So, then, you think that a human is, in some sense, a limbless cold-blooded vertebrate animal with gills and fins and living wholly in water? In what sense do you think a human is a limbless cold-blooded vertebrate animal with gills and fins and living wholly in water?
Never heard of the book "You're inner fish"?
Heard of it. Is it a seafood cookbook?
Human teeth (and most other teeth for that matter) are probably heavily modified primitive fish scales.
Then why do you call them teeth rather than scales? Why do you call your toothbrush a toothbrush rather than a scalebrush?
So? Birds are vertebrates, too.
Do you deny humans are vertebrates?
By "humans are vertebrates", do you mean "humans have vertebral columns"? I don't deny, but rather, I affirm that humans have vertebral columns.
Is tiktaalik a fish or "non-fish"?
If, by "tiktaalik", you're referring to an ugly chunk of lifeless material claimed to be the discovered remains of some animal that died, then I'd say that what you're calling "tiktaalik" is a non-fish.
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which would you say you are referring by the word, "tiktaalik"? To a fish, or to a non-fish?