History Channel - Ape to Man (part 1)

It has long been considered the most compelling question in our history: Where do human beings come from? Although life has existed for millions of years, only in the past century-and-a-half have we begun to use science to explore the ancestral roots of our own species. The search for the ultimate answer has taken a number of twists and turns, with careers made and broken along the way. APE TO MAN is the story of the quest to find the origins of the human race - a quest that spanned more than 150 years of obsessive searching The search for the origins of humanity is a story of bones and the tales they tell. It was in 1856 that the first bones of an extinct human ancestor were encountered, unearthed by a crew of unskilled laborers digging for limestone in Western Europe. The find, which would be known as Neanderthal Man, was seeing the light of day for the first time in more than 40,000 years. At the time, the concept of a previous human species was virtually unthinkable. Yet just a few years later, Charles Darwin's work The Origin of Species first broached the subject of evolution, and by the end of the nineteenth century, it had become the hottest topic of the age. Adventurers had embarked on the search for the Missing Link, the single creature that represented the evolutionary leap from apes to humans. APE TO MAN examines the major discoveries that have led us to the understanding we have today, including theories that never gained full acceptance in their time, an elaborate hoax that confused the scientific community for years, and the ultimate understanding of the key elements that separate man from apes.

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[booesha2]

IF WE REALLY COME FROM MONKEYS CAN SOMEBODY EXPLAIN TO ME WHY MONKEYS DON'T CHANGE TO HUMAN TODAY COME ON PEOPLE STOP LISTEN TO WHAT UR LEARNT AND THINK FOR YOURSELVES I DOESN'T MAKE SENSE.

[rod31808]

@booesha2 "I DOESN'T MAKE SENSE." Well at least you're right about one thing. Now I have a question for you using your logic, if Americans came from Europe why are there still Europeans? Why don't Europeans become Americans? The reason we have so many different species is because of group isolation over long periods of time not allowing all animals within a species to evolve to be the same. 

[BIGPOLLOTX]

fuck gingos

[juki0h]

mans worst invention ever is religion, its what seperates man and stops mans accomplishments. imagine if religion never restricted us, we'd already being living on mars

[juki0h]

@domisthebomb09 im with you! if these religious nuts want a war, im all for it, lets go!

[mkf0528]

What a bunch of homos.

[XgamerlogicX]

@ofosusam ok thats it i cant handle all these comments to me asking me why this why that heres a solution read the bible what do you have to lose exactly?

[domisthebomb09]

Evolution is a fact. Deal with it creationist bitches