Evolutionary Significance of the Thoracic Duct

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Nov 1968 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Nature, volume 220, pages 910-911 (issn: 0028-0836, eissn: 1476-4687,

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Authors: J G, Hall;

doi: 10.1038/220910a0

pmid: 4972577

Evolutionary Significance of the Thoracic Duct

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Abstract

Dumont and Rifkind recently proposed that the New World monkey, the sloth and the bat have evolved only a rudimentary form of thoracic duct because these animals hang upside down from trees1. Whether or not this proposition is correct, it seems to me that the authors have reached their interesting conclusion by a devious and sometimes misleading argument.

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Fishes, Reptiles, Blood Pressure, Haplorhini, Xenarthra, Biological Evolution, Thoracic Duct, Veins, Amphibians, Lymphatic System, Chiroptera, Animals, Extracellular Space, Physiology, Comparative

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