Sentences with phrase «vertebrate body plan»
Flammang agrees, saying what's most exciting about this is that it really underlines the idea that there is a vertebrate body plan that allows for changes that result in different kinds of animals, adding that the work «really unlocks a way of understanding the differences between organisms.»
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For each major vertebrate group, ancient and modern (and with no particular emphasis on ours), Bonnan examines the skeleton to see how structure relates to function using plain analogies: basic body plan is likened to a car chassis, jaws to scissors or nutcrackers, eyes to camera lenses.
P. sandersi's body plan was well adapted to long - range flight, says Michael Habib, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.