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 … except in Hollywood movies. Let’s make this clear from the start, I don’t like the term “living fossils” at all. It’s as if we decided that certain species are second class organisms that should have gone extinct a long time ago. Unfortunately for me, the term regularly crops up in the popular scientific press. Especially [...]
This evolutionary tree of life has a problem. Yes, it beautifully illustrates that we are related to all life on earth, from bacteria to plants and birds. Still. there’s something wrong with it. The problem is that it is constructed from a human viewpoint. You can see that humans occupy a [...] |
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