Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- 1 The Problem of Development -- heuristics -- exploring development -- a flawed heuristic? -- hedging about the homeobox -- beyond the hedge -- heuristic superiority -- 2 Exemplars -- embryology: roux and driesch -- epigenesis: the homeobox genes -- evolution: blind cave fish -- conclusion -- 3 Scylla and Charybdis -- preformation versus epigenesis -- preformation and epigenesis: the modern consensus -- unpacking the modern consensus -- genetic informationism -- genetic animism -- navigating the strait -- 4 Constitutive Epigenetics -- embryology AND genetics -- embryology AS genetics -- genetic primacy -- epigenetics -- organism-centred biology -- constituting genes -- 5 Creative Development -- the organism in context -- Population Density -- Social Structure -- Nutritional Factors -- Predator-Induced Polyphenism -- creativity in development -- beyond the modern consensus -- 6 A New Synthesis? -- the unmodern synthesis -- what is evo-devo? -- development and evolution -- Butterfly Wing Morphology -- External Furry Cheek Pouches -- The Developmental Origins of the Turtle Shell -- an unhappy synthesis? -- happiness ever after? -- 7 The Devil is in the Gestalt -- standard views -- nonstandard views -- dst, evo-devo, and the modern consensus -- challenging developmental systems -- the theoretical value of dst -- taking development seriously -- Endnotes -- preface -- chapter 1 -- chapter 2 -- chapter 3 -- chapter 4 -- chapter 5 -- chapter 6 -- chapter 7 -- Bibliography -- Index.