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Development with a bite

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Predictions drawn from experiments on the growth of molar teeth in mice, and applied to a wide range of related species, provide a remarkable connection between developmental and evolutionary biology.

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Figure 1: Dentition of a placental mammal.
Figure 2: Predictions of Kavanagh and colleagues' developmental model.
Figure 3: Molar proportions in developmental 'morphospace'.

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  1. P. David Polly is in the Departments of Geological Science, and Biology and Anthropology, Indiana University, 1001 East 10th Street, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA. pdpolly@indiana.edu,

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Polly, P. Development with a bite. Nature 449, 413–414 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/449413a

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