Guest

The Journey of Man documentary is one of my favorites of all time. I could watch it over and over. I lived in a few areas that were featured in the film which allowed me to grasp certain points about Man's wanderings and the accompanying outward changes to body/face characteristics in a very profound way.

Truly, and boy, I feel rather hippy-ish saying this, when someone says we're all brothers and sisters now I find it a very tangible concept to accept. Sure makes all of the killing going on in this world seem that much more stupid when you consider it's a family dispute anytime there's a murder rather than "they" killing "them". Yup, I guess my Kumbaya meter is redlining this morning.

Guest

Journey of Man
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8866568816093486330#

Tommy (Perth)

I just finished watching the Journey of Man. Thanks so much for posting the link. Beautiful!

Guest

Art, thought you might find James Scott interesting.
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/05/tanner-lecture/

"After all, making the transition from nature to civilization required trading a complex system of diverse nutrition and robust health (foraging) for a more regimented style of living that shortened lives and replaced leisure with drudgery (farming). Borrowing a phrase from an earlier scholar, Scott called early hunter-gatherers “the original affluent society.”"

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