fwiw re your recent edit rv seems there's a substantial amount of material in the complete film documentary dawn of humanity pbs film that directly relates a space odyssey to the recent discoveries of homo naledi fossils in south africa the film documentary can be viewed as a trailer at or as the complete film at copied from main article version september influence on science the behavior of apes in the dawn of man sequence of largely influenced by the notions of raymond dart and dramatist robert ardrey have been proven false since such violent apes have now been shown to be vegetarians instead according to archeology expert k kris hirst reviewing the dawn of humanity pbs film documentary which describes directly in the context of the studies of fossils of homo naledi comments by other editors are welcome of course in any case hope this helps in some way enjoy