Abstract
THE experimental study of tissue growth is a comparatively recent branch of biological research, and as yet but a small part of this vast field has been explored. Much important work, often of tantalising suggestiveness, has already been carried out, however, and various hypotheses have been put forward to explain the forces which initiate, sustain, perpetuate and control the growth of cells. At the present time the problem of growth is being approached from many widely diverse points of view. The embryologist, the physiologist, the geneticist, the biochemist are all engaged upon its solution, and it is therefore a matter of some difficulty for the layman, or indeed for the specialised research worker, to obtain a comprehensive view of the more significant facts which recent investigation has brought to light. Mr. G. R. de Beer, in his book “Growth,” has successfully summarised and discussed in popular language some of the results achieved in relation to this subject in various branches of science during recent years.
Growth.
By G. R. de Beer. Pp. viii + 120 + 8 plates. (London: E. Arnold and Co., 1924.) 7s. 6d. net.
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S., T. Growth. Nature 114, 709–710 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114709a0
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