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"Our results will have a big impact on our picture of the developmental history of one of the oldest phyla on Earth," says Wörheide.
From Science Daily • Apr. 11, 2024
Flatworms and roundworms, two phyla with more than 20,000 species each, have no emoji at all.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2023
"There are 34 different animal phyla living on this planet and in over roughly 600 million years they have all come up with different solutions to the same fundamental biological problems," Lowe said.
From Science Daily • Nov. 1, 2023
Currently, most biologists divide the animal kingdom into 35 to 40 phyla.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
The determination to link together all the main phyla of the animal kingdom and to force them all into a single mould was common to evolutionary and pre-evolutionary transcendentalists alike.
From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
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