Wednesday, November 30, 2005

How we got our legs

This article from Scientific American is about how developmental evolutionary biologists have come to their current understanding about the way in which our tetrapod ancenstors moved out of the sea and began walking on land.

What's more, it demonstrates the process by which scientists construct an understanding of our world through interpretation of available evidence, and how they revise it accordingly in the face of new discoveries.

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