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

and this is volume one the prehistoric world

episode nine the origin of Homo sapiens. Oh, We have reached an incredibly important point in our podcast. This is the beginning of the history of the world.

So what were the first eight podcasts all about? Well, that was the introduction to the story of us.

Me and you, here today. We have already seen what's happened to us and why we physically appear like we do.

We understand that we are not perfect. We are like we are because the circumstances which we live in

have dictated it. We have had to become technological experts and technological innovators in order to survive.

We have had to learn to understand each other like no other species, being able to climb into each other's

minds using a powerful ability to understand ourselves and a powerful ability to communicate ourselves.

Now it's time to realize our success and begin the real story of the history of the world.

We have finally reached the point in our story where we can discuss the current human being, Homo sapiens us.

It is traditionally believed that we evolved in Africa around 200,000 years ago.

As ever, I like to feel the gaps in the chronology,

but today I will find this a difficult task

due to the lack of knowledge. Last time we discussed Africa

we had recognised that Homo aghasta was in the Great Rift Valley around one.5 million years ago.

But we also identified in the last podcast on the Ice Ages that between 1.5 and 1 million years

ago a migration of hominins crossed the Strait of Gibraltar

into modern Spain. Which hominin it is is open to debate. I tend to favour the theory that a version of Homo erectus

that didn't leave Africa evolved into Homo aghasta and either another version of

Homo erectus or indeed Homo a gastra itself migrated

northwest on the African continent into Spain and it evolved into

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