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What Evolution Looks Like | Evolution, Human evolution, Evolutionary biology
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What Evolution Looks Like

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When people think of “evolution”, they often picture the “March of Progress”. This popular visual metaphor, a line of individuals leading from apes to humans (top), goes back to Rudolph Zallinger’s classic illustration for the Early Man volume of the Life Nature Library series published by Time-Life Books. But that illustration was never meant to show a direct evolutionary lineage—several of the figures were explicitly mentioned as side branches. Evolution is not linear, but branching, with…
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