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In 1650, the archbishop James Usher,

calculating from biblical references,

fixed the date of the world's creation

to have been in the year 4004 bc.

Another dedicated cleric,
working independently

of the archbishop, not only
corroborated his findings

but with further scriptural
proof, pinpointed not only

the year but the exact date and time.

4004 bc, October 23rd, at nine am.

That was 4004 bc.

Meanwhile, a billion years
before, give or take a little.

Here on the left,
the museum's dramatic exhibit

of life-size statues of
man's evolutionary change

over millions of years.

Ramapithecus, 14 million
to 12 million years ago.

Australopithecus, five and a half million

to two million years ago.

Paranthropus, two million to one million

years ago, dead end.

Advanced australopithecus, two million

to one million years ago.

Homo erectus, 700,000 to 250,000 years ago.

Early homo sapiens, 100,000 years ago.

Neanderthal man, 100,000
to 35,000 years ago.

Cro-magnon man, 35,000 to 10,000 years ago.

There, it's done.

- You're wasting your time.
- He doesn't know how to read.

He'd have to be able to read.

I tell you, you're wasting your time.

The president of the united
states, how could he run

the country and the war if
he didn't know how to read?

Hm, listen.

Dear president, 25 million
years ago, when I was swinging

in the jungle, it shrunk.

I had to come down
out of the trees and adapt

to the open grassland, where,
after considerable hardship

and sacrifice, I evolved into man.

Now I know there was a slipup somewhere,

and you were not informed of this,

because you now have us back in the jungle.

Very astute.

I hereby submit that you
have designed a war for apes,

and as a member of mankind I am exempt

and hereby tender my resignation.

Hoping that you and your
administration can find

bigger and better
monkeys to fight its wars,

I remain Arnie dickerson.

The president musta got the word.

I want you guys down
the path about 20 feet.

Stay hidden there in the trees

until you hear the whistle to move out.

And don't head out in open ground

until you hear the whistle to move out.

Think you can get that straight.

Hey, sarge, can you mail
this for me? It's my resignation.

Sure, I'll get it off your body.

25 million years, and I'm
right back where I started.

For those of you
wishing to tour the museum

accompanied by an experienced guide,

the tour is leaving immediately
from the tour guide desk

located on the first floor
by the main entrance.

Our tour is about to begin
if you'd like to go with us.

No.

Shut up.

I wanna go to a restaurant.

When man, the naked
ape, finally stood upright,

his hands were left free to use weapons.

He also had the brain
potential to make them.

Unlike his ape ancestors,
the naked ape's growth

to maturity had become a slow growth.

Now the act of learning and hunting

wasn't all that made up a hunting ape.

He had to have genetic help.

Basic biological changes in
his nature were necessary.

In other words, his
personality had to be changed

biologically as well as psychologically.

So, with the aid of eons of
time, and natural selection,

he remotivated himself
from a life of fruit picker,

of continuous forest
snacks, to a life of hunter,

killer, food preparer,

somewhat like the pure carnivores, the cat.

The hunt, the kill and
the preparation of food

each became a separately motivated action,

making each an end in itself.

Minute-to-minute snacks were out,

and big, spaced-out meals were in.

Another behavior pattern
he had to remotivate

was his system of defecation.

It had to be spacially organized

due to group considerations.

Hey, where's Lee?

Sergeant, you came back for my letter.

Hey, sergeant, did you
know that your facial and vocal

expressions were
developed by the hunting ape

more than two million years
ago, so's he could communicate

and cooperate with his fellow man?

Would you quit the shit, dickerson,

and tell me where Lee went?

Where the hell have you been?

Having a private carnivore activity.

Smart-ass college bastards.

Oh, that does it, that
really does it, sergeant.

Lee, my letter of resignation, where is it?

Oh, I just used it.

Please follow the
yellow line to exhibit h.

We naked apes owe all
of our basic sexual qualities

to our fruit-picking forest ape ancestors.

But these characteristics
were drastically modified

when we adapted to an open
country hunting way of life.

The bonding of one male,
one female developed.

The pair bond, or love, came into being.

Lee, I'm gonna write another letter.

Dear Mr. President, for millions of years,

guys like me have gone
off to hunt or to wars,

worrying about his woman back home.

Then, true love grew into our lives,

and gave us males assurance our wives

wouldn't have thoughts of other guys,

but attend his happy hearth at home,

his unassailable haven
from the horny, ha ha.

Why is it berries always seem
riper on another man's bush?

This fear, plus the need
to stick around until the kids

were grown, is why love was developed.

Why, I predict, love will prove a much more

powerful drive than sex, don't you?

I mean, two people won't want
anybody else but one another

now that we got this
pair bond love thing going.

I can't imagine anything bigger than that

in the picture, can you?

Love is where it's at.

The fellows here are swell.

We rap about all sorts of things.

But underneath, we're of one mind.

I wonder what she's doing
now, the girl I left behind.

Hell, I know that now that I've developed

this very strong pair
bond with my girl, my mate,

having once done this, I
should have no concern

about her loyalty
or fidelity till I return.

Except

except, as you may have by now detected,

there's a creeping doubt this process

was ever really perfected.

Uh-oh.

So there he is, our vertical, hunting,

territorial, brainy, naked ape.

The naked ape is a new,
experimental departure,

and new models frequently
have imperfections.

For instance, sexually, the naked ape

finds himself today in a
somewhat confusing situation.

Remember in the middle ages

when they put fig leaves on everything?

That's so people wouldn't get horny

starting at the statues.

Yeah.

I can get horny staring at space.

Let's see.

I'll buy these.

Got it.

I don't need these.

I'm gonna buy these.

Hey, are you gonna go to your next class?

Yeah.

I don't know why. I
didn't do my assignment.

What is it?

It's for English lit.

I need a quotable
passage from a major writer.

A quotable passage from a major writer?

Why don't you fake it?

Oh, that's very good, thanks.

She's probably making
change with her toes.

Yeah.

Hey, man, here's a writer
with some quotable stuff.

That's anthropology, dumdum.

It's in English,
isn't it? It's English lit.

I keep forgetting.

Here, look here.

First page, he is proud...

Who?

Man, that he has the
biggest brain of all the primates,

but attempts to conceal the fact

that he also has the biggest penis.

Come on, Arnie, she can hear you.

Preferring to accord this honor falsely

to the mighty gorilla.

It's bigger than a gorilla's.

Lotta good it's doing me.

Yeah, a gorilla
probably makes out better.

Keep reading, you'll find they don't have

nearly as much fun.

You loudmouth dummy. I
told you she could hear you.

Okay, okay.

Look, look, look.

Here.

You didn't pay for that.

No, no, you did.

Why you dirty son of a

ow.

That was worth 95 cents.

Oh, man, listen to this.

It could be said that the
advance of civilization

has not so much molded
modern sexual behavior

as that sexual behavior has
molded the shape of civiliza...

I can just see myself
getting up and quoting that.

I don't even know what it means.

It means that we evolved
from the sexual fruit picker

to the sexual hunter.

Fruit picker?

Wait a minute, I was
never no sexual fruit picker.

Are you gonna listen to me?

I don't know.

Well, listen, it look millions of years

for us to evolve into the sexual hunter,

and then we think up civilization,

and pow, man, in a few thousand
years we become civilized.

Now the point is, there was
no time to make the adjustment.

Oh, so now I'm a
maladjusted sexual fruit picker.

No, no, no, you are a
maladjusted sexual hunter.

Look, don't we have to keep slamming

those lids down on our sexual feelings?

I mean, if we don't, we're
in trouble with society, right?

Right. That one I am,
I'm a sexual lid slammer.

Okay, well, that kind of
restraint has got to be learned.

I mean, our basic urges
don't agree with that.

That's because never had the time

to make the proper gene switches.

You mean, all my basic needs and urges

are geared to a few thousand years ago?

25 to 30,000 years ago.

Then all those nights in
scout camp when I was thinking

all those things, I wasn't unclean?

You and the rest of the beaver
troop were merely reacting

to the call of the early sexual hunter.

Yeah, beaver.

Oh, good hit.

I think you better go retrieve your dart.

Yeah.

Even maladjusted, it still
beats early fruit picking.

Sorry.

Oh, sorry.

Here.

Was I right?

Uh, right.

The popularity of
erotic poetry and prose.

I imagine you all had a ball finding

examples for this assignment.

During every uptight era,
the man with the pen seems

not only to let himself be
free enough to investigate

the myriad pleasures afforded by love,

but is allowed by society
to get away with it in print.

Why?

Why, if at the same time
the cultural code forbids it?

It is because one
poet's vivid and inventive

imagination must serve for the many.

He is given license, becoming
the symbol of the free spirit,

the fulfilled man, a luxury
not afforded the masses

by reason of their desire
to abide by the civilized rule.

He becomes a man a
hang-up generation envies.

And if instead of reading this pornography

these hang-up people
were to act out their fantasies

as healthy animals,
the traffic in this literature

would drop to nothing.

The post office department,
the league of decency,

various church and veterans organizations

would all be grateful,
because they would be relieved

of a busy schedule of
vigilance, making themselves

more available to do in their secret shame

what the poets encourage
we all do in open delight.

Hold it, hold it, wait, waitjust a minute.

We have forgotten one thing.

The law.

Well it seems that
civilization, in its never-ending

attempt to curb our animal nature,

has devised certain unnatural act laws.

Now they even apply, by the way,

to unnatural acts between
a man and his wife.

Now if yours is the normal
sex life of the normal American,

you could all be arrested.

Let's get to the examples themselves.

We'll start over here
and go, one after another,

right around the room.

"To his mistress going
to bed," by John dunne.

"Full nakedness, all joys are due to thee.

"As souls unbodied,
bodies unclothed must be

"to taste whole joys.

"Gems which you women
use are like Atlanta's ball

"cast in men's views.

"That when a fool's eye iighteth on a gem,

"his earthly soul might
court that, not them."

Next please.

"Sappho's ode" by catullus.

"My bosom glowed.

"The subtle flame ran quick
through all my vital frame.

"On my dim eyes the darkness hung."

The pair formation stage,

usually referred to as courtship,

is remarkably prolonged
by animal standards,

frequently lasting for
weeks or even months.

As with many other
species, it is characterized

by tentative, ambivalent behavior

involving conflicts
between fear, aggression

and sexual attraction.

The nervousness and
hesitancy are slowly reduced

if the mutual sexual
signals are strong enough.

These involve complex facial expressions,

body postures and vocalizations.

A courting couple is often referred to

as murmuring sweet nothings,

and this phase sums
up clearly the significance

of the tone of voice as
opposed to what is being spoken.

After the initial stages of
visual and vocal display,

simple body contacts are made.

These usually accompany locomotion,

which is considerably increased
when the pair are together.

Hand to hand.

And arm to arm contacts.

Followed by mouth to face.

Mouth to mouth contact.

Mutual embracing occurs

both statically and during locomotion.

Next please.

Sonnets, "actualities" by ee cummings.

"I like my body when it is with your body.

"It is so quite new a thing."

Certain spontaneous
outbursts of running.

Running?

Mm-hm, running and chasing.

Chasing?

Mm-hm, jumping.

And dancing are commonly seen.

Where are you going?

Oh!

Oh!

J'aii week long, we've
been looking at horizons j'

j'and it's hard on the brain j'

j' sometimes I wonder is
it the car or the highway j'

j' that rolls through the rain j'

j' this day has no number j'

j' this day has no name j'

j' but it's time for the
weekend all the same j'

j' why don't you put
on your Saturday suit? J'

j' let's fly away j'

j' we could find ourselves a little cafe j'

j' where the street people come to play j'

j' and let the wine and the sunshine j'

j' blow our minds away j'

j' Saturday suit me fine today j'

j' baby, won't you Saturday
suit me fine today? J'

j' darling, won't you
Saturday suit me fine today? J'

Next please.

This is from the Bible.

The song of songs, which is Solomon.

"Let him kiss me with
the kisses of his mouth,

"for thy love is better than wine.

"Because of the savior
of thy good ointments,

"thy name is as ointments poured forth."

"Therefore
do the virgins love thee."

"A bundle of myrrh
is my wealth, beloved unto me.

"He shall lie all night betwixt my breast."

Much of this pair formation
phase may take place

in public, but when it passes
over to the precopulatory

and copulatory phase, privacy is sought,

and the subsequent patterns
of behavior are performed

in isolation from the other
members of the species,

as far as is possible.

Right?

Right.

One, two, three.

Let's go, one, two, three, four

# you finger paint me #

j' I'll finger paint you j'

j' remember children and j'

j' the things they like to do j'

j' and let your colors flow j'

j' as they did long ago j'

j' before forgetting how j'

j' but you can finger paint me now j'

j' is that the sound of the
thunder in the eaves? J'

j' finger paint me now j'

j' is that the wind that's
rising in the trees? J'

j' love is the answer that j'

j' we've always known j'

j' why then do we let each
other live and die alone? J'

j' finger paint me now
with your tiny hand j'

J' you can touch me now j'

j' I'm just a man j'

You know, we could be arrested?

We? It's your fantasy.

Oh, right.

Did you know monkeys
and apes don't fall in love?

I keep forgetting.

A couple of groups come near it,

but people are the only
ones who really pair up.

For long periods of time, I mean.

People aren't a type of monkeys?

They're primates.

They're primates.

True, have one and you've had them all.

A couple of facial expressions, a grunt

and seven seconds later, it's over,

and they're back to separate bananas.

Well if you had to lie flat
on your back on a branch,

a quickie's about all you could handle.

Wrong. She's on all fours.

We're the only primates
that mate face to face.

Good idea for a song.

J' the human race mates face to face j'

Idiot.

You hate my music.

I love it.

Says here the female...

Female monkey?

Well, she...

Uh-oh.

What about the female monkey?

Well, she doesn't seem to
experience any kind of orgasm.

Certainly nothing compared
to you. Doesn't seem fair.

What's worse, she only
gets a little one week in four.

One week in four?

A little one week in four.

And if she's pregnant or nursing,

she just sits on it for the duration.

It's not fair.

The lower mammals don't do that well.

Probably why they sleep all winter.

The orgasm could work
against the monkey's survival.

She's only got a few
days to get fertilized,

and she better not spend
any of that time being satisfied

or she's cutting into her own mating time.

Wilt thou have this woman to be

thy lawfully wedded
wife, to have and to hold,

for better or worse, for
richer or poorer, in sickness...

But the male monkey
gets his rocks off, right?

As long as ye both shall live?

Always.

Not you, him.

I do.

Wilt thou have this
man to be thy lawfully

wedded husband, to have and to hold...

The male monkey's orgasm satisfies him

and gives him time to
regenerate more sperm.

Hey.

I'm regenerating.

For as long as ye both shall live?

Is your orgasm for regenerating too?

Oh, I don't really think so,

but in survival it has other advantages.

For instance, it's quite wild,

part of the old reward system,

a little goodie for pairing off.

But mostly, though, it
helps assure fertilization.

Do you understand?

I do.

Well, I don't.

Simple gravity, twit.

Look, the female monkey
gets herself inseminated

and then gets up and
walks away on all fours,

like nothing happened.

Well that's fine, because on all fours

the male sperm can stay
put, but if your lovely bride here

were to get up and
head for the refrigerator

like the female monkey,
two legs and simple gravity

lessen her chances of fertilization.

So, you see, her orgasm keeps her heavenly

horizontal for a safe period.

You're sneaky.

Us naked apes are
the sexiest primates alive.

And always ready.

You mean it.

Down.

Next please.

"The merrie ballad of Nash,
his dildo" by Thomas Nash.

"He rubbed and pierced
her ever to the bone,

"digging as deep as
he could dig for stones.

"Now high, now low, now
striking short and thick,

"and diving deeper,
pierced her to the quick.

"His body presses against
my breasts. My heart throbs."

They're still turning each other on.

What about me?

Show me again.

Mr. Rogers?

Mr. Rogers?

It's your turn.

Oh, sorry.

I apologize for not having an example

of erotic classic literature,

but I would like to read
something pertaining to attitudes.

I mean, what is biologically natural

as opposed to the culturally sinful,

as you were saying earlier.

"The vast bulk of copulation in our species

"is obviously concerned
not with producing offspring

"but with cementing the pair bond

"by providing mutual
rewards for sexual partners.

"The repeated attainment
of sexual consummation

"for a mated pair is
clearly then not some kind

"of sophisticated, decadent outgrowth

"of modern civilization, but a deep-rooted,

"biologically based and evolutionary sound

"tendency of our species.

"Any body relationship
should be grist to our sexual mill

"and as an inventive
species, it should be natural

"for us to experiment
with any postures we like.

"But the more the better,
in fact, because this will

"increase the complexity of the sexual act,

"increase sexual novelty
and prevent sexual boredom

"between the members of a long-mated pair.

"Any improvement in sexual
rewards for the members

"of a mated pair will
obviously be important

"in strengthening the pair bond."

Desmond Morris, "the naked ape."

Uh, right.

J' if the nightingales
could sing like you j'

j' they'd sing much sweeter than they do j'

j' for your brought a
new kind of love to me j'

I like what you said about sex

variations and pair bonding.

Oh, thanks.

But since we've bonded
ourselves into overpopulation,

isn't it time we got ourselves unstuck.

J' you've brought a
new kind of love to me j'

how about a law that a person
can only reproduce himself?

You know, one for one.

Of course, they'd have to enforce it.

You mean with a fine?

I mean with scissors.

J' you're a lady, and I am only a man j'

j' I would work and slave
the whole day through j'

what the world needs now...

J' so I could hurry home to you j'

is a bucket of cold water.

J' because you've brought
a new kind of love to me j'

Overbreeding is biologically immoral.

Stop overpopulation.

Gay power, gay power, gay power.

Homosexuals
are the last oppressed people.

The planet is crowded. Come out.

Overbreeding is biologically immoral.

Gay power, gay power, gay power.

Overbreeding is biologically immoral.

Gay power, gay power, gay power.

Homosexuals
are the last oppressed people.

Sandra, come on.

The lady said follow the yellow line.

It's not moving.

It took us millions of years

to evolve into the sexual hunter,

and then we think up civilization, and pow,

in a few thousand years
we become civilized.

The point is, there was no
time to make the adjustment.

J' Jesus loves me, this I know j'

j' for the Bible tells me so j'

j' little ones to him belong j'

j' they are weak, but he is strong j'

j' Jesus loves me, oh yeah j'

j' Jesus loves me, oh yeah j'

j' Jesus loves me j'

j' for the Bible tells me so j'

Oh, oh.

Oh, oh, oh.

Miss hemmings, am I
supposed to do something

important at this time?

Miss hemmings?

Oh.

I'm cathleen, Cathy.

Miss hemmings took a, or I think, left for

who cares?

Jellybeans.

The bag broke.

You're new.

Yes, I was just assigned to you today.

I decided to stop being a housewife.

My husband's away, so I got
out and joined the workforce.

Uh, right.

You're a dirty old man.

Yes, but I'm a healthy dirty old man.

The whole world's geared to
staring at each other's goodies.

Voyeurism is a healthy,
nonparticipating sex activity.

The world should stare at the world.

Did my wife call?

Oh yes, she's meeting
you downstairs. I'm sorry.

That's all right.

It's just that we're going to the country.

It took us two million
years to get out of the trees,

and the rush hour could take

another two million to get back in.

J' specialize, organize j'

night, Carl.

J' when are we going to realize j'

j' homo sapiens is facing his demise j'

see you Monday, Stanley.

J' how you gonna keep
him up in the cities j'

Ted, that's not your hat.

J' stabilize j'

good night, Bob.

J' but don't forget how to j'

you really blew their
minds at that meeting today.

J' improvise j'

j' look what's happened
to the eagle and whale j'

j' what you gonna do
when your systems fail? J'

j' how will we synthesize
a new atmosphere? J'

j' how we will minimize
the effects of fear? J'

j' and can we justify
what we're doing here? J'

j' with the end so near j'

j' tune in next week, tune in next week j'

j'aii will be revealed j'

j' oh analyze, theorize j'

j' of all god's creatures
we're certainly the wise guys j'

j' and when we're all pressurized j'

j'and when we're all moralized j'

j' and when we're all sanitized j'

j' we're still gorillas j'

j' what you gonna do when you be arised? J'

During the week, the naked ape rushes

to cover the earth with steel and concrete,

only to spend his weekend rushing to find

what remains of nature.

All right, ladies and gentlemen,

let's follow the yellow
line to the next exhibit.

There, we will see displayed the result

of man's greatest survival trick,

his exploratory inventive urge.

His highly developed
mental and physical dexterity

have enabled him to improve upon nature.

The same hands that once
grasped the branches of trees

have since created the
treasures of this earth.

Our ancestral grunts and
squeaks have become language

and symbols to further aid
our limited creative ability.

A.

J'ej'

j'ij'

j'oj'

j'uj'

j'a, e, I, oj'

Simpra.

Simpra.

Libra.

Libra.

J' ne-an-der-thal j'

We have even disciplined our bodies

in the creative search for form and beauty.

When the mind of man is at peace,

he and his creations are truly
the most exquisite on earth.

It is one of the ironies of
nature that the naked ape,

while perfecting his
greatest survival trick,

his inventive exploratory urge,
has managed to bring himself

into conflict with an older, more primitive

survival trick, his aggressive urge.

All right, let's go.

All right, let's move!

Come on, move it out.

Let's go.

Come on, let's go here.

Form a line right over there.

Come on, hey, come on, move it out.

His superior mentality has evolved

a species defect, one that could cause him

to exterminate himself
by the end of the century.

We animals fight amongst ourselves

for one of two very good reasons,

either to establish
dominance in a class system.

Get back in line!

Or to establish territorial rights

over a particular piece of ground.

You dirty son of a bitch!

Arnold dickerson!

Here, I'm here. I'm here.

You're late for the war.

Don't worry, there'll be
another one along any minute.

All right now, follow the yellow line

into the building, let's go.

Move!

There is a rigidly
established class system

in most species of monkeys and apes.

All right, hold it right here, stop.

With the dominant
male in charge of the group.

Others range below him in varying degrees

of subordination, and envy.

So when the boss becomes
too old to remain top ape,

he is overthrown by a
younger male, who then inherits

the control, and envy, of the colony.

Also, in most species of monkeys and apes,

the responsibility of
protecting the territory

and the colony falls to the dominant male,

who will lay his life on the line

in order to protect his colony.

The naked ape has reversed this procedure,

it falling instead to the lesser males

to defend not only the
territory but the colony boss,

who in return will spare
no amount of technology

in laying their lives on the line.

Make sure he's only got one hand

on your shoulder at a time.

A-g-g

r-e-s-s

i-o-n.

A-g-g

r-e-s-s

i-o-n.

I would like it to go on record that I

conscientiously object to war.

I believe in total appeasement.

What would you do

if a vicious enemy suddenly
started coming at you,

armed to the teeth and ready to kill you?

Um.

A vicious, uh, enemy.

Armed

to the teeth?

Ready to kill me?

Well, the first thing I'd do
is throw down my weapon.

Then, I'd show him my hands

so that he could see that
there wasn't anything in them.

Then I would salute, so that
he would see that my hands

were flat out in the open and know

that I wasn't making a fist.

And if that didn't work,
I'd take off my hat.

Yeah, I'd definitely take off my hat

and make myself very small.

As small as I could get.

See, I wouldn't wanna
seem taller than he was.

That's why I'd take off my hat.

Hm, I'd lower my head. I'd lower my body.

That'd be good and submissive.

Yeah.

Um, so is bowing.

I think he'd understand a bow.

Or maybe a curtsy.

No, no, definitely a bow.

King's x.

That's it, I'd try some baby talk.

That shows that I
don't mean a wotta harm.

Wot's of people talk baby talk.

Perhaps if I
offered him a chocolate bar.

And if he didn't like chocolate,

I'd show him a few insecurity gestures

to make him think him
that I was totally incapable.

Birds do things like that.

Religion is very appeasing,

if you know the right lousy religion.

Oh, I think I would smile and laugh,

and I think I would laugh a lot.

I think I would laugh
until I started to cry

and fall down prostrate on the ground

and grovel at his feet.

Oh boy.

Sounds sensible.

A modicum of caution is
required in every soldier.

But, uh...

In most disputes, the basic
aggressive threat signals

are strong enough to
put a stop to the dispute

without the contestants coming to blows.

Then everybody uses appeasement signals.

You have nothing to worry about.

But we're not using Spears anymore.

Weapons have become highly impersonal.

They're developed to be
fired fantastic distances.

How the hell's the enemy gonna
see my appeasement signals?

Look, it's a fair fight.

You won't be able to see his either.

How'd you make out?

Forget it.

What do I tell him?

Tell him you like boys.

I think I should tell you,

I like boys.

Then you'll probably like the army.

In the ambrona
valley of Spain, two excavations

revealed a prehistoric
fossil story about a band

of homo erectus believed
to have hunted here

over 500,000 years ago.

Most of the tools found in the valley

were made of alien stone,

which means that they were carried here

in anticipation of the hunt.

These early hunters had some understanding

of place and season, and could visualize

events in the future.

They knew that the
migratory grazing animals

would be moving south
through such natural funnels

as the ambrona valley,
migrating to the warmer lowlands,

where they grazed for winter.

The basic patterns of
behavior developed by us

in these early days as hunting apes

still shines through all our affairs today,

no matter how lofty we make them appear.

Get wide, spread it out!

The basic aggressive urge of the hunt

has never changed, only its form.

What a piece of work is man.

How noble in reason,
how infinite in faculty.

In form and moving, how
express and admirable.

In action, how like an angel.

In apprehension, how like a god.

The beauty of the world,
the paragon of animals.