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Richard Cloutier

joined in Dec 16, 2020

Professor at Université du Québec à Rimouski, Québec, Canada.

Cloutier has 1 break published.

Elpistostege: a fish with legs or a tetrapod with fins?

Around 350 B.C., the Greek philosopher Aristotle asserted that our hand is the "tool of tools." Our hands and fingers help us to work, to create, to communicate. But when did these anatomical structures appear in our distant ancestors? For the past 530 million years... click to read more

Richard Cloutier | Professor at Université du Québec à Rimouski, Québec, Canada

John A. Long | Strategic Professor at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

Alice M. Clement | Researcher at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

Origin Of Digits

Origin Of Tetrapod

Elpistostegalian

Reading time 4 min

published on Dec 16, 2020

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