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DISCLAIMER, DISCLAIMER, DISCLAIMER!!!

If you don’t believe in evolution…

you are wrong.

Even if you haven’t replaced evolution with anything specific or supernatural…

By choosing to go against all observations across all domains of science…

you have chosen to be wrong.

If you do believe in evolution, congratulations!

Though you are likely wrong as well…

Not as wrong as someone who outright denies that life forms evolve…

But your understanding of what evolution means,

how it works,

how it’s taken place over the past 4 billion years

is likely not a model that fits well with how evolution has taken place on earth.

But fear not, you are not alone…

In fact you’ve probably got a better grasp than Lamarck, Darwin, and Huxley had.

Not that they were wrong,

you just happen to have been afforded an extra hundred years and more

of scientific insight and discovery to base your impression on…

And, tonight we will delve deeper into how evolution happens,

where we’ve been in search for answers and maybe where we are going…

All that and more ahead on

This Week in Science,

Coming up next!

Interview with David Quammen

David Quammen studied at both Yale and Oxford,