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World Service,12 Jan 1996,4 mins

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The theory of evolution, one of the main building block of modern science, is explained "We had ancestors that were a bit like apes. Apes had ancestors that were a bit like lemurs. Lemurs had ancestors that were a bit like shrews, and so on..." says Richard Dawkins

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