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“Your 185-millionth great-grandfather was a fish.”

Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, originator of the world “meme,”explains why there was no such thing as a first human being in a short but mind-bending interview about his children’s book on evolution, The Magic of Reality.

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6-19-2012
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