Symphony of Science - "Children of Africa" (The Story of Us) video free download

http://symphonyofscience.com A musical celebration of humanity, its origins, and achievements, contrasted with a somber look at our environmentally destructive tendencies and deep similarities with other primates. Featuring Jacob Bronowski, Alice Roberts, Carolyn Porco, Jane Goodall, Robert Sapolsky, Neil deGrasse Tyson and David Attenborough.

"Children of Africa" is the tenth installment in the ongoing Symphony of Science music video series. Materials used in the creation of this video are from:

BBC Incredible Human Journey

BBC Ascent of Man

BBC Life of Mammals

BBC Human Planet

BBC Walking With Cavemen

Carolyn Porco: Hollywood

Quest for Fire

Hubblecast 29A

What Makes Us Human (Leakey Foundation)

What Separates Us from Chimps (Sapolsky)

Chimpanzee

Neil Tyson - Human Intelligence

Gemini Observatory Time-lapse

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Lyrics:

[Jacob Bronowski]

Man is a singular creature;

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

[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 Neanderthals

People like you and me

Made it through the ice age

[Refrain]

[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

[Neil deGrasse 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

[Refrain]

[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