So, everyone knows the story about the time the 5th Dalai Lama wrote the Editor to complain that Ernst Haeckel hadn’t cited his work from 200 years earlier? Right? Right?
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But stories matter. I hope this story reminds you that humans have wondered about embryos and struggled to put that wonder into words for most of recorded history. Developmental biology has a very long bibliography indeed. 15/15
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Someone in 1st Century India got human embryonic limb development perfectly right. The progressive emergence of parts, even the timing, exactly right. Today, I'll start a new thing about the ancient origins developmental biology, the science of embryos. 🧵1/15 #TheLongBibliography
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