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GENERAL DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY (see also 100,1 19) 



Textbooks 



1. 



B. I. BALINSKY. 1975. AN INTRODUCTION TO EMBRYOLOGY. 4th edit. 



Saunders, Philadelphia, etc. XVIII, 648 pp., 469 figs., 19 tabs., subject index. 



The third edition (1970) of this well-known text was reviewed in Gen. Embryol. Inf. 

 Serv. 14, 1971. Our comments on the fourth edition are essentially the same as those 

 given at that time. Although the subject matter has been rearranged and updated in 

 places, it has essentially remained the same book and its flaws stand out more clearly than 

 in 1970. Several important and exciting frontier areas are neglected or just grazed, while 

 much seminal work of the last decade is not mentioned at all. (A section that has been 

 considerably expanded and contains several good new figures is that dealing with cellular 

 aspects of morphogenesis.) Although the book has no doubt performed an important 

 function in the past there are now much more modern treatments available. 



Very little of the older material has been weeded out, although this would have been 

 possible without much loss to the reader. The bibliography contains about 120 new titles 

 on a total of ca. 900, and only about half of these are from 1970 or later. 



R. CHANDEBOIS. 1976. MORPHOGENETIQUE DES ANIMAUX PLURICELLULAI- 

 RES 



Maloine, Paris. 461 pp., 185 figs., subject index. Ffr. 195.00 



Contents (abbreviated): I. Le metabolisme de la cellule differenciee: 1. Les definitions 

 du terme differenciation, 2. Les principes de la specialisation metabolique des cellules 

 differenciees; II. Les transformations des populations cellulaires au cours de I'existence 

 des metazoaires: 1. Les grandes periodes de la vie d'un Metazoaire, 2. La croissance des 

 populations de cellules differenciees, 3. La progression de la differenciation, 4. La 

 morphochorese; III. L'integration des phenomenes de croissance et de differenciation 

 aux diverses periodes de la vie des metazoahes: 1. Les systemes d'integration et les 

 modeles structuraux, 2. La programmation du developpement jusqu'a la gastrulation, 

 3. La parcellation et 1' organisation des champs morphogenetiques au cours de I'organo- 

 genese prefonctionnelle chez les vertebres, 4. Le role de la diffusion des hormones dans 

 I'achevement de I'organogenese, 5. L'integration des phenomenes de croissance au 

 cours de la periode post-embryonnaire, 6. La morphogenese chez I'adulte 



This textbook is a successful attempt at integration of a vast amount of information 

 on morphogenesis, based on an original central idea. The author felt that a reconciliation 

 was in order between the theories of morphogenesis as framed in the older literature and 



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