HUMAN INSTINCT (2002)

HUMAN INSTINCT
by
Robert Winston
(2002)

LINKS:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/tv/humaninstinct/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0330419/
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/human-instinct/

EXCERPTS

Part.1 - BORN TO SURVIVE
Tags: Food/Appetite, Tongue,  Threat to Life by Eating Wrong Food;
Physical Threat and Body Reactions,

"So for a babies big head to pass through a small birth canal
the baby has to be born well before the brain is fully developed.
That evolutionary trade off meant this,
a highly vulnerable baby born before its time.
Fully reliant on its parents."


"1000 billion eggs are produced worldwide every year,
600,000 tons of sugar are consumed each week,
800 tons of French Fries are eaten every hour,"


"Human tongue has number of uses; but its basic function is to tell us
what's good for us and what could harm us.
5000 taste buds lets us know what to swallow and what to spit out.
And to stay in perfect working order
taste buds only last 10 days before new ones develop.
Our tongues are the gate keeper to our stomachs."
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Part.2 - DEEPEST DESIRES
Tags: Sex, Partners, Next Generation, Body, Attractiveness, Body Smell, Jealousy.

"Why are 13,000 miles of lipstick sold each year?
Why are 4,000 gallons of after-shave used everyday?
What burns a quarter of a million calories in our lifetime?
And What will 240 million people be doing tonight?
It all boils down to one thing.
What is it?
... HAVING SEX!"



"In the time it takes for a mother to produce one child,
a man can father hundreds of them.
The world record by a Moroccan emperor is 888 children."


"the sperm is the smallest cell and in a typical ejaculation a man can release 300 million."


"beauty may not be so much in the eye of the beholder,
but in the nose!."


"All of us have had our blood tested, for 6 genes that reveal what type of immune system we have.
If all 6 of my genes match all 6 of a woman's, that's bad,
I should find her smell unappealing, because our children are likely to be less healthy.
But if only one or two genes match, that's good. I should find the smell attractive. because it would mean our children would be naturally more healthy."


"In fact a British survey suggests that women who cheat are most likely to do so during the four days surrounding their ovulation."


"that on average, as many as one in ten children are being raised by men who are unaware that they are not the child's biological father."


"One European study of homicide reported that sexual jealousy (غیرت) was the motive in nearly a third of all the murders they assessed."
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Part.3 - WILL TO WIN
Tags: Win/Lose, Competition, Opponent, Facial Dominance, Body Language, First Child and Second Child, Getting Noticed,  Embarrassment,

"Why does coming out on top feel so great?
And why does losing feel so bad?"


"Almost from birth piglets lay claim to the best teat,
and once they've claimed their teat there's no moving them."


"Martin Luther King, Mahatama Gandhi, Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Jefferson, ... What did all these people have in common?
... Not one waws a fisrt born. Each had at least one elder brother or sister.
A study of a 120,000 people came up with a dramatic conclusion, that the instinctive behaviour  adopted by younger children to get noticed can stay with them for life.
They are much more likely to be radical thinkers and challenge convention."



"Feel good chemicals like dopamine and endorphins."

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Part.4 - NATURAL BORN HEROES

Tags: Sacrifice, Intimacy, Relatives, Genes, Friends, Taking Care, Punishing, Cheat, Generosity

Mimic Neurons:

"Recently they've discovered a special set of brain cells,
They're called mirror neurons,
and what they do is remarkable.
The theory is that when i see someone performing an action
my mirror neurons should try to copy the action too.
But normally this effect is so subtle I'm not even aware of it.

This pioneering work leads some scientists to believe that our mirror neurons
don't just imitate what other people do, but perhaps even how they feel."

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BECOMING HUMAN (2009)

BECOMING HUMAN

http://www.becominghuman.org/
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/becoming-human/
EXCERPTS.


Part.1 - First Steps
(Lucy, Selam, Toumai)

"More than six million years ago we took that first step to separate from the apes."

"And we now know that for million of years,

many different humanlike species lived together on the planet

until one day there was only us, homo sapiens."

"From the waist down, Lucy was like us.

From the waist up, she and her kind (Australopithicus) were all ape".

"Dan Lieberman is an expert on bipedalism.

He believes that walking on two legs evolved

because it saved energy."

GENETICALLY: "The dates that one almost always gets are around 5 to 7 million years ago

for when humans and chimpanzees last shared a common ancestor."

"The scientists used to have a simple idea:

the growth of open grasslands forced our ancestors out of the trees.

They became bipeds, and in short order, Brain Size Increased."

"it takes nearly two decades for our brains to fully mature."

"brains of baby chimps are almost fully formed by age of 3."

"human evolution is nature's experiment with versatility.

we're not adapted to any one environment or climate, but to many.

we are creatures of climate change."

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Part. 2 - Birth of Humanity
(Turkana Boy - Homo Erectus)

"Homo Erectus pioneered what it means to be human,

colonizing whole continents and creating the first human societies."

"And here they are, the actual bones of a human ancestor

who lived over 1.5 million years ago.

It's the earliest human skeleton ever discovered.

The Leakeys called him Turkana Boy."

"The mystery of prolonged childhood is at the heart

of human evolution.

It may be related to brain size."

"We humans have the biggest brain in animal kingdom in relation to our body size."

"Modern brains consume 25% of our body's energy."

"Mark was surprised to find out that

the Human public louse are very different from the human head louse.

Somehow in the past, it (pubic louse) seems to have come from gorillas."

"the genetic dating technique known as the molecular clock.

it's based on the fact that the sequence of chemical bases

which make up DNA MUTATE AT A REGULAR RATE."

"On Flores, there were once pygmy elephants the size of cows."

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Part 3 - Last Human Standing
(Neanderthals, Homo Sapiens)

"For almost 400,000 years, the Neanderthals lived in Ice Age Europe.

Superb hunters, they had brains bigger than ours, and a record of survival twice as long."

Neanderthals lived 400,000 years, and by 25,000 years ago, they vanish from the fossil record."

"Ancient climate data shows tht around 140,000 years ago, most of tropical Africa became uninhabitable."

"All people on earth ae descended from a very small original population in Africa."

and they are 99.9% genetically similar!

"so DNA is revealing we share a common ancestor with the neanderthals.

This is Homo heidelbergensis... common ancestor of neanderthals and homo sapeins...

in Europe they evolved into the Neanderthals. in Africa, groups that had not yet migrated evolved into Homo sapiens."

(but) no eviddenc of interbreeding, it now seems more likely that as our population grew,

we simply pushed the Neanderthals out of their environments."

"Archaeologists have been able to track their movements by the extinctions of large animals.

In Europe and Asia, the arrival of homo sapiens coincides with the disappearance of the hairy mammoth, the cave lion and other large mammals.

In Australia, most animals weighing over 100 pounds vanish within a few thousand years of our arrival.

The Neanderthals were just one of many species that disappeared when we arrived."

(After vanishing the Neanderthals) "For the first time there was only one type of human on the planet."

"The ways in which cultural evolution and genetic evolution interact

will be at the forefront of the research of tomorrow."

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My Brilliant Brain (2007)

My Brilliant Brain (2007)
by NGC

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1066834/
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/my-brilliant-brain-make-me-genius/


Part.1 Make Me Genius
(Genius does not born, Genius is Made.)

Excerpts:

"Laslo decided that 'specialized training' is more important than natural talent.

... He wrote a book, called Bring Up Genius, and it said that Genius is Not Born But Made."

"A GENIUS EQUALS WORK AND FORTUNATE CIRCUMTANCES." (REF. BOOK)

Summarised:

Boys have thicker right Cortex, where thinking happens, and possess good navigation strategies, and awerness.

Rephrased: "Its beauty of life that man and woman thinks differently." Susan Polgar

"On ongoing task like a game of chess, is handled by a mental function knows as working memory,

at the very front of brain,"

"it should be beyond the power of human brain to pick the best move,

there are roughly 4 billion possibilities for the next 3 moves alone,

that's the calculation that only the super computer can perform."

"Intuition feels more like magic than science.

But Hartson believe its specific skills, displayed by experts,  "

"the female brain is quite bit a small than male brain in general,

and we know there is no difference intelecetly."

   prof. Joy Hirsch, Columbia University

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Part. 2 - Accidental Genius
(Brain Injuries Make You Genius/Savants)

Excerpts:


"The himispheres (of brain) generally performs different functions.
The left is considered dominant in language and logical thinking.
The right in art, maths and musical abilities. domain of savants."


"Frontal lobe which generates ideas."

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Part.3 - Born Genius

Excerpts:

"IQ was never the Objective, But they were way to measure the that something was happening, something was going on there. And that translates into school achievements, the later life achievements."


"And the part of mature lust is the brain area a teenager really needs, the prefrontal cortex, suited judgments and self control, this area isn't normally finished until the age of 20"

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Amazon with Bruce Parry (2008)

Amazon
with Bruce Parry
(2008)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1288682/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_%282008_TV_series%29

EXCERPTS:

EP. 1.

"Now the coca he can do four times a year
and in this particular three month section for this harvest,
he reckons he's gonna get about 300 dollars for his produce.
But 200 of that will go on pesticides and labour,
which means that he will get 100 dollars for this particular harvest.
Now that 100 dollars has got to pay for his kids to go to school,
and the transport and his food and everything else.

And that 100 dollars is almost, co-incidentally,
about the same price as a gram of cocaine on the streets of London."


"Columbia is still the world's biggest producer of cocaine,
but Peru is second and catching up fast."


"Traditional Ashaninka beer.
"Its made frOm yucca and sweet potato.
The women chew the sweet potato and spit it back into the pot."

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EP.2

"This plant is Wakrapona.
The roots are like a man's private parts.
When a man has a small penis you use this plant."


"Carnival has its origins in ancient Rome,
where slaves and masters would exchange clothes
for a day of drunken revelry."

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EP.4

"If you live here, you are allowed to fish anything,
even protected species, as long as to eat and not to sell."

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EP.5

"the forest generates more money alive than if it is cut down."

"Quarter of all living species are found in Amazon.
the Forest produces the fifth of Earth's Oxygen,
and has a huge influence on global climate."

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HOME (2009)

HOME (2009)
[we are NOT indigenous of planet earth, we ARE aliens! abro]

http://www.homethemovie.org/
http://goodplanet.org/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1014762/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_%282009_film%29


EXCERPTS:

"Thus, corals are born from the marriage of algae and shells.


"Trees defy gravity.
They are the only natural element in perpetual movement toward the sky.


"Earth is a miracle.


"In the great adventure of life on Earth,
every species has a role to play,
every species has its place..
None is futile or harmful.
They all balance out.

And that's where you,
homo sapiens, wise human,
enter the story."

"you are only 200,000 years old.

"After 180,000 nomadic years,
and thanks to a more clement climate,
humans settled down.


"Across the planet, one person in four
lives as humankind did 6000 years ago.


900 million vehicles today in the world.


"As a privilege of power, 80% of this mineral wealth
is consumed by 20% of the world's population.
.. Before the end of this century, excessive mining will
have exhausted nearly all the planet's reserves."


"We are destroying the cycle of a life that was given to us."


"But in barely 40 years the world's largest rainforest,
the Amazon, has been reduced by 20%."


"Another example of massive deforestation is the eucalyptus.
Eucalyptus is used to make paper pulp.
... demand has increased fivefold in 50 years."


"Since 1950, the world's population has almost tripled.
And since 1950, we have more fundamentally altered our island, the Earth,
than in all our our 200,000 year history."

"Nigeria is the biggest oil exporter in Africa,
and yet 70% of the population lives under the poverty line.
The wealth is there, but the country's inhabitants don't have access to it.
The same is true all over the globe.
Half the world's poor live in resource-rich countries."

"In 50 years, the gap between rich and poor has grown wider than ever.
Today, half the world's wealth is in the hands of the richest 2% of the population."


"Under the effect of global warming
the ice cap has lost 40% of its thickness in 40 years.
its surface area in the summer shrinks year by year.
it could disappear in the summer months by 2030.
some say 2015."


"in these polar regions, the balance of nature has already been disrupted."


"Even on the world's highest peaks, in the heart of the Himalayas,
eternal snows and glaciers are receding.
The  glaciers of Himalayas are the source of all the great Asian rivers,
the Indus, Ganges, Mekong, Yangtze Kiang...
2 billion people depend on them for drinking water"

"20% OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION CONSUMES 80% OF ITS RESOURCES.

"THE WORLD SPENDS 12 TIMES MORE ON MILITARY EXPENDITURES THAN ON AID TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES."

"5,000 PEOPLE A DAY DIE BECAUSE OF DIRTY DRINKING WATER."
"1 BILLION PEOPLE HAVE NO ACCESS TO SAFE DRINKING WATER."

"NEARLY 1 BILLION PEOPLE ARE GOING HUNGRY"

"OVER 50% OF GRAIN TRADED AROUND THE WORLD IS USED FOR ANIMAL FEED FOR BIOFUELS"

"40% OF ARABLE LAND HAS SUFFERED LONG-TERM DAMAGE"

"EVERY YEAR, 13 MILLIONS HECTARES OF FOREST DISAPPER"

"ONE MAMMAL IN 4, ONE BIRD IN 8, ONE AMPHIBIAN IN 3 ARE THREATENED WITH EXTINCTION

"SPECIES ARE DYING OUT AT A RHYTHM 1000 TIMES FASTER THAN THE NATURAL RATE"

"THREE QUARTERS OF FISHING GROUNDS ARE EXHAUSTED, DEPLETED OR IN DANGEROUS DECLINE"

"THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF THE LAST 15 YEARS HAVE BEEN THE HIGHEST EVER RECORDED"

"THE ICE CAP IS 50% THINNER THAN 40 YEARS AGO"

"THERE MAY BE AT LEAST 200 MILLION CLIMATE REFUGEES BY 2050"
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Are We Still Evolving (2011)

ARE WE STILL EVOLVING (2011)
Dr. Alice Roberts

Excerpts:

"Our species emerged some 200,000 year ago.
About 60,000 years ago, we spread out from Africa."


"In the past, we were all dark-skinned."


Prof. Steve Jones: "In Shakespeare's time, about one English baby in three made it to be 21.
In the year of Darwin's birth, about one English baby in two, made it to be 21.
But now, about 99% of the English babies born make it to be 21."
Dr. Alice Roberts: "Will, certainly just personally, I'm asthmatic and I would've probably died as a child, (as a result of natural selection),
Prof: "Real reason i think that evolution has come to an end is partly modern medicine but
more important perhaps, modern engineering."



"Are you actually allowing people to choose whether they have a boy or a girl?"
"Anyone can choose here. Yep. They can choose a boy, choose a girl.
And we've done this close to 9,000 times now."
(Dr. Jeff Steinbert, The Fertility Institutes.)


"... how we evolve depends on how the world changes,
and how we change the world."


"Humans are pretty special but they're not that special.
99.9% of all animals have gone extinct and I'm pretty sure we'll go extinct in the end as well." Prof. Steve Jones


"In the broadest possible sense,
we haven't always been human,
and we won't always be in the future."

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The Boys & Girls Guide to Getting Down (2006)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0464907/

The man is fertile 24/7.
But a woman can only be pollinated for a few days a month.
About a week before the end of their menstrual cycle,
most girls experience a period of a few days [11,12,13,14,15]
technically knows as their horny week
when they are good to go and feel particularly ready to get down.



Drugs are important part to getting down.
Drugs can be divided into two main groups.
Sketchy and fun.
Sketchy drugs are the ones that will dominate
and mess up your life and your complexaion.
Fun drugs are those that are used recreationally to have a bit of fun.
Sketchy drugs include speed, heroin, crack and cocaine when it's smoked.
Sketchy drugs should be avoided at all cost by any boy or girl
who wants to get down.
Fun drugs include weed, ecstasy, and cocaine.
These drugs are basically harmless,
and some will argue good for you.
Moderation being the key.