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Aw: Re: (was) Complaining

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Subject: Aw: Re: (was) Complaining
From: "David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:49:54 +0200 (CEST)
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> Gesendet: Dienstag, 30. April 2013 um 03:04 Uhr
> Von: GSP1954@aol.com
> An: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Betreff: Re: (was) Complaining
>
> No, because lungfish evolved before large terrestrial animals.

Not just lungfish! Lungs are an autapomorphy of Osteichthyes as a whole. 
*Latimeria* has filled them with fat, and the sturgeons + paddlefish and most 
teleosts have turned them into a swimbladder that sometimes even loses its 
connection to the esophagus.

Swimbladders have evolved from lungs, not the other way around.

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