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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: elliot on Thursday 17 July 25 23:45 BST (UK)
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Well worth taking another long view of our story!
HUMANS
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002fxm9/human-series-1-1-the-first-of-us
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jebel_Irhoud
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I'd hoped for great things from this, having read about it .... but there seemed to be the usual superabundance of long shots of presenter strolling meaningfully, tossing hair, and a lot of it was very thinly spread - a shorter programme, and a voice-over, would have done more for the (very few, and mostly replica?) specimens, perhaps?
TY
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I'd hoped for great things from this, having read about it .... but there seemed to be the usual superabundance of long shots of presenter strolling meaningfully, tossing hair, and a lot of it was very thinly spread - a shorter programme, and a voice-over, would have done more for the (very few, and mostly replica?) specimens, perhaps?
TY
I agree. I kept saying "get on with it" or "show us some evidence. " I did learn a bit and when the Moroccan discoveries were being discussed I got into considering allocation speciation, genetic drift and Founder effect, all of which she had time to explore.
I now want to read more about the early H. sapiens and the modern interpretation of the research. In that respect the programme has done its job.
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Watched the first episode yesterday. I found it tedious and irritating.
Martin
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I now want to read more about the early H. sapiens and the modern interpretation of the research. In that respect the programme has done its job.
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If these non-specialist programmes encourage any of us to explore and extend our curiosity beyond the paper based records to include our earlier roots, then the programme has contributed successfully to amazement and wonder about the subject of the programe title!