Explain how zoologists think the vertebrate jaw evolved?

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The jaw evolved from repeating pharyngeal segments first present in chordate ancestors as respiratory structures, later giving rise to cartilaginous branchial baskets of jawless fishes and the bones and cartilages of the facial, upper and lower jaw, jaw support, and posterior gill or throat structures.

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