Embryology: The Beginnings of Life

"Embryology: The Beginnings of Life" by Gerald R. Leighton, is a book focused on explaining the science behind how life starts. It goes into details of the steps of creating offspring and how cells build living things. The author thought studying how embryos grow is really important for many areas, like schools, raising kids, and making society better. The book starts by asking big questions about embryology and explains why everyone should learn about it. The book defines embryology as the science that studies how embryos form and grow. The author mentions the book is about how cells help make new living things and basic ideas about how living things reproduce, focusing on how crucial is the germ-plasm for understanding how traits are passed down and how individuals grow. All this opens the door for an examination into fertilization, early cell splitting, and the complex topic of human growth, to be talked about later in the book.