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🗓️ 22 January 2024
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0:00.0 | Humans are the apex predator, not an apex predator, the apex predator. |
0:07.0 | There's no animal on earth that is stronger, more intelligent, or more adaptable than |
0:12.0 | a Homo sapiens. |
0:13.5 | But telling the human story from the beginning is difficult. |
0:16.9 | It was a time when two words to find our world, fear and violence. |
0:21.6 | It was a time when we were not the Apex predator. We were their prey. |
0:26.4 | We emerged from our caves during the day hoping we wouldn't be hunted by the monsters |
0:30.6 | in the woods. So vicious were these monsters, they still live in our myths and our nightmares. They created a |
0:37.8 | generational trauma embedded into our DNA over hundreds of thousands of years of evolution. |
0:43.7 | These creatures were stronger, faster, and when it came to combat |
0:47.7 | more intelligent than we were. |
0:49.5 | It's a miracle any of us or even here. |
0:52.0 | This is the story of how modern humans conquered the |
0:55.3 | monsters and won the battle for the world. But here's the thing. Those |
1:00.0 | fearsome monsters defeated by humans were other humans. |
1:04.1 | You are not who you think you are not who you think you are. |
1:14.0 | Well, you're human, but we Homo sapiens weren't the first type of humans. |
1:19.0 | Just 50,000 years ago, various species of humans shared the planet with us at the same time, and they were everywhere. |
1:26.7 | Denisovans settled in Russia. |
1:28.8 | Florciansis traveled all the way to Indonesia. |
1:31.7 | Luzonensis traveled through Asia and all the way down through the Philippines. |
1:36.4 | And of course there's us, Homo sapiens. |
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