"Vertebral" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the dorsal chord in its embryological development, he shows that a certain parallelism exists between the comparative degrees of development of the vertebral column in the different groups of fishes, and the phases of its embryonic development in the higher fishes. Farther on he shows a like coincidence between the development of the system of fins in the different groups of fishes, and the gradual growth and differentiation of the fins in the embryo ...
— Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence • Louis Agassiz |
