"Humans are not the pinnacle of evolutionary progress but only an aberrant side branch of fish evolution."
Fishes: An Introduction to Ichthyology
Related: An alien scientist would take one look the vertebrate family tree and conclude that humans and other tetrapods are a weird side-branch of the fish family – that we’re “land fish,” in other words.
from The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve
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