Species concepts in the hominin fossil record
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Professor John Hawks visits the Sandwalk at Down House, where he reads some of Darwin's ideas about species and considers the way that species apply to the hominin fossil record. The example of Australopithecus anamensis and Australopithecus afarensis is part of the presentation.
Why the 5 year gap in videos? I hope you're back for good. The paleoanthropology nerds need you.
Me too these are very interesting videos thoughtfully presented.
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I've been following you for 5 years, right when your course went off coursera. Got the courses you did on Great Courses Series. Are you planning another coursera class? SO MUCH has changed in the paleo fossil record. IT was so cool to see you posting vids again. But I'm really hoping you do another course on how much our understanding of paleo humans and their cousins has changed. Thanks for the challenging discussion in this video.
What sort of realisations have there been in recent years that you know of?
As always I am very grateful you feel the need to share your expertise.. Thank you, Good Sir...!
Thank you, welcome back!!
Thank you! I’m only at the Associate degree level but I do a lot of reading on human evolution. This very subject has given me fits. Videos like this really help so I hope there will be more.
glad you are posting videos again. Thanks!
Nice to see you back John.
This is awesome, thank you! I was a P.hD candidate at Ohio State University in 1977. I was majoring in Forensic PaleoAnthropology under Dr.’s Frank Poirier, John C Messenger, Donald Johansson (Case Western Univ) & Richard Leaky (Kenya National Museum). I finished all my coursework for my MA but never stood for my orals, life got in the way. I was starving to death & a TA only made $800/qtr. I was working 3 jobs & taking 20 credit hrs/qtr. I lasted 4 qtrs & couldn’t continue but I have remained deeply interested in the field. Now, years later, I am retired & am “catching up” with the field I wish I could have pursued. Many of my former professors went on to great fame, Dr Johansson had discovered Lucy a few years earlier, I got to handle the original fossils! Thank you for all your videos, I have spent weeks catching up & the advances & discovery’s made by Anthropologists is mind boggling. I am really excited about DNA sequencing, I predicted it would become very important to our understanding of our origins. I’d love to see more evidence found in N & S America, I have always been convinced we migrated here far earlier than was & still is believed. I wrote a paper on it for my MA, trying to shed light on human migrations by statistically analyzing teeth measurements, the 2nd mandibular molar. The Bearing Land bridge opened & closed many times since Homo Erectus times. I think early modern humans were in this hemisphere shortly after the wave of human migrations out of Africa around 60K yrs ago. We just haven’t found the evidence yet. LOL, one of my jobs bsck then as an undergrad Anthro student was putting Adena Indian skulls together in the basement of the Ohio Historical Society. It was the creepiest place to work, no one was down there, just me & thousands of fossils & artifacts. It was a huge collection! Thanks again for all of your videos ❗️
Thank you sir for sharing your life story. I am also very much interested in fields like paleoanthropology, anthropology, and archeology... but in my country there is no future in these fields...now i am doing my engineering degree. This lockdown has become an opportunity for me give some more time in learning what i love to learn most.
Wonderful you got another subscriber Mr. Hawks. Note: balance each segments volume to a constant through out before rendering the whole video. Just a thought.
Definitions are critical. Words matter. I appreciate this discussion of species, as frustrating as it is. Species is a model, and the real world has fuzzy boundaries. I was a bit shocked to find out there is no uniformly accepted definition of "human" in paleoanthropology. Yet it's used all the time. Really? And it is a loaded term. That's disappointing.
Welcome back, great master!
I think reproduction, whether natural habitat or not, is best definition of species. At least one of the important qualities of it. Logical and testable. To that end chimps and bonobos same species. They are what they are and it comes down to semantics. For fossils, obv it’s an educated guess in some cases. My question is can we understand what genetics that determine a reproductive species, and if so, can that then be used to test whether fossils are of same species in some cases? What must two individuals have in common to be able to reproduce?
im really intrested in palentology its a intresting and fascinating field of science, im really intrested in neanderthals they are a intresting and fascinating species, welcome back professor jonh hawks, thank you for teaching us about the fascinating world of palentology❤️️❤️️🎓🎓
I'm one of many that like this brief video series. I wish you would continue with new ones.
I finally have actual video of John Hawks walking around
Context is so important, thank you Professor Fox, you rock
Now I'm sad that I finished watching all your lectures.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.. Most glad to see you making videos again.
Thank you SO very much. My university's anthropology department is dying a slow, depressing death and does not offer enough biological anthropology classes. Your videos are so helpful.
John we need more videos from you, hope you’re doing well.
Really liked your videos. What are you up to?
Thank you for a new video.
I hope you do more videos they are awsome.
Thanks for covering this topic, I often find it rather confusing myself.
After looking at this I am more confused than I was before. Neanderthals bred with humans and these are regarded as distinct species. Ad to this my confusion over the terms homo homini hominae, hominid and a few more similar terms I can’t remember, and I am now completely stumped.
Neanderthals can be considered a different subspecies. They were human after all and like you said, capable of interbreeding with Sapiens.
hey just watched your Chicago Humanities lecture, I enjoyed it immensely, next time i get dental x-rays im going to ask about the mandibular bone thing, im a short redhead of european/middle eastern extraction with a history of failed dental injections.
thank you!
5555 views!
Best channel on the tube 💯 keep sharing your knowledge bro. Respect from the U.K 🇬🇧
Oh boy, a new video.
just found your channel, i remember ya from the Teaching company lectures . nice
So nice to have another presentation from John Hawkes. Homo naladi should be an interesting case of determination of species, ancestors and evolution.
John Hawks I'm your biggest fan. (I also graduated from NCHS). Wonder what you think of lava flows being used by hominids to learn how to manage fire? Lightening strikes are too random I think. Friction fire is hard. What's your opinion?
Forest fires?
You have a channel and I can talk to you, this was unthinkable when I went to university
Very good and clear explanation. Thanks.
Thanks for your valuable information
Thank you for sharing with us, always.
Thank you for sharing professor.
Welcome back!!!!
Good to see you again but please stop walking unless you take us along