Becoming Human : First Steps (NOVA) Part 1/4 HD

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Broadcast (2010) First Steps : Examines the factors that caused us to split from the other great apes. The program explores the fossil of "Selam," also known as "Lucy's Child." Paleoanthropologist Zeray Alemseged spent five years carefully excavating the sandstone-embedded fossil. NOVA's cameras are there to capture the unveiling of the face, spine, and shoulder blades of this 3.3 million-year-old fossil child. And NOVA takes viewers "inside the skull" to show how our ancestors' brains had begun to change from those of the apes.Why did leaps in human evolution take place? "First Steps" explores a provocative "big idea" that sharp swings of climate were a key factor.

Nothing is more fascinating to us than, well, us. Where did we come from? What makes us human? NOVA's groundbreaking investigation explores how new discoveries are transforming views of our earliest ancestors. Featuring interviews with world-renowned scientists, footage shot in the trenches as fossils were unearthed, and stunning computer-generated animation, Becoming Human brings early hominids to life, examining how they lived and how we became the creative and adaptable modern humans of today. In the first episode, NOVA encounters Selam, the amazingly complete remains of a 3 million year-old child, packed with clues to why we split from the apes, came down from the trees, and started walking upright. In gripping forensic detail, the second episode investigates the riddle of Turkana Boy -a tantalizing fossil of Homo erectus, the first ancestor to leave Africa and colonize the globe. What led to this first great African exodus? In the final episode, Becoming Human explores the origins of us -where modern humans and our capacities for art, invention, and survival came from, and what happened when we encountered the mysterious Neanderthals. Crucial new evidence comes from the recent decoding of the Neanderthal genome. Did modern humans interbreed with Neanderthals? Exterminate them? Becoming Human examines why we survived while our other ancestral cousins-including Indonesia's bizarre 3 foot-high Hobbit -died out. And NOVA poses the intriguing question: are we still evolving today?

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[asdfqwervd]

the early humanoids were food for so many other predators

[whiteliketar]

the madness of atheistic evolution in full stride. lol

[WoodyWV38]

And.., under the ice sheets in Antartica there are many fossils from "Dinosaur Times" fossils of dinosaurs and plants. So if the world is the same now as its always been how did the plants and animals (that lived in realitivley moderate climates) get under all the ice if its always been cold and the same? the bible is a "Cliff's Notes" on how to get to heaven, not the complete world history in a book thats about an 1 1/2" thick.

[WoodyWV38]

@thebigegg123. Evolution means, if you understand the defination, "changing to suit your environment" in simple terms. If everything in the fossil record existed at the same time from the Permian through the Mesozoic (Dinosaurs) up the Tertiary (giant birds, big weird mammals) until now there wouldnt be room for all the plants and animals at once.

[thebigegg123]

@WoodyWV38 your dads not a very good Christian since the bible contradicts evoloution

[WoodyWV38]

Crazy? Hmmm my Dad is a Christian, however he believes in evolution. Evolution is simply changing to suite your invironment and mutations in genes that are benifical. He says God is smart enough to create life with that ability.

[mymojorisin]

@ajesusfreak1

Do not confuse my disgust of your woeful ignorance for being bitter. I am not bitter at all, I am disgusted by you and your fellow cult members.

God = Jesus Christ = Sun Worship = A Sick Blood Cult = 1 Billion Ignorant Christians = The Majority of All Evil in the World

[ajesusfreak1]

@mymojorisin Oooh, touchy are we? What're you so bitter for? Lighten up! Live life to the fullest! You can't take me down, not with the Almighty on my side!

[ajesusfreak1]

@yeshuahfullofit God is Enough by Lecrae lyrics