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Prosanta Chakrabarty, author of the popular book, Explaining Life Through Evolution, and the TED Talk “Four billion years of evolution in six minutes,” discusses common evolution misconceptions — such as the ever-sticky “if we’re evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys” — with NCSE Executive Director Amanda L. Townley. Chakrabarty is the George H. Lowery Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and Curator of Fishes at the Museum of Natural Science at Louisiana State University. He is a TED Senior Fellow, an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fulbright Distinguished Chair, a National Geographic Certified Educator, and a member of the NCSE board.
Prosanta Chakrabarty, author of the popular book, Explaining Life Through Evolution, and the TED Talk “Four billion years of evolution in six minutes,” discusses common evolution misconceptions — such as the ever-sticky “if we’re evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys” — with NCSE Executive Director Amanda L. Townley. Chakrabarty is the George H. Lowery Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and Curator of Fishes at the Museum of Natural Science at Louisiana State University. He is a TED Senior Fellow, an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fulbright Distinguished Chair, a National Geographic Certified Educator, and a member of the NCSE board.
