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Mathias Ball is one of my favorite illustrators and he designed my shirt: https://store.dftba.com/products/we-never-left-the-water-shirt

It's really hard for me not to title this video "You are just a weird hairy fish" and, who knows...maybe that's the right choice. We shall see...

Here's more of Matthias's work!
https://www.mathiasball.com/

Fact Check by Deboki Chakravarti
Edited by Digital Gator: https://www.youtube.com/@DigitalGator


SOURCES:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-a-380-million-year-old-fish-gave-us-fingers/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3610043/
https://www.nature.com/articles/eye1999114
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982299801808
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2220404120
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How Evolution Cracked Land
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