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It would be an interesting topic to see any of my favorite alt historian YouTubers tackle "What if fossils didn't exist"

Fossils are there as a clue. Without them, making scientific deductions about our ancestry and origins as organisms would be a difficult one.
Yet, I'm still skeptical enough to not totally depend wholly on fossil records in tracing my human evolutionary ancestry to a 'cousin ape'.
Questions abound...