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by ncmncm 1645 days ago
Bone fracture healing is also, exactly, regeneration. Regeneration of fingertips in small children is almost universal, provided you don't stitch it up.

George Becker's book "The Body Electric" is the most complete exploration of regeneration I have encountered to date. Becker's suspicion was that we gave up general regeneration in exchange for cancer resistance.

Updates welcome! TBE deserves follow-up.

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Came to mention this book - the author is Robert O. Becker and it was published in 1985. Mike Levin (mentioned elsewhere in this thread) was greatly influenced by this book.
also "The Spark in the machine", as well as the Tufts University video showing how electricity forms the frog embryo