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Nature tends to be conservative, keeping the “scaffolding” in one form or another, such as the yolk sac or the one-chambered heart or the primitive tail we all had while in the womb.
THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD GERALD L. SCHROEDER 2001
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Nature tends to be conservative, keeping the “scaffolding” in one form or another, such as the yolk sac or the one-chambered heart or the primitive tail we all had while in the womb.
THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD GERALD L. SCHROEDER 2001
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The heart consists at first of one chamber only, recalling the one-chambered heart of Crustacea.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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In the first place the city council was simplified and made a one-chambered council consisting of nineteen aldermen.
Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins John Fiske 1871
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When introduced to each other, the three cells types spontaneously self-organized, clumping together to form something resembling a one-chambered heart.
The Seattle Times 2011
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If the plan goes forward, Maine would become only the second state, behind Nebraska, to have a one-chambered legislature.
Freakonomics 2009
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We’ve changed from a tail-bearing organism immersed in liquid with eyes on the sides of our heads, a yolk sac, bronchial arches, a one-chambered heart, a snout-like nose, with webbed hands and feet, and become human.
THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD GERALD L. SCHROEDER 2001
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We’ve changed from a tail-bearing organism immersed in liquid with eyes on the sides of our heads, a yolk sac, bronchial arches, a one-chambered heart, a snout-like nose, with webbed hands and feet, and become human.
THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD GERALD L. SCHROEDER 2001
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We may assume that the Acrania that really belong to our ancestral series did not share this retrogression, but inherited the one-chambered heart of the Prochordonia, and transmitted it directly to the earliest Craniotes (cf. the ideal Primitive Vertebrate,
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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