If you have played HalfLife, for quite sometime, you dont shoot directly at beasts on the spot. You try to trap them in corners, and if they are standing in front of some containers which contain explosives, you shoot 5 bullets at the containers. The containers explode killing the beast (instead of you directly pumping 500 bullets into the beast).

Okay, that was a passing thought.

To draw a very crude conclusion, thats how, in general, humans learn. They adapt. Thru' out history, they modified / took advantage of the surroundings to screw the other bigger beastier creatures and thereby establishing their supremacy over many other animals.



Guys, if you get a chance to watch this and this documentary on Discovery Channel , then please see this feature!

It is 1 hr of awesome infotainment.Some parts may be pure speculation, but it triggers your imagination (I can guarantee you that much!)

There were several parts which struck me about this feature:-

->The population of Homo ergaster (our ancestors) on this planet was approximately around three thousand!!!! Probably in Bangalore city market (right now!), we will find three thousand people!!

->All humans (of all races) trace their origin to the Mitochondrial Eve.Here is what wikipedia says about "Mitochondrial Eve".
Imagine a family tree of all humans living today. Now imagine a line from each individual to their mother, and continue those lines from each of those mothers to their mothers, and so on. Going back through time the lineages will converge as sisters share the same mother. The further back in time one goes, the fewer lineages there will be until only one lineage is left — this is the common matrilineal ancestor of all the humans alive today, i.e. Mitochondrial Eve.

See WikiPedia

->Adam and Eve Originated in Africa.There is the "out of Africa" migration theory.This is shown at the beggining of the documentary.

->The history of mankind is shown as a big tale. Discovery of uses of Fire , Invention of Fire in this documentary

->The speculative tale Neanderthals reaching Europe.....The tale of the two Neanderthal Heroes is really touching.Europe was "harsher" to Neanderthals because, they were never exposed to cold weather.They killed using spears. Spear is a short range weapon unlike a bow & arrow. (If you have played the Age of Empires, you will appreciate this trivia).So Cro-Magnons finally win the battle because of their bows and arrows,

->I dunno who will replace us ? This thought takes me to the movie "PLANET OF THE APES". A unique movie with a philosophical twist in the end.

->Well this post is just a haphazard collection of thoughts....But do see this documentary if you get a chance.