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De Ovi Mammalium et Hominis Genesi
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- In Karl Ernst von Baer
…mammalian ovum (egg) in his De Ovi Mammalium et Hominis Genesi (“On the Mammalian Egg and the Origin of Man”), thereby establishing that mammals, including human beings, develop from eggs. He opposed the popular idea that embryos of one species pass through stages comparable to adults of other species. Instead,…
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