Re: Morphological evidence of marine adaptations in human kidneys

r norman:
> OK -- this one bears careful reading. I will have to go through the
> original paper to see to what degree the specialized kidney truly
> reflects a marine adaptation rather than an adaptation to an arid
> environment and also to what degree the presence of similar
> adaptations in other terrestrial mammals truly reflects inheritance
> from marine ancestors rather than independent developments of the
> characteristic in non-marine but arid habitats.

Really, and what do you think you will find?

> It also depends on
> whether "marine" means living in an ecological niche truly closely
> connected with salt water or merely living in a terrestrial habitat
> not too far from the ocean.

It means living on the Mars.

> But still it must be read and considered.

You are joking?
Read and considered by whom? -- Mario


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