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Symphony of Science
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Children of Africa The Story of Us
[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, Children of Africa, They say this is where it all began,
[Jacob Bronowski] In a parched African landscape, Man first put his foot to the ground,
[Alice 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
[Alice Roberts] We are all children of africa This landscape has been home to humans Two hundred thousand years
[Carolyn 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
[Alice 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
[Carolyn Porco] These beings with soaring imagination Eventually flung themselves and their machines Into interplanetary space,
[Jane Goodall] We are not the only beings With personalities, minds, and feelings Chimpanzees have very clear personalities, minds and feelings,
[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
[Alice Roberts] People like you and me Overcame the Neanderthals People like you and me Made it through the ice age
[Carolyn Porco] These beings with soaring imagination Eventually flung themselves and their machines Into interplanetary space,
These beings with soaring imagination Eventually flung themselves and their machines Into interplanetary space
[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.
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