The Evolution of Life

Fossil record shows that even pretty recently, there were several kinds of humans living at the same time. The fact that there's only one now slightly misleads us about how busy and complex was our evolutionary history. Bernard Wood: You can either think of our evolutionary history like a ladder, with a series of ancestors and descendants leading to modern humans or you can imagine it more like a fruit bush.

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