Becoming Human Episode 3 Last Human Standing (NOVA)

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Broadcast (2010) Last Human Standing examines the fate of the Neanderthals, our European cousins who died out as modern humans spread from Africa into Europe during the Ice Age. Did modern humans interbreed with Neanderthals or exterminate them? The program explores crucial evidence from the recent decoding of the Neanderthal genome. How did modern humans take over the world? New evidence suggests that they left Africa and colonized the rest of the globe far earlier, and for different reasons, than previously thought. As for Homo sapiens, we have planet Earth to ourselves today, but that's a very recent and unusual situation. For millions of years, many kinds of hominids co-existed. At one time Homo sapiens shared the planet with Neanderthals, Homo erectus, and the mysterious "Hobbits" three foot high humans who thrived on the Indonesian island of Flores until as recently as 12,000 years ago. Last Human Standing also examines why we survived while those other ancestral cousins died out and poses the question: are we still evolving today?

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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[PatchesRips]

This is bogus. When Viktor Deak says "no yet human, but no longer an ape", he might as well be saying "not quite doberman, but no longer a dog". A human is an ape; humans are one of the species of great apes. We never stopped being apes, or primates, or mammals, or vertebrates.

[Alphacheesehunter]

@PatchesRips I think he was trying to lessen the blow of humans being apes. Some people still find it hard to accept.

[PeeGeeBeeDee]

@FreeTibetChinaOUT OK. Thank You.

[FreeTibetChinaOUT]

It is a PBS documentary which is about 2 hours long called Journey of Man: A genetic Odyssey

[PeeGeeBeeDee]

@FreeTibetChinaOUT Ha Ha Ha. What Documentary Is This? Where Did You See This?

[PeeGeeBeeDee]

The Sperm That Created ME Is Laced With Genes On The Y Chromosome That Enabled My Paternal, Paternal, Paternal, Paternal, Etc., Etc. Ancestor To Socially And Economically Succeed In His Environment And Have Great Reproductive Success.

[TheBardicDruid]

@PatchesRips If that were the case then we'd all still be sponges.

[PatchesRips]

@TheBardicDruid "No he's right, we've evolved past the ape stage"

No, he's not. "Ape" isn't a "stage". It's a colloquial term for "hominid", a group whose extant member include humans, chimps, gorillas, and orangutans.

Groups that you belong to biologically you do not grow out of. There's no biological classification our ancestors ever belonged to to which we do not belong ourselves. You never stop being the descendant of your ancestors.

[TheBardicDruid]

@PatchesRips No he's right, we've evolved past the ape stage, just as the apes evolved past the ground dweller stage.