Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- Benedikt Hallgrímsson and Brian K. Hall -- Part I Historical and Philosophical Foundations -- 2 A Brief History of the Term and Concept Epigenetics -- Brian K. Hall -- 3 Heuristic Reductionism and the Relative Significance of Epigenetic Inheritance in Evolution -- James Griesemer -- Part II Approaches to Epigenetics -- 4 The Epigenetics of Genomic Imprinting: Core Epigenetic Processes are Conserved in Mammals, Insects, and Plants -- Lori A. McEachern and Vett Lloyd -- 5 Methylation Mapping in Humans -- Christoph Grunau -- 6 Asexuality and Epigenetic Variation -- Root Gorelick, Manfred Laubichler, and Rachel Massicotte -- 7 Epigenesis, Preformation, and the Humpty Dumpty Problem -- Ellen W. Larsen and Joel Atallah -- 8 A Principle of Developmental Inertia -- Alessandro Minelli -- Part III Epigenetics of Vertebrate Organ Development -- 9 The Role of Epigenetics in Nervous System Development -- Chris Kovach, Pierre Mattar, and Carol Schuurmans -- 10 Morphogenesis of Pigment Patterns: Experimental and Modeling Approaches -- Lennart Olsson -- 11 Epigenetic Interactions of the Cardiac Neural Crest -- Martha Alonzo, Kathleen K. Smith, and Margaret L. Kirby -- 12 Epigenetics in Bone and Cartilage Development -- Tamara A. Franz-Odendaal -- 13 Muscle-Bone Interactions and the Development of Skeletal Phenotype: Jaw Muscles and the Skull -- Susan W. Herring -- 14 Evolution of the Apical Ectoderm in the Developing Vertebrate Limb -- Lisa Noelle Cooper, Brooke Autumn Armfield, and J. G. M. Thewissen -- 15 Role of Skeletal Muscle in the Epigenetic Shaping of Organs, Tissues, and Cell Fate Choices -- Boris Kablar -- Part IV Epigenetics in Evolution and Disease.

16 Epigenetic Integration, Complexity, and Evolvability of the Head: Rethinking The Functional Matrix Hypothesis -- Daniel E. Lieberman -- 17 Epigenetic Interactions: The Developmental Route to Functional Integration -- Miriam Leah Zelditch and Donald L. Swiderski -- 18 Epigenetic Contributions to Adaptive Radiation: Insights From Threespine Stickleback -- Susan A. Foster and Matthew A. Wund -- 19 Learning, Developmental Plasticity, and the Rate of Morphological Evolution -- Christopher J. Neufeld and A. Richard Palmer -- 20 Epigenetics: Adaptation or Contingency? -- Thomas F. Hansen -- 21 The Epigenetics of Dysmorphology: Craniosynostosis as an Example -- Christopher J. Percival and Joan T. Richtsmeier -- 22 Epigenetics of Human Disease -- Peter D. Gluckman, Mark A. Hanson, Alan S. Beedle, Tatjana Buklijas, and Felicia M. Low -- 23 Epigenetics: The Context of Development -- Benedikt Hallgrímsson and Brian K. Hall -- Index.