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Our work is really the first demonstration of the embryonic origin of these organs, and it gives us some insight into how they arose during evolution.
- Martin Cohn

It was thought collagen was a relatively recent invention in vertebrate evolution that unites us with reptiles, amphibians, sharks and bony fishes, while the lamprey skeleton was based on quite different proteins. Knowing that lampreys also use collagen to build their skeletons makes sense. Lampreys and jawed vertebrates inherited the same genetic program for skeletal development from our common ancestor.
- Martin Cohn
