The ancient origins of our anatomy @NewScientist
The ancient origins of our anatomy  @NewScientist
Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
There's biochemistry going on in our cells now, says biological anthropologist and broadcaster Alice Roberts, which goes back to the very earliest single celled creatures that lived in the ancient oceans. If we look at our arms and our legs go back to the first amphibians crawling out onto land about 360 million years ago, and a lot of anatomy around the head and neck comes from gill anatomy in our ancient fishy ancestors. We are the product of ancient animals.

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