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[-] ignotum@lemmy.world 73 points 2 years ago

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

[-] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 69 points 2 years ago

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

[-] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 years ago

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 4 points 2 years ago

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

[-] anzo@programming.dev 15 points 2 years ago

Creationists maybe

[-] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 years ago

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

[-] psud@aussie.zone 6 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Ludrol@szmer.info 54 points 2 years ago

Correlation does not imply causation but

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 6 points 2 years ago

But you are, cladistically, a fish.

[-] cholesterol@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago

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

[-] BossDj@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago
[-] BossDj@lemm.ee 22 points 2 years ago

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

[-] mac@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago
[-] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 18 points 2 years ago

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 8 points 2 years ago

What you need is more jpeg.

[-] BossDj@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

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 5 points 2 years ago

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

[-] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 years ago

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

[-] DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

Regular reminder you've lost The Game

[-] HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 6 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

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

https://www.scirp.org/reference/referencespapers?referenceid=1017785

[-] Slovene@feddit.nl 13 points 2 years ago

Evolution is all about that reuse repurpose recycle.

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

> sees shark on the top one

Does this mean I'm part-Blåhaj?

[-] sirico@feddit.uk 5 points 2 years ago

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

[-] riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago

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 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[-] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

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 7 points 2 years ago

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)

[-] deus@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

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

[-] HowAbt2morrow@futurology.today 4 points 2 years ago

Were we monkeys or not bruh?

[-] TheLorax@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 years ago

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.

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