Humankind: How Biology and Geography Shape Human Diversity | Alexander Harcourt
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- Опубліковано 28 лис 2021
- Humanity’s expansion around the world from our African origins is astounding. How did we spread across the globe? Why do people from different regions vary? Is our diversity a function of geography, adaptation, or both? In this lecture, Leakey Foundation grantee Alexander Harcourt explores how humanity’s interaction with the environment can explain why we differ biologically and culturally from one region of the world to another.
“Humankind: How Biology and Geography Shape Human Diversity” was presented at the California Academy of Sciences on 5/9/2017 as part of The Leakey Foundation’s Speaker Series program in partnership with the California Academy of Sciences.
Sponsored by:
Ann and Gordon Getty
Camilla and George Smith
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We’ve been nice to be able to see the screen.
Incredible! Is this a joke? The slides shown in the lecture are not shown in this video. I was strongly tempted to pass this video, my usual answer in such cases as a sign of personal protest. But this speaker, Alexander Harcourt, is so good, so eloquent, so obviously knowledgeable, that he grabs your attention from the word go, immediately and fully. And thank God, we still have the cc, the subtitles. So in spite of its critical, inexcusable flaw, this lecture must not be missed. We simply have to exercise our imagination and try to develop a mental image of the slide. Not a bad exercise, after all, for aging brains like mine. However, this effort will not leave any trace in memory, the way the picture of a slide would, which is why showing slides is so superior to giving just a talk. The popular proverb is exactly right. "A thousand pictures..." I'd gladly pay UA-cam $10 for a copy on demand of this video with the slides included.
So, Anne Getty, please, add an absolute condition to your financial support to the Leaky Foundation, that all its videos must without any omission include all the slides shown in any lecture.
What a wonderful speaker. So why can't we see the screen??? This is very insulting to the presenter who obviously put his heart into this, and to us, who want to know what the speaker is referring to. Did the videographer fall asleep? Whatever the case may be, the filming crew should be fired - they are highly incompetent. For this very reason, I have unsubscribed from the Leakey Foundation. A waste of time.
Every single lecture is the same. What is wrong with you people?
No one running the camera, probably. It was pointed at the podium and left to record the lecture.
Agree a thousand times. This is from the Leaky Foundation? Ann Getty should give them a lecture of her own.
Happy discovery! We can practically view all the slides prepared by Alexander Harcourt for the presentation of his book, HUMANKIND, in a lecture given a year earlier, on Jan. 8-9, 2016, in Irvine, CA, "Comparative Phylogeography", in the context of a NAS colloquium, "In the Light of Evolution X", organized by UC Davis.
Why the lecture given on May, 9, 2017 by The Leakey Foundation’s Speaker Series program, remains, if not a mystery, at least an interesting question. Perhaps the slides were proprietary to the NAS colloquium, and the Leaky Foundation had no right, or the desire to plagiarize the previous lecture. So all's well that ends well, at least in this case. What remains is, that Alexander Harcourt strikes us as a top-notch exciting anthropologist.
More fascinating details on his background in a short video "In The Studio - Humankind- Big Questions, Big Answers," produced by UC Davis, July 30, 2015. Quite a remarkable scientist.
I wish we could see all the slides.
Repetition of video of talking head. It would be nice to gain education by allowing access to the graphs and the true video that he's referring to.
I do agree, you could listen to the speaker while looking at the slides. Other way round does regrettably not work. A pitty for the interesting talk. Would be great to change.
Like the others said, great talk, but it should have included the screen!
Watched beginning of it
yes would be very much nicer
"Races" are a myth, as we now know ("we" being those of us who have learned of and followed the latest developments in the study of human evolution, some of us since we were children) that when our paleolithic ancestors left Africa for more northern latitudes (and encountered the arctic conditions of the Pleistocene Glaciation, colloquially referred to as the "ice age"), their bodies slowly began to adapt to a different climate and these adaptations became genetically encoded and passed on to generations of their descendants. By the way, loved Nina Jablonski's book, "Skin: a Natural History." I started following all this from the age of 7 (1959).
This is a very frustrating watch without references to the screen. I would suggest the Leakey Foundation obtain a copy of presentation and inset it in re-edited post to be reposted in place of this videographic travesty.
I thought Eastern Europeans look paler than western ones. At least for the ones in mainland Europe...
This man’s mother might enjoy seeing him stood there talking and moving his arms, everyone else wants to see what he is talking about and pointing at. Extremely frustrating and a lot of other Leakey videos are equally stupidly filmed. Sort it out!!
"This man’s mother might enjoy seeing him stood there talking and moving his arms, everyone else wants to see what he is talking about and pointing at."
Very often the case with young unprofessional camera operators.