Suture neontology and paleontology: the bases for where, when and how boundaries between bones have been established and have evolved.

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Much of what has been written about sutures has either focused on the genetic and biologic etiologies of specific sutural development, maintenance, and pathogenesis or on the utilization of sutures as character states in vertebrate cladistic analyses. There is a much more modest literature explicitly concerned with the evolution of sutures. We provide a small bridge of these literatures by presenting a discussion...

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