Principles of Development: Fourth Edition

By Lewis Wolpert and Cheryll Tickle

The process of biological development is an amazing feat of tightly regulated cellular behaviours, powerful enough to result in the emergence of a highly complex living organism from a single cell, the fertilized egg. 

Written by two highly respected and influential developmental biologists, Lewis Wolpert and Cheryll Tickle, Principles of Development focuses on those systems that best illuminate the common principles of the subject, and avoids overwhelming the reader with encyclopaedic detail. 

With co-authors whose expertise spans the discipline, it combines a careful exposition of the subject with insights from some of the world's pioneering researchers in developmental biology, guiding you from the fundamentals to the latest discoveries in the field.