The Baboon in Embryology and Teratology Research

Studies of embryonic development in the red baboon (Papio hamadryas papio) were first reviewed by Hill (1932). Subsequent studies were carried out by Gilbert and Heuser (1954), Schuster (1965), and Boyden (1967) in P. h. ursinus, P. h. anubis, P. h. cynocephalus, and P. h. anubis, respectively. Zuckerman (1963) has provided an excellent history of nonhuman primates in biomedical history for the first half of the 20th century. His account credits Galen of Pergamum who based the descriptions of human anatomy on baboons and other primates.