Paul Crowl
Mon, Jan-29-07, 17:17
The usual abysmal mindless garbage. It is so bad that it
almost makes McGinn's nonsense seem intelligent.
The programmes can be listened to over the Internet -- if you
want to both laugh and cry.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/origins_revisited.shtml
An exploration of the latest ideas and discoveries in the
quest to understand the origins and evolution of humanity.
In the year 2000, zoologist Aubrey Manning presented a series
of three programmes on human evolution for Radio 4. In the
last seven years, palaeoanthropologists and archaeologists
have made a host of stunning discoveries, many of which have
defied expectations and overturned cherished theories.
The three programmes of Origins Revisited bring listeners up
to date on the latest fossil finds and new ideas about human
evolution.
Programme 1:
Aubrey meets the scientists investigating the first four to
five million years of human evolution - from the point in time
when our branch on the great ape family tree split from the
chimp branch.
In the last few years, fossils of the first human ancestors to
walk upright on two legs have been unearthed in Chad, Ethiopia
and Kenya. This has pushed evidence for human origins beyond
six million years ago.
A spectacular excavation has also been underway in South
Africa, where Ron Clarke of the University of Witswatersrand
is working on an historic fossil - the first complete skeleton
of an Australopithecine.
This 3.3 million year old ancestor is a close relative of the
famous Lucy creature. Its perfectly preserved hand is adding
fresh insights about how our ancestors evolved the ability to
make stone tools.
Programme 2:
In the field of human evolution, two particular places in the
world have got origins researchers buzzing with excitement and
new ideas.
The first is a wooded hilltop at site called Dmanisi in the
Republic of Georgia. Here Georgian and American scientists
have unearthed an unprecedented five complete skulls, numerous
other bones and stone tools of early humans, from about 1.8
million years ago.
The other is a cave called Liang Bua on the Indonesian island
of Flores - once home to the extraordinary miniature humans,
popularly known as the Hobbits.
The finds at both have researchers rethinking the timing of
one of the most significant events in human evolutionary
history - our ancestors' first move out of Africa to become a
globe-trotting family.
Programme 3:
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almost makes McGinn's nonsense seem intelligent.
The programmes can be listened to over the Internet -- if you
want to both laugh and cry.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/origins_revisited.shtml
An exploration of the latest ideas and discoveries in the
quest to understand the origins and evolution of humanity.
In the year 2000, zoologist Aubrey Manning presented a series
of three programmes on human evolution for Radio 4. In the
last seven years, palaeoanthropologists and archaeologists
have made a host of stunning discoveries, many of which have
defied expectations and overturned cherished theories.
The three programmes of Origins Revisited bring listeners up
to date on the latest fossil finds and new ideas about human
evolution.
Programme 1:
Aubrey meets the scientists investigating the first four to
five million years of human evolution - from the point in time
when our branch on the great ape family tree split from the
chimp branch.
In the last few years, fossils of the first human ancestors to
walk upright on two legs have been unearthed in Chad, Ethiopia
and Kenya. This has pushed evidence for human origins beyond
six million years ago.
A spectacular excavation has also been underway in South
Africa, where Ron Clarke of the University of Witswatersrand
is working on an historic fossil - the first complete skeleton
of an Australopithecine.
This 3.3 million year old ancestor is a close relative of the
famous Lucy creature. Its perfectly preserved hand is adding
fresh insights about how our ancestors evolved the ability to
make stone tools.
Programme 2:
In the field of human evolution, two particular places in the
world have got origins researchers buzzing with excitement and
new ideas.
The first is a wooded hilltop at site called Dmanisi in the
Republic of Georgia. Here Georgian and American scientists
have unearthed an unprecedented five complete skulls, numerous
other bones and stone tools of early humans, from about 1.8
million years ago.
The other is a cave called Liang Bua on the Indonesian island
of Flores - once home to the extraordinary miniature humans,
popularly known as the Hobbits.
The finds at both have researchers rethinking the timing of
one of the most significant events in human evolutionary
history - our ancestors' first move out of Africa to become a
globe-trotting family.
Programme 3:
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