… The tidy tropes of our prehistory have collapsed under the weight of evidence: there is no single missing link that bridges apes and humankind, no drumbeat march of progress toward a predestined goal. Our story is complicated, messy and random. Yet it still can be accommodated under Darwin’s theory of evolution and in fact further validates that framework. This is not to say scientists have it all figured out. Many questions remain. …IOW, your headline is a lie.
I didn’t know I had a headline. They make me fill out all kinds of stuff to start a thread on this site. I fight like hell against their AI, I probably wrote some of the code one time.