
The Fish-Tetrapod Transition
In Our Time: Science
How Did Animals Adapt to Terrestrial Environments?
Melvin: One of the things that's fascinating, and this has been touched on by some of the discussions that we've had, is how did animals actually really adapt to those terrestrial environments? He says a lot of features that make tetrapods have been established in an aquatic environment. And then there's this kind of patchy fossil record, and then the animals become properly adapted to the terrestrial environment. Melvin: I think we can maybe talk a bit more about hearing. We didn't talk so much about that. We talked about breathing. But kind of intimately linked to those functions is also how hearing evolved as well too. Next week, what passing bells for these who die as cattle
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