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The "Humanae Vitae," meaning "Of Human Life" and subtitled "On the Regulation of Birth," was an encyclical promulgated in Rome, Italy, on 25 July…
LiteratureReproductive RightsreligionReproductionCatholicismFriedrich Tiedemann studied the anatomy of humans and animals in the nineteenth century in Germany. He published on zoological subjects, on the heart…
BrainAnatomy, ComparativeEmbryologyFetal braindevelopmentFrank Rattray Lillie's research on freemartins from 1914 to 1920 in the US led to the theory that hormones partly caused for sex differentiation in…
Lillie, Frank Rattray, 1870-1947Intersexuality in animalsFreemartinismHormonesExperimentsThe hedgehog signaling pathway is a mechanism that regulates cell growth and differentiation during embryonic development, called embryogenesis, in…
Drosophila melanogasterCyclopiaGenetic regulationZebra danioGenesConrad Hal Waddington's Organisers and Genes, published in 1940, is a summary of available research and theoretical framework for many concepts…
LiteratureOrganizers, EmbryonicPublicationsdifferentiationIn his 1907 paper, "Experiments in Transplanting Limbs and Their Bearing Upon the Problems of the Development of Nerves," in the Journal of…
TransplantationExperimentsFrogsAmphibiansIn "Versuche zur Analyse der Induktionsmittel in der Embryonalentwicklung," published in Naturwissenschaften in 1932, Hermann Bautzmann, Johannes…
Organizers, EmbryonicExperimentsTransplantationStephen Jay Gould studied snail fossils and worked at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts during the latter half of the twentieth century…
Punctuated equilibrium (Evolution)Spandrel beamsOntogenyPhylogenyFossilsFrederik Ruysch's cabinet of curiosities, commonly referred to simply as the Cabinet, was a museum Ruysch created in the Netherlands in the late…
OrganizationHuman AnatomyAnatomical museumsHuman anatomy--HistoryTissues--PreservationAfter becoming chief pathologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Wisconsin Regional Primate Center in 1995, James A. Thomson began his…
Stem CellsExperimentsPublicationsHuman Development