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The Move of Homo Sapiens’ into Tropical Forests

For more Science Videos: https://lt.org/ * In popular culture as in traditional archaeology, the tropical forest has been assumed to represent an environment inhospitable to humans. In this video, PATRICK ROBERTS challenges this view, demonstrating not only that Homo sapiens moved into tropical fore

Homo Sapiens Versus Neanderthals

Explore the origins of modern humans. Fossil evidence from Middle East caves and elsewhere has revealed some competitive advantages modern humans, known as Homo sapiens, are believed to have held over the more archaic human species, Neanderthals. For example, during the time in which the two species

Why we are able to speak

Neanderthals already possessed the FoxP2 language gene, which is responsible for language development in modern humans. So were cavemen as articulate as Homo sapiens? Author: ZDF/Terra X/Film Produktion Stein e.k./Alexander Hogh/Martin Papirowski/Timm Westen, Roxana Ardelean/Golem Studio/Guido Leu

The origin of life

For life to develop, it needs amino acids, sugars, bases and fats. In addition, RNA, an acid and a kind of chemical Morse code - this is how chains with building blocks are created. But it is only a protective lipid shell that turns the chains into a cell. Author: ZDF/Terrax/R. Schlosshan/F. Hädeck

How Long Have Humans Existed?

Within the history of everything we know from the Big Bang to this moment, where do humans fit in? Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/LifeNoggin Life Noggin is a weekly animated educational series. Whether it's science, pop culture, history or art, we explore it all and have a ton

Art in the Stone Age

One of the first figurative representations of man is the Venus of Hohle Fels. The six-centimeter sculpture is about 40,000 years old. Homo sapiens also immortalized horses, water fowl and mammoths in works of art. Author: ZDF/Terra X/Film Produktion Stein e.K./Alexander Hogh/Martin Papirowski/Tim