(eBook PDF) Ecological Developmental Biology: The Environmental Regulation of Development, Health, and Evolution 2nd Edition

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1605353442
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1605353449
• Author: Scott F. Gilbert (Author), David Epel (Author)

* Symbiosis, once thought the exception to the rules of life, is now recognized as a signature of life, including its development and evolution. We function, develop, and possibly evolve as consortia.
* Developmental plasticity has transformed our ways of relating the genome to both the organism and its environment, showing that the environment can instruct, as well as select, phenotypes.
* Environmentally induced modifications of the genome (epialleles) can be created by ecological agents and inherited for many generations, showing the ability of environmental agents to generate selectable variation.
* Disease susceptibilities–especially to diseases such as cancer, diabetes, asthma, autism, and obesity–may be inherited through epialleles caused by environmental agents, by mismatches in developmental plasticity, or by particular combinations of symbionts.

table of contents:

Part 1. Environmental Modes of Normal Development

1. Developmental Plasticity: The Environment as a Normal Agent in Producing Phenotypes

2. Environmental Epigenetics: How Agents in the Environment Effect Molecular Changes in Development

3. Developmental Symbiosis: Co-Development as a Strategy for Life

Part 2. Ecological Developmental Biology and Disease States

4. Developmental Physiology for Survival in Changing Environments

5. Teratogenesis: Environmental Assaults on Development

6. Endocrine Disruptors

7. The Developmental Origin of Adult Diseases

8. Developmental Models of Cancer and Aging

Part 3. Toward a Developmental Evolutionary Synthesis

9. The Modern Synthesis: Natural Selection of Allelic Variation

10. Evolution through Developmental Regulatory Genes

11. Environment, Development, and Evolution: Toward a New Evolutionary Synthesis

Coda: Philosophical Concerns Raised by Ecological Developmental Biology

Appendix A: Lysenko, Kammerer, and the Truncated Tradition of Ecological Developmental Biology

Appendix B: The Molecular Mechanisms of Epigenetic Change

Appendix C: Writing Development Out of the Modern Synthesis

Appendix D: Epigenetic Inheritance Systems: The Inheritance of Environmentally Induced Traits

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