Thoroughly updated streamlined and enhanced with pedagogical features the twelfth edition of
Barresi and Gilbert's Developmental Biology engages students and empowers instructors to
effectively teach both the stable principles and the newest front-page research of this vast
complex and multi-disciplinary field. This much loved well-illustrated and remarkably well
written textbook invigorates the classical insights of embryology with cutting edge material
and makes the most complex topics understandable to a new generation of students. Designed with
the undergraduate student in mind this new streamlined edition now contains studies of plant
development expanded coverage of regeneration over a hundred new and revised illustrations
and deeply integrated active learning resources that build on the text's enthusiasm and
accuracy. This is a text designed to make students become excited about how animals and plants
develop their complex bodies from simple origins.