The Origin of Us: Human evolution (Ep 47)
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The Descent of Man
He doesn't really talk about earlier stages of humanity because there's not really any evidence for him to talk about. Now he believes it's out there, but it just hasn't been discovered yet. He could see from his comparisons, his anatomical comparisons, that we have a lot in common with the African great apes, the gorillas and chimps. And even then though, when you get to The Descent of Man, he's focusing in that book on just making the case that humans have evolved like all their other organisms.
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