I read a post telling me I won the game and didn't have to play anymore, but now you're telling me I lost. Smh, you just don't know what you can believe online these days.
Nice. Now can anyone find the original image so that I can actually see what's going on? Very hard to make out anything behind the layers and layers of compression, recompression, screenshots, and compression again.
Neil Shubin, the OP, authored a book titled Your Inner Fish that includes original art by Kalliopi Monoyios. The image is from his book. His X post, which I will not link, is the original source of the image. At the height of it's popularity, there was a website yourinnerfish.com that featured the image as well, but it is no more.
Not same but related: There's a nerve that goes down from the brain to the arch of the aorta, loops around below it, then goes right back up to innervate parts of the face iirc. In fish, it's a straight path. And it has been a thing since the first land animals emerge, including in giraffes and other long-necked creatures.
All land animals came from fish like creatures, monkeys included. We just came from monkeys more recently.
Lineage from fish (roughly) goes Fish>Amphibian>Reptile>Synapsid>Mammal>Primate>Ape>Human
This is missing like a thousand steps for the sake of brevity.
The most common issue we run into is that these are all colloquial terms. There are scientific terms we should use when talking about evolution but we don't. In place of fish should be "vertibrates". All vertibrates came from the first creature with a spine, which was a fish like creature. You can likewise do this with everything before Synapsid.