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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we evolved from monkeys,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why are there still monkeys?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, because we're not monkeys,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're fish.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, knowing you're a fish\Nand not a monkey
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is actually really important\Nto understanding where we came from.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I teach one of the largest\Nevolutionary biology classes in the US,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when my students finally understand
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why I call them fish all the time,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then I know I'm getting my job done.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I always have to start my classes
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by dispelling some hard-wired myths,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because without really knowing it,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,many of us are taught evolution wrong.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For instance, we're taught\Nto say "the theory of evolution."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are actually many theories,\Nand just like the process itself,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the ones that best fit the data\Nare the ones that survive to this day.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The one we know best\Nis Darwinian natural selection.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the process by which those\Norganisms that best fit an environment
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,survive and get to reproduce,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while those that are less fit\Nslowly die off.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Evolution is as simple as that,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's a fact.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Evolution is a fact
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as much as the theory of gravity.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can prove it just as easily.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You just need to look at your bellybutton
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you share with\Nother placental mammals,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or your backbone
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you share with other vertebrates,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or your DNA that you share\Nwith all other life on earth.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those traits didn't pop up in humans.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were passed down\Nfrom different ancestors
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to all their descendants, not just us.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that's not really how\Nwe learn biology early on, is it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We learn plants and bacteria\Nare primitive things,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and fish give rise to amphibians\Nfollowed by reptiles and mammals,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then