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Episode 133
Published 3 months, 1 week ago
Description
First Man (2017) is a “documentary” with an interesting relationship to scientific facts and a disturbing view of human nature. It follows human evolution through four reconstructed ancestors: an early beta cuck ape from Spain; a Tate stan basal hominin from Chad; an ancestral alpha mogger from South Africa; and a brainmaxxing sigma arsonist from China. Join us as we break down the silly walks, unnecessarily blurred monkey genitals, and (content warning!) graphic sexual assault.
Links
- Pierolapithecus
- Sahelanthropus
- Gigantopithecus
- Sivapithecus/Ramapithecus
- Paranthropus
- Graecopithecus
- Peking Man (Homo erectus)
- Harbin/Dragon Man
- Our episode on Skullduggery (1970)
- Our episode on Sasquatch Sunset (2024)
- Grieving chimpanzee carries dead baby for months
- Zhoukoudian
- The myth of the alpha wolf
- Parsimony
- Boma predator deterrent
- Gao et al. (2017) Evidence of hominin use and maintenance of fire at Zhoukoudian
- Laughter in animals
- Pusceddu et al. (2025) Animal medical systems from Apis to apes: history, recent advances and future perspectives
- Ventro-ventro position (doggy is not the only style)
- Man vs. horse races (horses have won)
- Persistence hunting
- Aiello and Wheeler (1995) The Expensive-tissue hypothesis: The brain and the digestive system in human and primate evolution
- Wrangham (2009) Catching Fire: How Cooking Made us Human