Papers from a conference held on November 25-28, 2001 in Ghent, Belgium. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Epigenetics: a challenge for genetics, evolution, and development / by Gertrudis van de Vijver, Linda van Speybroeck, and Dani de Waele -- Theories in early embryology: close connections between epigenesis, preformationism, and self-organization / by Linda van Speybroeck, Dani de Waele, Gertrudis van de Vijver -- The relations between genetics and epigenetics: a historical point of view / by Michel Morange -- From epigenesis to epigenetics: the case of C.H. Waddington / by Linda van Speybroeck -- The changing concept of epigenetics / by Eva Jablonka and Marion Lamb -- What is "epi" about epigenetics? / by James Griesemer -- Genome organization and reorganization in evolution: formatting for computation and function / by James A. Shapiro -- Alternative epigenetic states understood in terms of specific regulatory structures / by Denis Thieffry and Lucas Sánchez -- On the roles of repetitive DNA elements in the context of a unified genomic-epigenetic system / by Richard von Sternberg -- Developmental robustness / by Evelyn Fox Keller -- The genome in its ecological context: philosophical perspectives on interspecies epigenesis / by Scott Gilbert -- From representational performationism to the epigenesis of openness to the world? Reflections on a new vision of the organism / by Lenny Moss.