invertebrate

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• Most animals, even invertebrates like shrimp and lobsters, show signs of feeling pain, which would suggest they have some degree of subjective consciousness.

• More than 80 years ago, the great Chicago chemist Harold Urey discovered the temperature of skeletons in many kinds of invertebrates, including the nautilus, can be determined with mass spectrometry.

• The first step was determining if the robot would be modeled after a vertebrate—an animal with a backbone—or an invertebrate, like a squid or an octopus.

• The field was still reluctant to admit that true sleep existed in invertebrates, and that human sleep could be usefully studied using flies, Shaw says.

• They have the largest brain to body mass ratio of known invertebrates, and have incredibly complex nervous systems.

• The invertebrate fauna of the British deposits is, as might be expected, very poor until the beds of the Rhtic series are reached.

• The invertebrate fauna shows an approximation to that of the present day.

• This is particularly observable between the vertebrate and invertebrate animals.

• Valentine began, startled out of his invertebrate placidity by a sensationalist more original than himself.

• The eldest wrote from his dictation part of the sixth and seventh volumes of his work on the invertebrate animals.