Journey of Life - Human Life Part.3

The fifth and final part of the BBC documentary about evolution. As you might have guessed, this one is about how human came to be.

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[daanimalboy]

they keep saying all these reasons why our brains grew bigger. those same factors were there for the baboons and other animals too...but their brains didn't grow bigger. How come the baboons brains didn't evolve to cope with living in bigger groups? Maybe it was just by chance. Who knows? I think we need to do lots more research on evolution before we can truly know where we came from.

[pienipaha]

@daanimalboy

Yeah the logic behind these ideas (at least some of them) raises some questions. It's one of the reasons why I think the aquatic ape theory is more accurate (or, to be exact, a mix of the aquatic and savannah theories). As you may notice, other sea mammals tend to be hairless and big brained - especially whales. There are other traits shared by aquatic mammals and humans too.

Also, one can argue that even in the same conditions, animals rarely evolve in identical directions.

[mystisme]

what do you know that the burrial is the first religion signs let me tell you you do not even come close to it , the burrial was at first to make sure that the smell of dead body do not attract predator cause they learn if they burrieds corps smell of it wont atrrack predator near of them than it became a ritual thast was put in to a religions

[pienipaha]

@mystisme

I think what they mean when saying that is burial sites that have items and other signs of rituals in or nearby them. And with items I mean stuff like weapons, decor etc. buried with the dead.

Other than that I agree.

[wollin20]

My guess is that australopithecus already lived like baboons in rather large groups, groups similar in size of our current capacity to live in a social network, between 50 and 250 individuals. So far fossils can't prove it of course, given the too exceptionnal way they can form.But it's hard to imagine we became all that social suddenly, not to mention this capacity to cope with large groups might have been a major selective trend toward larger and more politically oriented brains.

[NorthCitySider]

@daanimalboy

Also, baboons are not apes, but monkeys and have a different anatomy. My theory is that their anatomy prevented them from growing brains like our own.

[KillerBee256]

@daanimalboy They didn't. Chimps, orangutans and gorillas still live in the forest.

[KillerBee256]

@NovelistVampireGirl Bah bah bah

[TheSonic1685]

theres no such thing as a saber tooth tiger the corect name for these cats were saber tooth cats

[btcc11]

@pienipaha We're not hairless though.