Cosmic Queries: Primate Evolution

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Cosmic Queries: Primate Evolution

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Paleoanthropologist Dr. Ian Tattersall is back to help Neil deGrasse Tyson and Eugene Mirman answer fan questions about where primates came from, and where we’re going.
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Oct 19, 2014

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