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What does it mean?
Our ancestors left a rich inheritance that we forgot after believing we descended from monkeys.
In plain terms
We forgot our ancestral heritage when we started believing we came from monkeys.
What can you take from it?
Reconsider what we have lost from our past.

Where it applies

  • education
  • history study
  • self identity

Putting it to work

  • study ancestral wisdom
  • question modern views

Questions to consider

  • What did we lose?
  • How do we define origins?

Another view

Scientific evidence supports evolutionary descent.

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