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Ann Campbell Burke examines the development and evolution of vertebrates, in particular, turtles. Her Harvard University experiments, described in…
LiteratureExperimentsPublicationsTurtlesEvolutionAn important question throughout the history of embryology is whether the formation of a biological structure is predetermined or shaped by its…
Hamburger, Viktor, 1900-2001ExperimentsNervous SystemCell DeathDuring 1964, David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel studied the short and long term effects of depriving kittens of vision in one eye. In their experiments,…
Harvard Medical SchoolNobel Prize winnersKittensCatsVision disordersPaul M. Brakefield and his research team in Leiden, the Netherlands, examined the development, plasticity, and evolution of butterfly eyespot…
ButterfliesDevelopmental BiologyPhenotypic plasticityGenotype-environment interactionEvolutionary developmental biologyEdmund Beecher Wilson experimented with Amphioxus (Branchiostoma) embryos in 1892 to identify what caused their cells to differentiate into new types…
Wilson, Edmund B. (Edmund Beecher), 1856-1939AmphioxusEmbryosEmbryologyDevelopmental BiologyThrough various studies developmental biologists have been able to determine that the muscles of the back, ribs, and limbs derive from somites.…
SomitesExperimentsSomatic cellsVertebratesBiology textbooks are everybody's business. In accepting the view that texts are created with specific social goals in mind, I examined 127 twentieth…
TextbooksBook IllustrationsPictorial WorkPublicationsDevelopmental Effects of Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals in Wildlife and Humans, was published in 1993 in Environmental Health Perspectives. In the…
LiteratureEndocrine disrupting chemicalsEmbryologyfetal developmentendocrine disruptors“Program of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development” comprises the majority of context within the twenty-year…
LiteratureUnited Nations and non-member nationsInternational AgenciesWomen's rightsfeminismIntroduced by Conrad Hal Waddington in 1942, the concept of epigenetics gave scientists a new paradigm of thought concerning embryonic development,…
EpigenomicsEpigenetics