TED Fellow Prosanta Chakrabarty dispels some hardwired myths about evolution, encouraging us to remember that we’re a small part of a complex, four-billion-year process, and not the end of the line. “We’re not the goal of evolution. Think of us all as young leaves on this ancient and gigantic tree of life – connected by invisible branches not just to each other, but to our extinct relatives and our evolutionary ancestors.”
See also A Timeline of Human Evolution
