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There have been numerous reports about human embryos in early developmental stages, among which those of Streeter and co-workers published in Contributions to Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, have clarified the issue greatly. Recently O’Rahilly and Müller made a comprehensive survey of human embryos younger than 8 weeks, mainly based on the Carnegie collections.
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Mizoguti, H. (1989). Introduction. In: A Fifteen-somite Human Embryo. Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology, vol 116. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74294-1_1
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