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Two evolutionary innovations in vertebrate resulted in their eventual domination among the large animals.
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Vertebrata is the sub phylum of phylum Chordata. Vertebrate animals have bony or cartilaginous column vertebral column and they have a head at the anterior end of the organism containing a skull, brain and sensory organs.
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