Teeth appeared earlier than expected, 410 mya
Jaws were also more complex than expected. From ScienceDaily: A tiny tooth plate of the 410 million year old fossil fish Romundina stellina indicates that teeth evolved earlier in the tree of life than recently thought. That is a while back. The tooth plate of just some millimeters in size had been in a box for more than 40 years, without being recognized after the discovery and preparation of the fish it belonged to. Because no one expected to find anything like that. And few had any special desire to Everyone knows evolution is a long, slow process of natural selection acting on random mutation (Darwinian evolution). Every third rate biology teacher teaches that, and so do first raters, because Read More ›