Facts about Human Evolution
Hank brings you the facts, as they are understood by scientists today, about the evolution of humans from our humble primate ancestors. On the way to becoming Homo sapiens, game-changing evolution...
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Imagine the scene it was 1871 and Charles Darwin had just suggested that we humans did not in fact walk fully formed, out of the primordial sludge at the beginning of time instead, in his book "The Descent of Man", He proposed that humans descended from African apes. Naturally, his Victorian contemporaries were all "Ooooo... Fetch me my smelling salts..." and clutching at their pearls and what not and maybe you can't blame them for being shocked because Darwin's idea is still shocking people like a 140 years later. But, as he often was, Darwin was right. The amazing thing was that he proposed his theory of human evolution when there was almost no fossil evidence of any other kinds of Hominins That includes us and ou...
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Imagine the scene it was 1871 and Charles Darwin had just suggested that we humans did not in fact walk fully formed, out of the primordial sludge at the beginning of time instead, in his book "The Descent of Man", He proposed that humans descended from African apes. Naturally, his Victorian contemporaries were all "Ooooo... Fetch me my smelling salts..." and clutching at their pearls and what not and maybe you can't blame them for being shocked because Darwin's idea is still shocking people like a 140 years later. But, as he often was, Darwin was right. The amazing thing was that he proposed his theory of human evolution when there was almost no fossil evidence of any other kinds of Hominins That includes us and ou...
