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In a world overloaded with information, in which university library shelves bend under the weight of worthy tomes and the number of journals has been doubling every fifteen years, a prospective reader is fiilly entitled to eye any new text suspiciously and to ask whether there is really a need for yet another book. The question is always a valid one, and was perhaps summed up most clearly by the reviewer who remarked of a manuscript under his scrutiny that ‘this paper fills a much needed gap in the literature’. It is therefore a duty of any author or editor to begin the introduction of a new work with a justification for its existence.
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Davies, J.A. (2005). Why a Book on Branching, and Why Now?. In: Branching Morphogenesis. Molecular Biology Intelligence Unit. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-30873-3_1
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