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| Contributors | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Historical and Philosophical Foundations | |
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| A Brief History of the Term and Concept Epigenetics | |
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| Heuristic Reductionism and the Relative Significance of Epigenetic Inheritance in Evolution | |
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| Approaches to Epigenetics | |
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| The Epigenetics of Genomic Imprinting: Core Epigenetic Processes are Conserved in Mammals, Insects, and Plants | |
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| Methylation Mapping in Humans | |
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| Asexuality and Epigenetic Variation | |
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| Epigenesis, Preformation, and the Humpty Dumpty Problem | |
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| A Principle of Developmental Inertia | |
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| Epigenetics of Vertebrate Organ Development | |
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| The Role of Epigenetics in Nervous System Development | |
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| Morphogenesis of Pigment Patterns: Experimental and Modeling Approaches | |
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| Epigenetic Interactions of the Cardiac Neural Crest | |
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| Epigenetics in Bone and Cartilage Development | |
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| Muscle-Bone Interactions and The Development of Skeletal Phenotype: Jaw Muscles and the Skull | |
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| Evolution of the Apical Ectoderm in the Developing Vertebrate Limb | |
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| Role of Skeletal Muscle in the Epigenetic Shaping of Organs, Tissues, and Cell Fate Choices | |
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| Epigenetics in Evolution and Disease | |
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| Epigenetic Integration, Complexity, and Evolvability of the Head: Rethinking the Functional Matrix Hypothesis | |
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| Epigenetic Interactions: The Developmental Route to Functional Integration | |
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| Epigenetic Contributions to Adaptive Radiation: Insights from Threespine Stickleback | |
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| Learning, Developmental Plasticity, and the Rate of Morphological Evolution | |
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| Epigenetics: Adaptation or Contingency? | |
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| The Epigenetics of Dysmorphology: Craniosynostosis as an Example | |
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| Epigenetics of Human Disease | |
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| Epigenetics: The Context of Development | |
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| Index | |