Quotes About Vertebrate

God: a gaseous vertebrate.

Thus with a swipe of flesh on stone we carry our vertebrate pedigree back 525 million years ... A silvery sliver of a thing took us away from trilobites and snail onto our own special path: one which led to land, to Tyrannosaurus Rex, and The New York Times.

The circulatory system of man and the vertebrate animals can be considered as made up of a small number of organs or subordinate systems, which are easy to recognize anatomically, and the functions of which are on the whole quite distinct.

In vertebrate paleontology, increasing knowledge leads to triumphant loss of clarity.

Earth's ancestral vertebrate had five digits, not six, and no Earthly animal had ever evolved with more than five. The alien's digits were arranged as four fingers flanked on either side by an opposable thumb.

That man is an aggressive creature will hardly be disputed. With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate habitually destroys members of its own species.

Immunologists agreed that an individual vertebrate synthesizes many millions of structurally different forms of antibody molecules even before it encounters an antigen.

The need to deal with pathogens has driven the evolution of the vertebrate immune system, so it should not be surprising that experiments with infectious agents have often illuminated key elements of the underlying mechanisms.

Researchers found a frog in new guinea that is so tiny, they believe it's the smallest vertebrate on the planet. It has the tiniest backbone of any living creature, except members of Congress.

Neurons are formed in the proliferative zone of the vertebrate neural tube from multipotent neural stem cells, which give rise to many different types of neurons and to glia. For many years it was thought that no new neurons could be generated in the adult mammalian brain, but the production of new neurons has been demonstrated as a normal occurrence in the adult mammalian brain, and neural stem cells have been identified in adult mammals that can generate neurons.

I got interested in palaeontology and vertebrate history - sparked by books on human evolution - then vertebrate evolution. Studying with palaeontologists kindled my interest in fieldwork.

Besides, the fact that Marsh would refer to a lady as 'the prettiest little vertebrate' probably wasn't the sort of poetry that would win hearts.