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Is our picture of evolution still stuck in the past? - C C - Dec 2, 2025
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-picture-of-evolution-still-stuck-in-the-past/
We may have ditched the monkey-to-man meme, but the myth of humans as nature’s “pinnacle of evolution” persists in subtler ways...
RE: Is our picture of evolution still stuck in the past? - confused2 - Dec 3, 2025
The main bone of contention is whether we were planted in a garden or evolved from something earlier.
There's drawing showing (apparently) little monkey, great ape, chimpanzee .. call me stupid if you like but I just read this as body style changing over millions of years .. any resemblance to modern great apes would be coincidental rather than a significant evolutionary step.