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OCR: as a central principle and come to entertain the strong possibility that H sapiens is but tiny late-arising twig on life's enormously arborescent bush a small pnq that would almost surely not appear second time if we could replant the bush from seed and let it grow again. Primates are visual animals and the pictures we draw betray our deepest convictions and display our current conceptual limitations Artists have always painted the history of fossil life asa seguence from invertebrates to fishes, to early terrestrial amphibians and reptiles, to dinosaurs to mammals and, finally, to humans There are no exceptions all sequences painted since the inception of this genre in the 1850s follow the convention Yet we never stop to recognize the almost absurd biases coded into this universal mode No ...