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University of Bristol: Extinct Reptile Discovery Reveals Earliest Origins of Human Teeth, Study Finds
December 23, 2021
BRISTOL, England, Dec. 23 (TNSJou) -- The University of Bristol issued the following news release on Dec. 21, 2021:

A new extinct reptile species has shed light on how our earliest ancestors became top predators by modifying their teeth in response to environmental instability around 300 million years ago.

In findings published in Royal Society Open Science, researchers at the University of Bristol have discovered that this evolutionary adaptation laid the foundations f . . .

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