Issues and Reviews in Teratology

Teratology is at once among the oldest and youngest of human preoccupations. Coincident with man''s first observations of the stars were his recordings of human and animal deformities. But, such aberrancies must have occurred even earlier, for although it is one of those things-like evolution-that cannot be proven, it is nevertheless indisputable that dysmorphogenesis must have occurred from the t...