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What happened to my country where I was born in, the country of my ancestors, the country which produced [Schiller], Goethe, Beethoven, and Mozart?
One key reason is that our ancestors on the savannas of Africa were really good at one thing.
Some of your and my ancestors saw the potential in certain wild plants and animals and started domesticating them.
By sowing and sharing them, you will keep a link alive to what your and my ancestors have been doing for thousands of years, and bring it into the future.
Even the ancestors of primates used to wield these impressive appendages, until their claws evolved into nails.
When nails first appeared in the fossil record around 55.8 million years ago, claws had already been present for over 260 million years in the ancestors of mammals and reptiles.
But given what we know about the habitats of our primate ancestors, it’s more likely that nails came with their own powerful advantages.
This combination of sensitivity and dexterity gave our ancestors the precise motor control needed to snatch up insects, pinch berries and seeds, and keep a firm grip on slim branches.
And when our ancestors moved down from the trees, this flexible grasp enabled them to create and wield complex tools.
The community thought so too, opting to close a small area of reef to octopus fishing temporarily, using a customary social code, invoking blessings from the ancestors to prevent poaching.
This is not the stomping ground of our Pleistocene ancestors.
Evolutionary biologists think that as the climate got drier and grasslands popped up, our tail-bearing ancestors left the trees and started walking on land.
The change was likely gradual over millions of years until, about 20 million years ago, our ancestors’ external tails disappeared altogether.
The appendix, meanwhile, may once have been part of the intestinal system our ancestors used for digesting plant materials.
In the 10,000 years since agriculture evolved, most of our ancestors have actually been agriculturalists or they were closely related to food production.
From ancestors to alien forms.
These were soon replaced by the ancestors of modern animals.
Our tadpole-like ancestors flitted along ancient coastlines, while their eel-like relatives with gnashing throat teeth swam above the ice-cream cone corals of the first reefs, dodging school-bus-sized krakens and hungry sea scorpions.
But surgeons in these eras are a little bit more conservative than their bold, trephinating ancestors.
So melanin was recruited, in our lineage, and specifically in our earliest ancestors evolving in Africa, to be a natural sunscreen.
Not just in modern humans, but in one of our distant unrelated ancestors, the Neanderthals.
The ancestor of the apes stayed in the trees; our ancestors went out onto the plain.
So we're left with a situation where we know that our earliest ancestors were moving around on four legs in the trees, before the savanna ecosystem even came into existence.
It had been waiting there since 1960 when Alister Hardy, a marine biologist, said, "I think what happened, perhaps our ancestors had a more aquatic existence for some of the time."
This has come 'round to be that all those naked pachyderms have aquatic ancestors.
But you can say that every animal that has become naked has been conditioned by water, in its own lifetime, or the lifetime of its ancestors.
These apples come from your ancestors, and your ancestors gave them the greatest honor they could give them.
We live in places like this as if they're the most natural things in the world, forgetting that because we're animals and that we need to eat, we're actually as dependent on the natural world as our ancient ancestors were.
Because it was discovery of grain by our ancient ancestors for the first time that produced a food source that was large enough and stable enough to support permanent settlements.
Culture is a reaction to nature, and this understanding of our ancestors is transmitted generation from generation in the form of stories, symbols and rituals, which are always indifferent to rationality.
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