Introducing Tiktaalik, Your Inner Fish - Part 1

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Neil Shubin discusses his book, Your Inner Fish, at a recent bookstore appearance. Shubin and his team discovered the fossil Tiktaalik, which is the "missing link" between fish and land-based tetrapods. This first video covers the process for selecting the seach site, and some of the problems they encountered. In Part 2 Shubin discusses the find itself, and what it means for our understanding of human history. If you only have time to watch one of the videos, the 2nd one is more to the point and interesting. Enjoy, and BUY THIS BOOK! I haven't read it yet, but I've heard it's really really good.

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[gmh1206]

@gmh1206 You should carefully read the article published on sciencedaily and take note of the Evolutionary circular reasoning...

Their discoveries have suggested that the first tetrapods evolved relatively rapidly from lobe-finned fishes, through a short-lived intermediate stage..

This means not that not only tetrapods but also elpistostegids originated much earlier than we thought, because the position of elpistostegids as evolutionary precursors of tetrapods is not in doubt

[gmh1206]

@SeanOBriain Well I see no reference in the nature article to the tracks being laid down by Ichthyostega. This is pure speculation, whether the tracks were of a reptile or amphibian. Nevertheless, the contention still stands. A large, 3 meter in length, well developed tetrapod produced these tracks 18 million years earlier than Tiktaalik, therefore this cannot be the ancestor of the tetrapods.

[SeanOBriain]

@gmh1206 Actually they don't. They stated that they resemble Ichthyostega, which is not a reptile - it is an early amphibian. Nor does it conflict with Tiktaalik as being a transitional species. It potentially puts back the transition of fish to tetrapods a few million years - no more no less.

Unlike your crazy Bible stories - Science refines it's theories as more evidence becomes available. Creationists stick to the same old nonsense which has been rebutted time and time again.

[gmh1206]

@SeanOBriain I'm glad we agree then. "Real" scientists using all of their evolutionary presuppositions have dated the fossil tracks described in the article as being 18 million years older than Tiktaalik. Furthermore, these tracks were laid down by a large lizard like creature.

[SeanOBriain]

@gmh1206 I'd rather educate myself from a real scientist, thanks.

[gmh1206]

Creation (dot) com / tiktaalik-finished...

for those of you who are brave...

[ClamCrunchy]

Jesus.... n stuff.

[SkelanimalKitteh]

@CostantinoLenzi Your just pissed science has disproved creationism. Grow up and realize your god is as real as Santa.

[CostantinoLenzi]

bull shit

[xxxxkimoxxxx]

@mrbunnylamakins Google hominid transitional fossils then shut up...