1. Foreword

   • Vidyanand Nanjundiah
   • Stuart A. Newman
   • Scott F. Gilbert

   EditorialNotes 01 February 2005 Pages: 1 - 2

2. The century beyond the gene

   • Evelyn Fox Keller

   OriginalPaper 01 February 2005 Pages: 3 - 10

3. The use ofXenopus oocytes and embryos as a route towards cell replacement

   • J. B. Gurdon

   OriginalPaper 01 February 2005 Pages: 11 - 14

4. Collateral damage: Spread of repeat-induced point mutation from a duplicated DNA sequence into an adjoining single-copy gene inNeurospora crassa

   • Meenal Vyas
   • Durgadas P. Kasbekar

   OriginalPaper 01 February 2005 Pages: 15 - 20

5. Stochasticity or the fatal ‘imperfection’ of cloning

   • Reiner A. Veitia

   OriginalPaper 01 February 2005 Pages: 21 - 30

6. The return of the whole organism

   • Patrick Bateson

   OriginalPaper 01 February 2005 Pages: 31 - 39

7. Do plants and animals differ in phenotypic plasticity?

   • Renee M. Borges

   OriginalPaper 01 February 2005 Pages: 41 - 50

8. Not in their genes: Phenotypic flexibility, behavioural traditions and cultural evolution in wild bonnet macaques

   • Anindya Sinha

   OriginalPaper 01 February 2005 Pages: 51 - 64

9. Mechanisms for the environmental regulation of gene expression: Ecological aspects of animal development

   • Scott F. Gilbert

   OriginalPaper 01 February 2005 Pages: 65 - 74

10. The pre-Mendelian, pre-Darwinian world: Shifting relations between genetic and epigenetic mechanisms in early multicellular evolution

    • Stuart A. Newman

    OriginalPaper 01 February 2005 Pages: 75 - 85

11. Can morphogenesis be understood in terms of physical rules?

    • Ryuji Takaki

    OriginalPaper 01 February 2005 Pages: 87 - 92

12. Genotype, phenotype and cancer: Role of low penetrance genes and environment in tumour susceptibility

    • Ashwin Kotnis
    • Rajiv Sarin
    • Rita Mulherkar

    OriginalPaper 01 February 2005 Pages: 93 - 102

13. Emergentism as a default: Cancer as a problem of tissue organization

    • Ana M. Soto
    • Carlos Sonnenschein

    OriginalPaper 01 February 2005 Pages: 103 - 118

14. Language from a biological perspective

    • Mohinish Shukla

    OriginalPaper 01 February 2005 Pages: 119 - 127

15. Language cannot be reduced to biology: Perspectives from neuro-developmental disorders affecting language learning

    • D. Vasanta

    OriginalPaper 01 February 2005 Pages: 129 - 137

16. The nature-nurture controversy in its most recent avatar: A response to Shukla and Vasanta

    • Prathibha Karanth

    OriginalPaper 01 February 2005 Pages: 139 - 142