Developmental Biology

I'm a biology graduate student with a physics background, so I bought this book to try to learn developmental bio. This seems to be the most prominent development textbook, and I can see why. I've been very pleased with it. It explains things very clearly and is written extremely well. The pictures are beautiful and well explained. The author includes some interesting science history, but not so much that it feels overwhelming or off-topic. It's clear that he's spent a lot of time thinking about the best way to present the material in order to teach it from scratch, assuming minimal prior biology knowledge. He doesn't go into the details of the Central Dogma and molecular biology because that's the realm of other textbooks, so it's good to know some of that to start with, but that can be learned easily from other sources. It also has a lot of great details for people who already have a pretty solid understanding of development, so this is a good book for anyone to have if they study development. Another great thing about this book is that it's very up-to-date. This edition came out in 2013, and it has a lot of citations to studies as late as 2011 and 2012. Biology changes fast and it's important to get an up-to-date textbook, and fortunately this book seems to get a new edition every few years. Overall, I highly recommend it.

This is a great textbook for developmental biology courses. Developmental biology, more than any other class I have taken as an upperclassman biology major, requires more use of diagrams and pictures. This book's drawings and corresponding explanations are fantastic. It helped that my professor used the book's figures extensively in lecture as well. Well worth the money. The book is very good at incorporating molecular biology lab techniques into each and every chapter. For this reason, my university now counts developmental biology as our "molecular biology" major requirement.

Very educational, then again what biology book isn't, love the book cover!

Extremely good. Great pictures, explanations, everything

There's a lot of background history, which I find less important, but it's pretty in-depth and easy to understand for me. Great pictures.

The book is detailed, but most of the details are in block paragraphs. Embryology is a subject where a picture is easily worth a thousand words. To put it bluntly, the book needs more detailed and labelled pictures, something akin to an anatomy atlas.

Good deal. Such book is a great decoration for your desk or room. Planes to read but end up with just puting it aside.

The book is self explanatory, sometimes easier than the teacher. Great amount of detail, step by step processes. Delivery on time.

Elegí este libro porque conozco y he usado ediciones anteriores. Es un libro magnífico y puesto al día sobre Biología del Desarrollo en animales.

Definitelly, one of the most describing books ever written in this area! There is no doubt for being best seller everywhere in the world. I recommend it to everyone who wants an elementary (and not only) start in this magnifisent area of science!

Got my book very soon. Great experience.

Book is great and genuine copy, I thing I'm not satisfied for is i ordered for hard cover but got paperback one. Atlast book has great diagrams and completely colourfull, pages are thick, glossy and premium, content is enriched with worthy diagrams, language is bit gives feel of foreign author like the way they introduce things or tell about em, so overall it's good, go for it you have amount. One more thing I missed is I got it for 4600₹ but right now it's price is skyrocketing

Articolo arrivato molto prima del giorno previsto e in condizioni eccellenti. Per quanto pertiene l'articolo, il libro espone esaustivamente la materia in ogni suo capitolo, facendo riferimenti storici in merito ad avanzamenti e scoperte nel campo della biologia dello sviluppo, spaziando dagli invertebrati come Drosophila sino ai vertebrati superiore, ed è arricchito di figure e schemi di estrema utilità. Nonostante al momento attuale non sia l'ultima edizione, è ugualmente utile per lo studio della materia nel percorso universitario ed ha un prezzo molto inferiore rispetto a quello dell'edizione italiana. Consigliato quindi per chi vuole far pratica con l'inglese scientifico.