Chordates
Abstract
Biologists, in a taxonomic sense, are human and, more broadly, they are members of the phylum Chordata. As humans have a strong tendency to worry about the place they occupy in Nature, biologists have devoted considerable effort toward understanding the evolution of the chordates (Figure 1). To put chordates into context, it is convenient to begin by focusing on the branch of the animal kingdom to which they belong -namely the deuterostomes.
- Publication:
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Current Biology
- Pub Date:
- 2005
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.cub.2005.11.008
- Bibcode:
- 2005CBio...15.R911H