The Evolution of Chewing (VIDEO)

Brown University

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Brown University evolutionary biologist Nicolai Konow led a team that has teased out the difference in chewing between fish and mammals. Now, the question is where, and with which species, that difference arose.

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Nicolai Konow, Brown University and Anthony Herrel, Museum National D'Histoire Naturelle

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