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Models for Embryonic Periodicity (Monographs in Developmental Biology, Vol, 24)

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Dr. Held has done a fantastic job distilling pattern formation processes to a collection of model classes. The bibliography alone is priceless - an superb piece of scholarship. Thank you, Dr. Held.

I used this book, authored by my professor, while taking developmental biology in my final semester of a Cell & Molecular Biology degree plan. The book reflects my professor's very interesting approach to learning development: skeptical examination (in the iconoclastic tradition) of the principles underlying various models, which is more important than traditional undergraduate memorization of -say -mammalian embryonic fate maps (bo-ring!). His work is the first to hold developmental mechanisms up to the light together for a discriminating view. Don't forget your mental climbing boots when you read this- there's not an ounce of fluff.

An unbelievably thorough, yet concise distillate of the whole of classical biological patterning theory. The bibliography alone is priceless.