INTRODUCTION

The following sections are included:

• Consider a Spherical Cow

• The Epigenetic Problem

• Wholeness and the Symmetry of the Early Embryo

• Wholeness through the Ruse of Organicism

• The Grip of Vitalism

• The Rise and Fall of Physics in Embryology

• Can We Restore the Physics of the Youth of Embryology?

• Avoiding the Spatial Component of Embryogenesis

• Wholeness, the Environment, and Symmetry Breaking

• Wholeness through Surface Tension

• Nonmaterial Physics as the Entelechy of Vitalism

• Towards a New Physics of Embryos

• New Tools of the Trade

• Are We Headed for Reductionism?

• Chemical or Mechanochemical Instabilities?

• Critique of the Theory of Self-Organizing Systems

• Protein Folding as a Deluding Paradigm

• A Word on Language

• The Embryology/Psychology Merry-go-round (Carrousel)

• The Cosmic Context