The anterior end of the nervous tube is enlarged and differentiated to form a brain as in other Vertebrates, but this brain in the lampreys at least shows remarkably primitive features.
That the unpaired olfactory organ of existing Cyclostomes has passed through, in their ancestors, a paired condition such as exists in other vertebrates, is indicated by the fact that it retains a pair of olfactory nerves.
In the lowest vertebrate (Ammocoetes) the constriction formed by this nerve-pair is evident not only in the embryonic condition as in other vertebrates, but during the whole larval stage.
For instance, the part known as the hand in man and generally as the fore foot in other Vertebrates, is the fourth part in order in the anterior member, and its homologue can always be recognised by this fact of its connections (p.
They are homologous with the clavicles of other vertebrates.
The leg of the bird is somewhat differently constructed from that of other vertebrates owing to the fact that there is no free tarsus, the proximal tarsals having fused with the tibia, and the distal with the metatarsals.
This, as in other vertebrates, is divisible into-- A.
The bones of mammals are firmer than those of other vertebrates, containing a larger proportion of salts of lime.
They differ mainly from the eyes of other vertebrates in their myopic spherical crystalline lens, made necessary by the density of the medium in which fishes live.
The ears of mammals are more highly developed than those of other vertebrates both in respect to the greater complexity of the inner part and the size of the outer part.
The kidneys of mammals are more compact and definite in form than those of other vertebrates.
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