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Relationship of the brain (shaded) to the face during facial morphogenesis, shown at comparable stages in human (CS16) (A), mouse (e10.5) (B) and chicken (hh22) (C). Facial prominences grow towards each other (arrows, A), converging at the midline (D), while the brain becomes relatively wider and divides into two distinct lobes.
