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We humans are such a successful species.

Homo sapiens has only been around for about 100,000 years,

and in that time we've utterly transformed the world around us.

Our shelters allow us to live in all climates and from the poles to the tropics.

Our technology lets us communicate across the planet.

We've created art and music and literature,

and our agriculture has changed global biodiversity, shifting forever the way we feed ourselves.

In other words, human culture dominates the earth. I'm Gaya Vintz and in Discovery

from the BBC, I'll be finding out what has given us the cultural edge over other animals.

This includes our closest relatives, the Great Apes, with whom we share over 95% of our genes.

Clive Gamble is an archaeologist who has spent his career discovering how early humans lived.

What is it that we do that our relatives don't?

First of all we share ideas and we share

our culture, so we share ideas and we share ways of doing things

and we also learn and to assist us in that learning we go in for teaching and so

teaching I think is very important and it strikes me that when you look at the I've never seen

chimpanzees in the wild making anything but when you see the videos and there's lots of

them on the internet. What you don't see is the

chimpanzee teaching the other chimpanzees how to do it. There's always a young

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