Epigenetic Landscapes

"Susan Merrill Squier has great fun demolishing silos and rearranging their contents. Viewing the world through Waddington's epigenetic landscape, Squier presents us with a feminist, interactionist, reordering of some of our dearest models of reality. Be ready to question your perceptions of human development, modern art, landscape design, graphic illustration, and the relations of science, art, and nature as you enter this fascinating book." - Scott F. Gilbert, author of Developmental Biology

“In this stunning volume one of our most erudite and eloquent guides to the rapidly changing landscapes of the contemporary biological provides us with a timely and critical genealogy of epigenetics—one of the most important but elusive concepts in contemporary society. Everyone with an interest in the past and the future of biological concepts should read this book!” - Sarah Franklin, author of Biological Relatives: IVF, Stem Cells, and the Future of Kinship

"A largely insightful, informative and enjoyable read . . . an academic text as well as an insightful view into the remarkable melding of science and art." - Rebecca Rahimi, Science, Medicine, and Anthropology

"Squier deserves many thanks for opening up new vistas in the history of science." - Erik L. Peterson, Isis

"Epigenetic Landscapes offers an ambitious and multivalent argument for how visual metaphor can bring plasticity, diversity, and greater complexity to processes that are all too frequently oversimplified. Its thick and multidisciplinary network of referenced artists and scholars (over 250 packed in 214 pages of main text) manifests her rhizomatic proposal well." - Andrew S. Yang, Journal of the History of Biology