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In this formation of the head, skull, and brain, with further development of the higher sense-organs, we have the advance that the Craniota made beyond their skull-less ancestors.

From The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August

During the archilithic epoch the inhabitants of our planet, as has been already stated, consisted of skull-less animals, or aquatic forms.

From Was Man Created? by Mott, Henry A. (Henry Augustus)

I would rather belong to one that commenced at the skull-less vertebrae and started for perfection, than to belong to one, that started from perfection and started for the skull-less vertebrae.

From Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest by Ingersoll, Robert Green

Out of certain cœlomati, the most ancient skull-less vertebrata were directly developed.

From Was Man Created? by Mott, Henry A. (Henry Augustus)

Even in the skull-less vertebrate, the Amphioxus, we find no independent brain, as we have seen.

From The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August