are often distinguished, one
“neo-Darwinian” and the other “structuralist”. Should these approaches in turn be …

What is the role of theories in developmental biology? At first glance, developmental
biologists seem rather suspicious of theories, as they do not often use the term 'theory'in …

Anyone attempting to articulate a developing position is likely to feel immobilized from time
to time by the very conceptual and historical baggage that makes" good words" good-by the …

This book, the eighth in the Palgrave Macmillan's Politics, Economics, and Inclusive
Development series, shares with the other volumes the commitment to explore the complex …

The paper sketches the historical background of the organismic-developmental approach
and seeks to explicate the fundamental notions characterizing that approach. The approach …

Developmental biology offers descriptions and explanations of the processes involved in the
development of living entities. But does it formulate theories? If it does not, does this raise …

Despite the radical importance of embryology in the development of organicism,
developmental biology remains philosophically underexplored as a theoretical and …

Abstract “Development” suggests that there is something that is developing, or changing
over time. We can ask about temporal boundaries of that developmental process, asking …