I remember 1974 very well and the discovery of Lucy. One thing I found fascinating that stuck out to me is the fact that proteins are a viable way and resource to unlocking some of the mysteries. Nice work and thanks for sharing this video!
The discovery of Lucy was one of the highlights of my childhood. I know that sounds a bit weird, but my mom was a librarian and I grew up obsessed with the scientific discoveries of the time. I thought the Leakey's were rockstars and my boyhood crush was Jane Goodall!
I was a young girl when Jane Goodall became well known and I envied her the job. I still love to watch animals. I trained horses for a living. I can watch groups of them interact all day long. Or birds! Or ants.
What should have been mentioned is that Lucy isn’t the only individual of her species that was found, because that seems to be a common misunderstanding.
This video is great! And I loved the paleoart mural of Australopithecus and giraffes in Ethiopia in the Late Pliocene. You should make a video about Neanderthals and Homo Heidelbergensis next. Five things I already know about Australopithecus and Lucy: Australopithecus is a species of hominin that lived in Ethiopia and Kenya in the Late Pliocene alongside Paranthropus and is the forerunner of Homo Habilis and Homo Ergaster and it walked upright and had intelligent brains. Lucy, the Australopithecus fossil was named after the song, “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” which the paleoanthropology team that found her listened to during their excavation of the fossil. The fossil of Lucy on display at the Hall of Human Origins (Its Hall of Human Biology section from 1993 looks even better, I wish I got to visit it before it was renovated.) is not the real fossil, its a cast of the real fossil which is still on display at the Ethiopian National Museum of Natural History, casts of the fossil also exist at the Frankfurt Museum of Natural History and Cleveland Museum of Natural History. The Australopithecus wax sculpture on display at the Hall of Human Origins at the AMNH is a beautifully designed reconstruction of the extinct hominin and Australopithecus despite standing upright may have still climbed trees and faced competition with deinotherium and saber-toothed cats. Australopithecus and Paranthropus would not only evolve into multiple species spread across Africa but also evolved into Homo Erectus and Homo Habilis and Homo Ergaster more advanced hominids and Homo Erectus would immigrant out of Africa and into Europe and Asia and would evolve into several other well-known hominids like Neanderthals, Homo Antecessor, Denosivans, Homo Floresiensis, Homo Heidelbergensis and modern humans, Homo Sapiens that lived during the last Ice Age and one out of all of these hominins, Homo Sapiens, modern humans would survive into the present day.
No information is presented here about "What's changed" beyond the technology now being used. Nothing about specific significant advances in the understanding of the actual subject of hominid evolution using this technology.
Great video now I can't wait to come back in a few weeks/months and read all the comments from creationists and theists declaring that Lucy is either a hoax or just an extinct ape.
Composite - would seem to have required that similar animals each left just part of their bones in this one spot , and each left a different part. And those parts together implied a viable animal. It seems astronomically improbable.
I wonder if Lucy was Naked and Afraid. Groups must have taken care of each other and shared resources and resolved conflicts to win the challenge and have babies who survived.
The film doesn't answer what has changed, probably, because not much has changed. Academia is too rigid to even accept the most minor change to theory. For instance, I suspect Lucy is far older than Academia wants us to believe and yes this is the right term "Wants us to believe". I suspect Lucy is 7 to 11 million years old. I also feel the out of Africa view is incorrect because Erectus clearly did not come from Africa, Erectus went to Africa but did not start there. Also going far out, why havn't we heard more about the discovery of Mastodon bones with advanced knife marks in them clearly indicating Humans were in America 100000 years ago? This film is just re-living the past patting themselves on the back (Sorry for spelling mistakes). Academia is incredibly still stuck on believing Humans did not come to America until 14000BC & there is still a massive debate about Vikings coming to America in 1000AD despite there being the ruins of their settlement in Labrador!
By the way, this is the 3rd version of my post. I almost hit the reply button but re-wrote my post. Its hard to talk about Academia with-out becoming quite angry!
I remember 1974 very well and the discovery of Lucy. One thing I found fascinating that stuck out to me is the fact that proteins are a viable way and resource to unlocking some of the mysteries. Nice work and thanks for sharing this video!
The discovery of Lucy was one of the highlights of my childhood. I know that sounds a bit weird, but my mom was a librarian and I grew up obsessed with the scientific discoveries of the time. I thought the Leakey's were rockstars and my boyhood crush was Jane Goodall!
I was a young girl when Jane Goodall became well known and I envied her the job. I still love to watch animals. I trained horses for a living. I can watch groups of them interact all day long. Or birds! Or ants.
What should have been mentioned is that Lucy isn’t the only individual of her species that was found, because that seems to be a common misunderstanding.
Over 400 individual animals are represented in the fossils discovered so far
Would have like to hear more about those changes, but we only got a little bit near the end of the video.
This video is great! And I loved the paleoart mural of Australopithecus and giraffes in Ethiopia in the Late Pliocene.
You should make a video about Neanderthals and Homo Heidelbergensis next.
Five things I already know about Australopithecus and Lucy:
Australopithecus is a species of hominin that lived in Ethiopia and Kenya in the Late Pliocene alongside Paranthropus and is the forerunner of Homo Habilis and Homo Ergaster and it walked upright and had intelligent brains.
Lucy, the Australopithecus fossil was named after the song, “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” which the paleoanthropology team that found her listened to during their excavation of the fossil.
The fossil of Lucy on display at the Hall of Human Origins (Its Hall of Human Biology section from 1993 looks even better, I wish I got to visit it before it was renovated.) is not the real fossil, its a cast of the real fossil which is still on display at the Ethiopian National Museum of Natural History, casts of the fossil also exist at the Frankfurt Museum of Natural History and Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
The Australopithecus wax sculpture on display at the Hall of Human Origins at the AMNH is a beautifully designed reconstruction of the extinct hominin and Australopithecus despite standing upright may have still climbed trees and faced competition with deinotherium and saber-toothed cats.
Australopithecus and Paranthropus would not only evolve into multiple species spread across Africa but also evolved into Homo Erectus and Homo Habilis and Homo Ergaster more advanced hominids and Homo Erectus would immigrant out of Africa and into Europe and Asia and would evolve into several other well-known hominids like Neanderthals, Homo Antecessor, Denosivans, Homo Floresiensis, Homo Heidelbergensis and modern humans, Homo Sapiens that lived during the last Ice Age and one out of all of these hominins, Homo Sapiens, modern humans would survive into the present day.
Excellent video, I would love to visit one of the casts of Lucy one day
No information is presented here about "What's changed" beyond the technology now being used. Nothing about specific significant advances in the understanding of the actual subject of hominid evolution using this technology.
Great video now I can't wait to come back in a few weeks/months and read all the comments from creationists and theists declaring that Lucy is either a hoax or just an extinct ape.
You don't have to wait. Lucy is a hoax and an extinct ape...dumbass. Your welcome😊
@@percival1137 LOL, really, according to whom you????.
She’s not a hoax but she is an extinct ape because we’re apes too
Thank you! This makes one wonder what humans will evolve into 500,000 years from now.
I love your optimism.
@tonkatoytruck 😂 is this sarcasm?
@@lotusflowerrr Upon reflection, you could probably spend an entire philosophy semester dissecting my response to you.
@@tonkatoytruck hehe. i like you
The background music is more like Tomorrow Never Knows than Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, though...
Yep.
Music very appropriate! Love the Sitar and George RIP
Dinknesh (Lucy) was just the first of over 400 aa’s represented in fossils discovered so far.
Thanks for sharing. Question. How does ARDI or the BOKSBURG finds fit in the Anthropological map?
Hello. Do you think that the skeleton is a composite of similar species?
I appears to be from one individual
Composite - would seem to have required that similar animals each left just part of their bones in this one spot , and each left a different part. And those parts together implied a viable animal. It seems astronomically improbable.
Great raga rock background music
What has changed? That question wasn’t answered, so why name the video that?
Thanks for saving me from watching the video for nothing. I hate clickbait titles. I'm so glad I scrolled the comments first.
Used to see her in Cleveland 😊
great, good job
I wonder if Lucy was Naked and Afraid. Groups must have taken care of each other and shared resources and resolved conflicts to win the challenge and have babies who survived.
Can you guys come check my land in south africa or tell me how to check? I do believe there has to be something here
There have been many important finds there, esp in a cave.
@2degucitas I stay near the Drakensberg mountains
@2degucitas large farm property not sure how or where to start looking, have already uncovered some fossilized wood by chance
Tomorrow Never Knows
She now prefers to be known as Larry.
African bones, American spirit
Well, America is certainly catching up with Lucy’s small brain size.
@@futuristica1710 only the red hat wearing ones
BTW God created man from dust & woman from a rib.
According to the Bible.
hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha
The film doesn't answer what has changed, probably, because not much has changed. Academia is too rigid to even accept the most minor change to theory. For instance, I suspect Lucy is far older than Academia wants us to believe and yes this is the right term "Wants us to believe". I suspect Lucy is 7 to 11 million years old. I also feel the out of Africa view is incorrect because Erectus clearly did not come from Africa, Erectus went to Africa but did not start there. Also going far out, why havn't we heard more about the discovery of Mastodon bones with advanced knife marks in them clearly indicating Humans were in America 100000 years ago? This film is just re-living the past patting themselves on the back (Sorry for spelling mistakes). Academia is incredibly still stuck on believing Humans did not come to America until 14000BC & there is still a massive debate about Vikings coming to America in 1000AD despite there being the ruins of their settlement in Labrador!
By the way, this is the 3rd version of my post. I almost hit the reply button but re-wrote my post. Its hard to talk about Academia with-out becoming quite angry!
Strong delusion personified
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