First Signals: The Evolution of Multicellular Development

by John Tyler Bonner

Book Overview

The enormous recent success of molecular developmental biology has yielded a vast amount of new information on the details of development. So much so that we risk losing sight of the underlying principles that apply to all development. To cut through this thicket, John Tyler Bonner ponders a moment in evolution when development was at its most basic--the moment when signaling between cells began. Although multicellularity arose numerous times,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691070385
• ISBN13: 9780691070384
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"