Ecological developmental biology: the environmental regulation of development, health, and evolution/
Scott F. Gilbert, David Epel
- 2nd ed.
- Sunderland: Sinauer Associations, 2015.
- xvi, 576 p. illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Environmental signals and normal development -- Developmental plasticity: the environment as a normal agent in producing phenotypes -- Environmental epigenetics: how agents in the environment effect molecular changes in development -- Developmental symbiosis: co-development as a strategy for life -- Ecological developmental biology and disease states -- Developmental physiology for survival in changing environments -- Teratogenesis: environmental assaults on development -- Endocrine disruptors -- The developmental origin of adult diseases -- Developmental models of cancer and aging -- Toward a developmental evolutionary synthesis -- The modern synthesis: natural selection of allelic variation -- Evolution through developmental regulatory genes -- Environment, development, and evolution: toward a new evolutionary synthesis -- Philosophical concerns raised by ecological developmental biology