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If you had told the ten-year-old me that Animals Without Backbones was a classic biology textbook, I would never have picked it up.

From Nature • Dec. 6, 2016

This is one of the points made in Animals Without Backbones, a lively, copiously illustrated survey of the invertebrate world published recently by Zoologist Ralph Buchsbaum of the University of Chicago.*

From Time Magazine Archive

Animals Without Backbones In general the Invertebrates are animals without a backbone; that is, they do not have an internal supporting skeleton of bone, as does the dog or cat.

From Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts by Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam

Backbones are the chains of bones that run along the back from the head to the tail.

From Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners by Fuertes, Louis Agassiz