You Are A Fish
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
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With our current understanding of evolutionary history and our strategy of cladistic naming, if we wanted to have both goldfish and sharks under a single group called "fish", then mammals must also be called fish.
Thanks also to our Patreon patrons / minuteearth and our UA-cam members.
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Phylogenetic tree: a branching diagram or "tree" showing the evolutionary relationships among various biological species
Cladogram: a diagram used in cladistics to show relations among organisms
Monophyletic group (or clade): a group of organisms that consists of all the descendants of a common ancestor
Paraphyletic group: all of the descendants of a common ancestor minus one or more monophyletic groups
Similarity trap: people can name different species the same thing, only to find out they aren’t even closely related. We made a video about this phenomana: • The Similarity Trap
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Credits:
Script Writer: Jasper Palfree
Script Editor: David Goldenberg
Video Illustrator: Sarah Berman
Video Director: Ever Salazar
Video Narrator: Ever Salazar & Jasper Palfree
With Contributions From: Henry Reich, Alex Reich, Kate Yoshida, Peter Reich
Music by: Nathaniel Schroeder: / drschroeder
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References:
Weinstein, Bret (2016). On Being a Fish. Inference, Volume 2, Issue 3 September. inference-revi...
Lahti, David (2016). An Ambivalent Amphibian (In response to "On Being a Fish"). Volume 2, Issue 4
December. inference-revi...
Podani, János (2013). Tree thinking, time and topology:
Comments on the interpretation of tree diagrams in
evolutionary/phylogenetic systematics. Cladistics Volume 29, Issue 3. May real.mtak.hu/97...
After 5 years, MinuteLabs is back online and excited to share the Tree of Life Explorer, our app for exploring the evolutionary relationships between species! Check it out here: labs.minutelabs.io/Tree-of-Life-Explorer/
Jasper is a nice name.
Finally!
I'm no fish, im human!im human you fool,don't assume my race.
Wow, thank you for this! I was looking for such overview of Tree of Life for a long time.
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Small brain: whales are fish because they look like fish
regular brain: whales aren't fish, because they produce milk
big brain: Whales are mammals because they evolved from a mammalian ancestor
Galaxy Brain: Whales were fish the whole time
Tierzoo??? who let you out of your editing closet???
TierZoo
Panel 5: Everything was LUCA The Whole time
Clearly the small brain is being underestimated. Occam's Razor wins again!
I'll be checking the subreddit for this.
Universe Brain:Whales,Humans and every mammal are fish
"Of course you don't live in water, nor do you have gils or fins" What a bold assumption, MinuteEarth
#notallhumanshavelungs
'Sweet Home Alabama' plays in background
Woah there, Deep Ones are not ready to take over yet.
Yeah, haven't they seen Shape of Water?
Can't believe the Shape of Water is 2 years old already and we're still making assumptions about the biological breathing mechanisms of people.
I'll use cladistics to make everyone a fish!
And when everyone's a fish... *chuckles*
No one will be...
Jewbacca 67 I don’t know you but you sir have made my day, thank you 🙏🏾
That's a throwback
*Sobs in background*
Coproliteposting will slowly but surely take over the internet
Wait...
people in 1900: in the future we will have flying cars and advanced technology.
2019: we are a fish.
So original
*You Dare Oppose me mortal?* bruh it's true, we evolved from fish lmao
If you think about it we do have advanced technology. Like if someone from the 1950s saw what we have they would be amazed.
Hello. I am fish.
@@mceggalds5853 Your opinion.
Did anyone else notice that the fish is a Magikarp?
Yup
Yes
Yoos
@Insert_Channel yup
I did, I fuckin love pokemon
Does this explain why I can swim on land
Nice dude
Lawl
I like to cover myself in vaseline and pretend I'm a slug.
If Jesus can walk in water, can he swim on land?
@@Morgai-Fly Lmao
Welcome to the "Having a spine" club
Yes! Spine clade (AKA Sub-phylum Vertebrata) is a much better name.
the vertebrates club
i prefer monke club
Spine club
And go down a little bit to get the Jaws Club
Me: Opens youtube
Recommendation: You're a fish
Me: closes youtube
Omg 😂👍
XDXD
proceeds to swim in the water
I'm related to U lol.
@jett lewis ARE WE OVEGROWNED FROGS?
I spent a hole day classifying the whole tree of Animalia to the uneven levels I was interested to (depending on clades) for a project. I wrote a Python script to help me with that: I write the name of a clade and all its divisions, then I repeat for each one of those I wanted. From worms to mussels, from shrimps to lions, from spiders to primates, I got a total of 275 entries all organised in a branch up to the 15th level of cladistic division.
The next day, I discover _"Tree of life explorer"..._
Pro gamer move? Nah, programmer move 😂😢
@@iuliandutu4001 Yes, exactly! Ahahah
Introduction 101 -
‘Hi I’m Jasper and Your a fish”
Hahaha this is great
Bibsquid 707 and so I cant spell
Jasper... Why are you my a fish?
Best intro ever 😅
Jasper JASPER
ugh im a steven universe fan 😐
Bibsquid 707 Remember this comment?
When I realised we were reverse submarines, carrying our water with us to get on land, that made me think of scuba diving as a strange doubled scenario.
water carrying a body that carries water, that carries body parts, which also carry water, which carry smaller body parts, which also carry water, which carries singular cell organisms, which also carry water, which carries singular atoms.
@@nateorious7085 Hi I'm Tawagb and you are a fish
You mean to tell me all land animals are just fish that figured out how to breath air and store water so they didn't die of dehydration.
@@chrisb.7787 yes, yes he/she did
Wrong, even fish drinks water and has BLOOD.
So Im Aquaman?
Edit: Aquamen
Edit 2 :Aquasapians
Edit 3:Aquamammal
Edit 4:Homo sapiens aquaticus
Thank you
how to assume people
Landfish
@Maximus 8414 noted
Homo sapiens aquaticus
In German it's even linguistically correct to (literally translated) say "whale fish" for whale, because they were named before we knew they're mammals.
Nowadays most people stick to "whale" without adding "fish", but in older texts (and that means only about 50 years old!) the expression "whale fish" can still be found regularly.
Or in SpongeBob, as in Walfischdreck 😅😉
i figure a lot of languages do the same
in vietnamese, we call whale "cá voi", and each individual element of the word: "cá" means "fish" & "voi" means "elephant" (cuz they are both big and we dont have a specific word for the concept of a [whale] before we had the concept of elephant)
this makes me happy
fish translation: *opens mouth slowly and then closes it slowly around 30 times*
Now thats something fishy about who I really am.
Pa dum tish!
@@sillygooberwholovesfrogs Ba dum fish! *fish slapping drums*
Minute Earth : "Maybe you should go around telling people that you're a fish"
Scallies and furries : We already do that.
Minute Earth : "And when people give you confused looks..."
Scallies and furries : Yes they tend to do that don't they ?
That's otherkin that think they're animals.
Um humans already count as an animal!
Hahahahahaha
Oh so they ever. But most people are just curious. :3
Minute Earth: You're a fish.
Me: No you.
Someone had to do it to 'em
No we
@@thunder_2124 ☭
There is something fishy about you.
No u
*Huh, that's why I like to flop around on the ground like I'm a dying fish*
Minute Earth: You are a fish
Me: Do I really smell?
Hooba dooba if you don't take a shower everyday
"I'm a fish"
"Huh?"
"Well, I'm closer to a fish than a shark..."
closer to a goldfish* than a shark
0:35, nice work including Magikarp.
Actually they include Pokémon in many of their videos. And don't forget about the puns!
@@AnuragYadav-rs6it They include not only pokemon but also many other gaming and movie references.
Ryan that’s a cyprinus carpio you fuckwit
Nobody:
JK Rowling: All wizards were fish the entire time.
Icewind007 turns out I love fish sticks
Yes
Yer a fish, Harry!
I'm a what?
H. P. Lovecraft wants to know your location
@@pinklmaonade Filthy fucking cannibal
If the mirror image was just a fish and not a human like fish it would look so much funnier.
nobody:
not a single soul:
minute earth: yOu ArE a FiSh
I'm not a fish
@@davidte4330 You dumbass we started from fish
You're late to the party man, Kanye already did a song about this in that South Park episode.
Albeit a gay one, but your point still stands strong.
And somewhere, H.P. Lovecraft is turning in his grave, and it is glorious.
"I understood that reference."
I scrolled down far to find it, but someone made the reference. ...and by turning in his grave we mean having yet another existential-crisis induced panic attack.
May you rest in the peace of merciful oblivion (if there be so blessed a thing), Lovecraft, you poor, terror-ridden bastard and be free of your many fears.
Yes, perfect.
And thus "There's No Such Thing As A Fish" (a really good fun-fact podcast by the people at QI).
That's exactly why I remember this
0:37
I see that Magikarp there. Don't think you can hide it.
Jasper: But there is certainly something fishy about you
Me: And that’s why I have trust issues
Great! This app is exactly what I was looking for since a while. Thanks!
Would be great to know how other people use this. And remember you can leave feedback and request features!
It kind of makes me sad aronra had nothing to do with it considering it basically is his life's work
@@UnPuntoCircular
I couldn't find a feedback button. Where is it?
@@Altorin This also barely scratches the surface of Aron's work though, he wants every species we know of on that thing, with descriptions and links.
@@thethegreenmachine at the bottom of "About this app". That will lead you to github, but if you're not familiar with that, you can leave the feedback on this video or in the MinuteLabs one. Thanks!
This sounds *(drum roll)* Fishy.
I appreciate you
0:35 who else caught that Magikarp reference?
that's not a Magikarp reference, that is a Magikarp
Who’s that Pokemon it magikarp :3
Me
I just thought it was a koi fish 🤔
@@SerDerpish Koi fish are way longer and don't really have that color scheme or those sharp Gyarados fins.
how did magikarp get in there? :D
It evolved!
Because magicarp got kicked out of pokemon for being to weak and was hired from minuteearth!
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
You are a fish
And I am too
So I’m the only one who noticed that the fish at 0:44 look like Goldeen and Magikarp??
Paniekzaaier tje ye
POKEMON
Swim with the cladistic school of thought. I like the pun 👍
Enjoyed the cats tree so much I expanded the tree to Feliformia. Helped me to learn even more about the feline genus.
"We are closer to a goldfish to a fish..."
The infraphylum that we are all in: Infraphylum: Gnathostoma (jawed vertebrates)
The class that sharks are in: Class: Chondricthyes (cartilaginous fishes (rays, chimaeras, etc.))
The superclass that we and goldfish are in: Superclass: Osteichthyes (bony fish)
The class that goldfishes are in: Class: Actinopterygii (ray-finned fish (eels, salmon, pufferfish, and many more!))
The class that we, humans are in a cladistic sense: Class: Sarcopterygii (lobed-finned fish (coelacanths, lungfish, and tetrapods (including humans!)))
The class that we are in: Class: Mammalia (mammals)
No one:
Not even a single soul:
Minuteearth: ur a fish
Creationist: NO I AM NOT A FISH. I came from dirt (or male bones).
Han Joon Lee I am NOT a fish. Adam was created from dust wherewhich God breathed in the breath of life. We are not DUST, but he made the first man out of dust.
@@noahmiller5072 you still came from dust
also why is there still dust if humans came from dust?
@Cross Van Dust exactly😂
@@WomanSlayer69420 Be right back, I'm making my OWN HUMAN with dust!
Nein Shubin's "Your inner fish" - fantastic book!
Another way to explain it, in a way I find more confincing, is :
- Technically, mammals are reptiles, just weird ones
- Technically, reptiles are amphibians, just weird ones
- Technically, amphibians are fishes, just weird ones
So, mammals are just really really weird fishes, but still fishes
All of the living reptiles(crocodilians, birds, turtles, rhynchocephalians, and lizards including snakes) form a perfectly valid monophyletic clade without including mammals. All of the living amphibians(frogs, salamanders, and caecilians) also form a perfectly valid clade without including the amniotes(mammals and reptiles). As such, while mammals must be fish in order for the grouping to be valid, mammals do not have to be reptiles or amphibians.
Me, a Blue Girdled Angelfish: of course I am
Another funny thing with Cladistics- Birds are reptiles. Crocodiles are closer related to birds than to lizards and snakes!
Basically-
Fish->Tetrapods-> Reptiles-> Birds
So all birds are both Reptiles and Fish according to cladistics!
Wait so I’m... Magikarp? Will I become gyarados eventually
Wait!! So is Machop also a Magikarp? Thus we can see a Magikarp evolving into Machoke or even a Kadabra, but how?
Nope. Only cool people will become gyrados.
God damn it MinuteEarth, I didn't need this existential crisis right before my midterms.
me: you're a fish.
friend: yes i am.
me: so you are?
friend: you are 2!
me: how-
friend: minute earth.
thats how im here hi hello
That Tree of Life app is awesome! I was actually looking for something like that a couple of months ago and couldn't find anything!
Will definitely play around with it soon.
Heck yeah, always wanted to be able to breath underwater.
No wait, this is a technicality like how birds are dinosaurs.
Fun fact! Not all fishes can breathe in water! And this isn't a technicality, either - lungfishes* are obligate air breathers and can actually drown if they're unable to access air in time
*Specifically lungfish of the order Lepidosireniformes. The Australian lungfish, on the other hand, can breathe in both water and air.
The paraphyletic (non-monopyletic) grouping is hardly ever useful, it may work for one feature but when you take the less obvious stuff in the account, the monophyletic grouping makes always much more sense.
*"EVOLUTION ISN'T REAL!"* -says my Flat Earth Uncle.
He knows! There's definitely something fishy going on!
You have uncles from other planets? and if you don't mind my asking, what flattened him?
@MLGALEKS lol 😂
Your uncle might be interested in that video about how it's been proven that the Moon is actually made of cheese.
I prefer my earth with curves ;)
There are still some evolutionary similarities we have in common with fully aquatic fish that we would normally only associate with aquatic fish. For one, we retain three of our gill arches that have evolved to be used as the auditory bones within our ears. Go further up the evolutionary tree and you’ll find your (as well as all other jawed vertebrates) mandibular component of the jaw as being a derived gill arch as well, which is still found in agnathan fish like lampreys for instance.
Evolution. People in my classroom told me we evolved from uh... monkeys. Thanks MinuteEarth for telling me this.
Thats true lel
well, you didnt evolve _from_ monkeys, you AND monkeys evolved from a common ancestor.
@@kemcolian2001 i see now
Don't think I don't notice every magikarp you try to disguise as a fish on your videos
"I'm Jasper, and you are a fish"
*DYING*
love how easy this video is to understand. it explains science so well.
This isn't science. Science requires observation, making a theory, then testing it. ....Evolution was never tested successfully. Every single genetic experiment, you just get different strains of the same creature, be it mice, or cattle, or plants, or e-coli. The Miller Urey experiment produced life-destroying tar, and proved that you could not force amino acids to bind, much less to form a structure more complex than the computer you are using right now.
okay please don't get to offended or angry and if you are I would like to apologise. I just wanted to express how this channel has helped me understand so much more about who we are and the things around us. But thank you for explaining and taking your time to reply. 😃@@vanivanov9571
I'm just here for the reference to "The Shadow Over Insmouth" in the comments
What is TSOI?
@@sillygooberwholovesfrogs A book by H. P. Lovecraft about fish people
I actually knew this. I want to become a paleontologist when I get older, so I often watch videos about evolution, and once I came across a video that was about human evolution, and in that video was shown every single known acestor of Homo Sapiens Sapiens, including the earliest ancestor known, wich was actually a fish from the Paleozoic era!
Reject Monke, Return to Fish
Pretty much all life on Earth is interconnected and we are gifted with the intelligence to realize it.
But we waste that intelligence on nation-states, tribalism and ethnocentrism.
...So are you gonna do something about it, then?
This comment on a video about clade-centrism.
Every human is a fish ?
You know what that means !
MinuteEarth is a fish too !!!!
Have you guys ever heard of the phylogeny explorer project?
I see, I am not the only one who knows Aron Ra
i just burned a couple hours exploring that tree, what a phenomenal tool!
I’m a fish, but I have skin, no scales, gills, I look nothing like a fish and have no qualities of a fish.
But I’m a fish.
I already knew we were more related to Ray finned fish than cartilaginous fish
That’s why I like water so much! That and also the fact that I need it to live
You only need it to live because you're a fish.
So what makes fish a fish?
Hi Vsause Miachel here.
So fish aslo known as a weird gliding hand thing is a tipe of animal that goes "flying" in the water. But we all know that.
But the question is...
What makes fish a fish?
Well the anser is preaty simple.
*FISH*
You should've just left it after "Hi, Vsauce, Michael here."
Please take English classes.
@@Adam-cq2yo ok
@@Adam-cq2yo I . . . am a fish.
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.
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*o r a m i*
@@greylistIGuess
Yeah, and I don't want to be that person, but this is for the better of the community: He actually says " *hey* Vsauce, Michael here" and not "hi, Vsauce..."
Fucking
Idiotic
Shit
Head
At first I wanted to find out your reasoning.
Then right after clicking the video, I remember evolution
**pushes plate of sushi away**
cannibalism isn't for me
Did you know that your jaw makes up the same bones in a gill plate?
You sir, are a fish
"My mother is a fish."
- Vardaman Bundren
"You may have noticed that some of the evolutionary trees in this video where created by an app"
Here it comes, the sponsor! Time to search for the next video.
"we actually built that app!"
Well that's new.
O no they figerd it out!!! We must go back to water so they won't catch us!
Fish: but they will also eat you
Idk they will never know!
Just realized that fish was a magicarp
But we all know there's no such thing as a fish. James, Andy, Dan and Anna have thoroughly established this premise.
*The video is 11 days too early...*
UA-camr : You are a fish
Everyone watching this. : ah yes!
Nobody:
Life Noggin: Hey did you know you were a fish
Nobody: ... ok
This not life noggin
Fish?
In my clade?
It's more likely than you think
I appreciate the Pokemon Easter egg 😊 thanks
0:43 is that magic karp from Pokémon
"So maybe u should go around telling everyone u are a fish"
Me who is a Jamaican:☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠
I think the correct title should be “you have evolved from a fish”
It's true that we evolve from fish, but it's also true to say that you and me are fishes, because like the video explain, human fall in the middle of the fish clade, human or land tetrapod in general are required if you want to make a clade that include both boney fish, and all of the other fish
Wow...glad our branch crawled out of the water. Gilled fish would have trouble keeping a joint lit.
Paraphyletic groups, same thing with reptiles and birds
*Looks at suggestions*
"YOU ARE A FISH"
I ❤ you, MinuteEarth! And thanks for the awesome app!
Why do I think this is better than my science class
*Reads the title*
Me- *Oh the horror!*
So Arnold J Rimmer was correct during his exam... good to know.
That's akward. I definitely don't know anyone who would say sharks are fish in Portuguese.
Video wasn't making sense for me, but TIL how English speakers treat them.
In English, sharks are part of the cartilaginous fish clade. What is the name of that clade in Portuguese?
@@UnPuntoCircular Speaking about technical terms, I do believe this clade is called "peixe" which means fish. There's an article about it in a pop magazine¹, although it's hard to pin-point scientific publication or relevant literature. Perhaps it could be easier if I were involed in this field of knowledge.
I'm relatively educated, so I'm not example of general public, as only 15% of population have a degree².
My point was about the statements at 1:49. I was going with this clade thing, but then he gave an example like "let's pick two animals we currently call fish" which implies what general public consider as fish, and my reaction was like "WTF? Nobody thinks sharks are fish!"
But then I began wondering why he said that. I don't believe narrator made a mistake, I was penchant for some translation and cultural differences as cause of this curious way of thinking.
*Sources:*
1 super.abril.com.br/ciencia/peixes-nao-existem-diz-toda-uma-classe-de-cientistas-e-faz-sentido/
2 agenciadenoticias.ibge.gov.br/agencia-noticias/2012-agencia-de-noticias/noticias/21255-analfabetismo-cai-em-2017-mas-segue-acima-da-meta-para-2015
@@KazimirQ7G Ahh. So it's the same word as Pisces.
Same for me. I just learned that I'm a fish in English but I'm still not a fish in my mother tongue, which is Czech, 'cause sharks aren't ever considered fish. Fish are "ryby" and sharks are considered "paryby" (chondrichthyes in English, well, more like Latin...) - could be translated as something like "falsefish".
@@TheAngelsHaveThePhoneBox But you aren't part of the shark branch. You're part of the fish branch.
"You are a fish"
You must have played poker against me.
MinuteEarth: You are a Fish
Me: **snorts water**
Me: what the -fuck- *_frick_*
Wait you know the vid of eating babys, and they say fish eat there young,
OOF
Alright bucko, there is no way you’re gonna convince me I’m a fish.
EDIT: I’m a fish
Interesting video, but I'm gonna go with: yeah um no! lol
Human embryos do have gills :P
You may not like it but without fish, humans and other vertebrates wouldn't exist.
don't, cry, i am just a fish
...
i am just a fish
Did anyone else got their attention tingled by the fact that this miniature makes an awesome Shadow Over Innsmouth reference ?