Exploring The Origins Of Humanity: A Complete Timeline of Human Evolution | Documentary

It’s important to remember, yet often overlooked, that primates have come an incredibly long way over the course of prehistory. It has taken many convoluted steps, and trials and errors of evolution to get to where we are today. Our story can in fact, be traced back billions of years, to when the first single celled organisms drifted through the earliest oceans when life first evolved - but the story of the primates - the group of mammals that includes us - begins much later. This is that story - a tour spanning sixty five million years. Through some of the most unlikely circumstances, our ancestors and relatives have survived. While many species of primate have been lost to the fossil record, they represent one of the most diverse groups of mammals alive today. With our own species included, there exists over three hundred distinct species of primate in the forests, grasslands, mountains, swamps and even cities in the modern day, all of which are monuments to the success of this order of mammals&