Science & Technology, 1st prize
Lennart Nilsson
for Life
for Life
01 January, 1996
Human and animal embryos and fetuses: A nine-week-old human fetus with its circulatory system in place, but its brain and nervous system still not mature. At this stage of development there is little to distinguish humans from other unborn vertebrates.
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