TY - JOUR AU1 - Holloway, G J AB - Heredity (2002) 89, 410  2002 Nature Publishing Group All rights reserved 0018-067X/02 $25.00 www.nature.com/hdy Book review necessary stimulus. A comparison of this book with an Phenotypic Plasticity: Beyond Nature earlier text by CD Schlichting and M Pigliucci (Phenotypic and Nurture Evolution: A Reaction Norm Perspective, Sinauer, 1998) is inevitable. As expected, there is a fair amount of overlap Massimo Pigliucci in the material covered by the two books. However, The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2001; 328 Phenotypic Plasticity: Beyond Nature and Nurture gets my pp. $65.00, hardback. ISBN 0-8018-6788-6. vote. I found it considerably easier to read and to digest the information provided. In fact, I would expect Pheno- Heredity (2002) 89, 410. doi:10.1038/sj.hdy.6800153 typic Plasticity to appeal to students at all levels of devel- opment and sophistication. The text is nicely laid out (although the reproduction of many of the figures is quite The concept of phenotypic plasticity has been popular in poor) and well written. After three chapters introducing evolutionary biology over the last two decades or so. It phenotypic plasticity, Pigliucci presents separate chapters really provides something for the theoreticians to get on genetics, molecular biology, developmental biology, their teeth into, lying, as it TI - Phenotypic Plasticity: Beyond Nature and Nurture JF - Heredity DO - 10.1038/sj.hdy.6800153 DA - 2002-12-06 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/phenotypic-plasticity-beyond-nature-and-nurture-ym6mRENVvd SP - 410 EP - 410 VL - 89 IS - 6 DP - DeepDyve ER -