Reconstruction of Lucy, the most famous skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis MLouisphotography/Alamy
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Whenever we think about the process of evolution, there’s a risk of falling into the trap of telling stories. Human minds are prone to interpret the world in terms of stories: it’s just one of our biases, along with the one that causes us to see faces in clouds and on pieces of toast. So we always have to be…
