Is the fish really our ancestor?
The author, Neil Shubin, is Professor of Anatomy at the University of Chicago and Provost of its field museum. He has wide expertise in both fossils and biology. His co-worker, Edward Daeschler, is Curator of Vertebrate Biology in the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. The book is well researched with much information about earlier work and a comprehensive reference section. It is highly readable with the author’s modest and friendly personality coming through strongly. It incidentally includes a most useful guide to fossil hunting. It is illustrated mainly by Kalliopi Monoyios’ graphic and appealing black-and-white drawings.
This article reminds me of what my grandaddy use to say to me .you can not take a thousand monkeys and make a man but one man or two in this case can make a monkey of them selves.
-RolandSo, your grandaddy was ignorant as well? I realize on this site, that is a badge of honor, but I keep hoping.
-JeffSeeing that this is a Chicago based University, I wonder how many tax payer dollars paid for this research?
-Sam SpradlingIs this real? I must be too literal since I find this hard to believe. I didn't see this in the Bible. We were made in GOD's image and that image has never been shown as a fish of any kind. If we are close to any animal I'd go with the monkey. But GOD isn't a monkey either so you can say that all the animals and humans share a lot of different things but that doesn't mean we came directly from any one of them.
-JudyNo, you did not see this in the bible. Nor did you see heart transplants, spaceships and mitochondrial DNA, even though these are very real as well. But, you did see your god demanding animal sacrifices because the odor was pleasing to him.
-JeffThis is a new ancestor! They have tried to link the human race to monkeys for years but haven't convinced me yet and I would much rather be related to "Nemo" anyway….Sorry about the sarcastic humor but these researchers are ridiculously funny!!!
-Rose IngramI've come to the conclusion that although me and my family did not evolve from apes or fish or rocks there seem to be some people I know that may have.
-KenThis is asolutely isnane. Humans did not evolve from any species. Many scietntists believe they have all knowledge and expertiese when it comes to evolution. Perhaps some species, but NOT HUMANS! To state that fish are our ancestors is the most ridiculous logic for any human to believe. There is no proof to his theory.
-Don EvettNo evolution was involved in any part of creation. God started from scratch and made a fish, a bird, and man. We are not related in any way with any other life forms except all creation was created by the same creator.
-RoyEvolution the fraudualnt theory backed by no real science and very little truth is no more the Origen of the Species than i am a Radical Muslim, since i am a Jewish born but Jesus Christ blood on the Cross, and His resurection a Christian me being a radical Islamist is of course an Impossability. The origen alone lie says in contridiction to the Laws of Science that all this came from Nothing when only something can create anything this is evan more radical than An Eternal God Creating everything. Athiest are affraid for students to be able to thank for themselves sio they have lied repeatedly for over 151 years about Evolution being Fact rather than fiction, and assumptions based on faulty proceedures. the world has been fooled repeatedly by these frauds so If you read the Article remmember it comes from Brainwashed People.
-John R. Bloxson JrI would like to exchange links with your site zionica.com
Is this possible?
-Asp1dYou are some ignorant people. Mitochondrial DNA speaks for itself. You can see evolution happening right in front of your eyes. You can literally see thousands of species of animals that have intermediary traits. You can clearly look at the fossil record and see how the further you go back in time the less and less species of animals there is, but more importantly you can see the evolution of life in the fossil data. You can see common forms become more numerous and more advanced, you can so robustness increasing and decreasing with linearity, there is no confusion, no sabotage, no clandestine conspiracy, you can see this with your own eyes.
-AFThey are not looking.
-JeffYou know what's really amazing? There is ample evidence that not only are we related to fish, but we're also related to every living thing on earth. Yup, that means that not only are we related to the monkey in the zoo but we're also related to the banana he's eating. That the ignorant bible-bots on this site don't accept science is irrelevant – the truth is that all life evolved from the same source and thus is related.
-joe agnost