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What The Fossils Say (with Dr. Donald Prothero)

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The Why Are There Still Monkeys?

"We basically partition our brains to only accept what fits our existing views," he says. "And everything that doesn't fit that part of our belief system, we just electrically screen out." Many people still believe it's a ladder of evolution like you've been this led to think,. But the myth has been essentially obsolete since Darwin's book in 1859", he adds.

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