The five fingered pentadactyl hand we share with ancestors going back across over 300 million years of evolution. Here a human hand with the hand of a small predatory permian reptile Captorhinus approximately 280 million years old. Scientists take the enduring feature as evolutionary evidence for shared ancestry. It appears the trait may have arisen only once in a shared ancestor perhaps - an amphibian. Captorhinus was found in North America,Europe,India and Africa | |
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Credit: | Science Photo Library / Stewart, Paul D. |
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