Oke a follow-up question. Twenty years ago we thought that descent is linear and we were looking for the missing link to the modern human. We have long since moved on from that notion. But if you take Darwin's theory of evolution, each generation should have minimal differences from the next. So how do we distinguish the different fossils and how do we assign them to the different evolution lines there were? Is this all done with dna tests?
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Oke a follow-up question. Twenty years ago we thought that descent is linear and we were looking for the missing link to the modern human. We have long since moved on from that notion. But if you take Darwin's theory of evolution, each generation should have minimal differences from the next. So how do we distinguish the different fossils and how do we assign them to the different evolution lines there were? Is this all done with dna tests?