Abstract
ADVANCES in the field of human embryology during the present century have been dependent chiefly upon the acquisition of more abundant human material, particularly in the earlier stages of development, and upon its accurate observation and interpretation in the light of comparative and, to a lesser degree, experimental embryology. Undoubtedly the most notable recent advances have been in the study of early human and primate material, which is now becoming available in steadily increasing quantities. In this new text-book, the authors have attempted "a presentation of the subject of human embryology in the light of the advances which have been made in it during the past twenty years". They have, in general, succeeded in working into existing knowledge many facts which have been collected during the past twenty years.
Human Embryology
(Prenatal Development of Form and Function). ByProf. W. J. Hamilton, Prof. J. D. Boyd and Prof. H. W. Mossman. Pp. viii + 366. (Cambridge: W. Heffer and Sons, Ltd., 1945.) 31s. 6d. net.
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DAVIES, D. Human Embryology. Nature 156, 315–316 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156315a0
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