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Evan Bernstein

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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

Maybe not.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

I mean, it only takes one of those two pieces to be incorrect.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

I mean, I don't know the answer.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

But from a sense, it has to qualify to be both of these things.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

If it does, maybe it doesn't qualify for both.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

I don't know.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

The second one, the early eukaryotes, 1.75 to 1.4 billion years ago, were free-swimming organisms living mostly near the surface of the ocean.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

I mean, I guess if I knew when – this must have to do with the years.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

In other words, they thought maybe this was happening 1 billion years ago, not 1.75 to 1.4 billion years ago.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

I would think that that would be the new piece of information here that just – it went back.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

further than they had thought in some way uh so i think that one winds up being correct uh the last one about the unique fossil find from china about the uh uh chordates birds or is it birds yeah well vertebrates all vertebrates vertebrates yeah anything with a spinal cord yeah

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

existed in the late, here we go again with the idiocharian period prior to the, yeah, prior to the Cambrian explosion.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

A unique fossil find in China.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

Okay, China, maybe you're trying to get us there because we think China, okay, that's where a ton, you know, obviously so many fossils and so much interesting.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

evidence of prehistoric life comes from there.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

But that could be, that could just be like a little lure for us to think, oh, therefore China, you know, they're finding all kinds of things there.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

It's legit.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

Maybe not.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

So it's either, I will say, the China one, these vertebrates.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

They're chordates.