Ascent Of Man Pt 1 Lower Than The Angels ( with excerpt of transcript )

Ascent Of Man Pt 1 Lower Than The Angels Kimdino1 1.57K subscribers Subscribe 3.3K Share Download 355,535 views Jan 17, 2015 Volume 1 of Jacob Bronowski's epic examination of our rise from the apes and the development of civilisation. (from May 1973) "Man's imagination, his reason, his emotional subtlety and toughness, make it possible for him not to accept the environment but to change it. And that series of inventions, by which man from age to age has remade his environment, is a different kind of evolution - not biological but cultural evolution. I call that brilliant series of cultural peaks 'The Ascent of Man'." Dr. Jacob Bronowski opens the programme at the Great Rift Valley of East Africa and traces the evolution of man's great gifts - foresight and imagination. He follows man from Africa through desert and Ice Age. Chapters 1. Shaper of the Landscape 2. The Rift Valley 3.Australopithecus 4. Physical Gifts 5. Precursors of Man 6.The Hunter 7. The Ice Age 8 Cave Art Series playlist: .. • Ascent Of Man Pt 1 Lower Than The A... Music 3 songs Careful With That Axe Eugene (Live) [2011 - Remaster] Pink Floyd Ummagumma III. Transports de joie d'une âme devant la gloire du Christ qui est la sienne Jeanne Demessieux Organ Music from the 2 Cathedrals in Liverpool Concerto in G minor for organ, strings and timpani (1987 Digital Remaster): Andante - Allegro giocoso Maurice Duruflé/Georges Prêtre/Orchestre National de l'O.R.T.F. Francis Poulenc: Concertos, Aubade, Les Biches Music Transcript Follow along using the transcript. Show transcript Kimdino1 1.57K subscribers Videos About 412 Comments Ron Ruggieri Add a comment... @duncansteward4331 1 year ago The BBC have not made a progam this good since; if the BBC were still making this quality i would be happy with the Licence Fee 22 Reply 3 replies @teddy1066 1 year ago Never erase this! This is pure gold 🥇 15 Reply @lynngregory393 3 years ago This beautiful statement, this series, would not be produced today; Dr Jacob Bronowski’s teaching would be be condemned by the very dogmatic narrow minds today that he warned about. 14 Reply @johnthecloud 6 days ago This is a wonderful series where the BBC was serious about its public service charter. It's challenging, and requires a certain amount of attention span. However, it's totally riveting, and like many great works that don't dumb down, it probably can be appreciated even if you don't fully understand it. I remember my favourite children's programme as a child was Johnny Ball's Think of a Number. I never fully understood it, but the mystery and the understanding that there was some meaning behind it stuck with me. I understood that. Think of a Numbev had an episode where they explored Einstein's Theory of Relativity (a subject also dealt with in The Ascent of Man). This was back in the day when the BBC was not pandering to those with a three second attention span. 1 Reply @creativesource3514 3 years ago I was born in 1973. Thank God for youtube so I can catch up. Bronowski would have loved all the sciencific facts we have worked out since his death. mDNA and the migration of man fills in the blanks of what he spoke about in this documentary. 7 Reply @JoeOMalley-py8wq 1 year ago Probably had the most profound effect on me of any programme I've ever seen. Along with Life on Earth the greatest documentary series ever screened. 6 Reply @scottyunitedboy2925 1 year ago One of the BBC's crowning achievements, not just as documentary or educational programming, but a 13-part work of art made at a time when television could appeal equally to the intellect and the senses. 57 Reply 3 replies @seanfoleyexperimentalmusic6671 3 years ago i saw all of this in the 70s loved every minute 5 Reply @cestmoi1262 2 years ago Watched this series with awe when it was first presented. Have the book. And watching this series with awe again. 4 Reply @mariaengracio4849 3 years ago THIS MAN HAD A PHENOMENAL AND BRILLIANT MIND: HE TALK ABOUT EVERYTHING AND WITH SUCH A SIMPLICITY... ASTONISHING!... "A MIND FOREVER"! 8 Reply @adrianbeaumont6745 2 years ago I was captivated as a young teenager and am still captivated as a 60 year old. A truly great piece of work from the BBC . Thankyou for downloading it and thankyou Dr Jacob Bronowski 27 Reply 1 reply @MisatoKatsuragiHD 1 year ago Full series is now on BBC iPlayer. First two episodes are being repeated on BBC4 tonight at 9:20pm. Been wanting to watch this 5 Reply @EyeLean5280 2 years ago Some incredible filmmaking right here, the whole episode, really. 3 Reply @tomcat3360 1 year ago Released on this date in 1973, 50 years ago, and still remarkably relevant 6 Reply @Thepourdeuxchanson 2 years ago It's superb productions like this which made the BBC the definition of quality. There are far fewer pieces of perfection being made now, but still a few. 4 Reply @flylooper 2 weeks ago I watched this series somethig like 40 years ago on public television. I was fascinated. I loved it. 40 years later, I wonder if we've ascended at all, frankly. Reply @nicholassimons4410 2 years ago Thsnk you for posting this; it's wonderful for me to see and hear Jacob B again 1 Reply @leyniaLip 1 year ago A fabulously gifted educator, in addition to his extraordinary mind. 2 Reply @Martinique_36 5 months ago I had forgotten how truly remarkable and ground breaking not only the book but this series is. Reply Transcript 0:07 man is a singular creature he has a set of gifts which 0:13 make him unique among the animals so that unlike them he is not a figure in 0:20 the landscape he is the shape of the landscape 0:32 this is the Pacific Ocean the California Indians used to say 0:39 that at Full Moon the fish came and danced on these beaches and it's true 0:45 that there is a local variety of fish the granion that comes up out of the 0:50 water and lays its eggs above the high tide Mark the females bury themselves tail 0:58 first in the sand and the males gate or dance around them and fertilize the eggs 1:04 as they're being laid the full moon is important because it gives nine or 10 1:09 days between these very high tides and the next ones that will wash the hatched 1:15 fish out to seea 1:22 again every landscape in the world is full of these exact and beautiful 1:27 adaptations by which an animal fits into its environment like one Cog wheel into 1:35 another millions of years of evolution have shaped the granion to fit and sit 1:43 exactly with the tides but nature that is evolution has not fitted man to any specific 1:50 environment on the contrary by comparison with the granion he has a rather crude survival kit and yet this 1:59 is the Paradox of The Human Condition one that fits him to all 2:06 environments his imagination his reason his emotional 2:12 subtlety and toughness make it possible for him not to accept the environment 2:19 but to change it and that series of inventions by which man from age to age 2:27 has remade his environment is a different kind of evolution not 2:34 biological but cultural Evolution I call that brilliant sequence 2:41 of cultural Peaks the ascent of man 2:48 [Music] 3:00 a [Applause] [Music] 3:37 of course it's tempting very tempting to a scientist to hope that the most 3:43 original achievements of the Mind are also the most recent and we do indeed have cause to be 3:50 proud of some Modern work think of the unraveling of the code of heredity in 3:55 the DNA spiral or the work going forward on the special faculties of the human 4:01 brain think of the philosophic Insight that saw into the theory of 4:07 relativity or the minute behavior of matter on the atomic scale yet human achievement and Science 4:15 in particular is not a museum of finished constructions it's a progress in which 4:23 the first experiments of the Alchemists also have a formative place and the 4:29 sophisticated arithmetic that the Mayan astrono