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Evolution doesn't proceed in a straight line – so why draw it that way?

  • Written by Quentin Wheeler, Senior Fellow for Biodiversity Studies, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Evolution has no final endpoint in mind.Uncle Leo/Shutterstock.comA high school marching band’s T-shirt places a horn-playing Homo sapiens at the end of the evolutionary process.Brian Kloppenburg, Jordan Summers, Main Street Logo

Evolution doesn’t follow a preordained, straight path. Yet images abound that suggest otherwise. From museum...

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