Evolution in the Making - Rare Fish Develops Legs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_9XCefKEb4
It's so cool to see evolution happening right before our eyes, here is an example of a modern day intermediate species fish that has developed legs much like what happened hundreds of millions of years ago when fish adapted to land.
December 7, 2012
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[quote=LowWillpower]@TrueAtheist: We share 50% of our DNA with bananas or something stupid like that.[/quote]
It actually makes sense though, there are a lot of similarities, found this on the web:
"If you think about how both bananas and human live we do share an environment where we both require oxygen, some common nutrients, minerals and water for our survival, repair and growth. We both reproduce sexually & grow from embryos. Thus, there will be some commonality in the biochemical processes that go on within the cell of a human or a banana. Similar biochemical functions require a similar set of genes to code for the functional enzymes. Thus, while we may look very different from bananas on a large scale, we require many similar genes at a cellular level. What is shared are the housekeeping genes that let cells function as cells & replicate. These genes operate basic metabolic pathways. For example we share cellular respiration as the means of generating energy from stored food in organelles called mitochondria. Plants have the same cellular respiratory paths, using oxygen and giving off CO2, as animals do. On the larger scale they develop from a sexually reproduced embryo and grow to maturity. Plants even have body plans with complex structures that grow in genetically ordered patterns controlled by master genes with homology to ours. They use hormones and complex secondary metabolites to interact with their environment."
@TrueAtheist: We share 50% of our DNA with bananas or something stupid like that.
[quote=LowWillpower]Unless you think you're biologically behind everyone else, you're obviously not part monkey, you're human. That being said, I think you'd be foolish to deny the similarities between monkeys and humans.[/quote]
Not to mention we share 98.7% of our DNA with chimpanzees.
[quote=urmama808]I'm atheist, but I don't believe in the evolution of humans. I refuse to believe that I'm part monkey.[/quote]
Unless you think you're biologically behind everyone else, you're obviously not part monkey, you're human. That being said, I think you'd be foolish to deny the similarities between monkeys and humans.
It's gonna disappear from the world soon
Can we see a video of it running?
[quote=SpellCorrectly]Reptiles were fish once. Reptiles can have legs. Okay.[/quote]
And we were reptiles once! Our brains are still very similar to reptilian brains.
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp5oFf3s4Q4]link~[/url]
[quote=CrazeeFun]hmmm.... won't the extra "legs" be of hindrance to the fish when swimming?[/quote]
Well then God really messed up on his creation then!
But in seriousness, there are most likely beneficial attributes that the legs give the fish for it's specific environment that caused it to develop them. Just one off the top of my head would be the ability to escape sea predators by running onto land for shot periods of time if they're being chased.
@urmama808 Evolution does not state we evolved from monkeys.
Poor little critters walking so slowly in the water.
Did they find any predators for it yet? Because they gon die.
[quote=iCraveReactions]I'm too close minded to accept any of this, sorry.[/quote]
That's cool, the brilliant thing about science is that it's true whether or not you accept it.