When we want to learn the language of our ancestors, it can be very tricky to link it up with our sensual love of some scenes from Walking With Beasts, mainly, the human backstory that evolves throughout the mammals' history. The nocturnal godinotia, the apidium, the Australopithecus and especially the humans who came when the mammoths arrived on the plain, all ending with that scene of humans in a museum.
Picture this, right: you're watching Walking With Beasts in 2001 and you don't know what to make of some scenes, like the ants eating the baby bird. Gross! Who'd want to see that? Giant ants eating a baby bird could give you nightmares! But what you're really falling for is the Earthquake scene from the first episode - strong music, loud shrieks from the apes, the gas making its way through the forest and killing every animal in sight - just enough to make you grip the edge of your seat in horror and excitement.
It's exciting, okay, but you're very sorry for those who had to live through this terrible disaster, mainly the monkey characters. What gave you this kind of relief is that when you watch the fourth episode, the Godinotia have evolved to Apidium, who were frightened because a shark ate one of their own kind, and then Australopithecus, who were brave enough not to run from predators, but outsmart them using all the technology and tools they had before we even had AI or smartphones.
It may be stupid to you, but those apes really shed light on what us humans grew to appear as today. They walked upright, they made tools for themselves, they even fended off a Dinofelis! Brave monkeys. However, one thing still bugs me: how are you going to live this moment if you're too stressed to even find anything fascinating?
It's not just about watching the series, it's about developing a technique you will need to understand what this series meant to you. Walking With Beasts isn't just about mammal evolution, it's also about human philosophy and peril, giving us a better chance to look deeper inside our hearts and find out more about ourselves. And that's where Walking With Cavemen comes in - the backstory proved so popular that our ancestors got their own spinoff series - except, it's not narrated, it has a host: Dr Robert Winston, who also presented The Human Body.
So in order to understand what makes you deeply human, when you have reflection time, try this strategy: keep a diary of all the times you found out you were human enough to know everything that happened around you: your emotions, the sensations you were feeling, and the ways and strategies you planned solutions to your problems. The beasts will thank you la-
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But wait! There's more!
Actually, there isn't more.
For God's sake!
