Examining the natural history of humans, the speaker notes that upright posture has been in existence for the past five million years, whereas the cultivation of dogs was much more recent, only a couple hundred thousand years ago.
Discover the fascinating history of Edinburgh Castle which has been occupied for thousands of years by various civilizations, kingdoms and tribes.
The oldest living organism on the planet is a bristlecone pine tree found atop a windy and arid mountain in California, which has seen the entire arc of human civilization. While the oldest vertebrate is a type of shark called a Greenland shark, which has been estimated to have lived up to 400 years.
Enhancing human faculties is necessary to explore human potential as the difference between chimpanzees and humans is only 1.23 percent and the sharpness of perception brings profoundness of experience.
The podcast talks about the evolution of palms and the different types of palms found in South America including the wax palms that can grow up to 200 feet tall.
The human species developed the ability to manipulate and hands-free with a much bigger brain size before the process of vision, which developed 500 million years ago. Around five million years ago, we had the first bipedal primate.