Diminution of pharyngeal segmentation and the evolution of the amniotes.
Subathra PoopalasundaramJo RichardsonAnnabelle ScottAlex DonovanKaren LiuAnthony GrahamPublished in: Zoological letters (2019)
In amniotes, there has been a loss of the ancestral "branchial" developmental programme that is a general feature of gnathostomes; myogenesis and skeletogenesis This is likely to have facilitated the emergence of the larynx as a new structure not constrained by the segmental organisation of the posterior pharyngeal region.