20th Century Horn Research In Scientific American
The work of W. Franklin Dove, a biologist who studied animal production while at UMaine in the early 20th century, was mentioned in a blog on the Scientific American website. Dove spent years of his career removing and implanting immature horn buds in the skulls of animals such as goats and cows to show that horn tissue developed separately from the skull and fused to the skull as it grew, and how the animals used their horns to gain dominance. The research is noted in a recently released book about anomalies in the development and evolution of animals.
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