This cavity corresponds with the cavity of the true amnion of higher Vertebrates.
In the adult it forms a glandular mass underneath the branchial region of the throat equivalent to the thyroid gland of higher Vertebrates.
There accrues to the brain, especially to the fore-brain of higher Vertebrates, another function besides that of grafting psychical qualities upon the reactions of the nervous system.
In the mesencephalon fibres corresponding with those of the fillet of higher vertebrates can be seen, and there is a nucleus in the hinder part of the corpora bigemina foreshadowing the separation into corpora quadrigemina.
It is in fact extremely doubtful whether fishes really hear at all, in a way comparable to the auditory sense in higher vertebrates.
The spinal nerves are subject to some special modifications, but in the main correspond to similar structures in higher vertebrates.
This is the air-bladder, a rudiment of that structure which inhigher vertebrates is developed as a lung.
This is due to an attempt to homologize its parts with the shoulder-girdle (scapula, coracoid, and clavicle) of higher vertebrates.
Most air-breathing Vertebrates have a larynx, a trachea, and bronchi, which are absent in fish; and fish have many parts which seem to be absent in higher Vertebrates.
That the peculiar bones should be connected with the respiratory functions is only natural, for the contrast between fish and higher Vertebrates is essentially a contrast between water-breathing and air-breathing animals.
Several intermediate stages connect this simple spinal column with the vertebral column characteristic of higher vertebrates.
Dentine forms the main bulk of the teeth; it is sometimes of the normal type, but generally differs from that in higher vertebrates in being vascular, and is known as vasodentine.
These bones, which with the exception of the clavicle, are unknown in higher vertebrates, are better developed in Ganoids, and best of all in Teleosteans.
The vertebral column of the duck, like that of the great majority of birds, presents a number of well-marked characteristics, contrasting strongly with those of the generality of higher vertebrates.
In this part of its vascular system Ammocoetes again resembles the higher invertebrates more than the higher vertebrates.
At the same time, it is recognized on all sides that it has no resemblance to bone-structure as seen in fossil remains of higher vertebrates.
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