http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/human-limbs-evolved-shark-fins-7787620Human limbs 'evolved from SHARK fins thanks to Sonic the Hedgehog gene'
The new discovery backs up a controversial theory that legs and arms evolved from prehistoric fish gills
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_hedgehogThe gene has been linked to a condition known as holoprosencephaly, which can result in severe brain, skull and facial defects, motivating some clinicians and scientists[who?] to criticize the name on grounds of it sounding too frivolous. They point to a less humorous situation where patients or parents of patients with a serious disorder are told that they or their child "have a mutation in [their] sonic hedgehog"
See also[edit]
Pikachurin, a retinal protein named after Pikachu
Zbtb7, an oncogene which was originally named "Pokémon"
