Sunday, February 19, 2012

The Human Scrapbook


I wanted to put into pictures the idea birthed here.    When we look in the mirror a myriad of generations and strange ancestral creatures peer back, if only we have the eyes to see it.  It's fun to think this way!  Examples abound and I post it now quite incomplete in hopes that I'll come back to it here and there and continue to amass great examples.

Teeth -  Possibly from small dermal plates

Jaw - You chew with a rib.
 

Hair - Well, hair had to come from somewhere.  Reckon it was modified scales.

Fingernails - More modified scales.
Arms and Legs - It's a different way to look at gymnastics as dancing on fins...
This dude's 73.  




Tail - I sit where my ancestors swam.





Ears - It should be a little weird to think that my ancestors breathed through the equivalent of my Eustachian tubes coming from my ears.


Nose - Fish have noses; they just don't go anywhere.  Amphibian evolution involved those pits deepening and finally opening to the palate.



Pix picked:
http://kingsenglish.info/2011/04/17/escaped-by-the-skin-of-my-teeth/
http://flickrhivemind.net/Tags/bellyscales/Interesting
http://wildwhales.org/2011/02/offshore-killer-whales-a-diet-discovery/
http://www.life123.com/beauty/hairstyles-hair-care/layered-hairstyles/layered-hairstyles-for-long-hair.shtml
http://www.tattooingtattoo.com/cross-tattoos-2/back-tattoos-for-men/
http://enb150-2011f-thb.blogspot.com/2011/11/amphioxus.html?z
http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2009/09/03/4352115-
http://outlier.deviantart.com/art/Australian-Lungfish-3886569
http://onefatfish.wordpress.com/2011/04/08/22/
http://mad.blog.dccomics.com/tag/jay-leno/
http://www.muscleandstrength.com/forum/general-chat/64462-random-bodybuilding-thread-2.ht
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http://www.managemylife.com/mmh/questions/247358-broke-tail-bone-several-years
http://www.chicagoparent.com/magazines/web-only/october-2010/when-it's-time-to-see-an-ent
http://wonderaday.com/blog/The_Underwater_World_Of_Indonesia/
http://www.gigwise.com/news/49325/Michael-Jacksons-Nose-Could-Collapse-From-MRSA-Superbug

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