Epigraph

Problems of the developmental physiology of bone have always had a great fascination for those
who have studied them. That fascination is likewise easily understood when we reflect how notable
an example is provided by bone of the way in which, from the apparently simple, more complex
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problems arise, and how the pursuit of these further problems leads the investigator, if [s]he be so
minded, straight to fundamental problems of the nature of life itself.
(Brash, 1934, p. 306)
The facts to which I wish to call your attention, and which are confirmatory of the views here
developed, have been brought to light by different observers, at different times.
(Hubrecht, 1897, p. 37)
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