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Four billion years of evolution in six minutes - Prosanta Chakrabarty

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Did humans evolve from monkeys or from fish? In this TED Talk, ichthyologist and TED Fellow Prosanta Chakrabarty dispels some hardwired myths about evolution, encouraging us to remember that we're a small part of a complex, four-billion-year process -- and not the end of the line.

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