vertebrates

• “Thus it was that Cuvier came forward with a brand-new classification of the animal kingdom, establishing four great types of being, which he called vertebrates, mollusks, articulates, and radiates.”

  A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences

• “The assessment, in two papers published Tuesday in the journal Science, concludes that the survival of one-fifth of the world's vertebrates is threatened.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A War Against Extinction

• “That means Common Descent, the evolution of complex structures in vertebrates, observations of natural selection, etc.”

  Attached to Strings

• “The convergence of the hydrodynamic shape among vertebrates is currently thought to be due to the environment/similar niche/even interactions:”

  Biomolecular Networks

• “Having spent the day so far on obscure Cretaceous vertebrates from the Iberian Peninsula, and on dull editorial work, I thought I'd waste some time and post the following entry on - sorry - not phorusrhacoids, but cassowaries.”

  Archive 2006-02-01

• “It is worth noting that there are many genes that can be deleted in vertebrates with no apparent consequences, at least in a laboratory environment.”

  Another Protozoan and Front-Loading

• “By borrowing mathematical tools from theoretical physics, scientists have recently developed a theory that explains why the brain tissue of humans and other vertebrates is segregated into the familiar "gray matter" and "white matter.”

  January 12th, 2006

• “Organisms employ evolutionary computation to solve many of the tasks of living (cf. the immune system in vertebrates).”

  Demarcation, Credentials, and Science Education

• “Tumors occur in vertebrates of so many kinds that it would not be surprising if neoplastic changes took place in them all.”

  Peyton Rous - Nobel Lecture

• “In insects, as well as in vertebrates under standard conditions,”

  August Krogh - Biography

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