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What is the evolutionary relationship between the fin of a fish and the flipper of a whale?
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There is no actual evolutionary link between whales and fish. Whales are mammals and looking at the structure of a whales flipper it looks a lot like a hand. Fish however have no bone structure in their fins.
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They're an example of convergent evolution - two structures with common features which have evolved like that due to a similar/the same purpose despite having unrelated origins. Flippers have hidden fingers.
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