pp 1-2 February 2005

Foreword

Vidyanand Nanjundiah Stuart A Newman Scott F Gilbert

pp 3-10 February 2005

The century beyond the gene

Evelyn Fox Keller

pp 11-14 February 2005

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

J B Gurdon

pp 15-20 February 2005

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

pp 21-30 February 2005

Stochasticity or the fatal ‘imperfection’ of cloning

Reiner A Veitia

pp 31-39 February 2005

The return of the whole organism

Patrick Bateson

pp 41-50 February 2005

Do plants and animals differ in phenotypic plasticity?

Renee M Borges

pp 51-64 February 2005

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

Anindya Sinha

pp 65-74 February 2005

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

Scott F Gilbert

pp 75-85 February 2005

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

Stuart A Newman

pp 87-92 February 2005

Can morphogenesis be understood in terms of physical rules?

Ryuji Takaki

pp 93-102 February 2005

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

Ashwin Kotnis Rajiv Sarin Rita Mulherkar

pp 103-118 February 2005

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

Ana M Soto Carlos Sonnenschein

pp 119-127 February 2005

Language from a biological perspective

Mohinish Shukla

pp 129-137 February 2005

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

D Vasanta

pp 139-142 February 2005

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

Prathibha Karanth