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You Have Fingers Because a Prehistoric Fish Needed to Poop

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The next time you use your fingers to, say, text someone or flip someone off, be sure to thank a 380-million-year-old fish butthole for printing you these spectacularly versatile digits. Scientists have traced the genetic origins of human fingers to…well, not fish fins, exactly, but to the ancient cloacas of prehistoric fish. I’m sorry to […] The post You Have Fingers Because a Prehistoric Fish Needed to Poop appeared first on VICE.

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