January 21, 2008
Human gene traced back 500 million years
As most of us probably already knew, it seems that researchers at the Chicago university has finally been able to trace the human genome right back to its very origins and it’s in a pond!
Despite the many versions that we have heard for the evolution of man, there has always been a missing link that somehow always eluded scientists and researchers from finding how we came about in the big world.
But now it would seem that the missing link is not some race from space or any other intervention, but rather what took place in ponds around 350 million years ago and the missing link is thought to be a fish named the Tiktaalik, one of which was found in the artic four years ago. This fish had the early signs of human shoulder, elbow, forearm and wrist.
These findings are due to be published in a book “Your Inner Fish” which covers the 3.5 billion year history of the human body.
Source [Times]
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