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Your Inner FishChapter 4: “Teeth Everywhere”
Abbe Dembowitz
AP Bio
9/14/10
You might’ve thought that she introduced teeth to the world…
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…but you were sadly mistaken…
The harder the tooth, the better the fossil
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• Rocks and teeth: preservation wise, they’re one in the same
• “Bigger creatures into smaller pieces”
• Eating Habits:
•Carnivores- Sharp blades
•Herbivores- flat, square
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Conodonts?Did you mean: condiments?
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• Fossils found in ancient oceans
• “small shelly organisms with a series of spikes projecting out of them,” (75)
• The lamprey
• The evolved jaw and Trithelodont
•Single root at base of tooth: reptile
•Bumps and ridges- mammal
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“We would never have scales, feathers, and breasts if we didn’t have teeth in the first
place,” (79)
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• “The developmental tools that make teeth have been repurposed to make other important skin structures” (80)
•Teeth: Development b/w layers of tissue in skin
•Other: Development from the interactions b/w layers of skin
•Acquiring of their prey
Take a look at your teeth…
Do they look like this?
..Introduce evolution and….
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http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/species-of-the-day/evolution/index.html
Evolution over time
1. Little fish developed armor
2.Big fish obtained bigger jaws to crack the armor
• 3. Competition arises and animals evolve
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Sources
• Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin, Vintage Books, Random House, New York, 2009 (Pgs. 60-80)
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