http://www.becominghuman.org/

Interactive documentary on the evolution of man.

These are pretty good. I watched them quite a while back.

It goes well with:
http://www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/humanorigins/

Darwin looked like a ape so he concluded we all evolved from them. Which is obviously not true.

So someone makes some silly-assed documentary ...it's just one person's opinion and nothing more. We all have opinions, they're like assholes, ya' know?

Baron Max

So someone makes some silly-assed documentary ...it's just one person's opinion and nothing more. We all have opinions, they're like assholes, ya' know?

Baron Max

It's a lot more than an opinion, but no one here expects you to understand that.

it's just one person's opinion and nothing more.

It's the current consensus in biosciences.

It's the current consensus in biosciences.

I think its the human part he has issues with. ;)

No, Sam, I didn't even watch the link ....I just figured that it was one more of your tirades about why Muslim terrorists are such nice, wonderful, loving humans!

Baron Max

I cant help but thinking any planet capable of sustaining life does not mean it is capable of creating life, far from it.

Imagine there is a replica of the Earth on the other side of the sun, would this planet after millions\billions of years suddenly produce human's? I doubt it would produce anything more than bacteria. And given this fact would remain viable for eternity or specifically as long as all the requirement remain constant.

I lost interest in the THEORY of evolution, given the multitutude of similarities spanning millions of species it could never be proven as fact.

If one studies the remains of a two different species of reptile and you found their skulls to be similar does this mean one evolved from the other? No it does not.

What i am more concerned with is where did life and the seed's of life on this planet come from? Was all this really due to a nice warm ocean a good climate and sandy beaches?

samcdkey: The website you posted has numerous links. First I went to "Summary of Human Origins" but then even from there there are dozens of links. So what is it that you are asking or want to focus on?

valich, sams link is in HER post.

I cant help but thinking any planet capable of sustaining life does not mean it is capable of creating life, far from it.

Imagine there is a replica of the Earth on the other side of the sun, would this planet after millions\billions of years suddenly produce human's? I doubt it would produce anything more than bacteria. And given this fact would remain viable for eternity or specifically as long as all the requirement remain constant.

I lost interest in the THEORY of evolution, given the multitutude of similarities spanning millions of species it could never be proven as fact.

If one studies the remains of a two different species of reptile and you found their skulls to be similar does this mean one evolved from the other? No it does not.

What i am more concerned with is where did life and the seed's of life on this planet come from? Was all this really due to a nice warm ocean a good climate and sandy beaches?

What are you talking about??? Why would you not think that live originated on Earth? And where do you get this idea about the "seed's of of life" coming from another planet? Could you tell all of us what these "seeds" were?

Um.
Yeah.
valich.
Sam's link is an interactive flash-based documentary on 'Becoming Human'.

You must have clicked on my link.
My link goes to a web page from the Smithsonian Institute on human origins.
There's a ton of stuff in my link.


But.
Here's a question.
How is it that you confused my link with hers?
Sometimes I wonder about you...

What are you talking about??? Why would you not think that live(sic) originated on Earth? ?

Why would you think it did?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5398850.stm

A nice news story. Maybe not enough to warrant its own thread.
After leaving Africa, human groups probably followed coastal routes to the Americas and South-East Asia.

Professor Jon Erlandson says the maritime capabilities of ancient humans have been greatly underestimated.

He has found evidence that early peoples in California pursued a sophisticated seafaring lifestyle 10,000 years ago.

Anthropologists have long regarded the exploitation of marine resources as a recent development in human history, and as peripheral to the development of civilisation.

This view has been reinforced by a relative lack of evidence of ancient occupation in coastal areas.


The knotted "cordage" could have been used to make nets and lines
But that view is gradually changing; genetic studies, for example, suggest a major early human expansion out of Africa occurred along the southern coastline of Asia, leading to the colonisation of Australia 50,000 years ago.

Shifting sea levels since the last Ice Age, combined with coastal erosion, would have erased many traces of a maritime past, Professor Erlandson explained.