Life 2.4 Million Years Ago | The Poison That Changed Evolution

2.4 million years ago, curiosity could kill.
A young band of early humans experiments with new plants and prey—and discovers poison for the first time. What began as hunger turns into paralysis, panic, and loss.
This documentary recreates the moment when instinct met danger and changed the path of human evolution forever.

Based on evidence from paleoethnobotany, archaeology, and experimental archaeology, the film explores how early Homo habilis learned from lethal mistakes—recognizing toxic berries, snakes, and roots, building the first memory maps of what not to eat, and shaping survival intelligence that would later define our species.

Would you risk tasting the unknown… if the tribe was starving?

Scientific Context: grounded in studies on early diet adaptation, Olduvai Gorge plant remains, and toxin recognition in non-human primates—an evidence-based reconstruction dramatized for education.
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