Evidence for the prepattern/cooption model of vertebrate jaw evolution.
The appearance of jaws was a turning point in vertebrate evolution because it allowed primitive vertebrates to capture and process large, motile prey. The vertebrate jaw consists of separate dorsal and ventral skeletal elements connected by a joint. How this structure evolved from the unjointed gill...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2010
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