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Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752-1840)
By: Kate MacCord
| Published: Jan 22, 2014
In eighteenth century Germany, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach studied how individuals within a species vary, and to explain such variations, he proposed…
AnthropologyAnatomy, ComparativeVariation (Biology)EmbryosDevelopmental Biology
Human Evolution Inferred from Tooth Growth and Development
By: Kate MacCord
| Published: Mar 28, 2013
To study human evolution, researchers sometimes use microstructures found in human teeth and their knowledge of the processes by which those…
EvolutionteethDental EnamelFossilsHuman Evolution
"The Inductive Capacity of Oral Mesenchyme and Its Role in Tooth Development" (1969-1970), by Edward J. Kollar and Grace R. Baird
By: Kate MacCord
| Published: Mar 15, 2013
Between February 1969 and August 1970 Edward Kollar and Grace Baird, from the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, published three papers that…
teethEmbryosCell differentiationMesenchymeEpithelium
Epithelium
By: Kate MacCord
| Published: Oct 17, 2012
Frederik Ruysch, working in the Netherlands, introduced the term epithelia in the third volume of his Thesaurus Anatomicus in 1703. Ruysch created…
EpitheliumRuysch, Frederik, 1638-1731AnatomyCells--MorphologyHis, Wilhelm, 1831-1904