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[–] ignotum 71 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

Creationists maybe

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks 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

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Correlation does not imply causation but

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

But you are, cladistically, a fish.

[–] cholesterol 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

What you need is more jpeg.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] DragonsInARoom 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Regular reminder you've lost The Game

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] DragonsInARoom 2 points 2 weeks ago

Noooo Kenny!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] disguy_ovahea 13 points 2 weeks 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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

Evolution is all about that reuse repurpose recycle.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

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 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks 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 7 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] ZILtoid1991 5 points 1 week ago

> sees shark on the top one

Does this mean I'm part-Blåhaj?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Were we monkeys or not bruh?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks 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.