Homo...

No homo!

No homo!

Homo gargantuoso.

No homo right?

Genus Homo. Male.

Ah. Homo gargantuoso.

I think we're going to move from a Homo sapiens into a Homo evolutis.

All of the homo!

Ms. Mirjana Galo HOMO, Vrhovine

Uh. Yes! No homo indeed.

Ecce homo. Behold this man.

Erm... that's the wrong homo.

The Homo studiosus the studying man.

The Looming Death of Homo Economicus

This object was made by a hominid ancestor, Homo erectus or Homo ergaster, between 50,000 and 100,000 years before language.

But that's terrible. We are homo sapiens.

We are Homo duplex, as Durkheim explained.

Homo erectus made the same tool for 30,000 generations.

From left to right, we've got Homo erectus, Homo habilis, and Australopithecus now called Paranthropus boisei, the robust australopithecine. Three extinct species, same place, same time.

Suddenly humans show up Homo erectus big, old melon head.

Durkheim even called us Homo duplex, or two level man.

Yes! I was just about to say... uh... no homo.

Because this is exactly what our ancestors, the Homo erectus, did.

The earliest members of our lineage, the genus Homo, were darkly pigmented.

Even Sub Saharan Africans of today show traces of a distinct episode of interbreeding within the last 50,000 years. In this case, the source may have been as yet unknown remnants of the ancient species Homo heidelbergensis a direct ancestor of both Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis surviving somewhere in southern Africa.

He actually coined the term Homo sapiens it means wise man in Latin.

And we are Homo duplex because we evolved by multilevel selection, as Darwin explained.

Our newest brain, our Homo sapien brain, our neocortex, corresponds with the what level.

I mean, it's self awareness that separates Homo sapiens from earlier instances of our mankind.

These Acheulian hand axes they're named after St. Acheul in France, where finds were made in 19th century have been unearthed in their thousands, scattered across Asia, Europe and Africa, almost everywhere Homo erectus and Homo ergaster roamed.

It took nature 100 million years to make the ape stand up and become Homo sapiens.

Why didn't Homo erectus evolve into separate species, or sub species rather, human races around the world?

And here is a skull of a Homo erectus, which I just pulled off the shelf there.

Yes, indeed, the old man is there, as is this famous pen drawing of the Homo Vitruvianus.

So, Homo erectus was the first human ancestor to leave Africa and begin its spread across the globe.

One is an Acheulean hand axe from half a million years ago of the kind made by Homo erectus.

Two million years ago at Lake Turkana, Homo erectus, one of our human ancestors, actually lived in this region.

What's missing is that we are Homo duplex, but modern, secular society was built to satisfy our lower, profane selves.

For example, according to Nobel laureate Robert Fogel, medical and nutritional advances since the Industrial Revolution have accelerated and directed the evolutionary process, making modern humans a fundamentally different species from Homo sapiens. In 2011, bio technology investor Juan Enriquez coined the term Homo evolutis to denote this shift.

Now the question is, we Homo sapiens today are in a position to decide about the future of our planet, possibly more.

I could relate to this Homo erectus skeleton very well, because I was the same age that he was when he died.

I'm saying we are Homo duplex and this staircase takes us up from the profane level to the level of the sacred.

If you look at our ancestors, the Neanderthals and the Homo erectus, our immediate ancestors, they're confined to small regions of the world.

And that's the reason why, as you look at the hominid fossil record, erectus, and heidelbergensis, and floresiensis, and Neanderthals, and Homo sapiens, all overlap.