• Question: could humans evolve into fish?

    Asked by anon-244285 to Ondrej, Jordan, Eleanor, Ed, Christine, Alice on 18 Mar 2020.
    • Photo: Edward Banks

      Edward Banks answered on 18 Mar 2020:

      Given long enough time periods we could potentially evolve into something that could live underwater, but we’d still be mammals. So we’d be closer to dolphins and whales, but still not fish! Our evolutionary branches diverged a very long time ago, and barring intentional genetic manipulation I don’t think we’d evolve enough similarities to rightfully be called fish again.

    • Photo: Eleanor Jones

      Eleanor Jones answered on 18 Mar 2020:

      I doubt it. As Ed says, we’ve evolved on a completely different branch to fish so it seems unlikely we would end up in the same evolutionary state.

    • Photo: Ondrej Kovanda

      Ondrej Kovanda answered on 18 Mar 2020:

      Like Ed says – evolution goes only forward, not backward.

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