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Why You Are Delusional (and Thank Goodness You Are) & The Flaws in Human Evolution

Something You Should Know

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The Kinks of the Eye

The foot's only had a few million years to work out the kinks in its evolution. The eye has been out of the water for 375 million years, so it works pretty darned well on land. But when you when the original vertebrate eye was an eye that evolved in the water, andyou can't ever go back and start from scratch. So some of these things are our issues. We can help ourselves by behaving indifferent ways.

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