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SEVERAL theories of the vertebrate skeleton have been promulgated during the last century, some of which have since been abandoned, and others greatly modified. About a quarter of a century ago, three great stumbling blocks were removed from the study of animal forms, by the discovery that the cell-wall was not essential as inclosing sarcode, by the removal of the old conceptions about the origin of species, and by the rejection of the vertebrate theory of the skull in its older and grosser form. In the present course, the lecturer wishes to give both an analytic and synthetic account of the vertebrate skeleton, to see if a consistent history cannot be given of every cartilage, bone, and joint, in the higher types.
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On the Evolution of the Vertebrata 1 . Nature 20, 30–32 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/020030a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/020030a0