The discovery of different classes of neuronal progenitor cell, destined to give rise to neurons in specific layers of the cerebral cortex, could presage the revision of a 50-year-old model of brain development.
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Marín, O. The neuron family tree remodelled. Nature 490, 185–186 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/490185a
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