Wirt Atmar <[log in to unmask]> expounds:

> In the spirit of answering with more information than anyone would want to
> know, the answer is yes. Catfish are the prototypes of humanity, not apes
as
> most people assume, essentially the DOS version of the Windows 2000 design

<snip>

> As an aside, you also still retain a few 500 million year old pre-teleost
> attributes, even as advanced a design as you are. Before you were born,
the

Sort of like how DOS programs will still run under Windows....or not.

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> ("gnathostomata" means "jawed stomachs" in English, which pretty well
> describes most of the people who eat here at AICS). Gnathostomates are an

Or visitors who are indulged with an enchilada dinner...


> two sets of your bones weren't. Your clavicles (collarbones) and the
various
> bones of the calvarium (the braincase of your skull) were formed
originally
> only as cartilagenous assemblies in order to make you a more "foldable",
and
> thus allow for your much easier birth. Only as you grew older did these
> "bones" mineralize and harden, employing a slightly different pathway than
> the remainder of your other bones did.

One of the reasons why clavicles break so easily.


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