Historians, embryologists, embryologists-turned-historians, and historians-turned-embryologists collaborate on a history of embryology. The predominant theme in the volume is the concept of induction, a pivotal principle in the history of embryology and still an extremely active field of contemporar
Scott Frederick Gilbert is an American evolutionary developmental biologist and historian of biology. Scott Gilbert is the Howard A. Schneiderman Professor of Biology at Swarthmore College and a Finland Distinguished Professor at the University of Helsinki.