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And that's just a tiny fraction of all species that have ever lived on the planet in past times.

We're one species out of approximately, or let's say, at least 16 upright-walking apes that have existed over the past six to eight million years.

But, essentially, two million years ago, Homo erectus, up in the far right corner, lived alongside three other species of human ancestor.

But it is not to say that being a single species on planet Earth is the norm.

In fact, if you go back in time, it is the norm that there are multiple species of hominids or of human ancestors that coexist at any one time.

That's what we're still trying to find answers to, and it is important to realize that there is diversity in all different species, and our ancestors are no exception.

Well, shortly afterwards, members of his species started to move northwards out of Africa, and you start to see fossils of Homo erectus in Georgia, China and also in parts of Indonesia.

We're certainly a polluting, wasteful, aggressive species, with a few nice things thrown in, perhaps.

Is this a good evolutionary adaptation, or is it going to lead us to being the shortest-lived hominid species on planet Earth?

We've only been around for the past 200,000 years as a species, yet we've reached a population of more than six and a half billion people.

But we have to control our numbers, because we can't really hold it together as a species.

My father so appropriately put it, that "We are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species."

The other, a little notebook which he titles "The transmutation of species."

In a flash, he realizes how species could emerge and evolve slowly, through this process of the survival of the fittest.

You walk down the street in any big city, you travel like that, and you are amazed at the diversity in the human species.

When did we originate as a species?

In "The Descent of Man," he wrote, "In each great region of the world, the living mammals are closely related to the extinct species of the same region.

It's therefore probable that Africa was formerly inhabited by extinct apes closely allied to the gorilla and chimpanzee, and as these two species are now man's nearest allies, it's somewhat more probable that our early progenitors lived on the African continent than elsewhere."

These are three extinct species of hominids, potential human ancestors.

Three extinct species, same place, same time.

He categorized about 12,000 species in "Systema Naturae."

Why didn't Homo erectus evolve into separate species, or sub-species rather, human races around the world?

The evidence is that humans begin to specialize in particular prey species, at particular times of the year.

Now, that story I just told you is literally a whirlwind tour of how we populated the world, the great Paleolithic wanderings of our species.

The original intent was to travel there and bring back a classic story of diverse species, of an exotic locale.

But the centerpiece species of Zakouma are the elephants.

I've seen sort of OK pictures of bycatch, the animals accidentally scooped up while fishing for a specific species.

I remember thinking that it was very strange that humans, who are an animal species among others, could be capable of changing the Earth's climate.

Furthermore does hardly anyone speak about the fact that we are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction, with up to 200 species going extinct every single day, that the extinction rate today is between 1,000 and 10,000 times higher than what is seen as normal.

All in, there are around 28,000 species of orchid on earth – about as many as all the bird, mammal and reptile species combined.

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