Last Human Standing

Have you ever wondered why are we the only human left alive when there was so much more humans that lived the same time we did? Well with extensive research and investigating we found out lots of useful information that helped us answered these questions. We had 20 types of ancestors that we currently found which means we had to live at the same time and at one part of time 4 different types of human lived together. One of the most successful humans apart from us were the neanderthals which lived 400,000 more then we have been living. They had bigger brains then us today but didn't use them fully. The huge change that made us who we are now was 140,000 ago when we at the brink of extinction. It was when a mega drought was happening and in that time we were forced to live at the shore were we couldn't get lots of meat from animals on land, so we had to adapt. One thing that archaeologists found was a pit that had lots of bones along with quartz tools and it is one of the most inaccessible places in the world. In the past it was a open hole in the ground that we think the early humans used as a burial site. Archaeologists found lots of fragments but when they combined them they found about 30 complete skeletons. The place they take the bones to investigate is the center of human evolution which there are only 4 in the world. What we found out from all of this is that the neanderthals had a flat skull which caused the part of the brain for speech to be smaller. One reason we continued living was that we many new tools that we could use unlike the neanderthals that just took rock and a huge piece of wood to kill the animal. We made spears for throwing which made us able to kill a animal while still being a safe distance away but the neanderthals had to come close and risk their lives that why they had short and hard lives. When there was a mega drought we when to the shores and lived in caves and we think that all of us descended from 600 individuals but that's only a idea. We adapted in the way that we started eating fish and clams that when the waves were low we could gather. In that time period we developed art and culture. One interesting face is that we pushed the neanderthals out of their area. We will one day find out all the detail but until then we are still evolving.

"Last Human Standing." Becoming Human. PBS NOVA. 31 Aug. 2011. Television.