Morphogenesis: An Essay on Development (1952), by John Tyler Bonner
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Throughout his long and fruitful career John Tyler Bonner [4] has made great strides in understanding basic issues of embryology [5] and developmental-evolutionary biology. Indeed, Bonner?s work on morphogenesis highlighted synergies between development and evolution [6] long before ? evo-devo? became a part of the scientific lingua franca. Princeton University [7] Press published his first book, Morphogenesis: An Essay on Development [3], in 1952. In his autobiography Lives of a Biologist, Bonner described his motivations for writing Morphogenesis [8] as a book about developmental biology. He wanted to show how the methods of ?old embryology? could be applied to all organisms.
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