Becoming Human Episode 2 Birth Of Humanity (NOVA)

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Broadcast (2010) The second episode of this series from NOVA investigates the first skeleton that really looks like us "Turkana Boy" an astonishingly complete specimen of Homo erectus found by the famous Leakey team in Kenya. These early humans are thought to have developed key innovations that helped them thrive, including hunting large prey, the use of fire, and extensive social bonds. The program examines an intriguing theory that long distance running, our ability to jog was crucial for the survival of these early hominids. Not only did running help them escape from vicious predators roaming the grasslands, but it also gave them a unique hunting strategy: chasing down prey animals such as deer and antelope to the point of exhaustion. Birth of Humanity also probes how, why, and when humans' uniquely long period of childhood and parenting began.

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 3 foot high Hobbit died out and poses the question: are we still evolving today?

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[utvota]

The truth is independent of belief...

Therefore a wise person will seek knowledge and not settle for mythological answers to scientific inquiry.

[342kobe]

@lordblazer Any proof blacks are humans.

[lordblazer]

@PlagueRunner

how do I know? because I'm educated, and a scientist. Not a biologist, but am a scientist. there is also more genetic variation within racial groups than between then. Yea, we made small tweeks for adaptation, but overall its mute. You got people of all races living in all forms of environments today. We like to think we're sub-species of each other, but no we are all the same species. This topic within the scientific community is no longer debated for good reasons.

[PlagueRunner]

@lordblazer How do you know what I understand and you are wrong genetically humans are just cast as bipedal warm blooded creatures doesnt mean that all breeds are the same thats like saying one dog is the same as another but size changes genetic lines even rats have different breeds each other suited to living in different area's of the world but be completly different

[ZZzzzzzWhat]

@lordblazer "there is only what human race so you can't compare to dog breeding." i'm not comparing human races to dog breeds, and no there isn't "only one human race", if you ignore the Physiognomic traits that constitute races(asian eyes, dark skin) that would make you ignorant of the obvious.

"different personalities even that is hardwired" nothing is "hardwired", its all about adaptation to the environment "intelligent design" does not exist.

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[lordblazer]

Hominids that migrated earlier than others didn't really change much. When Homo Sapiens hit the scene there were still homo erectus!!!

[lordblazer]

@PlagueRunner

I don't think you have a real comprehensive understanding of our written history. Has very little to do with the construct of race that was created to conveniently set up a caste. But of course you enjoy it so much you're trying your best to appropriate it into human biology/origin. Doesn't work that way. We're all the same species, white people are afrians with less melanin. Now many different cultures, languages, etc. But genetically we're pretty much the same race and species

[lordblazer]

@ZZzzzzzWhat

there is only what human race so you can't compare to dog breeding. As dog breeds have different aptitudes, different personalities even that is hardwired in them. This isn't the case for our species. We haven't been that isolated from one another, and the short period where we were able to gain different variations of melanin production isn't long enough to have any real distinguishable "races" in essence we're pretty much all the same race and species. ethnicity varies though

[lordblazer]

@timmy2ful

how does the theory of evolution threaten religious belief or belief in a God. I find that what science is discovering is God's equation, and its soo complex that I truly believe. Genesis is simply the work of fiction. You shouldn't take it seriously. Adam and Eve are fictional characters. Its mythology, and its needed in the bible to appropriate a beginning. But now we have advanced past it, and are truly making real efforts to understand the universe we live in. yet you hate it?