Book Review: Embryogenesis Explained
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In 1999, Richard Gordon, at that time Professor of Radiology at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, published a two-volume work under the ambitious title The Hierarchical Genome and Differentiation Waves: Novel Unification of Development, Genetics and Evolution. Eighteen years later, Gordon and his wife and former colleague Natalie present the differentiation waves theory to a broader public. Writing this book was arguably a reaction to the scanty attention hitherto paid to this theory. The new book, however, is much more than a mean to expose it anew. It is also autobiography and, additionally, a lavishly illustrated though unsystematic summary of basic issues in embryology, developmental genetics, cell biology and epigenetics. The differentiation waves theory shifts the focus away from the genes, to look instead at the cytoskeleton as the primum movens of the process: this means leaving molecular genetics in the background, concentrating instead onmechanics. Starting point are Richard Gordon’s observations on the embryo of a model vertebrate species, the axolotl. The backbone of the theory is articulated as follows:
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