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The right question to ask from a darwinian prospective is what was it about bipedalism that was so advantageous? why did it lead to a - why did that adaptation ultimately lead to a species homo sapiens that has come to dominate the planet today with six and a half billion people?
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The right question to ask from a darwinian prospective is what was it about bipedalism that was so advantageous? why did it lead to a - why did that adaptation ultimately lead to a species homo sapiens that has come to dominate the planet today with six and a half billion people?
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Of the four billion life forms which have existed on this planet, three billion, nine hundred and sixty million are now extinct. we don't know why. some by wanton extinction, some through natural catastrophe, some destroyed by meteorites and asteroids. in the light of these mass extinctions it really does seem unreasonable to suppose that homo sapiens should be exempt. our species will have been one of the shortest-lived of all, a mere blink, you may say, in the eye of time.
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I never said it. honest. oh, i said there are maybe 100 billion galaxies and 10 billion trillion stars. it's hard to talk about the cosmos without using big numbers. i said "billion" many times on the cosmos television series, which was seen by a great many people. but i never said "billions and billions." for one thing, it's too imprecise. how many billions are "billions and billions"? a few billion? twenty billion? a hundred billion? "billions and billions" is pretty vague. when we reconfigured and updated the series, i checked-and sure enough, i never said it.
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Six billion of us walking the planet, six billion smaller worlds on the bigger one. shoe salesmen and short-order cooks who look boring from the outside - some have weirder lives than you. six billion stories, every one an epic, full of tragedy and triumph, good and evil, despair and hope. you and me - we aren't so special, bro.
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