Ape to Man

 “Ape to man” is a documentary that show a different theories of the origins of human clade, with theories of the 19th of 20th centuries, with anthropological an archaeological discoveries, and with scientist like Charles Dawson, Raymond Dart and the Leakey’s,  and how they arrived at their conclusions.

The documentary shows the theories with setting and reenactments of the early humans ancestors and the environment of the earth at that time, on the Miocene and Pliocene. Shows how early humans lived, shows when the human starts to differ from the great apes extinct, the onset of bipedal gait, the beginning of the use of tools, the variation in the diet (what makes change shape, size, glazing and function of the teeth), the sexual dimorphism, etc.

The documentary does not delve into the origin of the Apes, but the origin of man, showing discoveries like Sahelanthropus tchadensis (in Chad),The Ardipithecus Kadabba and the Ardipithecus Ramidus (in Ethiopia), the Australopithecus throughout the Eastern Africa, followed by the genus Homo with specimens in Africa, Asia and Europe.

This investigation display several key theories make by evolutionary scientists, many of which were never fully accepted, for example in theory it is believed that the actual Apes are would be identical to extinct Apes, and furthermore, these represent our past, chimpanzees would be equal to us in a few million years, according to this theory.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TT3aRU-VnQ