Andrew Marr's History of the world (BBC One)

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Just watched this extremely interesting and informative program on BBC one last night. Its about the origin of human beings, how they spread around the world, how they survived etc. The religious school of thought might have their own opinion but from scientific perspective, I find it very informative.
Here is the link to the program: BBC One - Andrew Marr’s History of the World

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Thanks for sharing the link. I would definitely watched that but BBC videos are not available in Pakistan :(

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kuch dino main yt bhi khul jaye ga. phir dekh laiana.

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Is it available on youtube? share the link.

@shadan: can you please share some interesting points mentioned in this documentary?

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Here is the Youtube link: Andrew Marr’s History of the World - Survival - YouTube
I am at Uni at the moment. Will share the main points when I get back home.

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sure. I will wait for main points. Can’t watch video.

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Ok. Some points from video:
1. Around 17000 years ago, 'homosapiens' used to live in africa. They had been living there for tens of thousands of years.
2. They used to live in groups and moved from place to place in search of food, shelter and security.
3. After studying the evolution of human DNA, scientists conclude that only one of the tribes that moved out of africa lived long enough to leave a lasting legacy.
4. They arrived in today's Arabia around 65000 years ago.
5. Almost everyone alive today is related to 'one woman' in this tribe.
6. The tribe kept on moving and spread out slowly colonising the rest of the world.
7. First we travelled east towards India, Australia.
8. The land bridge that connected america and asia, wasn't crossed untill 15000 years ago.
9. These journeys were accelerated by cold, heat, climate change etc.
10. Reached Europe around 45000 years ago.
11. When we got to Europe, we discovered we were not alone.
12. Another variety of humans had been living there for an almost unimaginable period of time, 'the Neanderthals'.
13. They were tough, survived ice age conditions.
14. Scientists argue that we coexisted with neanderthals for 5000 to 10000 years but their number was on the decline during this period.
15. Nobody knows what happened to them but its probable that we pushed them out of their hunting grounds or perhaps we liked to eat them.
16. 30000 years ago, they became extinct.
17. Modern humans ready to rule the planet.
18. Around 20,000 years ago temperatures plunged even further.
19. We had to adapt or die.
20. We** invented the 'needle' (made out of bone) 17000 years ago. meaning we could wear clothings in layers and survive the harsh ice-age winters. we could be out tracking animals further, hunting for longer, better predators. The needle was the great unexpected life or death breakthrough.
21. Around 16000 years ago, the northern hemisphere began to warm up.
22. Around river Tigris (turkey), the single biggest change that humans have ever made to the planet started.
23. People in this area were lazy and did not want to move further to find more tasty seeds.
24. Laziness turns out to be an underestimated force in human history.
25. So if you don't want to go out to find your food, you can hardly make your food come to you. or can you?
26. It was a crucial moment in shifting the balance between human kind and the rest of the nature.
27. We took grains from people coming from other areas but instead of eating them all, we took a gamble and started storing them in the ground thus **invented 'planting'. Slightly started shifting from hunters to farmers.
28. Wheat, rice and corn were among the first cultivated plants.
29. Farming was the great leap forward.
30. When people settled down for farming, life became harder.
31. Archaelogists are clear, farmers became smaller and they died younger than hunter gatherers. labour in the fields led to joints inflamed by arthritis and the diet of sticky porridge brought tooth decay for the first time.
32. Population explosion: hunters had to limit the number of children to the number that they could carry with them and travel. Farmers didn't.
33. This led to the next big step: Towns.

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Thanks Shadan for your hard work and summarising this interesting information :k:

Point 5 is really discussion worthy :slight_smile: