Conrad Hal Waddington: The last Renaissance biologist?

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 889-895

  Slack, Jonathan M W ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

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ACHIEVEMENT; DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYOLOGY; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; GENETICS; HUMAN; LIFE; LITERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THEORY;

EMBRYOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENETICS; GREAT BRITAIN; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; ORGANIZERS, EMBRYONIC; PORTRAITS;

EID: 0036845254     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg933     Document Type: Review

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