History Channel - Ape to Man (Part 9)

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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[rathcabbinman]

thqnks for putting this up!!

[rod31808]

i really enjoyed this video myself, if it were up to me i would make it mandatory for everyone to watch lol.

[rathcabbinman]

ha yeah i know a lot of ppl wud enjoy it you dont know where i would find a proper video like this a bout Homo floresiensis or the hobbit have you heard of it?

[rod31808]

i'm uploading a video with similar "hobbits" found on the island of palau. they should be done shortly

[cutiepie070898]

I really thought that Neanderthal was our ancestors......hahaha

[adi87tya]

@mrtreb20 Looking at the structure of the pelvis bone is a great way to tell usually. From wikipedia: "In overall anatomy, the pelvis is far more human than ape. The iliac blades are short and wide. These features point to a structure that can accommodate a significant degree of bipedalism. Importantly, the femur also angles in toward the knee. This trait would have allowed the foot to have fallen closer to the midline of the body, and is a strong indication of bipedalism."

[mrtreb20]

im wondering how the hell did they know that lucy can walk or run like ours ? ..

how ????????

[ImHereToTellYou1]

Some people don't look like they fully formed because some people do be liking like an ape in the face.

[ImHereToTellYou1]

Lucy! I want a Lucy!

[thDICTATOR]

you gone tell me all those types of apes died out ?

then what about all the rest of the apes

that's been here for millions of so-called years (as you say)

and ain't developed yet ?

it don't make sense and will never make sense (cause it's a Lie)

and at the same time your saying to the people that the ape was a str-8 retard

if it didn't develop like a normal ape then it was a retard.. (you retard)

[jetliigor]

If we're still evolving which is 99.999% true, and it took 3 million years to get from Lucy to Man, what will Man of today look like in 3 million years? What will we evolve into? Or will we stay the same as today?