Talk:Articulata (Brachiopoda)

Re: "The name was first applied to this major group of brachiopods by Huxley in 1869..."

Darwin, in 1859, used the term in what, for all I know, may be this same sense. Regarding the eye:

"In the Articulata we can commence a series with an optic nerve merely coated with pigment, and without any other mechanism; and from this low stage, numerous gradations of structure, branching off in two fundamentally different lines, can be shown to exist, until we reach a moderately high stage of perfection."

Darwin, The Origin of Species, 1st ed., 1859. Chapter 6, "Difficulties on Theory", section "Origins of extreme perfection and complication", 3rd paragraph.

JHDale (talk) 20:14, 10 October 2010 (UTC)