Hominids Documentary Analysis

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I believe this is one of the most accurate film about early hominids beside a modern documentaries about them. The most inaccurate part of the film is possible how close these tribes are to each other as Professor Pursell talked about how people walk hundreds of miles without encountering a single group of hominids. The film shows us a several ways that ancient man survived. Every tribe is omnivore hunter-gathers as we see them eating meats like deer, bone mane, and other hominids, plants like leaf on trees and vegetables, and insects. Each tribe requires fire to survive. None of the hominid tribes shown may be excerpt the Ivaka are the top of the food chain as the Ulam tribe is attacked by wolves after they escape raid, party is chased by

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