I love this. As a young person I worked for Kenneth Oakley and met Louis Leakey and many other luminaries of palaeoanthropology. I went to South Africa in 1961 and volunteered at gré Bernard Price Institute preparing fossil groups from Makapngat. Even went there for a weekend with the staff. Unforgettable. Raymond Dart was a lovely man.
FWIW Philip Tobias was my external examiner in Medicine at UCT in 1969, which I happily survived! This direct line, however tenuous, to the Taungs child has buoyed me up no end. Thank you Lee Berger!
This is so interesting, not just because of the Taung child but because of the process of science and the attitudes of scientists. I find it interesting how to begin with they were so slap happy and easy going with the handling of things in the day. Then how they become more and more careful as they realised what they had. It's interesting too how they all begin with no it can't be , then immediately drop their own theory the moment they are wrong giving up their reputation immediately.
Love the series Lee, this is the perfect info pack for me to try educate my religious family members whom still believe that men were made from sand and women from a rib. BTW, thank you for being such a positive example leading the way for open, sharing science within your field. John and you are my hero's and I'm just an armchair scientist (layman, ha ha). I'm sure you've been the inspiration for generations of students to choose your field, which in turn will provide us decades additional finds. Thank you
Fascinating discussion on the Tuang child fossil. Interesting hypothesis on the large bird of prey theory. Particularly intrigued by the discussion on the endocast and how Dart recognized the vertical spinal column positioning.
Thanks so much for this lecture, Prof Berger. I have been a huge fan of yours since your National Geographic release of your discovery of Homo Nalidi. Absolutely fascinating work - I especially admire your open-source sharing standards that have invited the world of both scientist and lay people to share in your discoveries from the start. Excellent presentation and wonderful details.
Fascinating. Thank you so much for doing this lecture series. I look forward to learning more. Just to be able to see such a thing on video is amazing. I can only imagine what it must be like to hold it. I also think you have a gift for explaining things in a way that even though i didn't understand all the scientific terms i still got the basic idea. Thank you for taking the time to do this for students of all ages and academic paths.
I can't help but cringe when I think about how many early human fossils have been vaporized by the dynamite. Its truly a miracle any serious intact fossils survived.
For Prof. Berger (if possible) - I'm trying to understand the wound described @ 30:36 in the video. If an eagle talon had punctured the skull, wouldn't the brain case cast have a positive impression of the puncture (meaning a feature rising above the surrounding surface) where the in-fill material would flow into the puncture?
This video is very nicely done, an earlier career as a TV cameraman left its mark. Liked the easy conversational style very much, flowed along nicely. Prof Bergers background stories + little stories of his own experiences are a bonus. I've noticed that other fine lecturers & speakers also do this (eg Dr Robert Sapolsky, Richard Dawkins, John Hawks)
This was fascinating. I have long been a fan of Raymond Dart, having studied Dart Proceduresthrough the Alexander Technique. I have his books Skill and Poise and Adventures with the Missing Link. Superb.
I've been studying the role of meat/hunting/scavenging/fat/digestion/brain/ketosis in human evolution. Could you design a lecture around that? I'm wondering whether a hypothesis that humans evolved away from other apes because they became facultative carnivores (and obligate carnivores) can be supported.
I'm not sure what video you watched, but most of this one was devoted to displaying original fossils of the Taung child -- that is, those things that were _actually found._
@@andreafalconiero9089 little tiny pieces that were assumed to be from new species. I'll wait for concrete evidence. I did watch the whole thing :) I have kept up with him for a while. His talk at google introduced me to him
@@rocketsurgeon1746 I guess you must consider anything less than a complete skeleton clothed in living flesh to be _"little tiny pieces"._ What I saw was a brain endocast and an almost complete skull and mandible as well as various other bones in an excellent state of preservation. This talk of course was only about a single specimen, but is certainly not the full collection of fossils for _A. africanus_ which consists of remains from over 200 individuals. No amount of evidence will convince a creationist, though they'll happily believe in fanciful alternate theories that are based on no evidence at all. milnepublishing.geneseo.edu/the-history-of-our-tribe-hominini/chapter/australopithecus-africanus/
@@andreafalconiero9089 it is always funny how people that support evolution will use extremes. Just because I don't think his evidence is enough doesn't mean I need a full fossil with some tissues, etc. as he has stated numerous times, there is very little fossil proof for any kind of transitional species.
Lovely lecture but the photography is horrible: some of the details pointed out are so pitifully photographed one has to use imagination because the photographic details he mentions are not apparent at all. That is a shame.
Mr Berger is an excellent lecturer and a great scientist! What a wonderful manner of telling the story.
Paleo Forensics! The Taung Child has always been one of my favorite finds.
As an Anthropology Student and museum enthusiast, this is absolutely amazing! Thank you for making this available.
I love this. As a young person I worked for Kenneth Oakley and met Louis Leakey and many other luminaries of palaeoanthropology. I went to South Africa in 1961 and volunteered at gré Bernard Price Institute preparing fossil groups from Makapngat. Even went there for a weekend with the staff. Unforgettable. Raymond Dart was a lovely man.
Thank you Dr. Berger! Back in 1985, I actually visited Sterkfontein Cave!
FWIW Philip Tobias was my external examiner in Medicine at UCT in 1969, which I happily survived! This direct line, however tenuous, to the Taungs child has buoyed me up no end. Thank you Lee Berger!
This was fascinating! It's great to see something else on my feed outside of the current news. Well done! Please do more of these!
I find anthropology fascinating and appreciate this so much. Thank you for posting these.
I'm not at all surprised that Lee Berger is the luckies paleoanthropologist in history. It's because he is such a nice guy!
Fascinating video. Thank you!
*_Thank you!_*
I'm starting to climb on my walls, and this is so interesting, joining you into that sacred vault helps me a lot. 😍👍
Спасибо Вам большое, Проф. Бергер.
It was great to meet a celebrity of our species’s evolutionary past. Thank you so much!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Fascinating! Thank you so much for making these lectures!
As a causal evolutionary layman, I really appreciate these lectures. Thank you!
Mind blowing teaching.
Thank you sir.
Well presented Mr. Berger. Congrets
Fantastic video. Well explained and what a treat to see the child put together. Thank you so much for the brain detail and predatory detail as well.
Thank you Prof Berger! Watching from Kraljevo, Serbia! :)
Completely wonderful I could listen to you talk about fossils all day long!
I don't know how many times I have watched this. It never gets old. Always fascinating.
I think it's a little scary that all of this is kept in one place. That fire in Brazil should've sent out an alarm about this kind of thing.
This is a fantastic lecture. Thanks!!
This is so interesting, not just because of the Taung child but because of the process of science and the attitudes of scientists. I find it interesting how to begin with they were so slap happy and easy going with the handling of things in the day. Then how they become more and more careful as they realised what they had. It's interesting too how they all begin with no it can't be , then immediately drop their own theory the moment they are wrong giving up their reputation immediately.
Thanks. This was extremely interesting.
Watching from Atlanta, can’t wait for more content!!
Love the series Lee, this is the perfect info pack for me to try educate my religious family members whom still believe that men were made from sand and women from a rib.
BTW, thank you for being such a positive example leading the way for open, sharing science within your field. John and you are my hero's and I'm just an armchair scientist (layman, ha ha). I'm sure you've been the inspiration for generations of students to choose your field, which in turn will provide us decades additional finds. Thank you
Thank you Sir! The world needs more people like you!
FANTASTIC presentation. Ty for sharing your knowledge. It astounds me how many things are found and figured out by chance mixed with knowledge.
What a rare opportunity! Thank you so much!!
This is fascinating, thanks for sharing it. It's amazing to see so much knowledge gained from this specimen.
thank you professor great initiative, greetings from Colombia SA
I'm so excited to see this!!!! Thank you!
Fascinating discussion on the Tuang child fossil.
Interesting hypothesis on the large bird of prey theory.
Particularly intrigued by the discussion on the endocast and how Dart recognized the vertical spinal column positioning.
Many thanks from London Canada!
Thanks so much for this lecture, Prof Berger. I have been a huge fan of yours since your National Geographic release of your discovery of Homo Nalidi. Absolutely fascinating work - I especially admire your open-source sharing standards that have invited the world of both scientist and lay people to share in your discoveries from the start. Excellent presentation and wonderful details.
You will be one of the all time greats of science.
Thank you for taking the time and showing the rare treasures CheeseBerger.
Thanks for these great videos. Enjoy them a lot. Have been following your work for a while. Great job.
Very fascinating. Thanks for the excellent review.
So well done! Great video, well-presented and fascinating information. Well-told story. Loved it and I can't wait for more!
Professor Berger thank you so much for this. Just the deep dive I'm looking for. Do you have a video on your collar bone studies?
Wow! I loved it... Can't wait for the next one!
Thank You 😊 🙏
Thanks for sharing
30kg! That’s how much I weighed when I was 11! If I lived there I could have been bird food
Fascinating. Thank you so much for doing this lecture series. I look forward to learning more. Just to be able to see such a thing on video is amazing. I can only imagine what it must be like to hold it. I also think you have a gift for explaining things in a way that even though i didn't understand all the scientific terms i still got the basic idea. Thank you for taking the time to do this for students of all ages and academic paths.
I can't help but cringe when I think about how many early human fossils have been vaporized by the dynamite. Its truly a miracle any serious intact fossils survived.
For Prof. Berger (if possible) - I'm trying to understand the wound described @ 30:36 in the video. If an eagle talon had punctured the skull, wouldn't the brain case cast have a positive impression of the puncture (meaning a feature rising above the surrounding surface) where the in-fill material would flow into the puncture?
Thank you!
This video is very nicely done, an earlier career as a TV cameraman left its mark. Liked the easy conversational style very much, flowed along nicely. Prof Bergers background stories + little stories of his own experiences are a bonus. I've noticed that other fine lecturers & speakers also do this (eg Dr Robert Sapolsky, Richard Dawkins, John Hawks)
This was fascinating. I have long been a fan of Raymond Dart, having studied Dart Proceduresthrough the Alexander Technique. I have his books
Skill and Poise and Adventures with the Missing Link. Superb.
Thanks Prof
SO interesting and exciting. Wow!!!
Wow , what a great surprise to be with you sir in such grieving days, thank you
Loved this! Thank you!
Excellent video. Kept me entertained while eating breakfast in Columbus, Ohio.
Thank you
Wonderful, thank you
This was a great help for my college evolution assignment (anthropology). So interesting and fun to watch. Thank you!
Remarkable work, but please be more careful setting up the camera focus next time.
Music to my ears... 🎼🎶🎸
In all of the reports and talks, no one has spoken much about what may have led up to causing so much of them to die in that one cavern.
Damn, after a year of covid finally something worthwile.
We have this fossil because of angry birds!
I love your work it's so interesting. By the way you are a very very handsome guy also. Your discoveries are just amazing.
I've been studying the role of meat/hunting/scavenging/fat/digestion/brain/ketosis in human evolution. Could you design a lecture around that? I'm wondering whether a hypothesis that humans evolved away from other apes because they became facultative carnivores (and obligate carnivores) can be supported.
Original plastic bag? From the 30's?
The host is doing well, I see. $20k Rolex Sea Dweller on his wrist.
Better than Sherlock Holmes.
What kind of species of eagle Attack a Taung Child
he has the box... on wrong channel
I would like to see less artist renditions and created models. Rather, I would like to see what is actually found.
I'm not sure what video you watched, but most of this one was devoted to displaying original fossils of the Taung child -- that is, those things that were _actually found._
@@andreafalconiero9089 little tiny pieces that were assumed to be from new species. I'll wait for concrete evidence. I did watch the whole thing :) I have kept up with him for a while. His talk at google introduced me to him
@@rocketsurgeon1746 I guess you must consider anything less than a complete skeleton clothed in living flesh to be _"little tiny pieces"._ What I saw was a brain endocast and an almost complete skull and mandible as well as various other bones in an excellent state of preservation. This talk of course was only about a single specimen, but is certainly not the full collection of fossils for _A. africanus_ which consists of remains from over 200 individuals. No amount of evidence will convince a creationist, though they'll happily believe in fanciful alternate theories that are based on no evidence at all.
milnepublishing.geneseo.edu/the-history-of-our-tribe-hominini/chapter/australopithecus-africanus/
@@andreafalconiero9089 it is always funny how people that support evolution will use extremes. Just because I don't think his evidence is enough doesn't mean I need a full fossil with some tissues, etc. as he has stated numerous times, there is very little fossil proof for any kind of transitional species.
@@andreafalconiero9089 . Well said.
Hello single one
Lovely lecture but the photography is horrible: some of the details pointed out are so pitifully photographed one has to use imagination because the photographic details he mentions are not apparent at all. That is a shame.
Brains......
Thank you!
Thank you