NOVA | Becoming Human (Part 1): First Steps

First Steps: 6 million years ago, what set our ancestors on the path from ape to human? Watch NOVA's comprehensive, three-part series on human evolution documents the journey from our early ancestors to today airs Wednesday, August 31, 2011 on PBS (please check local listings). www.pbs.org/nova/human

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[infinity730]

ape to human? I don't get it.. humans ARE apes.

We didn't evolve from modern chimp, but we do share a common ancestor.

[Prophiscient]

Showing a chimp and then asking how "they" became us is not very scientific...

[Badgerinthenight]

@legalizemarijuananos No you don't. However, there is vague evidence to suggest that our brain functions are evolving in some way or another. I forget how, but do look it up, very interesting study.

[Badgerinthenight]

@infinity730 I stand embarrassingly corrected. Thank you very much for the info. :)

[infinity730]

@Badgerinthenight

An ape is any member of the Hominoidea superfamily of primates, including humans.

[Badgerinthenight]

@infinity730 We are not Apes, Apes are our descendants. We're a different species.

[ivo2296]

6 million years ago - what a joke. Stop repeating same lie. Read or watch "Forbidden Archeology" - we have been here for over 250 million years. The donkey ain't a horse.

[gottspieler]

i hate how the narrator says "how did they become us?" THEY DIDN"T! we share a common ancestor

[BillRun101]

No, that's not true at all. If I am correct in inferring from your posts that you think that a God is responsible for creation, then it could be that the God created the universe which set things in motion, but did no more and everything else resulted.

The problem with your comments is that you seem to think the evolution needs to prove literally everything from the Big Bang onwards to be true, and that just isn't the case. Evolution is just about changes in lifeforms over time, nothing more.

[moonlight7171]

Because of the dependency nature of the story

if the any part is wrong then the entire story is wrong

like 2x3x6x7x5 if any number become zero the result will be zero

if there was no universe there would be no Earth

and if there no Earth there would be no man

what make the existence make every thing exist

so what made universe exist also made Earth exist and made man exist

you can not separate the story of man or other living been from atmosphere they live on

[BillRun101]

The story of human evolution does go back further than 5-7 million years ago, but before then it was a history that we share with Chimpanzees.

It looks to me that this program will cover the direct evidence that we have for human evolution, and there's no reason why the same program should have to cover the Big Bang or the origin of life or anything else.

[moonlight7171]

start and end is real points in each scientific aspect

why evolution theory says 6 million years ago not 21 Million years ago?

how they are sure about the numbers of years ?

I'm asking a scientist question what the age of the existence? not the age of OUR universe 13.7 B.Yrs