“…Some of the earliest indications first arose from surgical transplantation experiments designed to exploit pigment variations in amphibian embryos. Around the beginning of the 20th Century, embryologists such as Born (), Harrison (), and Spemann () pioneered the use of chimeras, that is combining embryonic components from distinct animal species, to follow the movements and fates of cells, and understand the inductive properties of tissues (Harrison, ; Mangold, ; Mangold & Seidel, ; Noden, ; Spemann, ; Spemann & Mangold, ). Their reliance on intrinsic differences in the number, distribution, and color of intracellular pigment granules as a means to keep track of donor versus host tissues was actually a proxy for a neural crest‐derived lineage (i.e., melanocytes), something which was suggested by Harrison () and others but which remained debatable at the time (Dorris, ; DuShane, ; Harrison, ; Holtfreter, ; Raven, ).…”