EVOLUTIONARY CLUES. “Two major questions which can be addressed to this classic description are why the nose is formed by such a complex intricacy of different anatomical structures, and why the origin and formation of these are not found in the classic embryological description. Examining the formation of the nose in the evolution of species may, actually, give clues to the answers.”
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