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GENERAL DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY (see also 52,86,87) 



Textbooks 



1. 



R.DAVENPORT. 1979. AN OUTLINE OF ANIMAL DEVELOPMENT 



Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass. XVIII, 412 pp., 134 figs., subject index. 



$ 25.25 



Contents: 1. introduction, 2. Animal development - a first outline at the 

 level of the organism, 3. A description of ontogeny in terms of apparent 

 properties on different structural levels, 4. A description of ontogeny 

 in terms of potential properties, 5. The synthesis of protein, 6. The con- 

 trol of protein synthesis, 7. The regulation of protein synthesis during 

 ontogeny - a molecular description, 8. The cell cycle, 9. The phylogeny 

 of multicellular form, 10. The role of cellular association in the attain- 

 ment of multicellular form, 11. Primary determination, 12. Secondary de- 

 termination, 13. Individuation - the epigenetic achievement of form, 14. 

 Mosaic development, 15. The sea urchin embryo, 16. The dynamics of the 

 amphibian embryo, 17. The early development of the mammalian embryo, 18. 

 The use of models in the description of ontogeny, 19. The origin of cur- 

 rent biological concepts, 20. The description of hierarchical organiza- 

 tion, 21. The role of constraint in the emergence of structural organiza- 

 tion, 22. The role of constraint in ontogeny 



Despite its unpretentious title this is a most original and thought-pro- 

 voking book. It is much more than a mere introductory text because it is 

 pervaded by a philosophy presented with much cogency. This philosophy owes 

 much to Paul Weiss, and in fact there is a direct line running from Spemann 

 through Weiss to Davenport: the conviction that the study of development 

 should be the study of the emergence of hierarchical structural organisa- 

 tion, and that in this approach all levels of biological organisation are 

 equally important and indispensable. 



The author has the courage to state that present-day reductionism (in so 

 far as it is mechanistic) is a dead end and that the science of life is in 

 a great conceptual crisis. He feels that the study of ontogeny (including 

 its phylogenetic aspects) may well be "the catalyst necessary to force us 

 out of outmoded approaches to Nature". Physics, he points out, has long 

 since abandoned the idea of the objective reality of matter and its mecha- 

 nistic implications, replacing it by the notion of relational fields and by 

 a different kind of causality. Biology in its turn should begin to take se- 

 riously the implications of its own discoveries. I for one am entirely con- 

 vinced by this reasoning, and I do hope that many developmental biologists 

 will make an honest effort to follow the author's thoughts. Even those who 

 fail to be convinced will enjoy the experience, because the book is ex- 

 ceedingly well written. It may well be that it will one day be recognised as 

 a beacon on the road to a new theoretical biology - not in the sense of 



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