Alie Ward
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Although teeth evolved from structures in the dermal exoskeleton of jawless vertebrates known as odontodes, their origin and function remains obscure."
And this paper is groundbreaking, and that's not a fossil pun, but it's already racking up citations despite being like just a few months old.
So we'll get into why later in the episode when we know what more words mean.
And also, it's a juicy story and had some fascinating reactions.
And fragmentary, that's the whole tooth?
Or that is just, it burst into shards?
I should show you.
Do you want to see?
Yeah.
Oh, teeny, teeny.
rock.
You know what they look like?
They look like nerds.
It's like the smallest nerds.
And they're in a vial.
You're pouring them out.
Those are teeth?
Those look like gravel.
Those look like decomposed granite in a fancy garden.
They're teeny tiny.