What is going on? Are we to assume that man is a special case /that does not obey
(2)the same rules as the millions of other species that share the Earth?) Or could it be that
the paleontologists might have been wrong? Perhaps man and the apes have not been
evolving down separate paths for 20 million years or so, but have indeed been separate for
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10 only a fifth of that time, less than 4 million years.
This is still a hard idea to accept, not least for the paleontologists(whose wisdom
it challenges/But it makes a lot more sense to assume that (man is like all the other
inhabitants of the Earth, and if necessary to rewrite paleontological history/thar) to argue
that man is a special case, alone in a crowd of animals.