Human embryogenesis would like to disagree with you.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13278255

tgv 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

Evolving from doesn't make you the thing, does it? It makes you something else. Fish in particular, since that's a group of animals named by us, based on physical appearance.

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dragonwriter 6 days ago | parent [-]

> Evolving from doesn't make you the thing, does it?

Depends on the system of taxonomy; in phylogenetic taxonomy, that’t exactly how membership in a clade is determined.

	▲	mcv 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		So politicians are reptiles after all?

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IAmBroom 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Ontogeny does NOT recapitulate phylogeny.

Exactly.

But I believe in weak Haeckel's principle.