This is the story of us, tracing our origins back 3.8 billion years. Who are we? Where do we come from? What does it mean to be human?
For thousands of years, these questions have been explored through philosophy and religion, but science now offers empirical insights into our past and our place in the world. By examining clues from deep within our history, we can uncover answers to the age-old inquiries that have shaped human thought.
From the first spark of life on Earth, we track the evolution and connectivity of all living organisms. Join us as we follow the journey of our ancestors from Africa to Asia, along the Indian coastline to Australia, north into Europe and Siberia, and eventually to the last continents to be populated: the Americas. Along the way, we will encounter various human species and delve into the sophistication of some of the earliest civilizations.
Together, we'll explore how knowledge is formed and what science reveals about our journey from single cells to civilization.
This is the story of us. Our story started 3.8 billion years ago. Who are we? Where do we come from? What does it mean to be human?For thousands of years, such questions have been explored through philosophy and religion, but the answers now seem to lie firmly within the grasp of an empirical approach to the world and our place within it.By peering deep into our past and dragging clues out into the light, science can now provide us with some of the answers to the questions that people have always asked.From the first spark of life on earth 3.8 billion years ago, we track the evolution and connectivity of all living things.Join us as we follow in the footsteps of our ancestors from Africa into Asia and around the Indian coastline, to Australia, north into Europe and Siberia, and, eventually, to the last continents to be peopled: the Americas. We’ll meet some other human species along the way.We’ll examine the sophistication of some of the earliest civilisations, and we’ll discuss how we know what we know and why we think what we think, what the science can tell us. This is the story of us, from single cell to civilisation.
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