I was going to say that I have an awesome book about this stuff, and then I saw the author of the post is the author of that book. The book is called "Your Inner Fish" and it is EXCELLENT.
They made a mini series out of it on PBS!
Excuse me, what?! Going to have to check that out ASAP.
aaaaaaaaaand... straight on the pile.
Ditto. ๐
The intro paleontology class I took had this for mandatory reading, definitely one of my favorite non-fiction books.
I started out as a fish, how did it end up like this?
I was only a fish... i was only a fish!! ๐ถ๐ต
I was only a fish, now, watch me take a breath now, here we go
My need for air is killing me, and taking control...
Don't cry, I am just a fish !
We must go back
We must return to the ocean.
Accept the crab form, embrace it and all the limbs we shall gain.
๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฆ
Probably wrong here but if the divergence happened before gills were formed then we both evolved secondary jaws for different purposes
Also those structures seem to take up an awfully big part of the embryo if they're going to just become the hyoid and jaw, is there a more in between shot of the embryo developing?
And now my anxiety disorder uses of all of them to gradually destroy my tooth enamel and temporomandibular joints. Thanks evolution!
Our inner ears used to be part of the more complex jaws of something before us, if I remember correctly. I think thereโs an arrow on the image showing it. Real cool.
Why is the shark embryo adorable and ours is not?
They're a lot more similar irl than you'd expect.
that turtle one is cool
Because we are ugly, mutant fish.
Ugly, ugly giant bags of mostly water.
Baby humans are adorable though. Baby sharks on the other hand...
Doo do doo dododoo.
Ocean Man, take me by the hand,
lead me to the land, that you understand
OCeeean MAAAan.
Please babe! I can change! Here's proof!
This is something that gets examined pretty well in Your Inner Fish, particularly in the chapter named Your Inner Shark. It analyzes how the embryo develops and how the embryos are very similar to start.
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That's why I mention it!
Kind of a shame that our fish ancestors didn't have more gills. I wonder what we're missing. I mean, we're obviously missing something, right?
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