Humanity possesses more collective knowledge than we know what to do with. At the same time, we are terrifyingly clueless about the world we inhabit. Inside Story is a podcast that aims to bridge the disconnect between what we know and don’t know and what that means for us as a species and as individuals.

In this episode:
Today, “The March of Progress”, the iconic image depicting an ape becoming a man, is one giant, inescapable meme. Most people have learned by now that Rudolph Zallinger’s linear depiction of evolution is flawed. But why is that? What does this say about humanity? And how does this connect to our understanding of dinosaurs, the past, and even the future?

Erica Cao