Our Lives Matter S1E12: Africa 7 Million Years Ago

Our Lives Matter

Feb 15 2024 | 00:24:30

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Show Notes

Seven million years ago our ancestors were chimpanzees living in a forest in Africa. Then a drought caused a food shortage, and some of them walked into the grassland looking for food. That change in their environment set the evolution of human intelligence in motion. ACT I Scene 1 [113 bpm] 7 million years ago, in southeastern Africa, there was a forest, where chimpanzees lived. They weren’t chimpanzees as we know them today. They were the ancestors of the chimpanzees of today. But I’m still going to call them chimpanzees. Scene 2 Chimpanzees, and all other primates, have…

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