Your Inner Fish
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Your Inner Fish

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Neil Shubin
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Polychaete Term Analysis

Primitive worms with bristles on their body. Detlev Arendt studied these invertebrate worms to find that they have a primitive version of the complex eye found in vertebrate creatures.
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