You have clearly gotten this question out of your book so
you might want to look up the exact wording of the answer in case your teacher wants you
to be really faithful to the book...
Evolutionary
biologists are, in general, interested in these fish because these fish led to us. Put
more broadly, it was these fish that led to life on the
land.
The first kinds of life evolved (we believe) in the
sea. The lobe-finned fishes were the ones that first started to come out of the water
and to evolve into terrestrial life forms. So I would say that these are important to
evolutionary biologists because they form a sort of transition between purely aquatic
animals and terrestrial ones.
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