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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Gills in humans
Message-ID: <267@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 24-Jan-85 10:58:43 EST
Article-I.D.: psivax.267
Posted: Thu Jan 24 10:58:43 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 28-Jan-85 05:12:24 EST
References: <373@cadovax.UUCP>
Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley friesen)
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In article <373@cadovax.UUCP> keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle) writes:
>other similar evidence of evolutionary history.   The early development
>of the skull and some internal organs progress through stages that are
>somewhat like that of simpler animal forms.  In addition, there is some
>indication that gills and/or gill-like openings develop and occasionally
>persist.
	A brief side point, actually one of the embryonic gill
slits *regularly* persists in adult humans, we call them the ears.
This can be determined by following the developement of an embryo,
watching the fates of the originally *full* set of gill slits of
the early embryo.
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				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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