Highways of vessels in our bodies and highways of roads in our cities! How can an entire body system be described as “esoteric” and how was this esoteric system discovered and described? In the second half we learn from Jessica Brodeur about urban planning.

Correction for the podcast at 42 minute mark: CPTED stands for crime prevention through environmental design not community prevention.

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Link to public access: https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/16/7/773.full.pdf?uritype=cgi

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Chikly, B. (1997). Who discovered the lymphatic system?. Lymphology, 30(4), 186-193.

Link to public access: https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/lymph/article/viewFile/17431/17207

Jenkins, G., & Tortora, G. J. (2016). Anatomy and physiology. John Wiley & Sons.

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