Becoming Human ---> The forces that fueled the evolution of Mankind

[rdean]

I wish our die-hard conventional scientists would stick to what is rather always wasting millions on uncertainties. Those millions could be used to combat cancer, AIDS, hunger and make Antarctica a habitable homeland for Israel.

If you watched the series, you would see how much one science touches another. See "genetics".

It's not evolution where the gaps are being "filled", it's all of science. Every thing is connected. Everything related. Notice how they made their point from "fossils, geology, genetics, geology at the bottom of the ocean, other species and climate change?

Contrary to what the right thinks, science is NOT a religion.

 

[rdean]

What you call "racism", is evolution

No, what you call "evolution" is merely your "mental illness" bubbling to the surface.

 

[Tank]

Ever wonder why they call it the "missing link"???




It's missing because there isn't a fucking link between apes and humans.

Blacks

 

[editec]

Part 1, "First Steps," examines the factors that caused us to split from the other great apes. The program explores the fossil of "Selam," also known as "Lucy's Child." Paleoanthropologist Zeray Alemseged spent five years carefully excavating the sandstone-embedded fossil. NOVA's cameras are there to capture the unveiling of the face, spine, and shoulder blades of this 3.3 million-year-old fossil child. And NOVA takes viewers "inside the skull" to show how our ancestors' brains had begun to change from those of the apes.

NOVA | Becoming Human Part 1

In "Birth of Humanity," the second part of the three-part series "Becoming Human," NOVA investigates the first skeleton that really looks like us–"Turkana Boy"–an astonishingly complete specimen of Homo erectus found by the famous Leakey team in Kenya.

The other programs in the series are Part 1: "First Steps," which looks at how, for millions of years, many species of small-brained human predecessors lived, and Part 3: "Last Human Standing," which examines why, of various human species that once shared the planet, only our kind remains.

NOVA | Becoming Human Part 2

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Fascinating series. They found that for 2.2 million years, our ancestors "flatlined" meaning no noticeable development. Then in a period of 200,000 years, the climate in Africa changed from monsoons, to desert to grasslands to humid to arid and mirroring that change was an explosion in human evolution. Perhaps it's why people can live in every environment.

Very interesting.

Life seems intent on surviving, doesn't it?

And as conditions change, so too does life seem to modify species to take advantage of those changes.

Why...it's almost as though it was intelligently programmed, isn't it?

OR...

another approach to this question is just that that's the way it is, and it only seems like an intelligent design because we are DEFINING the way it is as being intelligently designed.

Frankly, I doubt it matters a figleaf which theory one believes.

Reality is what it is, and what we imagine is behind it all isn't something that depends on US to believe it OR understand it.

 

[rdean]

Part 1, "First Steps," examines the factors that caused us to split from the other great apes. The program explores the fossil of "Selam," also known as "Lucy's Child." Paleoanthropologist Zeray Alemseged spent five years carefully excavating the sandstone-embedded fossil. NOVA's cameras are there to capture the unveiling of the face, spine, and shoulder blades of this 3.3 million-year-old fossil child. And NOVA takes viewers "inside the skull" to show how our ancestors' brains had begun to change from those of the apes.

NOVA | Becoming Human Part 1

In "Birth of Humanity," the second part of the three-part series "Becoming Human," NOVA investigates the first skeleton that really looks like us–"Turkana Boy"–an astonishingly complete specimen of Homo erectus found by the famous Leakey team in Kenya.

The other programs in the series are Part 1: "First Steps," which looks at how, for millions of years, many species of small-brained human predecessors lived, and Part 3: "Last Human Standing," which examines why, of various human species that once shared the planet, only our kind remains.

NOVA | Becoming Human Part 2

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Fascinating series. They found that for 2.2 million years, our ancestors "flatlined" meaning no noticeable development. Then in a period of 200,000 years, the climate in Africa changed from monsoons, to desert to grasslands to humid to arid and mirroring that change was an explosion in human evolution. Perhaps it's why people can live in every environment.

Very interesting.

Life seems intent on surviving, doesn't it?

And as conditions change, so too does life seem to modify species to take advantage of those changes.

Why...it's almost as though it was intelligently programmed, isn't it?

OR...

another approach to this question is just that that's the way it is, and it only seems like an intelligent design because we are DEFINING the way it is as being intelligently designed.

Frankly, I doubt it matters a figleaf which theory one believes.

Reality is what it is, and what we imagine is behind it all isn't something that depends on US to believe it OR understand it.

Or it's just adapting to climate conditions with no supernatural involvement.

 

[Tank]

What you call "racism", is evolution

No, what you call "evolution" is merely your "mental illness" bubbling to the surface.

You let you're liberal views overide the science views on race.

 

[HUGGY]

Cartoons for adults. Entertaining if you buy the concept. Science can't tell us why the globe was covered in ice 20,000 years ago but they are sure they figured out twenty million years of "evolution".

This is a pretty crazy Non-Sequitur. Whether or not anyone can explain ice 20,000 years ago has nothing to do with the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection. They are entirely different fields of study. They are "sure" they figured it out thanks to the mountains of evidence, whether from fossils, geology, DNA, or a whole host of other fields.

This is like saying, "They can't cure cancer, but they can make planes fly? I call B.S.!"

OK Nate, let's put it this way, naturalists are conflicted about the evolutionary relationsip between birds and reptiles but it seems that NOVA has the far more complex evolutionary mystery of humans locked up at least for an entertaining hour of "what -if" cartoons.

A cartoon is a wholely made up character...such as your god.

 

[FA_Q2]

These types of programs are always borderline when it comes to science. Not much on the hard facts side and lots on the conjecture side. Much of the details are not known to us at all. All we really know is that evolution is the driving force and that we descended from a common ancestor to the great apes but the minute details will likely be lost forever. We were not there to observe it.

 

[rdean]

Evolution's past is modern human's present

Evolutions past is modern humans present | R&D Mag


Additionally, the research could provide greater insight into human physiology and assist the understanding of human diseases.

"It is entirely possible that some of the genes that were picked up from archaic forms by the ancestors of modern Africans were beneficial and are now part of the functional physiological machinery of contemporary populations," says Hammer. "This could be in the form of disease resistance alleles or other gene variations that led to novel adaptations in the modern population."