It is the aim of many paleontologists, comparative anatomists, embryologists, and molecular biologists to uncover the genealogical relationships of these animals their family tree and to test this tree with evidence that bears on the question of how these distinct organismal designs.
The game-protection organizations and the tackle-makers have an invincible lobby, and comparative anatomists are politically unorganized".
Towards the end of the nineteenth century, Madame Blavatsky, the founder of theosophy, identified the "third eye" discovered by the comparative anatomists of her time with the "eye of Shiva" of "the Hindu mystics" and concluded that the pineal body of modern man is an atrophied vestige of this "organ of spiritual vision" (Blavatsky 1888, vol. 2, pp. 289 306).
Lots of stuff that these comparative anatomists are all crazy about.
In this period of his career following the Second World War he also worked on the anatomy of the paranasal sinuses, and played a key role in rebuilding and establishing collections of animal dissections used by comparative anatomists.
Paleontologists and comparative anatomists, as a result, have focused on axial pneumaticity, and opinion has split as to the meaning of observed patterns.
By creating a flexible, comprehensive, and intuitive system, we hope not only to simplify the work of comparative anatomists, but also to systematize the naming process.
The reptilian ventral pallium also gives rise to the dorsal ventricular ridge, a structure that dominates the bird pallium and contributes to the complex cognitive abilities of birds, but whose mammalian equivalent is still the subject of debate among comparative anatomists.
He denied that the skull was composed of vertebrae, as his rival, the comparative anatomist Richard Owen, believed.
Her lab is full of whale flippers and frozen camel heads and the other things that a comparative anatomist keeps around the workplace.
