Ocean Man, take me by the hand lead me to the land,
That you understand
Submitted 1 year ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Ocean Man, take me by the hand lead me to the land,
That you understand
Why is the shark embryo adorable and ours is not?
Because we are ugly, mutant fish.
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.
Check out the username of the original post
Our inner ears used to be part of the more complex jaws of something before us, if I remember correctly. I think there’s an arrow on the image showing it. Real cool.
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?
Mafia be like: “back to the ocean you go”
HostilePasta@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
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.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 year ago
aaaaaaaaaand… straight on the pile.