• Question: Are fish and humans related (evolution)

    Asked by anon-180008 to Abby, Amy, Noel, Sam, Viren on 15 Jun 2018.
    • Photo: Sam Burton

      Sam Burton answered on 15 Jun 2018:

      Somewhere down the line we probably are, but it would just depending on how closely our genetics match up.

    • Photo: Abby Hunter

      Abby Hunter answered on 15 Jun 2018:

      This is really not something I know anything about unfortunately. I think we do share a lot of traits. Having just googled it, it seems there is evidence from fossils that fish and humans are related. Interesting!

    • Photo: Noel Brick

      Noel Brick answered on 15 Jun 2018:

      I’m no expert either, but from what I do know, every creature on our planet evolved from organisms that began life in water. But to find where fish and humans separated in terms of evolution you have to go back a few hundred million years. Humans evolved from the first bony fish that existed. Check out this really cool article about it: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13278255

    • Photo: Amy Warnock

      Amy Warnock answered on 15 Jun 2018:

      I think all animals on earth came from the same thing if you go far back enough in evolution! I think I remember one of my lecturers telling us in my first year of university that all life originally evolved from algae (but that was quite a long time ago so I might have forgotten!)

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