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                        fontanel  temporal bone
            liver, bones or eyes do not merely gather together.
            They need to branch off even further. For example,
            bone cells should be aware of the location of the
            bone that they will form within the body. Then they
            should go to the correct place accordingly and take
            the correct form.
                  The bone cells in your feet act like a professional
            sculptor and form perfectly curved foot bones with the
            indentations and projections for the toes. As if they
            knew the size of the brain, the bone cells forming
            your skull build a smooth bony skeleton that per-
            fectly encloses the brain. It is neither too small nor
            too big, so it neither squeezes the brain nor
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