On the Nature of Limbs: A Discourse

 

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On the Nature of Limbs

A Discourse

Richard Owen


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Plate 1

Plate 1
Owen’s concept (1848) of the vertebrate Archetype. His coded legend shows to what parts of the ideal vertebra each part of each skeletal element corresponds.

 

Richard Owen
On the Nature of Limbs: A Discourse
Edited by Ron Amundson. With a Preface by Brian K. Hall.
With Introductory Essays by Ron Amundson, Kevin Padian, Mary P. Winsor, and Jennifer Coggon.
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