"The Origin of the Vertebrate Skeleton"- the egg membrane didit

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Who knew?

Everyone was so busy looking at genes and genomes for clues to the plans for body form and Dr Pivar found it in the egg's membrane!

Origin of Vertebrate Skeleton- link to the paper is at the end of the article

It is all self-organization!

Just get the right shit together at the same time and badda-bing, badda-boom self-organization takes over and gives us the vertebrate body body plan!

That is much better than any ez bake oven can offer!