Abstract
THE study of the factors which determine thegrowth and form of an organism is the special province of the morphologist. Hitherto this has been mainly pursued by the investigation of the biological history of the organism or structure, and indeed morphology has become more or less synonymous with the historical approach. The other common factor, the influence of function upon structure, has of course been implicit in all sorts of biological studies. Beyond these historical or functional investigations of the determinants of form, there is still the experimental approach to the question of the relation between the structure made visible by anatomical methods and the morphogenetic factors that have brought the structure to the state which has actually been achieved.
Bones:
a Study of the Development and Structure of the Vertebrate Skeleton. By Dr. P. D. F. Murray. Pp. x + 203 + 8 plates. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1936.) 8s. 6d. net.
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Bones. Nature 139, 1036–1037 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/1391036a0
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