Assertion: bone | /r/CapableOf | offer such mechanical advantage
Facets:
value: for in a supporting aquatic environment
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: Although a rigid endoskeleton performs obvious body supportive functions for land-living vertebrates, it is doubtful that bone offered any such mechanical advantage to the teleost (bony fish) in which it first appeared, for in a supporting aquatic environment great structural rigidity is not essential for maintaining body configuration.