Afar region,
Australopithecines,
Australopithecus afarensis,
Australopithecus anamensis,
Belohdelie frontal,
Charles Darwin,
Cleveland Museum of Natural History,
Darwinian gradualism,
Daspletosaurus,
David Gelernter,
Ethiopia,
Franz Hilgendorf,
Galápagos Islands,
Germany,
Globorotalia foraminifers,
Homo (genus),
Human Origins,
Little Foot,
Lucy,
Michael Rasser,
Modern evolutionary synthesis,
mount improbable,
MRD,
National Geographic,
Natural History Museum,
Neo-Darwinism,
Niles Eldredge,
paleontology,
Paranthropus,
Richard Dawkins,
Royal Society,
Sabine Hossenfelder,
stasis,
Steinheim freshwater snails,
Stephen Jay Gould,
stickleback fish,
Stuttgart,
vertebrate,
Yohannes Haile-Selassie
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