Extinctions: Past and Present Week 2 - Development of jaws

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2017-03-17

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Week-2_Video-2_Development of Jaws.mp4 (61.54 MB)
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Miyashita, Tetsuto
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Department of Biological Sciences
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In this video, Canadian scholar Tetsuto Miyashita explains how the development of backbones set humans apart from other species. He then describes the Ordovician-Silurian extinction event and how it was around this time that vertebrates developed jaws and become the most successful predators.
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mass extinctions
jaws
predation
spinal development
Ordovician-Silurian extinction

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Miyashita, T. 2017. Extinctions: Past and Present Week 2 - Development of jaws. [MOOC]. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/38647

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