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Your distant ancestors loved that shape and found beauty in the skill needed to make it, even before they could put their love into words.
It's a gift handed down from the intelligent skills and rich emotional lives of our most ancient ancestors.
Because, after all, within living memory, they were hunters and gatherers, living pretty much like our ancestors lived for maybe 99 percent of the human story.
And you might think that that was incredibly stupid of our ancestors to be plugging things into a light socket like this.
But, you know, before I get too far into condemning our ancestors, I thought I'd show you: this is my conference room.
All of our science comes from the fact that our ancestors were able to do something extraordinary every day, which was just rely on their naked feet and legs to run long distances.
Anyway, these women are resurrecting the work of ancestors to have some incredible conversations that have been previously buried and sealed.
Terrible news for the dinosaurs, but great news for our mammalian ancestors, who flourished in the niches left empty by the dinosaurs.
I've often wondered, what is the evolutionary pressure that made our ancestors in the Veldt adapt and evolve to really enjoy pictures of galaxies when they didn't have any.
In the past, our ancestors never had to struggle so much with this question of when somebody was dead.
The bodies of plankton's ancestors actually make up a for lot of the carbon we burn today.
I approach photographing these icebergs as if I'm making portraits of my ancestors, knowing that in these individual moments they exist in that way and will never exist that way again.
There's a last group of people who believe that the Indus people were the ancestors of people living in South India today.
Because this is exactly what our ancestors, the Homo erectus, did.
If you look at our ancestors, the Neanderthals and the Homo erectus, our immediate ancestors, they're confined to small regions of the world.
This may be surprising, because we can, of course, look at these people and quite easily say where they or their ancestors came from.
If they then mixed with each other there, then those modern humans that became the ancestors of everyone outside Africa carried with them this Neanderthal component in their genome to the rest of the world.
So we can then ask for Denisovans the same things as for the Neanderthals: Did they mix with ancestors of present day people?
So this presumably means that these Denisovans had been more widespread in the past, since we don't think that the ancestors of Melanesians were ever in Siberia.
And the anthropologist Randall White has made a very interesting observation: that if our ancestors 40,000 years ago had been able to see what they had done, they wouldn't have really understood it.
What would our ancestors 10,000 years ago have said if they really had technology assessment?
So these things are kind of relative to where you or your ancestors happen to stand.
Each one has an incredible story behind their face, a story that you could never fully fathom, not only their own story, but the story of their ancestors.
And it happened again, even more spectacularly, in the last half-million years when our own ancestors became cultural creatures, they came together around a hearth or a campfire, they divided labor, they began painting their bodies, they spoke their own dialects, and eventually they worshiped their own gods.
You know how my ancestors did sit-ins, just so I can sit in a classroom.
Well, we're no genetically hardier than our ancestors were 10,000 years ago.
Through cultural changes, our ancestors largely eliminated early death so that people can now live out their full lives.
And we don't appear until about 99.96 percent of the time into this story, just to put ourselves and our ancestors in perspective.
It was put there by our distant ancestors who spread across the world, and it's never going to be quenched.
It happened when feudal Europe was brought under the control of centralized kingdoms, so that today a Western European has 1/35th the chance of being murdered compared to his medieval ancestors.
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