History Channel - Ape to Man (Part 8)

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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[powermaxxx777]

those guys r such hippies haha! psychedelic contributions to finding our true roots!

[gregrutz]

Nice video.

[dancingnancy09]

@cutiepie070898 'obviously'? how so? it is all true and this doco is explaining in very simple terms how its true, how it has been proven true- you just dont have the intelligence to understand it and simply dont want to believe it. Why do keep posting your silly and childish 'this isnt true' comments-what do you expect to achieve by it- nobody cares what you think and if you are expecting anyone to join you your infantile denial then your even more of a dullard than you already appear to be

[t0nyram]

@cutiepie070898 what is so untrue about finding fossils of prehistoic man examining them, determining what time period they lived in as well as whitch speices of ape the resemble are you saying its all a some conspiracy? you leave comments on all of these videos but you have nothing to support your claims why is this obviously not true ???

[cutiepie070898]

THIS IS OBVIOUSLY "NOT TRUE"......

[BleeadingHand]

Holy crap im black...

[ImHereToTellYou1]

@thDICTATOR Lol, agree.

[thDICTATOR]

@ImHereToTellYou1 only if these scientist knew that... ha, they should pay us the Money that their getting

[ImHereToTellYou1]

@thDICTATOR If a ape and a human can't mate and make a baby then they are not the same species. Evolution says so.

[thDICTATOR]

@ImHereToTellYou1  ha, u got dat right

[ImHereToTellYou1]

Everybody's from freaking Africa!! Haha!

[ImHereToTellYou1]

@thDICTATOR Lol! Old apes died out new apes formed. IDK.