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The first line of this essay talks about fish not existing either. For anyone interested in this subject (albeit from a different angle) I highly recommend the
by narush 5y ago
The first line of this essay talks about fish not existing either. For anyone interested in this subject (albeit from a different angle) I highly recommend the book “Why Fish Don’t Exist” [1].
It’s only really a little bit about fish, the founding president of Stanford (who was an obsessive ichthyologist), and his eugenics agenda. It’s also part memoir. I found it very touching and quite good 4 the ole empathy.
[1] https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Why-Fish-Dont-Exist/Lulu-Miller/9781501160349 https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Why-Fish-Dont-Exist/L...
- lupire 5y agoAlso, "There's No Such Thing As a Fish", the QI Elves trivia podcast. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Such_Thing_as_a_Fish https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Such_Thing_as_a_Fish
- goldenkey 5y agoQI is a gem of a television show. American has no such caliber of broadcast media.
- msrenee 5y agoI prefer to look at it from the other angle, which is that all vertebrates are fish. I had a professor who was mainly an ichthyologist, but overall a really old school natural historian. He always said that we were all just highly derived fishes. If you spend any time at all looking at evolutionary biology, it really does hold true. Bones in our heads can be traced back to the gill arches in bony fish. The pelvic girdle and shoulder bones developed from the pelvic girdle and pectoral bones of early fish. We're really just fish adapted to land.