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