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Limb anomalies from evolutionary, developmental, and genetic perspectives.
Birth defects original article series - 1 Jan 1996
Opitz J M
Abstract excerpt
Coming-on-land by vertebrates during the Devonian was preceded by a 100 million year history of evolution of fins from an early agnathan to a sarcopterygian state with proximal single stylopod bone and probable paired zeugopod bones. There is little disagreement about the homology [Owen, 1837: See Desmond, 1982; Owen, 1849 for a general discussion see Roth, 1988] of these three bones to the corresponding ones of...
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