- I can't imagine just being here in this environment 200,000 years ago with no real direction as to how to survive, and just having to just figure it out. - Not even knowing what these animals are. - Yeah, not knowing. - We're just like, oh yeah, that's a hippo. That's a crocodile. But it's like... - And then knowing who is predator, who is prey, who is most dangerous check this website.
- Yeah. - Like, that's... It's insane. - If your environment is super diverse, you as a human have to adapt, as well. That shows how strong Mitochondrial Eve really was. - We're on Poacher's Lookout right now. - We can see Kilimanjaro from here. You can see the snow on top of it. This is not something that you can typically see. Just a very clear day. Right, Kristin? - Yeah. This is a special treat. For some special ladies. - Ooh. - So Sam, we've been exploring all day. It's got me thinking, what is the significance of knowing the maternal haplogroup in modern-day society? - Do you guys know about King Richard III? - Yes. - Shakespeare. - Shakespeare, right. Up until a few years ago, they had no idea where he was buried. And there was a parking lot in Leicester, England. And they found this old tomb. And there was a skeleton inside this tomb. So when they looked at the mitochondrial DNA of the skeleton and they compared it to female line of descendants of, say, his grandmother or something, or a cousin on the maternal side, there was a match. - Oh (bleep). - And so they were able to confirm with a very high degree of certainty that the skeleton did belong to King Richard III. Mitochondrial DNA, and haplogroups, and sort of understanding how that all fits together can fill in a lot of gaps in history. - The cradle of life. - Cradle of humanity. - Wow. - So let's go down in this cave. - Yeah. - Woo! - Uh, actually, no one's going in the cave. There are thousands of bats and two hornet's nests. So we are not going in the cave. - Oh, come on, mom. - We're not going in the cave. - Mom. - No one's going in. - You guys are back from seeing the bats. - So we abandoned the others. - Yeah, we left them to die. - We left them for dead. - It smelled like absolute ass. - Well you guys did go into a hole in the ground full of bats. - Yeah, it's awful. - I don't know if I was expecting that smell, though. - I told you thousands of bats. - I thought it would smell good. It circles around, so they're actually going to come out of a different side and meet us. So they're probably alive. - They're fine. - So we actually wound up going down into the cave. And it was awesome. - It was really cool. It smelled like (bleep). Like, really bad (bleep). - Like cat pee, basically. Because the bats poop and pee all over the place. - Yeah. But it was really beautiful. If I were a human living 250,000 years ago, I definitely would have lived in that cave, because you can build a fire, you're safe from the elements, and no leopards are going to get you in there. - No leopards. - Whoa. - So we just saw our first elephant in the actual wild. - It was so special. It was a young bull, so a guy elephant.
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