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originally simple and not segmented animals, especially the fact that there 

 is originally one pronephric duct or primitive kidney.&quot; 



Nevertheless there survives a leaning towards the notion of a 

 segmental origin of the Vertebrata. But the repetitions of organs 

 named in support of this notion have, 1 think, no more relation 

 to the genesis of the vertebrate type than the multiplication of 

 vertebra in a snake has relation to the genesis of the vertebral 

 column. 



