Fifty years after Enlow and Brown's Comparative histological study of fossil and recent bone tissues (1956–1958): A review of Professor Donald H. Enlow's contribution to palaeohistology and comparative histology of bone |
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Authors: | Armand J de Ricqls |
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Institution: | aChaire de biologie historique et évolutionnisme & UMR 7179 CNRS/ MNHN/UPMC–Paris-6, Collège de France, ostéohistologie comparée, case 70 77, 2, place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France |
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Abstract: | Fifty years after the publication of Enlow and Brown's seminal paper (1956–1958), this historical analysis of Professor Donald H. Enlow's works emphasizes their influence on the evolution of palaeohistology, comparative bone histology, and bone biology in general. Comparative analysis of recent and fossil bone tissues has shown the great variability of bone at the tissue level (histodiversity). Historically, Enlow's works have greatly influenced a shift in the reinterpretation of the causes of bone histodiversity, from phylogenetic to more functional (ontogenetic) explanations. This allows us to consider the issue of complex causalities in evolutionary biology. |
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Keywords: | History of sciences Bone histology Palaeohistology Bone biology EvolutionMots clé s: Histoire des sciences Histologie osseuse Palé ohistologie Biologie de l’ os É volution |
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