No, I'm telling you, Cossacks come from Cossacks.

Family heirloom?

Rules we've been following for many generations!

And this is exactly what the archeological record shows.

What about the origins of agriculture?

America didn't become the land of opportunity by accident.

we are fýshermen in our family for as far back as I can see.

This ancient ancestor was called Ridjimiraril.

And in that ancient time, there lived an ancient ancestor.

Our ancestors were physical beings.

The search for knowledge is in our genes.

(Laughter)

My kin.

Is this some kind of ancestor?

They emigrated to Appalachia in the late 1700s.

Our ancestors knew how to read the stars.

Not even the gods of our ancestors... could have imagined such power.

We have to go back longtime... back to the time of my ancestors.

They love me, but they also helped.

He evolved from cats, his ancestors were cats,

They're coming... my ancestors.

Kanzi now makes his tools, just as our ancestors may have made them, two and a half million years ago by holding the rocks in both hands, to strike one against the other.

The flat sharp edges are like knife blades.

Remember, that's a short time.

They were called Cossacks.

Because of the Earth tilting on its axis and those catastrophic climate shifts, we had to figure out how to find better food, and we had to learn there's Lucy that's how we all began we had to learn how to crack open animal bones, use tools to do that, to feed on the marrow, to grow our brains more.

Life for the ancient ancestors passed as it always did.

Where am I indigenous to? Nowhere really. My genes are all jumbled up.

Anyway, once we made it there, then it's a game park, as I said, an extinct game park.

How do we know this?

Except for one.

You would die for the memory of your ancestors.

My grandfather is in his nineties.

Now you might wonder, how can people fit in a tiny village only this big?

In sub Saharan Africa, for example, farmers spread east and south from present day Cameroon around 5,000 years ago.

Well, not quite. Because Darwin was talking about our distant ancestry, our common ancestry with apes.

But, of course, God got a lot of help.

Well, you know man evolved from apes?

Ancestors, I ask for your guidance.

All the ancestors, that Minygululu,

The voices of our ancestors.

I'm pretty sure that one day, when we will perhaps have a genome of also these earlier forms in Africa, we will find that they have also mixed with early modern humans in Africa.

Her parents were born in slavery in Virginia in the 1840's.

First is a Canadian flag, because some of my ancestors were from Nova Scotia, Canada.

Okay, yes, I have seen that question a lot and I'll do my best to answer it.