Reaction to "Walking with Cavemen"

"To learn about the present, we must gain understanding of the past."

For this subject, we watched our first documentary entitled, "Walking with Cavemen". It is a four-part documentary series of BBC depicting the human evolution and how our ancestors behaved in the prehistoric era.

I didn't expect myself to enjoy this documentary because I have been studying about evolution since high school. However, after viewing the first part, it got my interest. Why? Because it didn't limit its presentation on just the order of the evolution (from Australopithecus Afarensis fastforward to now, Homo Sapiens), it also paid attention on how our ancestors behaved during that time.

I consider myself an evolutionist rather than a creationist. That is probably another reason why I eventually enjoyed watching the four-part series. Some creationists might call this pseudoscience because when the production team recreated the events in the past inlcuding the psychology of behavior of these apemen, most of it are based on fossil evidence. In my opinion they may be just relics of the past but they are a powerful indicator of what happened during that time, may it be weather changes, behavior of the species, etc.

In a period where survival is the highest priority, it was very hard to imagine the apemen becoming like us, the modern humans. Aside from bipedality, they don't seem to exude any human trait seen in us alone. However, as time progresses, with the change of weather and climate, the apemen were forced to adapt to the nature and change the way they live. For instance, in the period where the Paranthropus Boisei and Homo Habilis co-exist, it was very difficult to gather food because the once rainforests of Africa became a vast and dry Savanna land. This was one of the most interesting part. The narrator started with a question, asking, " Who would survive in the next generation, the P.Boisei or the H.Habilis?"

The Paranthropus Boisei are specialized omnivores. They could eat...