We weren’t the strongest animal, but we had an unusually large brain and held ourselves upright, giving us a high vantage to scan the distant horizon for enemies, and the freedom to use our hands for other purposes. We are one species of primate that emerged from the dry savannahs of East Africa just over 100,000 years ago and began a migration that continues to today. So what is our story? Let’s start with the facts. We want to make the hairs on the back of the neck stand up at the improbable good fortune of our own existence. Being Human will be a celebration of the human race. We want to make you think, but we also want to make you feel. We have brilliant series from world class programme makers coming up, full of incredible ideas at the leading edge of scientific thought. We will look deep into the mind at what drives our behaviour, meet extraordinary humans who have unlocked the secrets of a long and healthy life, take a trip through 2000 years of civilisation, journey into the human body on our path to adulthood as we go from baby to baby-maker, experience the drama of extraordinary human rituals that hope to cheat death, and watch happens to our bodies in the hours, days, and months after we die. Over the course of a year, we will take you by the hand and dive into these questions, exploring all corners of humanity with wide-eyed curiosity. Why do we behave the way we do? How do we live better? How did we get to now? What is our future? The electric surge we feel when we kiss a lover, the deep stirring of the soul when we listen to Mozart’s Requiem, and the full flowing joy of laughing uncontrollably with our closest friends as we share a joke.īeing Human is a major new season launching on BBC Earth that aims to take us as closer to understanding who we are. In fact, to date, no-one has come close to describing the sheer magnificent wonder of being alive. It would be another 50 years before an Austrian doctor began to talk about the hidden forces of the subconscious mind, but even Sigmund Freud couldn’t provide an adequate explanation for consciousness. Charles Darwin had one of the greatest insights into the human condition that any of our species has had, changing thousands of years' of thought at the stroke of a pen, yet he had nothing to say about how we actually experience being human.
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