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Prosanta Chakrabarty

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Four billion years of evolution in six minutes

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Did humans evolve from monkeys or from fish? In this enlightening talk, ichthyologist and 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," Chakrabarty says. "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."

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Prosanta Chakrabarty ·Ichthyologist

Prosanta Chakrabarty studies fish to help explain the evolution of human beings and our planet.

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