Previous studies have shown that growth follows a specific genetic programme orchestrated within the growth plate. (sciencedaily.com)
James Valentine of the University of California at Berkeley suggests that the key to the Cambrian explosion may have been the evolution of a basic genetic programme to control animal development, which rapidly mutated to give all the different animal forms. (newscientist.com)
Croatian - born Rakic, Professor of Neurobiology and Neurology at Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, US, also introduced the influential idea that different regions of the cerebral cortex acquire many of their specialised anatomical and functional properties through genetic programmes intrinsic to the cortex itself. (kavlifoundation.org)