This book investigates how the toxic environment in modern society affects not only our health but the health of future generations. It concentrates dynamic and exploding areas of epigenetics research into one place and helps readers understand the link between epigenetics and toxicology. The author explains the role of epigenetics in the evolution of simple organisms to humans and how epigenetic toxicology will lead to a renaissance in environmental toxicology research. It also includes an appendix with abbreviations, definitions, glossary, annotated references with comments on especially interesting or key references.