11. They are now classified as a paraphyletic phylum from which the higher animals have evolved. 12. Follistatin is an autocrine glycoprotein that is expressed in nearly all tissues of higher animals . 13. Reduced sulfur compounds are oxidized by most organisms, including higher animals and higher plants. 14. But using it to shape behavior in higher animals would cause ethical problems, said Chapin. 15. They are also released from the ovum of higher animals after the ovum has been fertilized. 16. She is notable for shedding light on the development of higher animal nervous and immune systems. 17. This appearance in amphibians could represent a precursor to this function in higher animals , they said. 18. There was no way to have this high a rate of organic burial once higher animals evolved. 19. He believed that people underestimated the influence of a number of external conditions on such higher animals . 20. This type of thing I think of as associated with higher animals , like birds and mammals.