Table of Contents:
  • The rise of classical descriptive embryology / Frederick B. Churchill
  • Laurent Chabry and the beginnings of experimental embryology in France / Jean-Louis Fischer
  • The origins of Entwicklungsmechanik / Jane Maienschein
  • Curt Herbst's contributions to the concept of embryonic induction / Jane M. Oppenheimer
  • Spemann seen through a lens / Margaret Saha
  • Reminiscences on the life and work of Johannes Holtfreter / Johannes Holtfreter
  • The conceptual and experimental foundations of vertebrate embryonic cell adhesion research / Gerald B. Grunwald
  • The philosophical background of Joseph Needham's work in chemical embryology / P.G. Abir-Am
  • Induction and the origins of developmental genetics / Scott F. Gilbert
  • Boris Ephrussi and the synthesis of genetics and embryology / Richard M. Burian, Jean Gayon, and Doris T. Zallen
  • Concepts of organization : the leverage of ciliate protozoa / Jan Sapp.