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The views developed in this book can, in general, be reduced to the following: there are, at least in higher animals, three fundamental stages of operation of the digestive apparatus—cavital digestion which performs the initial transformations; membrane digestion which completes the cleavage of foodstuffs; and, finally, the processes of absorption.
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Ugolev, A.M. (1968). Evolutionary Aspects of Membrane Digestion. In: Physiology and Pathology of Membrane Digestion. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6409-0_6
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