Human embryos have extra hand muscles found in lizards but not most adults
ScienceNews - Tue 1 Oct 19In developing human embryos, muscles are made, then lost, in a pattern that mirrors the appearance of the structures during evolution.
Now you see them, now you don’t: embryonic muscles echo evolution
Cosmos Magazine - Tue 1 Oct 19Early muscles reflect ancestral change, new imaging reveals. Barry Keily reports.
250-million-year-old evolutionary remnants seen in muscles of human embryos
Phys.org - Tue 1 Oct 19A team of evolutionary biologists, led by Dr. Rui Diogo at Howard University, and writing in the journal Development, have demonstrated that numerous atavistic limb muscles—known to be present ...
250-million-year-old evolutionary remnants seen in muscles of human embryos, ScienceDaily - Tue 1 Oct 19250-million-year-old evolutionary remnants seen in muscles of human embryos, Eurekalert - Tue 1 Oct 19
Human fetuses have lizard-like limb muscles but lose them before birth
ZME Science - Wed 2 Oct 19When we develop in the womb, we temporarily grow muscles that have last been seen in our ancestors 250 million years ago.
Human Fetuses Develop Lizard-Like Body Parts That Disappear Before Birth
Gizmodo - Tue 1 Oct 19New research this week seems to show that human fetuses develop several muscles in their legs and arms that disappear by the time they’re born. And some of these muscles were last seen in ...
Muscles discovered in unborn babies' hands and feet disappeared from adults 250million years ago
Daily Mail - Tue 1 Oct 19Researchers from Howard University in Washington DC said around 30 of the muscles could be seen in seven-week-old foetuses but at least 10 of these disappeared by the 13th week of pregnancy.
Tiny 'Lizard-Like' Muscles Found in Developing Embryos Vanish Before Birth
Livescience - Tue 1 Oct 19Detailed 3D images of embryos reveal that some muscles form and then vanish during early human development.
Developmental Biology Reveals Evolutionary History
NeuroLogica - Thu 3 Oct 19The notion that ontogeny (development from a fertilized egg to adult) recapitulates phylogeny (evolutionary history) is an outdated notion that has been scientifically rejected. That does not ...