The_Ape_that_Took_Over_the_World《从猿猴到世界之主》
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自然科学类纪录片，BBC 频道 2001 年出品，是 BBC Horizon 系列之一。
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影片原始规格:
- 中文片名 ：从猿猴到世界之主 / 人猿曾經統治過地球
- 中文系列名：BBC地平线
- 英文片名 ：The Ape that Took Over the World
- 英文系列名：BBC Horizon
- 电视台 ：BBC
- 地区 ：英国
- 语言 ：英语
- 版本 ：TV
- 片长 ：49min
- 发行时间 ：2001
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剧情简介
在 2001 年所發現的稱為「平臉人」的古代化石震撼了人類學界。著名的古生物學家 Meave Leakey 博士在肯亞挖掘到這個可能是人類的始祖，它有異於任何從前所發現的。由於這項發現，一件許多科學家認為已經解開的迷團又要被重新檢驗。看來「平臉人」將顛覆我們對人類進化的瞭解。
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【脑和手的解放哪个更重要？】 Brainy or bipedal?
For years scientists searched for the first key characteristic which had allowed us to make the huge leap from ape to amazing human. At first they thought the development of our big brains was decisive. They even found the fossil that seemed to prove it, until along came the famous three million year old fossilised skeleton Lucy. This quashed the big brain theory, because here was a human ancestor which clearly walked on two legs, just as we do, but had the tiny brain of an ape. It seemed that the development of walking on two legs (bipedalism) was the first key human characteristic, the thing that set us on the road to becoming human.
Lucy soon became even more important. She seemed to defy the laws of evolution. Normally a major evolutionary adaptation like walking on two legs is followed by what scientists call an adaptive radiation. Many related species quickly evolve from an initial evolutionary innovation. It gives a very bushy evolutionary family tree, with many different but related species. Scientists knew that the human branch of the family tree had begun about six or seven million years ago, when the planet of the apes ended. And yet there was no sign of an adaptive radiation. The family tree showed just a straight line leading from the planet of the apes through to Lucy.
【进化的证据】 Evidence for evolution
All that has changed with Meave Leakey’s spectacular new discovery, named Kenyanthropus platyops or, less formally, Flat-faced Man. Her find is the same age as Lucy’s species, but also completely different. It’s proof that there were two different bipedal human ancestors living at the same time, more than three million years ago. And it’s the first sign of the adaptive radiation that the theory of evolution says should have followed the planet of the apes.
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