Comparative embryology of lower invertebrates: sources and ways to form an individual development of multicellular. 2nd edition. Zaputkin A.A.

The attention of readers is proposed to the classical work of the outstanding Soviet zoologist A. A. Zakutkin, dedicated to the presentation and development of one of the main problems of evolutionary embryology - the problems of the origin of the individual development of Metazoa (multicellular). The book is based on a detailed consideration of the organization, reproduction and development of unicellular protozoa. The development of invertebrates, but not all, but only the lowest, most primitive of them - the lower strokeing intestinal (book), sponges and few others, that is precisely those forms, the development of which can give the key to understanding the studied processes, is also considered. All this allows you to approach the main goal of the author - understanding the sources and ways of the origin of ontogenesis of multicellular, to historical, evolutionary illumination of phenomena previously considered by general embryology metaphysically, without any attempts to understand their historical conditionality.

The book was based on the course lectures that the author gave at the Faculty of Biology of Moscow State University. For its creation, he was awarded the Stalin Prize. The book is recommended for biologists and science historians, teachers, graduate students and students of biological universities, as well as all readers interested in biology.