“Humans are a timekeeping species, and much of our history can be traced to the ways we parse the moments of our lives.”
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“Everything changes when we look at the evidence; what looks impossible actually happened.”
Neil Shubin
“The order of fossils in the world’s rocks is powerful evidence of our connections to the rest of life.”
Neil Shubin
“Just as Darwin’s theory predicted: at the right time, at the right place, we had found intermediates between two apparently different kinds of animals.”
Neil Shubin
“Do the facts of our ancient history mean that humans are not special or unique among living creatures? Of course not. In fact, knowing something about the deep origins of humanity only adds to the rem...”
Neil Shubin
“Take the entire 4.5-billion-year history of the earth and scale it down to a single year, with January 1 being the origin of the earth and midnight on December 31 being the present. Until June, the on...”
Neil Shubin