Ep. 5: The Humans Lost in Time - Part 1

01/18/23 • 18 min

Think of history, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Just take a moment to pause and think. Does your mind wander to the pyramids of Ancient Egypt, The Rise and Fall of the Aztec Civilization, The Discovery of the Americas, or maybe the Industrial Revolution.

Today's world owes an immense debt to the mighty empires and great cities of ancient history. Their inventions and ideas enabled the advancement of human society and laid the foundation for modern life. But is it possible to dig a little deeper for the full story? What happened before history? The grand story of humanity starts on Earth. The history of humans is not a clean, linear process with clear beginnings and conclusions.

It constantly adds new chapters and rewrites itself. Some of the greatest evidence showing how Homo sapiens developed is shown in this evolutionary timeline. All leading up to the world we live in today with other fascinating creatures, tigers, parrots, jellyfish etc. This amazing tale explores the most profound mysteries of humankind, which merges findings from the archeological record with the most recent genetic research to find out who we are, where we came from, and what the future may hold for our existence. It is the story of a family tree whose tangled and knotted branches span several epochs and continents. Let this story immerse us into the saga of human evolution, commencing with the earliest vestiges of our hominid ancestors in Africa and continuing through waves of human expansion across the continents to the emergence of agriculture and the explosive growth of the world's population. Many hominin specimens belong not in our solid line of ancestry but on side branches of humankind—evolutionary experiments that ended in extinction.

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01/18/23 • 18 min

Evolution Unraveled - Ep. 5: The Humans Lost in Time - Part 1

Transcript

Hello, and Welcome to Evolution Unraveled. I’m your host, and today we’re taking a tour through time, and shedding light on the lost humans of our ancient pasts. This episode’s goal is to inform you about the puzzles, cutting-edge breakthroughs, and the past of human evolution. In the last few episodes, we explored the progress that led to the present theory of evolution and several theories on how humans evolved. We really covered most of the history of evolutionary thought and theory,

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