And our Founding Fathers knew about this.

And so we believe that our

Our ancestors were short, hairy apes.

O ancestors of the House of lyi...

We have a much larger brain than our ape ancestors.

These are our ancestors yours and mine.

Our ancestors must have been fine men, Louis.

Known to him are the ancient spells and potions of our ancestors.

As a result, our forebears livers stayed healthy.

The honour of our Fatherland Rests on the outcome of this noble enterprise

So this ingenuity of our ancestors, to invent this most marvelous technology.

Through cultural changes, our ancestors largely eliminated early death so that people can now live out their full lives.

Our ancestors laid down some good wine here in the lodge, cousin.

What was good for our ancestors may not be good today.

Homo erectus, one of our human ancestors, actually lived in this region.

To summarize the significance of this fossil, we can say the following.

Well, we're no genetically hardier than our ancestors were 10,000 years ago.

So, this girl died when she was about three, 3.3 million years ago.

And at this sacred fire, the spirit of our ancestors speak through the headman and advise us where to get water, where to get grazings, and where to go and hunt.

5.93 million years ago was when our earliest primate human ancestors stood up.

By the time the last Neanderthal disappeared in Europe, 27,000 years ago, our direct ancestors had already, and for 5,000 years, been crawling into the belly of the earth, where in the light of the flickers of tallow candles, they had brought into being the great art of the Upper Paleolithic.

Homo sapiens lived throughout Africa, but only some of these people were our ancestors.

Culture is a reaction to nature, and this understanding of our ancestors is transmitted generation from generation in the form of stories, symbols and rituals, which are always indifferent to rationality.

OK, so it is absolutely surprising that we know as much as we do know today about our ancestors, because it's incredibly difficult,

To acknowledge a universe much grander and more wonderful than the superstitions of our ancestors would ever allow.

And the anthropologist Randall White has made a very interesting observation that if our ancestors 40,000 years ago had been able to see what they had done, they wouldn't have really understood it.

It was put there by our distant ancestors who spread across the world, and it's never going to be quenched.

We have brains that evolved in medium sized ancestors which couldn't walk through rocks.

SINGAPORE Our ancestors preached it. Our parents taught it to us.

Some of these excess pages were inserted by nasty little infections in our ancestors, but some of them are actually helpful.

Moving to the other end of the scale, our ancestors never had to navigate through the cosmos at speeds close to the speed of light.

Two million years ago at Lake Turkana, Homo erectus, one of our human ancestors, actually lived in this region.

What would our ancestors 10,000 years ago have said if they really had technology assessment?

Well, I think the first thing is that it reminds us just how resourceful people were, our forebears were, years and years ago.

I think our ancestors

You know, that is very exciting for us, because it demonstrates that things were changing slowly and progressively, and that evolution is in the making.

And we then wanted to see whether we can match our ancestral maps with digital maps made somewhere in the world.

And at this sacred fire, the spirit of our ancestors speak through the headman and advise us where to get water, where to get grazings, and where to go and hunt.

These intuitions reflect the outcome of millions of years in which our ancestors have lived as social mammals, and are part of our common inheritance.

If one of our ancestors, apes, is still alive today, how many people will make friends with it instead of calling the Museum of Natural History?

In the 10,000 years since agriculture evolved, most of our ancestors have actually been agriculturalists or they were closely related to food production.

It is up to us to be worthy of the heritage we have received and to take up with firm and confident hands the torch handed to us by our predecessors.

The ones on the right were made by Neanderthals, our distant cousins, not our direct ancestors, living in Europe, and they date from around 50,000 or 60,000 years ago.

I've often wondered, what is the evolutionary pressure that made our ancestors in the Veldt adapt and evolve to really enjoy pictures of galaxies when they didn't have any.

Do we today share the same spirit that inspired our predecessors? At the end of this General Assembly will we feel that we have improved the world?