Discovery Miracle Planet Disc 5: Survival of the Fittest (2005)

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Peter's DVD rating: 4 stars
At 14:10 arthropods should be anthropoids (includes gorillas, chimps, proboscis monkeys)?
1:40 800 holes off coast of Greenland when Greenland and Europe were torn apart 55 MYA. 2:00 Oceanic methane released, leading to global warming 3:20 Angiosperms flourished in warm climate 44 MYA (Oregon)
5:00 Primitive primates lived in trees, had good eyesight 5:15 Shoshonius had front-facing eyes 6:30Splitting of Gondwana isolated Antarctica with Circumpolar Current , leading to cooling
8:00Ancient primate Catopithecus had postorbital septum that holds eyeball (Sahara, Egypt) 9:40 Long-tailed Macague (Asia) has circular black spot called fovea for sharp vision, Galago (Africa) has not 13:00More advanced primates can see in 3 colors
14:10Anthropoids have muscles that can make facial expressions 15:10 Chimps can recognize expressions in social group 16:102 hominids lived side by side 1.5 - 1.7 MYA (southern Africa): Paranthropus robustus and early Homo had controlled use of fire
20:35Australopithecus africanus evolved in global cooling 21:00 Paranthropus robustus ate coarse, fibrous foodlike Hypoxis tubers , while early Homo ate meat 23:30 Hadza people hunter-gatheres (Tanzania)
27:00 Rifting of Africa a few MYA created diverse habitats, together with cooling, leading to more grazers and carnivores 30:30 Homo erectus had large brain and migrated out of Africa, became Java man in Indonesia and Peking man in China , but both became extinct 31:00 Homo sapiens appeared 200 KYA
31:20 Neanderthals (300 KYA) also had large brain 35:00 Homo sapiens had a rounded central part at base of skull , larynx is lower in the neck, crossing airway and foodway, but can modify vocal cords for speech 39:00FOXP2 gene on chromosome evolved 200 KYA, for speech
41:30Cro-Magnons had symbolic thought, left cave paintings in France 45:30 Richard Dawkins : transmission of language is new genetics: cultural evolution   
holes
1:40 800 holes
methane
2:00 Oceanic methane
Katsura
3:20 Angiosperms flourished in warm climate 44 MYA
Carpolestes
5:00 Primitive primates lived in trees, had good eyesight
Shoshonius
5:15 Shoshonius had front-facing eyes
Circumpolar Current
6:30 Circumpolar Current
Catopithecus
8:00 Catopithecus had postorbital septum that holds eyeball
Macaca fascicularis
9:40 Long-tailed Macague
fovea
9:40 circular black spot called fovea
Galagidae
9:40 Galago
colors
13:00 3 colors
facial expression
14:10 facial expressions
fear
15:10 Chimps can recognize expressions
hominids
16:10 Paranthropus robustus and early Homo
Paranthropus robustus
21:00 Paranthropus robustus
Hypoxis
21:00 Hypoxis tubers
Hadza
23:30 Hadza
Rift
27:00 Rifting of Africa
Homo erectus
30:30 Homo erectus
Java man
30:30 Java man in Indonesia
Peking man
30:30 Peking man in China
Homo sapiens
31:00 Homo sapiens appeared 200 KYA
Homo neanderthalensis
31:20 Neanderthals
skulls
35:00 Homo sapiens had a rounded central part at base of skull
larynx
35:00 larynx
cave painting
41:30 cave paintings in France
Dawkins
45:30 Richard Dawkins

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