Abstract
Y.W. Loke, Life's Vital Link: The Astonishing Role of the Placenta
Highlights
This fascinating book about the placenta tells the story of this underappreciated yet truly remarkable organ
To explain how and why the human placenta works the way it does, Loke rightfully begins this volume by describing the strategies used by amniotes, non-placental mammals and non-human placental mammals to nourish their young offspring
It is likely that a retroviral infection in the stem lineage of placental mammals was involved in the emergence of this structure as well
Summary
This fascinating book about the placenta tells the story of this underappreciated yet truly remarkable organ. In the nine chapters of this book (the number is not a coincidence), Y.W. Loke touches on how the placenta evolved, describes its development from conception to birth and details the myriad of complex functions it performs. The question of which type of placenta evolved first in mammals (superficial or invasive) has been hotly debated over the years, and Loke explains why scientists think it was invasive, based on the current distribution of placental types among mammals.
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