Week 2
Our Evolution Over 20 Million Years
We lost our tails about 20 million years ago. We lost our small brains a few million years ago. Humans are unique, just like every other species. The idea that chimps are our cousins NOT our ancestors is emphasized again and again – maybe someday someone will understand this.
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04:25
1.1 Timelines: Direction? Linear? Logarithmic?
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07:21
2.1.2 Timelines: Tails, Thumbs, Agriculture and Cities
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18:10
2.2.1 Neolithic Revolution
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10:48
2.2.2 Human Migration & Tribalism
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11:47
2.2.3 Different Kinds of Humans
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10:59
2.2.4 Once We Were Not Alone
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11:34
2.2.5 Human Uniqueness
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17:28
2.2.6 Big Brains
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10:07
2.2.7 Chimps, Cousins & Ancestors
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10:23
2.3.1 Science and Racism
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06:18
2.4.1 Colin Groves: mammalogist/primatologist
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05:45
2.4.2 Varsha Pilbrow: physical anthropologist
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05:24
2.4.3 Irene Romero Galago: human geneticist
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07:15
2.4.4 David Christian: big historian/Russian historian
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06:36
2.4.5 Marnie Hughes-Warrington: philosopher/historian
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28:27
2.5.1 Student Discussion
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02:24
2.5.2 Guns Germs Steel by Jared Diamond
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03:08
2.5.3 Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
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03:17
OFFICIAL VERSION: Sing IMAGINE with your favourite stars & John Lennon | UNICEF
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54:35
Guns Germs And Steel part 1
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17:09
Why humans run the world | Yuval Noah Harari
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04:23
Yuval Noah Harari on Nationalism
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01:06:19
Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
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06:23
Seven Million Years of Human Evolution
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01:23:13
Whatever Happened to Homo erectus? - Science Talk
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16:26
The evolving story of human evolution | Melanie Chang | TEDxVictoria
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11:24
What’s in the 4% of our DNA that makes us different from chimps?
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03:43
Chimp vs Human! | Memory Test | BBC Earth
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02:22
ABC News, Chimps vs Humans
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02:44
Two Monkeys Were Paid Unequally: Excerpt from Frans de Waal's TED Talk
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection and The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex
by Charles Darwin 1859 and 1871, republished as Darwin 49 Britannica Great Books, University of Chicago, Chicago
Guns, Germs and Steel: the fates of human societies
by Jared Diamond, 1997, Jonathan Cape, London
Sapiens: a brief history of humankind
by Yuval Noah Harari, 2015, Harpur Collins, New York
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the new science of the human past
by David Reich, 2018, Pantheon, New York