Table of Contents

Form From Place * Animate Form * Code, Scale, and Place * Development * Pattern * Morphologic Evolution Molecular Mechanisms Of Epigenesis * Mechanochemistry and Cellular Driving Forces * Morphoregulatory Molecules The Morphoregulator Hypothesis: Mechanochemistry Linked To Developmental Genetics * The Developmental Genetic Question * The Evolutionary Question Development And Behavior * Developmental Variation and Somatic Selection: Neural Darwinism * Coda: The Other Side of Biology

About the Author

Gerald M. Edelman is director of the Neurosciences Institute and chairman of the Department of Neurobiology at the Scripps Research Institute. He received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1972. He is also the author of Bright Air, Brilliant Fire Tobiology and The Remembered Present.