The Most Challenging Evolution Puzzle Ever Solved 🧩

Mathias Ball is one of my favorite illustrators and he designed my shirt: https://store.dftba.com/products/we-never-left-the-water-shirt

It's really hard for me not to title this video "You are just a weird hairy fish" and, who knows...maybe that's the right choice. We shall see...

Here's more of Matthias's work!
https://www.mathiasball.com/

Fact Check by Deboki Chakravarti
Edited by Digital Gator: https://www.youtube.com/@DigitalGator


SOURCES:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-a-380-million-year-old-fish-gave-us-fingers/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3610043/
https://www.nature.com/articles/eye1999114
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982299801808
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2220404120
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0888754320320061?via%3Dihub#s0070
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9323002/#s3
https://www.tmd.ac.jp/english/press-release/20210515-1/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41421-022-00393-3
https://comparativephys.ca/bernierlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2014/11/1433.pdf
https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/FA212

How Evolution Cracked Land