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A jaw-dropping fossil fish

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The ancestors of modern jawed vertebrates are commonly portrayed as fishes with a shark-like appearance. But a stunning fossil discovery from China puts a new face on the original jawed vertebrate. See Article p.188

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Figure 1: Evolution of the jawed-vertebrate face.

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  1. *This article and the paper under discussion were published online on 25 September 2013.

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  1. Matt Friedman is in the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3AN, UK.,

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  2. Martin D. Brazeau is in the Department of Geology, and in the Department of Life Sciences, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, 2333 CR Leiden, the Netherlands, Imperial College London, UK.,

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Friedman, M., Brazeau, M. A jaw-dropping fossil fish. Nature 502, 175–177 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12690

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