Very informative, despite what the vegan before me thinks
8 Reviews
Good documentary
prideufc8331 January 2021
Appeals to the imagination
peterssubs13 August 2021
Very up to date and very informative. Really appeals to the imagination. Only negative is the background music which seems at times to have been picked at random and sometimes drowns out the voice over.
Appearently it is also anti-vegan. Let's call it a bonus.
Appearently it is also anti-vegan. Let's call it a bonus.
Haunting Visualizations
quackzy6 June 2021
Vegan Dude This Is For You
ostingaylord4 February 2021
First of all, this documentary is extremely well done. CGI is amazing. Super factual and up to date. 10/10. Highly recommend if this is your jam.
Second of all, I can smell the soy through my phone while I was reading the vegans review. He is so ill-informed on how homo habulis/erectus/sapians brain were been developed, let alone the digestive track.
Eating meat is what caused the jump in intelligence and massive brain growth. Not plants. It was the protein, fat, and amino acids that are stored inside animal meat.
If anyone wants to dive into this more, I highly recommend reading Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human.
Second of all, I can smell the soy through my phone while I was reading the vegans review. He is so ill-informed on how homo habulis/erectus/sapians brain were been developed, let alone the digestive track.
Eating meat is what caused the jump in intelligence and massive brain growth. Not plants. It was the protein, fat, and amino acids that are stored inside animal meat.
If anyone wants to dive into this more, I highly recommend reading Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human.
Ardipithecus!
appye2 May 2021
Warning: Spoilers
I had not known of ardipithecus before this documentary, awesome to learn about them! I loved seeing them brought to life like that!
Lol ... Antivegan. Way to politicize. Some people just look for things to be offended by.
It's been a little while since I saw this documentary.
I would say that eating meat in and of itself would not trigger an evolutionary change towards bigger brains. People either don't know or forget that acquired traits are not passed on genetically. Even if eating meat as a child triggered larger brain growth (it doesn't), this would not make that child's offspring more likely to have larger brains. That is akin to saying if you lose a finger, your kids will all be born without that finger.
I would also say that AQUIRING that meat could trigger evolutionary change. Perhaps there was a time (like an ice age) where plant based foods were scarce, and these little omnivores were required to hunt, something their brains were not really wired for. Those who were able to figure it out survived while others did not. As time went by, those who were more efficient hunters would have also been more likely to procreate than others because the opposite sex would have found that attractive. These more intelligent individuals would have also been more likely to live long enough to either plant their seed or gestate to term. Put simply, the more intelligent a potential mate appeared, the sexier they were!
Lol ... Antivegan. Way to politicize. Some people just look for things to be offended by.
It's been a little while since I saw this documentary.
I would say that eating meat in and of itself would not trigger an evolutionary change towards bigger brains. People either don't know or forget that acquired traits are not passed on genetically. Even if eating meat as a child triggered larger brain growth (it doesn't), this would not make that child's offspring more likely to have larger brains. That is akin to saying if you lose a finger, your kids will all be born without that finger.
I would also say that AQUIRING that meat could trigger evolutionary change. Perhaps there was a time (like an ice age) where plant based foods were scarce, and these little omnivores were required to hunt, something their brains were not really wired for. Those who were able to figure it out survived while others did not. As time went by, those who were more efficient hunters would have also been more likely to procreate than others because the opposite sex would have found that attractive. These more intelligent individuals would have also been more likely to live long enough to either plant their seed or gestate to term. Put simply, the more intelligent a potential mate appeared, the sexier they were!
Exceptional
aurettraisivanlille17 May 2021
It is about time a docu was made with updated data on pre-historic hominids with CGI graphics and re-enactments that can rival any blockbuster. If you are interest in pre-historic facts and best-guesses with modern findings watch this. It takes you from the very, very beginning of tree walking hominids to the sea fairing humans to populate this world in all corners. From stone tools and axes to sowing needles. From community based clans to rival slaughters. What impact did we initially have on the environment is also briefly reviewed.
This docu took alot of work and money for sure.
In fact Japanese documentaries (many good ones are on Curiosity Stream) are becoming my favourite as their attention to details and analysis with respect to astronomy, historic and science based docu's rivals any western ones. Their research include scientists in every single corner of this world, definately not one-sided, and require quite substantial budgets I am sure. Difficult in their current social attitude, but I wish they would also try and tackle environmental issues, they would make a difference, although it is sensitive, it is hugely important to know what we humans have done to a once-balanced environment and heed the eventual breakdown of the natural earth....
But Well Done on Out of the Cradle, will watch at least another 5 times. Hope the team will look into similar pre-historic documentaries soon (Mammal rise and fall and rise, pre-hominid evolution, for example)
This docu took alot of work and money for sure.
In fact Japanese documentaries (many good ones are on Curiosity Stream) are becoming my favourite as their attention to details and analysis with respect to astronomy, historic and science based docu's rivals any western ones. Their research include scientists in every single corner of this world, definately not one-sided, and require quite substantial budgets I am sure. Difficult in their current social attitude, but I wish they would also try and tackle environmental issues, they would make a difference, although it is sensitive, it is hugely important to know what we humans have done to a once-balanced environment and heed the eventual breakdown of the natural earth....
But Well Done on Out of the Cradle, will watch at least another 5 times. Hope the team will look into similar pre-historic documentaries soon (Mammal rise and fall and rise, pre-hominid evolution, for example)
A fine documentary
dreadpirateroberts7171 June 2021
Jumping to conlusions
saull2821 April 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Without presenting any evidence of their affirmations, pretty much a fable, science is based on evidence and truthful inference and predictions, not this BS. Oh and clearly anti-Vegan, humans and humanoids did ate meat but not exclusively as show here, it's mentioned once that humanoids ate mostly plants, but then jump to conclusions that, that gave us intelligence, wrong, it's the efficiency of the plants what give better nutrition and much less parasites and bacteria to digest food, the biggest strongest smartest compassionate animals on the planet beside humans are vegan animals, this documentary is half-truth anti-Vegan BS
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