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This book, by a leading thinker with 30 years experience in the field, is the first devoted to fibrous composites in biology. It tackles a major unsolved problem in developmental biology - how does chemistry create architecture outside cells? Fibrous composites occur in all skeletal systems including plant cell walls, insect cuticles, moth eggshells, bone and cornea.Anthony Charles Neville is the author of 'Biology of Fibrous Composites: Development beyond the Cell Membrane', published 1993 under ISBN 9780521410519 and ISBN 0521410517.
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