You know the graphic, we all know the graphic. In fact, if you go to Google Images and type in “evolution” it will come up in various renderings—five or six silhouettes (always men) or other figures transforming from ape to human.  It’s not helpful! It’s also oversimplifying. And misleading. “You know that image of one species leading to another species leading to another species?” asks paleo-anthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi in this 2025 BBC YouTube clip  that is part of a seri