LOVERS of Tristram Shandy will remember that passage in which Sterne gives a cut of his ironic whip at the learned Catholic doctors of the Sorbonne, who in their zeal to save souls had given a very ...

Ends with "beginning of the nineteenth century." Companion volume covering modern period, may follow. cf. Preliminary note. "First appeared as ... part [II] ... of ...

Embryological Concepts in the Twentieth Century -- Questions Posed by Classical Descriptive and Experimental Embryology -- Ross Harrison's Contributions to Experimental Embryology -- Analysis of ...

THIS book by the emeritus professor of anatomy at Stanford University is probably the most complete work on the history of embryology which has yet been produced. It deals both with the discovery of ...

In which Darwin considers classification and shows how his theory can be used to organise the living world along evolutionary lines As the past is the key to the present, so is the infant the key to ...

Long before he came to love China, Needham had a brilliant career as a biochemist at Cambridge University, where he wrote “Chemical Embryology,” a three-volume history of embryology that earned him an ...

Every year on the 25th of July, the world celebrates the unobtrusive commitment and efforts of embryologists, who are the researchers working behind microscopes to make a couple's wish for parenthood ...

They chose, as it happened, a non-Muslim who is a professor of embryology at the University of Toronto. His name is Keith Moore, and he is the author of textbooks on embryology - a world expert on the ...

In a world where we seem to have less and less in common with our neighbors, it’s crucial to focus on what we share. So, here’s an easy one: We’re all human. But wait — what does that mean? Beyond the ...