Children of Africa - Symphony of Science, Melodysheep

Man is a singular creature;

He has a set of gifts which make him unique among the animals

So that unlike them, he is not a figure in the landscape

He is the shaper of the landscape

We are all children of Africa

They say this is where it all began

In a parched African landscape

Man first put his foot to the ground

Africa was our only home

for tens of thousands of years

until a small handful of people made their way

out of Africa

These beings with soaring imagination

Eventually flung themselves and their machines

Into interplanetary space

We are all children of africa

This landscape has been home to humans

Two hundred thousand years

We have come so far

All of this is cause for great celebration

We have come so far

This is a story about us

Those early Europeans

Were people like you and me

But it is humbling

When you see the challenges they faced

People like you and me

Overcame the Neaderthals

People like you and me

Made it through the ice age

We are not the only beings

With personalities, minds, and feelings

Chimpanzees have very clear personalities

Take a chimp brain foetally

And let it go two or three more rounds of division

And out comes symphonies and ideology

Everything that we are

That distinguishes us from chimps

Emerges from that one percent

Difference in DNA

People like you and me

Overcame the Neaderthals

People like you and me

Made it through the ice age

Using his burgeoning intelligence,

This most successful of all mammals

Has exploited the environment to produce food

For an ever increasing population.

Instead of controlling the environment

For the benefit of the population

Perhaps it’s time we controlled the population

To allow the survival of the environment