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We are born to survive, in a world full of danger.
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Hardship makes a stronger.
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We dream impossible dreams and make them real,
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but we are not one.
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Mankind's struggles shape our destiny,
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and in those struggles, new worlds, new futures are born.
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Amidst the chaos of an unforgiving planet, most species will fail, but for one, all the pieces will fall into place,
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and a set of keys will unlock a path for mankind to triumph.
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This is our story, the Story of All of Us.
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Narrator: At the dawn of time,
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the universe into being,
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with it, every atom in our bodies.
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countless galaxies and innumerable stars,
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and around one of them, a blue planet, our Earth.
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No other known planet has both an atmosphere and liquid water,
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the conditions needed for life.
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Thirteen billion years after the universe begins, an unique species is born: mankind.
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Now in the grasslands of East Africa, we begin our struggle against the odds.
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A band of brothers, their leader the genetic ancestor of all mankind.
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Every man alive today shares a portion of his DNA.
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Two inches taller than a modern American, a natural athlete, a born hunter.
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This is his home, the Rift Valley of East Africa, a fertile laboratory for life.
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In his sights, a thousand pounds of meat, enough to feed his family of six for a month.
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Soon, there will be seven. The woman he shares his life is expecting their first child.
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Stereoscopic vision to accurately judge distance, ambidextrous hands, speed on two legs,
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but he has none of the natural weapons of Africa's other predators;
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he can't outrun a cheetah, nowhere near the strength of the lion, or the bone-crushing jaws of a hyena,
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so he invents.
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Machowicz: Tools make me better. Weapons make me more powerful.
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You have to be on two feet.
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You have to free up your hands, and freeing up your hands,
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and freeing your hands to work with tools changes the game,
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and there's no other species on this planet committed to weapon use and tool use like us.
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Narrator: Man's ability to project power, the key to controlling our world.
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We'll spend the next hundred millennia, perfecting weapons that kill at a distance.
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Sheridan: There's a window that's, that's closing.
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You've got half a second, and that's the kind of moment, where if you can explode and do the right thing,
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then you'll eat and survive, and if you blow it, then you're dead.
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Narrator: To prepare the kill, the greatest key to our survival:
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at 300 degrees, a spark, fire.
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Our planet is the only known place in the universe with the right conditions for fire to burn.
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It's the element that makes us who we are.
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Oz: Cooking our foods gives us a second stomach outside our body.
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Now we begin to digest the fats, the carbohydrates, the proteins,
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before we chew the food, making it easier for us to digest it,
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which means we get a smaller stomach and therefore a bigger brain.
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Narrator: Better nutrition boosts the human brain.
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Over 2 million years, it more than doubles in size, with trillions of connections.
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The most complex structure in the universe, letting us think, communicate, and love.
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Bourdain: It could be argued, any kind of society, began with the cooking of meat over flame.
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Narrator: But man is not always the hunter.
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Fire protects them from other predators,
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but this couple will be lucky to live to 30.
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Their unborn child has only a 50% chance of surviving adulthood.
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There are perhaps only 10, 000 humans on the planet,
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fewer people than are born in a single hour today,
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scattered in small, isolated groups, always on the brink of extinction,
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but around 70,000 years ago, a few hundred pioneers wonder out of Africa, the beginning of an extraordinary adventure.
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Gates: Everyone is related to those first pioneers, who did venture away out of their homeland and looked beyond.
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Williams: We are a restless bunch, we humans.
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We are always looking over there, and over there may mean oceans or mountains
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or continents away. This is our hard-wiring, our DNA.
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Narrator: Over 50,000 years, mankind settles the Middle East, Asia, Australia, and Europe.
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As we spread out, a slight shift of the Earth's axis away from the sun cools the planet.
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Average temperatures drop up to 14 degrees,
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a third of the planet under ice.