Against ‘Survival of the Fittest’

Against ‘Survival of the Fittest’

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The Thing Before the Beginning, part 3

In this episode, Robert and Joe come back to their Stuff to Blow Your Mind series on various mythological concepts of what came before the creation or emergence of our universe.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

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