So really in order to be good runner you have to be a good strong butt.
So the muscles in my bottom, your bottom, and every human bottom on Earth, have been shaped by the facts that our ancestors evolved the body meant to run.
But this running body wasn't built for more speed. It evolved to run long distances. Our ancestors were endurance runners.
In a developed countries say few hours run on regular basis its really is remarkable reflect how much our bodies are shaped by running.
(Our Ancestors) their running wasn't a choice it wasn't their accretion activity, it was essential to survival.
4 million sweat pores 3 liter sweat in an hour.
Our long distance runner body became our secret weapon.
It took nearly 5 million year of evolution to get from Toumai (7 m yrs) to Nariokotome Boy (1.8 m yrs) in that time our ancestors had abandoned the forest for the Savannah. And it had gone for being four limb climbers to legged runners.
As far as we know the first stone tool makers were Homo Habilis appearing around 2.5 million years ago.
Big powerful thumb we have and don't chimpanzees. relatively new, 2.5 million years in Homo Habilis.
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EP. 2 - GUTS
Recent research suggests it was cooking, not meat that fuel the evolution of our big brains. It was cooking that made us human.
Cooked food is much easier to digest than raw. and this single fact holds the key that why cooking was so important in our evolution.
... Risk taking is almost doubled when an attractive woman is present.
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EP. 3 - BRAINS
They say the eyes are the windows to the soul. And our eyes are unique.
We are the only animals on the planet which show the whites of their eyes.
We can do something that no any other animal on Earth can do, we can tell what someone thinking just by looking at their eyes, we can literally read their minds.
But there's a price to pay having a big brain giving birth is one of the most painful and dangerous experience women have to endure.
Humans are the only species that need help to get birth, our babies heads are so big that it standing like it getting out at all.*
... but compare to the most new born mammals his brain is relatively immature. He doesn't have much control over his body, and even less ability to make sense the world around him. It'll be about 8 years before his brain reaches its full size, and it'll around midteen before it properly mature.
(Europeans) share the genes with Neanderthal (by interbreeding)
Human Evolution in glimpse. _____________________________ _____________________________
Quantum theory claims that every single point in space, even empty space, can contain information.
This means the information in the micro-tubules can connect and become entangled with the universe outside the brain.
CONSCIOUSNESS
If consciousness is a quantum process, it may solve the mystery of what happens during near-death experiences.
Let's say the heart stops beating, the blood stops flowing, the microtubules lose their quantum state. But the quantum information which is in the microtubules, isn't destroyed. It can't be destroyed. It just distributes and dissipates to the Universe at large. If the patient is resuscitated, revived, this quantum information can go back into the microtubules, and the patient says, "I had a near-death experiences, "I saw white light. I saw a tunnel. I saw my dead relatives. I may be even floated out of my body." Now, if they're not revived and the patient dies, then it's possible that this quantum information can exist outside the body, perhaps indefinitely as a soul.
Many scientists find it difficult to believe that the soul is a quantum computer, hard-wired into the cosmos.
The simplest definition of consciousness -- that which goes away when you fall into dreamless sleep. But the fact of the matter is, the brain doesn't shut off at all. The neurons, the nerve cells, are actually just as active, in a sense, as they are when you are awake. So, it is an interesting scientific question. How would it be, then, that you disappear when your brain is still there and buzzing along?
... Now that Brady is asleep, we are going to ring the bell again and see how his brain responds when -- after falling asleep. Once again, the brain lights up. But this time, there is no reverberation. The ring of the bell dies as quickly as the pulse of magnetism shuts off.
The sleeping brain may be active, but it has lost the ability to share information between one part of the brain and another.
Tononi believes this spreading of information is the key ingredient of consciousness.
In 1907, Dr, Duncan MacDougall determined that the soul weighs about 3/4 of an ounce, or 21 grams. He determined this by weighing the bodies of dying TB patients.
Your body produces 1 billion new cells every hour. No matter how old you are, most of you is no more than 10 years old.
Religion tells us that our soul transcend the body. These are just shells that we walk a around in for a while. Most scientists don't believe that. They say that what we call the soul is a self-aware network of brain connections that evolved over million of years.
Biology + Technology
"This is a hybrot -- a robot controlled by living brain tissue. Its brains are in a refrigerator, but you can see its neurons react on the computer screen as its body finds its way around the lab bench."
Is the soul nothing more than a network of neural processes, something that one day can be recreated in a machine?
When you lose consciousness, you lose you soul. You lose everything. The world does not exist anymore for you. Your friends dont exist anymore. You don't exist. Everything is lost.
... mind or consciousness seems to fucntion without the physical body.
FREEMAN: "Perhaps some things really are too big for humans to grasp. That's when we have to shift from what we know to what we believe."
