SocraticGadfly: Clams may not have legs but fish got fingers

September 22, 2008

Clams may not have legs but fish got fingers

At least some of them did 380 million years ago, so Johnny Hart needs to update B.C.’s slogan.

The finding puts a major twist in previous evolutionary understanding of limb evolution, which believed it was not until tetrapods came on land 10-20 million years later that hand and digit evolution began.

Creationists and IDers are likely to seize on this as allegedly representing another example of how evolution is wrong. Rather, this shows how evolutionary biology study correctly works.

Bottom line: Congressional Dems are silent as lambs to the slaughter about new regulatory statutes, and new regulatory mandates.

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