Pisces and the Tooth Race

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=== Quotes of the Day ===

:"The rabbit runs faster than the fox, 
::because the rabbit is running for his life 
:while the fox is only running for his dinner." 
:::-- Aesop quoted in Dawkins, Richard. The Selfish Gene:30th Anniversary Edition. Oxford University Press, 2006, p. 250.

: Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, 
::to keep in the same place 
:::--Red Queen in Carroll, Lewis [1871]. "2: The Garden of Live Flowers". Through the Looking-Glass

:Cladistically, of course, tetrapods and us are in fact fish, 
::but I will use quotes to denote 
::informal use of a familiar, although paraphyletic, group.
:Early tetrapods were, like early land plants, 
::tied to the water by their reproductive mechanisms. 
:Like most "fish" they had external fertilization in water 
::and laid eggs in water which developed into aquatic larvae. 
:The larvae metamorphosed into land-living adults. 
:Living "amphibians" have inherited this primitive mode of reproduction.
:::-- Professor Paul Eric Olsen, Dinosaurs And The History Of Life, Lecture 9, The end of the Permian and the Major Groups of Tetrapods, Columbia University 

=== Contemplation for the Day ===
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