Gavin Rylands de Beer: How embryology foreshadowed the dilemmas of the genome

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 892-898

  Horder, Tim J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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EMBRYOLOGY; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; GENOME; HUMAN; LITERATURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EMBRYOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENOMICS; GREAT BRITAIN; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; PORTRAITS;

EID: 33750203520     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1918     Document Type: Review

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