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Proposed evolution of the mammary gland from a mucus-secreting epithelial skin gland adapted from Vorbach et al. (2006). The evolutionary model postulates the divergence of specific enzymes with additional functions as discussed in the text. The original immune protective role of the skin secretion was gradually modified to a nutritive role of the contemporary mammary gland with a new specific complex secretion product called milk.
