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An introduction to animal development; genes and development; the cellular basis of morphogenesis - differential cell affinity; fertilization - beginning a new organism; cleavage - creating multicellularity; gastrulation - reorganizing the embryonic cells; early vertebrate development - mesoderm and endoderm; transcriptional regulation of gene expression; transcriptional regulation of gene expression - the activation of chromatin; control of developmental by differential RNA processing and translation; autonomous cell specification by cytoplasm determinants; the genetics of axis specification in drosophila; specification of cell fate by progressive cell-cell interactions; establishment of the body axes in mammals and birds; proximate tissue interactions - secondary induction; development of the tetrapod limb; cell interactions at a distance - hormones as mediators of development; sex determination; environmental regulation of animal development; the saga of the germ line; developmental mechanisms of evolutionary change.