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Hello Bill hi what's going on man. I am very excited to be here. I'm excited to have you here

excellent um the social leap yes what's I am very excited to have you here. Excellent.

The social leap.

Yes.

What's the social leap?

I'll tell you all about it.

Please do.

Okay.

So the story that I want to tell is basically how we got here, how we became human.

And so that story begins about six or seven million years ago when our ancestors left the

rainforest.

And so the question is why would they leave and how would they survive

once they left and that's what the social leap is. So it takes a second to get it all

out there okay? Yeah. All right so here's a story. So if you look back about 7 million years, our ancestors and chimps, we had a common ancestor at about that point in time, six or seven million years ago. And that common ancestor, we don't know exactly what it looked like,

but from all we can tell, it was awfully close

to today's chimps.

And so if you look at chimps today,

you can get a pretty good sense of what life was like then and chimps today are really interesting.

They're basically at the top of the food chain in the rainforest.

They're super fast up in the trees, super athletic and because they travel in groups, even amazing tree climbers

like leopards won't try to attack them in trees.

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