First Man (2017) - Screens 133

First Man (2017) - Screens 133

APN - Joshua Lindal

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First Man (2017) is a “documentary” with an interesting relationship to scientific facts and a disturbing view of human nature. It follows human evolution through four reconstructed ancestors: an early beta cuck ape from Spain; a Tate stan basal hominin from Chad; an ancestral alpha mogger from South Africa; and a brainmaxxing sigma arsonist from China. Join us as we break down the silly walks, unnecessarily blurred monkey genitals, and (content warning!) graphic sexual assault.

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• Pierolapithecus

• Sahelanthropus

• Gigantopithecus

• Sivapithecus/Ramapithecus

• Paranthropus

• Graecopithecus

• Peking Man (Homo erectus)

• Harbin/Dragon Man

• Our episode on Skullduggery (1970)

• Our episode on Sasquatch Sunset (2024)

• Grieving chimpanzee carries dead baby for months

• Zhoukoudian

• The myth of the alpha wolf

• Parsimony

• Boma predator deterrent

• Gao et al. (2017) Evidence of hominin use and maintenance of fire at Zhoukoudian

• Laughter in animals

• Pusceddu et al. (2025) Animal medical systems from Apis to apes: history, recent advances and future perspectives

• Ventro-ventro position (doggy is not the only style)

• Man vs. horse races (horses have won)

• Persistence hunting

• Aiello and Wheeler (1995) The Expensive-tissue hypothesis: The brain and the digestive system in human and primate evolution

• Wrangham (2009) Catching Fire: How Cooking Made us Human

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