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The Cell in 40 Topics

Figure 66.
Thanks to the hormone estrogen, the
adult female body assumes its own
unique, distinct characteristics.

cal molecule produced by a tiny follicle shapes the human body from top to
bottom, and at the same time causes the necessary arrangements to be

made for the future birth of a healthy human being (Figures 66 and 67). The
hormone estrogen is an unconscious substance consisting of atoms
arranged one beside the other, produced by unconscious cells and affects
other unconscious cells. Yet all these events take place within a broad plan,
as a result of which the human infants emerge fully formed.

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