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B.-A.S.B. and J.A.M. were supported by Yale University and the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. A.R.M. and E.L.B. were supported by Brown University, by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship awarded to A.R.M. and by NSF grants 1661129 and 1655756 to E.L.B. E.A.H. was supported by the American Museum of Natural History and an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. C.M. and A.W.C. were supported by the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology.
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Bhullar, BA.S., Manafzadeh, A.R., Miyamae, J.A. et al. Reply to: Jaw roll and jaw yaw in early mammals. Nature 582, E9–E12 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2364-z
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