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The last common ancestors between humans and chimps date somewhere between six and eight million years.
The earliest hominins, or earliest human ancestors, evolved into a group known as the australopithecines.
While the fossil record between these time frames in Africa is relatively sparse, the fossils nonetheless demonstrated certain trends from our earliest ancestors to modern humans.
Those bipedal, more apelike ancestors?
However, they do overlap in time with several stone-tool industries, the makers of which are considered to be either modern humans or direct human ancestors.
Your ancestors, back to the earliest fishes, overcame all these challenges.
Your few four-legged ancestors, the tetrapods, struggled in tropical river plains.
However, it is already clear that your ancestors' survival through mass extinction, and their responses in the aftermath made you who you are today.
I personally recently learned that our human ancestors would follow flocks of vultures and then they would help them to identify where carcasses have been dropped by large carnivores, and these humans will scavenge and eat part of that meat.
For instance, "Kindred" tells the story of a woman who is repeatedly pulled back in time to the Maryland plantation of her ancestors.
My science fiction had different ancestors, African ones.
It is in the powerful spirits and ancestors who dwelled in Lagos.
I felt a deeper connection to how my ancestors used to look at the world around them.
Maybe if I had known my ancestors sooner, it wouldn't have taken me so long to find a source of pride in my identity and in my community.
After all, we do not inherit the earth from our ancestors.
When our Paleolithic ancestors first settled Eurasia roughly 100,000 years ago, wolves were one of their main rivals at the top of the food chain.
If there's one thing I want you to remember from my talk today, it's this: your anger exists in you as an emotion because it offered your ancestors, both human and nonhuman, with an evolutionary advantage.
It's all part of this complex pattern of physiological experiences that exist today because they helped your ancestors deal with cruel and unforgiving forces of nature.
And the problem is that the thing your ancestors did to deal with their anger, to physically fight, they are no longer reasonable or appropriate.
You are capable of something your nonhuman ancestors weren't capable of.
It was 300,000, probably, years ago that most of us, the ancestors of most of us in this room came up out of Africa and turned to the left.
When the Dutch explorers first encountered the island, they asked the people of Rapa Nui how their ancestors could have possibly moved those massive statues.
And the Rapa Nui said, "Our ancestors didn't move the statues, because the statues walked themselves."
This is similar to the process that our Stone Age ancestors used to make tools and other implements from the sticks and stones that we found in the world around us.
You know, you're gazing upon your very distant ancestors.
In “The Garden of Forking Paths,” as Yu Tsun winds his way through country roads, he remembers a lost labyrinth built by one of his ancestors.
I have a feeling that, at this rate, it's going to be hard for our generation to be remembered as good ancestors.
And this, I believe, is the single most powerful way we can reclaim foresight: by seeing ourselves as the good ancestors we long to be, ancestors not just to our own children but to all humanity.
And I kept asking myself this really simple question: if the ancestors to New World monkeys could somehow cross the Atlantic Ocean, why couldn't humans cross that tiny stretch of water?
The Mongols were shamanists, believing that the spirits of nature and their ancestors inhabited the world around them.
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