This book will explain the colossal potential of life to cope with different living environments is possible owing to the exceptionally well developed mechanisms of adaptation to environmental conditions. 1…

Further, developmental cell remodeling during tissue maturation involves programmed cell death as the major mechanism for functional and structural safe transition of undifferentiated cells to more specialized counterparts.

Responding to the increased national concern for early childhood education, this book examines what states are currently doing, what has proven effective, and what the existing body of knowledge offers…

Provides a landmark overview of the field of early childhood research and sets an agenda for early childhood research into the future.

Exploring the relationship between consequentialist theory and moral rules, this book focuses mainly on rule consequentialism or on the distinction between act and rule versions of consequentialism. The essays aim…