Humans may still have gills

[Dover]

Humans may still have gills

Scientists believe humans still have gills which were internalised, rather than lost, after our ancestors crawled out of the ocean.

A team from King's College London believe human parathyroid glands, which regulate the level of calcium in the blood, probably evolved from gills.

The gills of ancestral marine creatures were also used to regulate calcium levels, says a report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

This research suggests that in fact, our gills are still sitting in our throats - disguised as our parathyroid glands...cont'd

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1202377.html?menu=news.scienceanddiscovery

[Mojambo]

1. That's got to be driving the anti-evolution folks crazy. n/t

[Patiod]

2. Uh, hello - we were created fully formed

Haven't you gotten the word?

And the world is only 6000 years old.

Get with the program.

;-)

[Liberal Veteran]

3. That can't be true! Humans were created just as they are.....

...and didn't evolve from no durn fisheses!

[intheflow]

4. First we're apes, now we're fish!

Obviously, evolutionary scientists are flip-floppers! :silly:

[tk2kewl]

5. LMFAO!

that's good! :7

[Xipe Totec]

6. Good! The Ocean is Still Blue

Except for the Red Sea. I think we'll survive, just have to practice our underwater breathing.

:evilgrin:

[htuttle]

7. Ontology recapitulates philology

We all know this, right?

Fascinating about the parathyroid glands. Anyone figure out what an appendix is for/from yet?

[TalkingDog]

10. Ummm...thats Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny

Or the development of the the structure of the embryos of a given species recreates the evolutionary history of a species or phylum.

Your header basically said: the description of the concepts recreates the humanistic study of language and literature

[htuttle]

11. Yes, of course

:eyes: (I'm an idiot...)


Although I'm going to contemplate, "the description of the concepts recreates the humanistic study of language and literature". Hmm...never thought about that...

[On the Road]

16. I Liked Your Version Better

I'm going to use it next time I get into an argument with a philologist.

[Bonobo]

14. I thought this was disproved years ago.

[TalkingDog]

15. Which one? n/t

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[LastDemocratInSC]

18. Philology is stamp collecting ... I think

You know, with another 6 to 8 glasses of wine I could probably find a link between philololology and gills ... I think.

Actually, I think the hypothesis these guys have created is fascinating. This is a fascinating time to be alive and learning.

[Quetzal]

8. I've always wanted to live underwater

as opposed to being on 'terra firma' :)

[intheflow]

9. You know, this makes sense

when you consider that babies "breathe" in amniotic fluid while in utero. Don't know if that has anything to do with the parathyroid glands, but it would be interesting to find out.

[SnowGoose]

12. fetuses don't get oxygen from their respiratory systems,

They get it from the mother's respiratory system via blood circulation (maternal lung - maternal blood - placenta - umbilicus).

[Ediacara]

13. Uh.... we always had gills

What do you think our shoulders are? Or our ears and eustacian tubes?

[AngryAmish]

17. "Man From Atlantis" anyone