Evolution of the Vertebrates, subtitled "A History of the Backboned Animals Through Time", is a basic paleontology textbook by Edwin H. Colbert, published...

the evolution of a head containing sense organs and a brain to process the sensory information. Vertebrates have a tubular gut that extends from the mouth...

in jawed vertebrates have been found in jawless vertebrates. Instead, the AIS of jawless vertebrates is based on variable lymphocyte receptors (VLRs)...

The evolution of the eye is the origin and development with diversification by natural selection over geological time of organs of photosensitivity and...

of extinct vertebrates (animals with vertebrae and their descendants). It also tries to connect, by using the evolutionary timeline, the animals of the...

technical account of various groups of living and fossil vertebrates. The book, which is written in the style of Alfred Sherwood Romer's Vertebrate Paleontology...

S2CID 4264378. Colbert, E.H. & Morales, M. (2001): Colbert's Evolution of the Vertebrates: A History of the Backboned Animals Through Time. 4th edition. John Wiley...

before the evolution of camera-type eye in cephalopods and approximately 110 to 260 million years before the evolution of camera-type eye in vertebrates. Another...

side of the body – all critical features for the evolution of the vertebrates. The notochord, a flexible rod-like structure that runs along the back of the...

(1990). Vertebrate palaeontology : biology and evolution. Unwin Hyman. p. 229. ISBN 0-04-566001-8. Colbert E (1991). Evolution of the vertebrates : a history...

'mouth') are jawed vertebrates. Gnathostome diversity comprises roughly 60,000 species, which accounts for 99% of all extant vertebrates, including all living...

craniates and vertebrates. The first fish lineages belong to the Agnatha, or jawless fish. Early examples include Haikouichthys. During the late Cambrian...

things with regard to their natural relationships and the study of variation and the evolution of taxa". In 1970, Michener et al. defined "systematic biology"...

genomes hold clues about the early evolution of vertebrates: by comparing genes from lancelets with the same genes in vertebrates, changes in gene expression...

The triune brain was a once popular, now proven false, model of the evolution of the vertebrate forebrain and behavior, proposed by the American physician...

S2CID 12116018. Colbert, E.H. & Morales, M. (2001): Colbert's Evolution of the Vertebrates: A History of the Backboned Animals Through Time. 4th edition. John Wiley...

vertebrate animals belonging to the clade Amniota, a large group that comprises the vast majority of living terrestrial and semiaquatic vertebrates....

and nerve vessels entering from the back of the retina, rather than the front as in vertebrates. As a result, vertebrates have a blind spot. Hydrostatic...

hominins (a tribe of the African hominid subfamily), indicating that human evolution was not linear but weblike. The study of the origins of humans involves...

differs from jawed vertebrates in that they have neither a horizontal septum nor a vertical septum, which in jawed vertebrates are junctions of connective tissue...

before the 20th century, may refer to anamniotes as "lower vertebrates" and amniotes as "higher vertebrates", based on the antiquated idea of the evolutionary...

mimicry in vertebrates is mimicry by a vertebrate of some model (an animal, not necessarily a vertebrate), deceiving some other animal, the dupe. Mimicry...

(see e.g., Alfred Sherwood Romer's Vertebrate Paleontology and Edwin H. Colbert's Evolution of the Vertebrates). Of these, only phytosaurs and aetosaurs...

and is also found in the embryos of some more developed vertebrates. In lower vertebrates, the pronephros is sometimes called the head kidney due to its...

group of tetrapod vertebrates that includes all mammals and their extinct relatives. It is one of the two major clades of the group Amniota, the other...

The evolution of mammals has passed through many stages since the first appearance of their synapsid ancestors in the Pennsylvanian sub-period of the...

rather, simply retained the form that vertebrates had before the evolution of limbs. There are also a number of fish with elongated bodies that have no...

"Agnathans and the origin of jawed vertebrates". In Gee, Henry (ed.). Shaking the tree: readings from Nature in the history of life. USA: University of Chicago...

The timeline of human evolution outlines the major events in the evolutionary lineage of the modern human species, Homo sapiens, throughout the history...

Evolution of the Vertebrates, John Wiley & Sons Inc (2nd ed.) Daly, E. (1973): A Lower Permian vertebrate fauna from southern Oklahoma. Journal of Paleontology...