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When I was a child in a little kid's world * My heart was the same as the one I have now * But it amazes me how much everything else has changed...
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Evolution: 24 myths and misconceptions
If you think you understand it, you don't know nearly enough about it.
It will soon be 200 years since the birth of Charles Darwin and 150 years since the publication of On the Origin of Species, arguably the most important book ever written...
And yet despite an ever-growing mountain of evidence, most people around the world are not taught the truth about evolution, if they are taught about it at all. Even in the UK, the birthplace of Darwin with an educated and increasingly secular population, one recent poll suggests less than half the population accepts evolution....
Most of us are happy to admit that we do not understand, say, the string theory in physics, yet we are all convinced we understand evolution. In fact, as biologists are discovering, its consequences can be stranger than we ever imagined. Evolution must be the best-known yet worst-understood of all scientific theories. So here is New Scientist's guide to some of the most common myths and misconceptions about evolution...New Scientist 16 APR 2008
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