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"Becoming Human, Part 1"[ Video-NOVA -PBS-in US Only-But Watch It, It'Ll Blow Your Mind!


Offbeat  (tags: culture, environment, humans, society, animals, weather )

Janet
- 20 days ago - pbs.org
Why did leaps in human evolution take place? "First Steps" explores a provocative "big idea" that sharp swings of climate were a key factor.
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Janet Solomon (249)
Wednesday November 4, 2009, 12:03 pm
"Despite a fragmentary fossil record, paleoanthropologists have assembled a solid general picture of human evolution. They have traced hominins–that is, species that are bipedal and that are more closely related to humans than to other apes–back more than six million years."
 

Janet Solomon (249)
Wednesday November 4, 2009, 12:12 pm
Ok--here's the spoiler--and also, the most amazing piece of info I have heard in YEARS:

'It was a dramatic climate change that caused HUMANS to become what they are now-for better or worse...so...maybe we WILL survive this eco-disaster [again], just in a different, more adaptable form.'

[Gadzooks! maybe all those Monsanto chemicals are both killing us & making us CHANGE.]

Namaste, my fellow humans...perhaps we CAN get through this terrible mistake of our own making.... xo
 

Gorilly Girl (371)
Wednesday November 4, 2009, 2:37 pm
Oh you know I loved this one...yep indeed I did...

Big Gorilly Hugs
 
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