Polydactyly in stem-tetrapods
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polydactyly-in-stem-tetrapods-182-10471149
title:
Polydactyly in stem-tetrapods
text:
Polydactyly in stem-tetrapods should here be understood as having more than five digits to the finger or foot, a condition that was the natural state of affairs in the earliest stegocephalians during the evolution of terrestriality. The polydactyly in these largely aquatic animals is not to be confused with polydactyly in the medical sense, i.e. it was not an anomaly in the sense it was not a congenital condition of having more than the typical number of digits for a given taxon. Rather, it appe
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
State of having more than five digits in ancient fish and tetrapods
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polydactyly_in_stem-tetrapods
date created:
2009-03-20T16:32:41Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T12:15:18Z
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{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/35/Fins_to_hands.png","width":2576,"height":1295}
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