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.
back to the ocean we go
Submitted 2 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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HostilePasta@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 months ago
aaaaaaaaaand… straight on the pile.
Soup@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 months ago
Ocean Man, take me by the hand lead me to the land,
That you understand
Deceptichum@quokk.au 2 months ago
Why is the shark embryo adorable and ours is not?
Xanthrax@lemmy.world 2 months ago
NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org 2 months ago
Because we are ugly, mutant fish.
uberfreeza@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Check out the username of the original post
ma1w4re@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Mafia be like: “back to the ocean you go”
passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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?