History Channel - Ape to Man (Part 3)

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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[ZachVMNTX1]

Sad how few views this has. People need to know more about this.

[YourGodsAreImaginary]

To Believe is to Assume Without Evidence--> Why can't we Conclude Based UPON Evidence? :)

[cormermusic]

@ZachVMNTX1 I probably won't remembe hthis myself because I'm high as fuck, but more people DO need to watch it.

[clockwise104]

Religion = mans need for a leader = pack animal

[GSkate100]

It defies laws of biology and physics for some god to just create us in one week.

[YourGodsAreImaginary]

Fine... I Evolved- You Didn't.

[sbambic]

So we just developed sweat glands? And apes and gorillas just kept them. There are assumptions in evolution that dont really hold any water for me.

[PoopFlapjacks]

he finds the top of a skull and a leg bone and draws an entire person... wtf?

[porkYcain]

@fuckyou5211 You must realize thinking anything living today is our ancient ancestor is ridiculous. The apes today (chimpanzee, orangutan, and gorilla) share a common ancestor with us. You have to understand the difference.

[porkYcain]

@fuckyou5211 You can think your a monkey all you want, but that doesn't mean it's what science explains, True, we came from apes which came from monkeys, but you're still a human. A homo sapien to be exact. Sadly, it means smart man or man with knowledge. So, it's kind of a stretch to classify you as homo sapien.