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Emily C. Watt

Natural History MuseumORCID 0000-0003-0214-7105Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:development & morphogenesis· 2 Organism:multiple species· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2

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Evolutionary BiologybioRxivPreprintMar 17, 2025

Rapid canalisation of mandible structure in Tetrapoda

Emily C. Watt, Ryan N. Felice, Anjali Goswami

This study reconstructs the evolutionary changes in tetrapod mandible structure across 3047 species, finding rapid canalization of jaw morphology at key clades and a decrease in compositional disparity over time.

DOI 10.1101/2025.03.17.643812

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Evolutionary BiologybioRxivPreprintOct 5, 2023

Neither Williston nor Dollo: mandibular complexity from stem tetrapods to modern amphibians

Emily C. Watt, Ryan N. Felice, Anjali Goswami

This study examines evolutionary trends in tetrapod mandibles, finding that neither Willistons law of simplification nor Dollos law of irreversibility holds, as jaw complexity and component gains/losses are not consistently decreasing or irreversible.

DOI 10.1101/2023.10.05.561006

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