Saturday, February 23, 2008

Interview with Neil Shubin | CBC Radio

Link (Audio)
As a species, humans owe fish a lot more respect than we give them. After all, just about every characteristic we consider as human really was invented by the fish. Take a look at your hand, for instance. It's really just a modified fin, right down to the bone structure. The jaw we use to talk? That's a slightly changed set of gills. Even the fact we have two arms and two legs is thanks to our fishy origins. More
(via Pharyngula)

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