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Gallery: Who won the evolutionary race in our oceans?

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April 24, 2017 at 8:53 pm EST
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TED Fellow Lauren Sallan is a paleobiologist who analyzes “big data” — the fossil record — to study large-scale evolution. As she says: “I want to know why some fishes win and others lose.” Here’s the story of her talk, in amazing work from illustrator and animator Dennis Moore.

 

 

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