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Podcast: The Common Descent Podcast
Episode: Episode 88 - Evolution of Teeth
Description: Start exploring vertebrate evolution and paleontology, and it won’t be long before you end up on the subject of teeth. These handy structures are enormously significant not only for the history of life, but in the study of it as well. In this episode we discuss what makes a tooth a tooth, how teeth came to be, and we muse at length over the incredible diversity and scientific usefulness of teeth.
In the news: dinosaur walking, gharial males and females, hurricane-induced evolution, and humans in Australia.
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