
First Man
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a new species appeared on earth:
the great apes.
Among them was one family
with extraordinary abilities.
They were our distant ancestors.
Through evolution they gave rise to new,
more advanced species.
They ventured far and wide and invented hunting,
power, tools, love,
and soon war.
They competed with the great beasts,
conquered the planet, adapted to every climate.
They became us, Homo sapiens,
modern man.
Where and when did our lineage begin?
Who was the first of us?
What is that quality that makes us human?
The difference that sets us
apart from other animals?
Thanks to the latest scientific discoveries,
we are about to take a journey
into the depths of time
to find out which of our ancestors took
the decisive step
and gave birth to the first man.
Our family story begins 25 million years ago
at at time of intense global warming,
with the vast Tethys Ocean fragmenting
and closing off in the near east,
humid forests spread north from Africa.
Our distant ancestors followed the forest
and rapidly populated the ancient world.
They ruled the canopy, a
hundred different species.
Gigantopithecus,
Ramapithecus, Sivapithecus,
stretched from Europe to modern-day China.
This is the age of the planet of the apes.
is our common ancestor?
The Mediterranean coast 13 million years ago
in modern-day Spain.
Here lives a creature with exceptional abilities.
This acrobat is Pierolapithecus.
The animal kingdom has never seen such a marvel.
This great ape is the origin
of our family, but how?
What makes him our great grandfather?
We are only beginning to understand.
Pierola lives in the trees
and mainly eats fruit.
He is too heavy to walk on the branches,
so he hangs.
Though he does sometimes end up on two feet.
He can walk.
Contrary to common belief,
the ability to walk upright wasn't developed
on the ground, but up in the branches.
Bipedalism was not man's invention, but the apes.
He left his family several days ago.
He now faces a difficult task:
being adopted by a new group.
And he's just discovered one.
His fate will be decided here.
But each group has its own territory
and intruders are rarely welcome.
A young female and her infant.
Mothers are especially weary.
Not easy to approach.
Up there, there is an older female.
Much easier to make contact.
A large male, clearly a dominant alpha male.
He seems calm,
but it is far too dangerous to approach.
To be accepted, he must first be noticed.
A tense moment.
Has the young female picked up his scent?
She's the most beautiful Pierola he's ever seen.
It seems to be going all right.
But there's another story with the alpha male.
He could kill him.
But for now it's just physical intimidation.
The young male's first attempt ends in failure.
But his mood provokes an unexpected reaction.
Our ancestors possessed a new quality
previously unknown in the animal kingdom.
Something shared by a very few species.
Empathy.
Understanding the emotions of others.
Even extraordinary, they are affected by
the feelings of others.
Sympathy.
It's happening to the older female.
She feels the distress of the young male
and it makes her anxious.
She must act.
She wants to find out more about him.
Empathy is a powerful force.
It is the thing that allows us to live
in a society today.
Why does he need to be adopted by strangers?
It relates to the social structure of Pierolas.
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