| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - The portrayal of evolution as a ladder, just like the equally misleading term missing link, harks back to the Great Chain of Being of 17th and 18th Century philosophers who believed it was their divine duty to order and name nature in accordance with God's plan: simple things at the bottom and humans, especially the white man, at the top, closest to God.
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