Michael J. F. Barresi is Professor of Biological Sciences and Neuroscience at Smith College. He has received the Viktor Hamburger Prize in education from the Society of Developmental Biology and the Sherrerd prize for distinguished teaching from Smith College. Michael has pioneered the use of a variety of technologies to engage students and faculty in novel ways with the concepts of developmental biology as well as with researchers making discoveries in this field. Scott F. Gilbert is the Howard A. Schneiderman Professor of Biology (emeritus) at Swarthmore College and a Finland Distinguished Professor (emeritus) at the University of Helsinki. He has received the Viktor Hamburger Prize in education from the Society of Developmental Biology as well as the Alexander Kowalevsky Award in Evolutionary Developmental Biology.
"This text is the gold standard, using the foundation of the Scott Gilbert text. Barresi works hard to keep the topics current, and provides many online, resources to supplement the text that the students very much appreciate and even enjoy."" - Crystal Ivie, Boise Statte University A textbook for an upper division biology class of bright students who want to learn concepts as well as be exposed to the experiments in the field. It also is bold in covering developmental biology from the molecular to the ecological, from the seconds to the evolutionary timescale, etc."" - Donna Nofziger, Pepperdine University This is a modern discussion of human development that includes many highly relevant examples that will be interest to undergraduates (or graduate students) with career aspirations in the health sciences."" - Paula Marie Checchi, Marist College"