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Prosanta Chakrabarty: Four billion years of evolution in six minutes
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Did humans evolve from monkeys or from fish? In this enlightening 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. "We're not the goal of evolution," Chakrabarty says. "Think of us all as young leaves on this ancient and gigantic tree of life — connected by invisible branches not just to each other, but to our extinct relatives and our evolutionary ancestors."
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TED.com
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Tedtalks;TED;Talks;evolution;biology;ancient world;biodiversity;animals;apes;fish;life;nature;science;TED Fellows;environment;time;TED2017;2018
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