mammalian

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Haeckel claimed that a developing human mammalian, and so on, re-tracing the Darwinian evolutionary path life has come from.

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  1. Of or pertaining to the Mammalia or mammals.
  2. An animal of the class Mammalia; a mammal.

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  • I found the new neural growths forming over the old, folded tight just above the structure which is so like a mammalian limbic system. —  F ;SF; - vol 090 issue 06 - June 1996
  • They appeared quite ordinary desert inhabitants, rat to rabbit in size, quite possibly mammalian, and six-legged. —  Analog February, 1971
  • This evolutionary process has also contributed to the large difference in the number of MHC genes between species within a given mammalian order —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Arylnitrenium ions were generated by the convenient non-metabolic procedure, photolysis of arylazides, to study the reactivity of these ultimate intermediates with DNA, by means of 32 P-postlabelling, and the induction of histidine reversions in Salmonella, HPRT mutations and sister chromatid exchange in mammalian (Chinese hamster V79) cells. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Our results indicate that complete genome sets are maintained in mammalian organs even after long-term frozen-storage without cryoprotectant, and that live clones can be produced from the recovered cells. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
 

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