Developmental Origins of Health Inequality
The study of early development began at the end of the 19th century with the German biologist Wilhelm Roux, the founder of a new discipline that he called “developmental mechanics.” Roux’s experiments with frogs’ embryos, and later the experiments by Hans Driesch with sea urchin eggs, were the first studies on the interactions of an embryo with its environment and how developmental trajectories could be guided by information from its surroundings.... ...
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