"We were staring at the origin of a piece of our own bodies inside this 375-million-year-old fish. We had a fish with a wrist."

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Source : Neil Shubin (2008). “Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body”, p.38, Vintage

Neil Shubin

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