Ancestors Of Humans And Chimps May Have Begun Diverging 13 Million Years Ago
I learned quite a bit about evolutionary clocks from this article.
Another article I found: Why Haven't All Primates Evolved into Humans?
"To say we are more 'evolved' than our hairy cousins is just wrong. (See how long you last naked in the Congo Heartland, and then tell me who's got the evolutionary upper hand.)"
"Darwin was the first to use data from nature to convince people that evolution is true, and his idea of natural selection was truly novel. It testifies to his genius that the concept of natural theology, accepted by most educated Westerners before 1859, was vanquished within only a few years by a single five-hundred-page book. On the Origin of Species turned the mysteries of life's diversity from mythology into genuine science." -- Jerry Coyne
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