He has a set of gifts which make him unique among the animals

So that unlike them, he is not a figure in the landscape

He is the shaper of the landscape

[Alice Roberts] We are all children of Africa

They say this is where it all began

[Bronowski] In a parched African landscape

Man first put his foot to the ground

[Roberts] Africa was our only home

for tens of thousands of years

until a small handful of people made their way out of Africa

[Carolyn Porco] These beings with soaring imagination

Eventually flung themselves and their machines Into interplanetary space

These beings with soaring imagination

Eventually flung themselves and their machines Into interplanetary space

[Roberts] We are all children of africa

This landscape has been home to humans Two hundred thousand years

[Porco] We have come so far

All of this is cause for great celebration

We have come so far

This is a story about us

[Roberts] Those early Europeans

Were people like you and me

But it is humbling When you see the challenges they faced

People like you and me

Overcame the Neaderthals

People like you and me

Made it through the ice age

[Porco] These beings with soaring imagination

Eventually flung themselves and their machines Into interplanetary space

[Jane Goodall] We are not the only beings With personalities, minds, and feelings

Chimpanzees have very clear personalities

[Robert Sapolsky] Take a chimp brain foetally

And let it go two or three more rounds of division And out comes symphonies and ideology

[Goodall] We are not the only beings

[Neil de Grasse Tyson] Everything that we are That distinguishes us from chimps

Emerges from that one percent Difference in DNA

[Roberts] People like you and me

Overcame the Neaderthals

People like you and me

Made it through the ice age

[Porco] These beings with soaring imagination

Eventually flung themselves and their machines Into interplanetary space

These beings with soaring imagination

Eventually flung themselves and their machines Into interplanetary space

[David Attenborough] Using his burgeoning intelligence, This most successful of all mammals

Has exploited the environment to produce food For an ever increasing population.

Instead of controlling the environment For the benefit of the population

Perhaps it's time we controlled the population To allow the survival of the environment

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