Why the long gill?
from Dav09@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz on 08 Feb 13:17
https://mander.xyz/post/24689991

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ignotum@lemmy.world on 08 Feb 13:35 next collapse

Human embryo: alien looking blob
Shark embryo: happy little fella

[deleted] on 08 Feb 19:09 collapse

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riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 08 Feb 14:34 next collapse

That’s really cool! I always wondered how gills evolved out. Now I wanna research this to see how accurate it is.

ruk_n_rul@monyet.cc on 08 Feb 14:55 collapse

Not same but related: There’s a nerve that goes down from the brain to the arch of the aorta, loops around below it, then goes right back up to innervate parts of the face iirc. In fish, it’s a straight path. And it has been a thing since the first land animals emerge, including in giraffes and other long-necked creatures.

deus@lemmy.world on 08 Feb 15:04 next collapse

Huh, TIL. Here’s the Wiki page about it, for anyone curious.

Reddfugee42@lemmy.world on 08 Feb 15:30 collapse

I used this to finally shake a creationist friend. There’s a video on YouTube of finding this nerve in a giraffe cadaver.

BossDj@lemm.ee on 08 Feb 17:04 collapse

Laryngeal nerve / Vagus nerve!

The event was hosted by Richard Dawkins and hadn’t been done before (on record anyway)

The video is very short and everyone should watch (graphic giraffe dissection warning)

HowAbt2morrow@futurology.today on 08 Feb 14:38 next collapse

Were we monkeys or not bruh?

[deleted] on 08 Feb 15:31 next collapse

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TheLorax@sh.itjust.works on 08 Feb 17:33 collapse

All land animals came from fish like creatures, monkeys included. We just came from monkeys more recently.

Lineage from fish (roughly) goes Fish>Amphibian>Reptile>Synapsid>Mammal>Primate>Ape>Human This is missing like a thousand steps for the sake of brevity.

The most common issue we run into is that these are all colloquial terms. There are scientific terms we should use when talking about evolution but we don’t. In place of fish should be “vertibrates”. All vertibrates came from the first creature with a spine, which was a fish like creature. You can likewise do this with everything before Synapsid.

cholesterol@lemmy.world on 08 Feb 14:41 next collapse

Cool, but it’s pretty hard to decipher the illustration

BossDj@lemm.ee on 08 Feb 16:54 collapse

<img alt="" src="https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/634c8a00-9bb9-474a-8805-e36c2039a0c4.jpeg">

BossDj@lemm.ee on 08 Feb 16:58 collapse

Wait, I grabbed the wrong one. I didn’t know why he sent one that was cropped

<img alt="" src="https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/84735f6b-28e2-45f5-8c36-a43b450e3531.jpeg">

mac@lemm.ee on 08 Feb 21:52 collapse

Mvp

SplashJackson@lemmy.ca on 08 Feb 14:42 next collapse

It says regular reminder but this is the first one I got! To whom do I direct my complaints??

anzo@programming.dev on 08 Feb 15:09 next collapse

Creationists maybe

Enkers@sh.itjust.works on 08 Feb 16:03 next collapse

Did you maybe accidentally reply “UNSUBSCRIBE” to your shark-facts text?

EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works on 08 Feb 16:44 next collapse

Regular doesn’t mean often. It could be regular by evolutionary standard, in which case the next reminder should come when we’ve evolved into crabs

SplashJackson@lemmy.ca on 08 Feb 19:31 collapse

I take metamucil daily, I know a little something about being regular

psud@aussie.zone on 08 Feb 22:09 collapse

It’s regular, it just isn’t done very often. I’m probably older than you and this is the second time I have been reminded so

GooberEar@lemmy.wtf on 08 Feb 14:44 next collapse

Nice. Now can anyone find the original image so that I can actually see what’s going on? Very hard to make out anything behind the layers and layers of compression, recompression, screenshots, and compression again.

Slovene@feddit.nl on 08 Feb 15:40 next collapse

What you need is more jpeg.

BossDj@lemm.ee on 08 Feb 16:51 next collapse

Neil Shubin, the OP, authored a book titled Your Inner Fish that includes original art by Kalliopi Monoyios. The image is from his book. His X post, which I will not link, is the original source of the image. At the height of it’s popularity, there was a website yourinnerfish.com that featured the image as well, but it is no more.

RogueBanana@lemmy.zip on 08 Feb 18:58 collapse

Someone else did in another comment chain here lemm.ee/comment/18114594

Slovene@feddit.nl on 08 Feb 15:41 next collapse

Evolution is all about that reuse repurpose recycle.

disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world on 08 Feb 16:35 next collapse

I believe this is referring to ‘An Earful of Jaw’ by Gould, however the diagram takes some serious liberties in its specifics.

www.scirp.org/reference/referencespapers?referenc…

sirico@feddit.uk on 08 Feb 17:50 next collapse

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world on 08 Feb 20:42 next collapse

Regular reminder you’ve lost The Game

TheRealKuni@midwest.social on 08 Feb 21:07 next collapse

You bastard.

DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world on 08 Feb 22:03 collapse

Noooo Kenny!

HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone on 08 Feb 21:18 collapse

I read a post telling me I won the game and didn’t have to play anymore, but now you’re telling me I lost. Smh, you just don’t know what you can believe online these days.

interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml on 08 Feb 21:01 next collapse

Spinal catastrophe fucked up the being alive meta on this planet. Everything is spinal now. So unoriginal

ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world on 10 Feb 12:07 collapse

> sees shark on the top one

Does this mean I’m part-Blåhaj?