Abstract
The development of the nervous system is a complex and astounding phenomenon. The human nervous system consists of over ten billion cells, and each has its own individual job to do. Cells in the various parts of the nervous system are generated over the same period, and their projections grow out simultaneously but in different directions. Somehow these billions of projections have to cross a plethora of other fibers along the way, in many cases traversing a long distance, in order to find their way to the right nucleus and finally to the right cells in the nucleus.
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Daw, N.W. (1995). Anatomical Development of the Visual System. In: Visual Development. Perspectives in Vision Research. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-6940-1_4
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