I'm absolutely loving this series. I now know I'm working from home until September so keep it coming! I'm wondering what we know about how eating meat made us human - have any bones with scrape marks or super old broken marrow?
Travis Statham: I remember watching something about increases in brain size being due to seafood/shellfish eating in South Africa, those caves at the very tip I think is where they found evidence. Really interesting. Was Seafood Brain Food in Human Evolution? Our ancestors started eating aquatic foods a long time ago www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/lives-the-brain/201001/was-seafood-brain-food-in-human-evolution
Will look at the science of Taphonomy in a later lecture for now you can get an intro to that science in The Rise of Prometheus ua-cam.com/video/86FvScE6ECA/v-deo.html
@@leeberger565 I watched Gutsick Gibbon try to educate Standing for Truth while they attacked Sediba, then this popped up in my recommendations. It is relevant to one of the points Erika was explaining.
My biggest professional regret is getting degrees that made more "financial sense" back in 2002, when my true passion was human evolution. I would give anything to go back in time and start with degrees in anthropology and geology.
I'm going through that period of finishing high school and figuring out what I want to do, and I've been met with the dilemma of pursuing a career that will bring me more financial stability, or studying what I've always wanted ever since I had my first class on the origin of life on Earth, in 6th grade. Evolution is so extraordinary, and I'm willing to dedicate years and years of my life to studying it. No matter what others tell me, I am sure that as long as I'm doing something I love, there will be no place for regrets!
The guy that doesn’t want to look beyond the teeth is the same guy who hated on Sediba?! And he responded “first” because of course he did. 🙄 I am really loving this series!
I have had a fascination with palaeoanthropology ever since I was a child. I have an idea that I would like for someone with access to the bones to do for us; please CATscan them (if not already done) and share a copy of the data in some 3D imaging format. Preferably the STL format would be nice to have so that I could go straight to 3D printing my own bone fragments. I don't think I'm asking for too much, and I think this will help spark people's interest in the field if anyone could hold a piece of human ancestry in their hands. I know I want to collect them all! I was also thinking of fabricating them by making "layers" that when assemble form the skull. Each layer would look like the CATscan image it was made with. Then this could be stamped out in paper, wood or plastic and sold for low-cost models. Please pass on this idea to someone that can make it so? Thank you for this video!
Species only refers to a group of individuals which can interbreed ! In reality, neandarthals were another race(different physical traits), not another species(we would interbreed)
@@rasmokey4 What sort of pseudo-science is this, how can anything be born sterile, do you even think ? If you things cannot reproduce with each other then they are not the same species anymore cuz the genes/biology is too different, genius. So no, it's the most realistic and useful definition. But even reality is not good enough for people like you, you only like senseless fiction.
Dr. BERGER - "A Jack Ass For All Seasons" -Stop by Lee's Burgers after the show... Good enough to clog your arteries! QUESTION: How many "Cradles of Humanity " are there???? _TED Talk to follow...
Homo erectus and Homo sapiens, Homo sapiens and archaic Homo heidelbergensis, heidelbergensis and erectus, sediba and Ledi Geraru, africanus and prometheus (if the latter exists), almost every isolated tooth ever found with the execption of some isolated premolars and I could go on, perhaps I will do a show on this. The point is, you need a great deal of the whole body anatomy - teeth are clearly not discriminating the at least three species of hominid existing between 3 and 3.5 mya in the Afar as another example.
Species only refers to a group of individuals which can interbreed ! In reality, neandarthals were another race(different physical traits), not another species(we would interbreed)
Baby fossils LOL! Can DNA analysis be conducted on fossils, from marrow or calculus or otherwise, to see whether cross-breeding took place? Are we descendants of crossbreeds?
@@spatrk6634 “Usually” means “maybe not always” - remember Jim Carrey in Dumb and Dumber: Holly: One in a million. Jim: So you’re telling me there’s a chance! Hey, there’s a chance!
@@Hollis_has_questions nah there really isnt. in perfect conditions for preserving DNA, it would survive for about million years. most of the fossils we find are far older than that. and if you know anything about fossils you would know that they are never in perfect conditions. from neanderthal fossils which are in tens of thousand of years old, we do find DNA and we can see we are closely related
@@spatrk6634 I was thinking of the Homo naledi bones from their well-protected burial site in the Star Cave in South Africa, bones estimated at c. 200,000 years.
Thank you WITS and Dr. Berger. I'm just an amateur, and have so loved learning from your videos
Thank you Mr. Berger. Very interesting presentation.
I'm absolutely loving this series. I now know I'm working from home until September so keep it coming! I'm wondering what we know about how eating meat made us human - have any bones with scrape marks or super old broken marrow?
Travis Statham: I remember watching something about increases in brain size being due to seafood/shellfish eating in South Africa, those caves at the very tip I think is where they found evidence. Really interesting.
Was Seafood Brain Food in Human Evolution?
Our ancestors started eating aquatic foods a long time ago
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/lives-the-brain/201001/was-seafood-brain-food-in-human-evolution
Will look at the science of Taphonomy in a later lecture for now you can get an intro to that science in The Rise of Prometheus ua-cam.com/video/86FvScE6ECA/v-deo.html
@@leeberger565 I watched Gutsick Gibbon try to educate Standing for Truth while they attacked Sediba, then this popped up in my recommendations. It is relevant to one of the points Erika was explaining.
Thank you! Very informative!
Fantastic video and very enlightening. Thanks very much.
I'd love to visit Witwatersrand.
Will u be doing a video on west Africa ghost hominid found recently
My biggest professional regret is getting degrees that made more "financial sense" back in 2002, when my true passion was human evolution. I would give anything to go back in time and start with degrees in anthropology and geology.
I'm going through that period of finishing high school and figuring out what I want to do, and I've been met with the dilemma of pursuing a career that will bring me more financial stability, or studying what I've always wanted ever since I had my first class on the origin of life on Earth, in 6th grade. Evolution is so extraordinary, and I'm willing to dedicate years and years of my life to studying it. No matter what others tell me, I am sure that as long as I'm doing something I love, there will be no place for regrets!
The guy that doesn’t want to look beyond the teeth is the same guy who hated on Sediba?! And he responded “first” because of course he did. 🙄
I am really loving this series!
Timestamp? Or is what you're talking about in the comments instead?
I have had a fascination with palaeoanthropology ever since I was a child. I have an idea that I would like for someone with access to the bones to do for us; please CATscan them (if not already done) and share a copy of the data in some 3D imaging format. Preferably the STL format would be nice to have so that I could go straight to 3D printing my own bone fragments.
I don't think I'm asking for too much, and I think this will help spark people's interest in the field if anyone could hold a piece of human ancestry in their hands.
I know I want to collect them all!
I was also thinking of fabricating them by making "layers" that when assemble form the skull. Each layer would look like the CATscan image it was made with. Then this could be stamped out in paper, wood or plastic and sold for low-cost models.
Please pass on this idea to someone that can make it so?
Thank you for this video!
Congratulations
Species only refers to a group of individuals which can interbreed !
In reality, neandarthals were another race(different physical traits), not another species(we would interbreed)
Well horses and donkeys can interbreed but.......the mules are sterile! So the definition needs to be rewritten!
@@rasmokey4 What sort of pseudo-science is this, how can anything be born sterile, do you even think ?
If you things cannot reproduce with each other then they are not the same species anymore cuz the genes/biology is too different, genius.
So no, it's the most realistic and useful definition.
But even reality is not good enough for people like you, you only like senseless fiction.
Hi Wanda p
Dr. BERGER - "A Jack Ass For All Seasons" -Stop by Lee's Burgers after the show... Good enough to clog your arteries!
QUESTION: How many "Cradles of Humanity " are there???? _TED Talk to follow...
What species can't be discriminated by teeth?
Homo erectus and Homo sapiens, Homo sapiens and archaic Homo heidelbergensis, heidelbergensis and erectus, sediba and Ledi Geraru, africanus and prometheus (if the latter exists), almost every isolated tooth ever found with the execption of some isolated premolars and I could go on, perhaps I will do a show on this. The point is, you need a great deal of the whole body anatomy - teeth are clearly not discriminating the at least three species of hominid existing between 3 and 3.5 mya in the Afar as another example.
Species only refers to a group of individuals which can interbreed !
In reality, neandarthals were another race(different physical traits), not another species(we would interbreed)
Baby fossils LOL! Can DNA analysis be conducted on fossils, from marrow or calculus or otherwise, to see whether cross-breeding took place? Are we descendants of crossbreeds?
depends on the age and perservation of the fossil.
they are usually too old to get dna out of it.
@@spatrk6634 “Usually” means “maybe not always” - remember Jim Carrey in Dumb and Dumber:
Holly: One in a million.
Jim: So you’re telling me there’s a chance!
Hey, there’s a chance!
@@Hollis_has_questions nah there really isnt.
in perfect conditions for preserving DNA, it would survive for about million years.
most of the fossils we find are far older than that. and if you know anything about fossils you would know that they are never in perfect conditions.
from neanderthal fossils which are in tens of thousand of years old, we do find DNA and we can see we are closely related
@@spatrk6634 I was thinking of the Homo naledi bones from their well-protected burial site in the Star Cave in South Africa, bones estimated at c. 200,000 years.