craniate

How To Use craniate In A Sentence

• The relationships between hagfishes, lampreys, and jawed vertebrates are one of the still-unresolved problems in craniate phylogeny.
• The immediate outgroup of craniates, the Cephalochordata, show strong asymmetry during development.
• It can have at once, the concentration of a craniate animal and the diffused vitality of an amoeba.
• _Amphioxus_, subordinate to the primary bars in size, vascularity and development; finally, in the craniate vertebrates it would then have completed its involution, the suggestion having been made that the tongue-bars are represented by the thymus-primordia. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
• We still have no fossil evidence of the nature of the transition between cephalochordates and craniates.
• For the past few years, the near-consensus has been that basal craniates had gills that were supported by a branchial basket, if they were supported at all.
• After the publication of the first computer-generated phylogenies of the major craniate groups, the discussion has become quite difficult.
• The recent discovery of the Cambrian craniate Haikouichthys has confused matters somewhat.
• Hagfish are the oldest lineage of craniates and thus are considered important to evolutionary studies.
• Brains don't normally fossilize, but we know that human brains fit the nested hierarchy, that human brains are comprised of modifications of structures found in related organisms, that craniates follow a long, diversifying path of evolutionary history, and that humans are derived hominids. Assessing Fault