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n. - Animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull

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  • It can have at once, the concentration of a craniate animal and the diffused vitality of an amoeba.
  • In other words, each bit of evidence, from the most ancient craniate fossil to the molecular structure of neurons, fits the hypothesis of evolutionary descent.
  • The exact significance of these roots is a matter for speculation, but it seems possible that they are epiphysial structures remotely comparable with the epiphysial (pineal)...
  • Haikouichthys being a craniate, indicating that vertebrate evolution was well advanced by the
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