<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">On May 31, 2021, at 5:47 PM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Everybody has gills. They are vestiges, like appendixes. They are more prominent at one embryonic stage. Of course they close and we can't see them. </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Not exactly gills but gill arches in human embryos.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Similarly, a rare case of a baby born with a tail tells us that we are descended from apes that had tails. "Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle!" No, you'll be an ape's cousin. bill w</div></div></div></blockquote><br><div>Actually, apes are tailless, but the ape clade evolved from a clade with tails. Just have to push it back another branch or two of the evolutionary tree. ;)</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Dan</div></body></html>