Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun: Eighth Cambridge Workshop

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Traces the long history of some of the major ideas about cell division in animals, provides an account of the current knowledge about it, describes division in different kinds of cells, and proposes explanations of the mechanisms underlying the visible events. From experiments devised to test theories, shows that the forces necessary to deform animal cells to the degree shown in cytokinesis seem to originate from the interaction of linear polymers and motor molecules that play roles in force production, motion, and shape change that occur in other phases of the cell's biology. Accessible to non-specialists in cellular and developmental biology. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)