📚 Developmental Biology

Books with developmental biology on their catalogue record, first published between 1815 and 2016, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject developmental biology in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 1,317 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Current Topics in Developmental Biology	Roger A. Pedersen	1992	39
	Langman's medical embryology	Thomas W. Sadler	1963	26
	Botany	James D. Mauseth	1991	25
	Development through the lifespan	Laura E. Berk	1998	24
	Current topics in developmental biology	Alberto Monroy	1966	23
	The developing human	Keith L. Moore	1973	20
	Reproductive biology and early life history of fishes in the Ohio River drainage	Thomas P Simon	2003	20
	Life	Ricki Lewis	1991	18
	Developmental anatomy	Leslie Brainerd Arey	1924	15
	Current topics in developmental biology	Roger A. Pedersen	1998	11
	Essential Developmental Biology	Jonathan M. W. Slack	2009	11
	International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology	Lorenzo Galluzzi	2016	11
	The developing person through the life span	Kathleen Stassen Berger	1983	10
	Endless Forms Most Beautiful	Sean B. Carroll	2005	10
	Molecular biology	David P. Clark	1997	9
	The teenage brain	Frances E. Jensen	2013	9
	Developmental biology	Scott F. Gilbert	1985	8
	Developmental Biology	Michael J. F. Barresi	2000	8
	Embryology, Epigenesis and Evolution	Jason Scott Robert	2004	8
	Pink brain, blue brain	Lise Eliot	2009	8
	The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought	Ron Amundson	2005	7
	Neoplastic development	Leslie Foulds	1969	6
	Aging and Development	Peter Coleman	2003	6
	Development of the ocular lens	Frank J. Lovicu	2004	6
	Hormones, signals and target cells in plant development	Daphne J. Osborne	2005	6
	Evolving pathways	Alessandro Minelli	2008	6
	Differential Equation Analysis in Biomedical Science and Engineering	William E. Schiesser	2014	6
	Experience Human Development	Diane Papalia	1815	5
	Development	N. J. Berrill	1976	5
	Theories of development	William C. Crain	1980	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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