The History of the World Podcast, written and presented by Chris Hasler.

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you know, Hello everyone and welcome to this very special Christmas Day episode of the History of the World magazine.

And I thought we'd do something completely different this time, with a lot of the focus now being on historical societies and

nations and peoples We often forget how popular volume one of the podcast was and many

people say that we look for history podcast or we look for material about human evolution

and we can't find it and we find it with the history of the world podcast so there's many people that are quite grateful for

the work that we did in volume one so what I thought I would do I do a little two-parter

where we actually look back on some of the material volume one, but I believe

that it would be quite a good thing to do, is almost to follow the timeline and then just take little excerpts out of our volume one material

to enhance that little story. So we're going to do a little story.

So we're going to do a little story.

It's going to be a two-parter,

and it's going to be essentially about human ancestors.

So we're going to start right back to our distant ancestors. Now we can argue about the point in history where we can

refer to animals being the direct ancestors of humans and we can also argue about whether some of the animals

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