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In 1989, paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould argued that if you could rewind evolution and play it again, the results would be utterly different—humanity was a cosmic accident. A study published in Nature on November 12, 2025 offers the most comprehensive counterargument yet. It shows that 11 different animal lineages independently crawled out of the water across 487 million years and repeatedly evolved the same genetic solutions.
Updated May 27
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