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History of the World podcast
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The Missing Link Between Humans and Apes
In 18 59, charles darwin published on the origin of species. This was a book that excited the scientific community into develop in a hunger for discovering the fossils that would prove the evolution of men from ape ancestors. In 18 91, eugene de bois discovered fossils which he was determined to prove to be the missing link between apes and human. So we were looking for that fossil that had characteristics from both. But if anyone dared think that the scientific world was going to be anything other than sceptical, then they were probably deluded or up to something.
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