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Neil Shubin on Tiktaalik, Ballistic Tongues and Evolution

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The Evolution of Salamanders

When Wake looked at the evolutionary history of salamanders, he found that that amazingly complicated biological machine evolved at least four times independently. So in this case, you had certain preconditions. And those groups of salamander evolved, tended to evolve this amazing biological machine.

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