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tikataalik
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A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
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This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
Does all land vertebrates come from the same ancestor? I found surprising that only one species were trying to colonize the land.
I think this was specific to tetrapods, though I don't know if there are any land vertebrates that aren't descendants of tetrapods.
https://evolution.berkeley.edu/what-are-evograms/the-origin-of-tetrapods/