When humans first talked: Evolution (video)

When modern humans first talked

(PBS Eons, Feb. 11, 2021) The evolution of the earthling human ability to speak is its own epic saga, and it’s worth pausing to appreciate that.

Forbidden Archeology: Data over Theory

It’s taken several million years [though forbidden archeology has evidence modern humans have had it for hundreds of millions of years through cycles of time and our history on this planet] to get to this moment where we can tell ourselves a fun story about how it only took several million years for some humans to get here by impersonal processes.

Thanks to these illustrators for their illustrations featured throughout this episode: Julio Lacerda,​ Fabrizio de Rossi,​ Franz Anthony,​ Jack Byrley.​ Produced in collaboration with PBS Digital Studios.

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