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Stanford's Human Biology Program [1] is an undergraduate major; it integrates the natural and social sciences in the study of human beings. It is interdisciplinary and policy-oriented and was founded in 1970 by a group of Stanford faculty (Professors Dornbusch, Ehrlich, Hamburg, Hastorf, Kennedy, Kretchmer, Lederberg, and Pittendrigh). [2]
Introduction to the Humanities (IHUM) (2000–2012), [6] a core freshman course sequence which consisted of one fall-quarter course followed by a 2-quarter pair of courses during the winter and spring quarters. Fall quarter courses were interdisciplinary while winter-spring focused on a specific disciplinary area. Thinking Matters (2012–2016) [6]
Matthew P. Scott, professor of developmental biology, discoverer of homeobox genes; Oscar Elton Sette, lecturer and Chief of Ocean Research, pioneer of fisheries oceanography and modern fisheries science; Norman Shumway, professor at Stanford Medical School, father of the heart transplantation technique
Segmentation (biology) Septum transversum; Sexual reproduction; Sexual system; Shape correction function; Society for Developmental Biology; Somatic (biology) Somatic cell; Spermarche; Splenogonadal fusion; Starfish regeneration; Stem cell; Sturt (biology) Symmetry breaking and cortical rotation; Symmetry in biology
Developmental psychobiology is an interdisciplinary field, encompassing developmental psychology, biological psychology, neuroscience and many other areas of biology. The field covers all phases of ontogeny , with particular emphasis on prenatal, perinatal and early childhood development.
Fernald specializes in children's language development, investigating the development of speed and efficiency in children's early comprehension in relation to their emerging lexical and grammatical competence. Recently, she has also begun to study language development in bilingual Spanish-English speaking children and children who are learning ...
Evolutionary developmental biology is the study of the evolution of developmental processes across different organisms. It is utilized within multiple disciplines, primarily evolutionary biology and anthropology. Groundwork for the theory that "evolutionary modifications in primate development might have led to … modern humans" was laid by ...
List of faculty members, past and present, in the Biology Department of Stanford University. Pages in category "Stanford University Department of Biology faculty" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total.