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"Phillippo, Dr."

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 Phillippo, Dr. (detail)
   
1862
On the bifurcated heart of the manatee.
Edinburgh Med. Jour. 7(7): 684-685. Jan. 1862 (read Dec. 4, 1861, by James Young).
–Describes the chambers, valves, and vessels of the heart, and theorizes that the adaptations seen are for the purpose of reducing pressure on the pulmonary circulatory system while the pulmonary circulation is impeded during a dive.
Daryl P. Domning, Research Associate, Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560, and Laboratory of Evolutionary Biology, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, Howard University, Washington, D.C. 20059.
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