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Neil Shubin on Tiktaalik, Ballistic Tongues and Evolution

The Joy of x

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The Greatest Hits in the History of Life

Paleontologists were trying to understand the origin of mammals. They found some intermediates between reptiles and mammals, but they could do a lot better. How did fish of olive walk on land? And I literally had the bug right there. It just seemed like a giant revolution.

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