It's wild people having to watch this for school. I just binge watch this stuff on youtube for fun so it's awesome schools are making learning entertaining
A wealth of new knowledge. As it nears midnight & bedtime, I will sleep dreaming of being a paleontologist. I have the greatest respect for people who put in the long hours, days, weeks, months & years to provide mankind with knowledge of the past.
this stuff is amazing and fascinating but god, it must be so difficult to say anything definitively about the big picture because it's like putting together a 1000 piece puzzle where 900 of the pieces are hidden and the ones you have are all broken. it's ever changing, it's beautiful and overwhelming.
Honest information is amazing and beautiful but, sometimes rare where paleontology is concerned. Worship and slavish adherence to Darwin has polluted all of the science. Carl Sagan was being honest when he said the belief in evolution originated in ancient Paganism. Honesty is hard to come by these days.
In less than 20 minutes, you taught a usable history lesson that applies to every living human being on Earth. Excellent job. Thank you! This was, by far, one of the best UA-cam videos ever done on this subject.
Another fascinating informative documentary which traces evolution from the first single cell to mankind today is: Mankind Rising . Where do Humans come from. by naked Science
What always seems to get overlooked and underappreciated in most of these discussions is that it is very likely our ancestors, since apes, have been making and using tools (mostly bone and wood) - just not making stone tools which according to recent discoveries may go back 3.3 million years.
Do not forget one of the most useful tools: ropes. Unfortunately, the very nature of ropes (probably vegetable fibers and maybe sinew) prevents their preservation across millions of years. But I'm pretty sure they were used by pre-humans, otherwise our human children wouldn't be able to learn to lace their shoes so easily. I still expect some fossil record of rope imprints in fossil ground will someday show up.
Cave Men, Nebraska, Piltdown, and Neanderthal Man, Cro-Magnon, Lucy are all proven frauds, of course they are still in the text books. I've been researching this stuff for some time now. I'm not asking anyone to take my word for it. Do your own research. Check out the short video below. ua-cam.com/video/QnggfzeWyf0/v-deo.html
I remember being an 11 year old asking my mum to please buy me the book with the strange human like apes in it. Then it was quit difficult to understand but it blew me away. In school we had religion class with God creating everything and here I had this wonderful book that said something totally different. It made me think and go look for other books about fossils. A whole new world opened up for me. I may say that I was a dinosaur enthusiast long before Jurassic Park. I’m so glad that my mother bought that book so many years ago, it changed my way of thinking and made me look with awe at the natural world.
Millions of years ago monkeys existed and still exist. If human is evolved from monkeys where r the intermediate apes now. Dear these r just theories supported by incomplete evidences.
@@MuhammadAsif-blue Misunderstandings all around so let me set you straight. 1. Humans evolved from apes and still are apes. 2. Other primates still exist today because they fill a niche in an environment. 3. Progression through evolution occurs through trial and error, not linearly. Causing species to *branch* out from one another. 4. Intermediate species between Humans and our last common ancestor with the Genus Pan died out from error.
Think of it this way: Let's say your great-grandfather was a farmer. He had two kids, one of whom stayed on the farm, and the other moved to the city and became a factory worker. Fast forward to the present, you're working in the factory like your grandparents, and your second cousin still works the old farm. But your mutual great-grandfather is long dead.
There is no "arrangement" to our atoms. That would require an arranger. Our atoms just luckily got that way by accident. Pure 100% luck. They just defied entropy and got that way, arranging themselves. Scientists can prove it using the scientific method. Honest, just ask them.
TheStarflight41: You accept microevolution? Then you accept evolution, because microevolution = macroevolution + more time. Archbiship Usher was mistaken about the age of the earth. There has been exactly enough time to evolve all the life forms we know of since life began on this globe, about 3.5 billion years ago. .
@ Doctor Drywell... He wouldn't know how to even *read* a real scientific paper... just like his probable semi-literate hero and source of moral guidance, Donald J. Trump.
Recently a direct ancestor of Lucy was unearthed not far from where Lucy was found by the same Yohannes Haile-Salassie mentioned in this video. Forensic scientists were able to reconstruct its face, making it the earliest human ancestor that we have a good idea of what it looked like. It also appears that australopithecines are not our direct ancestors, but rather a separate lineage closely related to us.
the story of human evolution is a truly beautiful thing. i'm glad to live in a time like this where we are able to learn about our lowly origins. started from the bottom, now we're here!
@@sunworship5080 We are here through a random process. If we are "garbage" it is because we ARE "garbage" through evolution. "Good and evil" go hand in hand.
Darwin 'speculated' and there is NO way his speculation is now conclusive. We may have evolved from common ancestors, but NOTHING says those ancestors were apes or even neanderthal, the breaks in our line, came SOONER!
@@jan_phd Neither Darwin nor science say we were descended from neanderthals and all evidence point to our common ape ancestors . . Your refusal to accept science I am willing to bet is related to your religion . Odd that you operate on two separate demands on proof for science than you will for religion , should my assumption be correct .
In my graduate research from about 20 years ago, I concluded that bipedality first emerged in an arboreal environment. Nobody I told this to at the time gave my hypothesis much credence, but I knew I was right, partly because I found the savanna hypothesis to be unworkable. One also needs to bear in mind that the old growth forest environment back then contained trees with horizontal branch runs that were large enough for hominins to transverse easily bipedally where they could stabilize themselves by reaching out - brachiating - for balance, the way present day orangs and gibbons do. Thus, bipedality emerged not as a primary, but as a secondary trait, a trait that was just what the species needed when the Savannah grasslands began to emerge.
I totally agree with you. Bipedality must have originated first when our ancient ancestors were still forest dwellers, I still thinking about what the advantages would have been, maybe you can give me your thoughts on that.
Human brain is like an empty hard-drive with basic built-in traits or senses. It evolves with outside interaction and it communicates accordingly. Some basic functions of organs don't require to be taught. Those are built-in if brain functions normally.
I chuckled at the quarantine homework comments. Please understand, though, that videos like this represent the very small percentage of reasonably accurate and informative scientific discussion on the internet. So the teacher did you a solid.
Forgot language! And the evolved location of the human larynx. That's the huge difference between humans and all other living things: Our ability to communicate complex ideas and emotions.
Ravens can make upwards of two hundred distinct sounds. Obviously the anatomy of the larynx is important, but I think the brain likely played a fare greater role in the development of language. Or to put it more simply we developed brains capable of language and then evolved the anatomy to do so, not the otherway around in my estimation.
Complex ideas - maybe. Emotions are clearly communicated by dogs, and even by cats who are not social animals and don't have any natural use for communicating happiness.
Language developed with brain development which partially happened due to a loosening of the muscles around the head connected to the jaw which is why we human have a weaker bite. We are still classified as the FAMILY of Hominidae, great apes, because those are the SPECIES most closely related to our SPECIES of Homo Sapien. Just because birds have wings doesnt mean Penguins can fly or that they are not still birds. We probably developedmore complex pattern recognition by being a more migratory ape and that advancement of pattern recognition probably assisted in the Wernickies and Brocas areas of the brain which are primary for the understanding and transmission of spoken word
Well we definitely see many other animal species with displays of emotion. We see more and more how almost any species of a socialistic pattern develop and have a moral system of some sort. While humans have evolved to develop a more complex speech , almost all species have a speech form to communicate and some are quite complex . Look at whales for example. Here is a form of complex communication for you to look at, luminescent jellyfish and other light giving deep sea creatures. They communicate by light. And they have no "eyes" to perceive that light as we do as humans and other life that can see it. Humans are jot that much above other species..we are just evolved differently. Look at all of our weaknesses compared to the strengths of other species.. Guess the lesson would be..try changing your perspective of how you look at things...keep an open mind..try different approaches and views. Be a bit open minded.
Paul Millbank While weathering plays a roll, uplift plays a bigger part. Older layers of strata are brought to the surface in anticlines cause by compressional forces exerted onto them.
Utterly fascinating, much respect to the persistence of scientists and their commitment to research 📚💡 Just how we became Human. Side Note: Anazing how some people have not accepted these fundamental truths 🤷🏾♂️
Why didn't they include Orrorin Tugenensis in the video? Orrorin fossil which was found in Kenya dates back 6 mya. It is also a hominid, bipedal tree dweller like Ardi only more ancient than the Ardipithecus specie.
I had to stop the video from time to time to shiver. Oh for a time machine. And either of those early homonids could be the ancestor of someone alive today.
Im really intrested to know the details about the changing point in which ancient primates become early hominids because this is an important station in human evolution.
And I have heard recent lectures that maintain that chimps are tool users, and even that the common ancestor from which our line and chimps both descended used stone tools. Of course we know that crows, and monkeys use stones as tools. Maybe the real distinction is in crafting tools rather than using found stones, or simply breaking bigger stones into smaller ones.
@@bobaldo2339 Actually, chimps MAKE tools: they strip the leaves from small branches so they can probe termite holes to bring termites out that then they eat
10:30 Millions of years old footprints, ancestors who weren't even using tools, but walked upright through the volcanic mud. I see an adult, a child, and what appears to be some sort of dog!
I may be mistaken but I believe it is based on the size of the brain in relation to the size of the body. An elephant has aa much bigger brain overall but in comparison to the size of their body this isn't so. It takes more brain matter to be used to make a bigger body simply function (as opposed to being used for higher thinking) to live [heart beat, breathe, etc.] than it does for a smaller body. So the bigger the brain in relation to body size, the more of that brain can be put to other uses such as higher cognitive thinking other than functions necessary for just survival only. I'm no expert on the matter but I believe this is at least part of the answer.
Spectacular work, and I hope that we will continue to explore with open minds, as there is infinite time and space beyond the ages we have unearthed and revealed so far
I relate to Lucy, being so short 😂 watching this for my anthropology class, can't believe I get to take a class on such a cool topic 💖 even since this video came out, there have been several more discoveries!
at 12:29, while tim white is recounting the story of a then-grad student finding the fossil, the captions say "[? Johannes ?] [INAUDIBLE]" -- the name he said was that of yohannes haile-selassie, a renowned ethiopian paleoanthropologist.
I was always interested in Dinosaurs. That progressed to evolution and how it actually works. Religious zealots hate evolution, as it throws into disarray their carefully crafted fantasy world. That in itself is worth the time taken to understand the subject, even at a basic level.
What makes us human is our brain. The evolution of the brain is the key. I'm no scientist but it seems to me the evolution of the brain triggered with emerging from the deep jungle. In the jungle the sense of sight was only useful at very close distance. By the time you saw a predator it was too late. As the jungle shrank eyesight became more useful and the pre-humans began to stand up on to feet to look over tall grass and further. As they did this they began to "think" about what they saw. They couldn't smell or hear it but they "learned" about what they saw. This led to reason, predicting the movement of a prey or predator. They probably lived largely on insects and seeds easily obtainable. When they saw grass moving abnormally they learned it was a hoard of grasshoppers and they would gorge themselves on them and recognize from a distance a patch of berries or other food sources. The wider open the plains became the more useful eyesight. The more they used eyesight the more thy used their brain to think about what they saw. The eyes and brain evolved together. In later times they would see quarry, deer for example, and predict where they might intercept them and develop sophisticated hunting strategy. Thinking became more and more useful. Keenest eyesight and biggest brains were the "fittest" and it probably really accelerated compared to pelvises and such.
greets with fire and we will never find any fossils for most of those creatures because they didn’t die in areas that preserved them. All we can ever do is guess
they'll discover that we rapidly took over the world, our population exploded in a way unprecedented in the previous 500 million year history of multicellular life, we developed advanced industrial technology, and it killed us very quickly! Actually, we are taking all of the fossils out of the ground. Will future archaeologists even be able to piece together the story of life like we have?
well because this content runs athwart to their worldview, and people generally dont like it, it is hard to admit that I was stupid and gullable for most of my life.
I cant imagine how frustrating it has to be for a person to only have a very tiny scope that they have to make everything fit or not have a career, it has to be sad. no black swans aloud.
Keep digging Must have been difficult to continue after LUCY,like looking for a ancient water molecule in sargasso sea,pay offs are few and far between
They are making a leap. The second skull could have been a petering out “losing” branch of evolution and not necessarily our ancestor. That would open up the timeframe for development. Need to protect against “tunnel vision” earthlings lol
jack mack really, any? Here's my idea, then: in that beginning were feet, and, beside them, paws. In another beginning, there was an idea, on how to put this to that to create sth useful to solve a problem. It seemed to come out of nowhere, and it worked. Who is this Marvin guy?
These finds are amazing but I do worry that some of them might just be extinct primates not along our lineage at all. I can see how some of these early discoverers might wish their discoveries to be hominid and therefore interpret them as such with a little bias. Like Lucy's pelvis. Still amazing finds.
Yes, this is the nature of science. Things change as we find new facts and information. As Please Complete All Fields asked: would it be better if nothing changed? Like how religion works? That way we could still be walking or riding mules, know nothing of disease, have no electricity or clean water...in short have absolutely zero idea about anything that's going on at all. We could cure extremely contagious diseases the way they do deep in the jungles of 3rd world Africa: by "bleeding the witches out" thereby spreading more hepatitis to everyone in the vicinity. That'd be great huh?
@Please Complete All Fields New evidence is found? And its not religion or science , its the truth I am looking for. So, whenever, some "new evidence" comes along you just except, huh. Well I am sorry, but too many lies have been told
@@American-Plague The nature of science? Well it depends on whose telling it and their reason. Too many lies have been told, but I should believe the latest that's been told. You go right ahead and believe.
@@bluntrapture you continue to be a robot. And who was it that told you that Columbus didn't discover America, and when did you believed it. Some scientists and researchers have said that Africans were in America before the red man and the white man. Do you accept that change.
We analyse soil and rock samples between two layers of volcanic eruptions and ensuing ash to look at the age of fossils found within them. But somehow we assume that those fossils have lain there undisturbed for millions of years, whereas volcanic eruptions and earthquake upheavals can cause fossil bones to become reburied miles away from their original burial locations. These upheavals can also change the depths at which fossils can become reburied. In addition, the fossil remains and parts of say an Ardipithecus will likely not remain together as complete fossil skeletons when upheavals occur. So what I am saying is that the evidence that we have from fossil records is not only scanty, but also usually incomplete and likely to have moved away from its original location due to earthquakes, floods, wind erosion etc. In conclusion I want to say that judging the age of an ancient fossil by calculating the age of the surrounding rock or soil sediment is no guarantee that a fossil found therein is the same age. However, I am no paleontologist or scientist, and would therefore request someone to throw more light on the subject; in other words what else is involved in determining the age of a fossil apart from the radio-active disintegration of the sediment where a fossil is found? Comments welcome.
It's wild people having to watch this for school. I just binge watch this stuff on youtube for fun so it's awesome schools are making learning entertaining
It's disgusting this is absolutely lies
@@YHWH711 ok
@@YHWH711
But at least its a logical lie , not like invisible daddy and adam
@@rinos7902 one it's not nice to assume that he just believes in creationism and two it's not a logical lie, it's just the truth
@@YHWH711 consider the evidence with an open mind and you'll be surprised what conclusions you come to :)
A wealth of new knowledge. As it nears midnight & bedtime, I will sleep dreaming of being a paleontologist. I have the greatest respect for people who put in the long hours, days, weeks, months & years to provide mankind with knowledge of the past.
this stuff is amazing and fascinating but god, it must be so difficult to say anything definitively about the big picture because it's like putting together a 1000 piece puzzle where 900 of the pieces are hidden and the ones you have are all broken. it's ever changing, it's beautiful and overwhelming.
you wont find anything about different species of hominid in any religious book therefore burn it lol
Great analogy
But how amazing when you find a piece that fits!!! Great comment!
@@1man1bike1road dead man walking you are.
Honest information is amazing and beautiful but, sometimes rare where paleontology is concerned. Worship and slavish adherence to Darwin has polluted all of the science. Carl Sagan was being honest when he said the belief in evolution originated in ancient Paganism. Honesty is hard to come by these days.
In less than 20 minutes, you taught a usable history lesson that applies to every living human being on Earth. Excellent job. Thank you! This was, by far, one of the best UA-cam videos ever done on this subject.
I agree with u, this was a great and interesting doc, well worth a thumb up.
humanity is great, we are a god ...
Another fascinating informative documentary which traces evolution from the first single cell to mankind today is: Mankind Rising . Where do Humans come from. by naked Science
well im not to sure how they got the dates
agreed. I have formal training in anatomy and learned quite a lot from this excellent vid.
What always seems to get overlooked and underappreciated in most of these discussions is that it is very likely our ancestors, since apes, have been making and using tools (mostly bone and wood) - just not making stone tools which according to recent discoveries may go back 3.3 million years.
Do not forget one of the most useful tools: ropes. Unfortunately, the very nature of ropes (probably vegetable fibers and maybe sinew) prevents their preservation across millions of years. But I'm pretty sure they were used by pre-humans, otherwise our human children wouldn't be able to learn to lace their shoes so easily. I still expect some fossil record of rope imprints in fossil ground will someday show up.
Stanley Kubrick seems to have speculated about that at the beginning of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
@@nietzschesghost8529 Yes.
we need more people like sean and tim, he is so zealous about his work and teaching it to the world.
whay ? to spread more "fairy tails" ... ?
Cave Men, Nebraska, Piltdown, and Neanderthal Man, Cro-Magnon, Lucy are all proven frauds, of course they are still in the text books. I've been researching this stuff for some time now. I'm not asking anyone to take my word for it. Do your own research. Check out the short video below.
ua-cam.com/video/QnggfzeWyf0/v-deo.html
I remember being an 11 year old asking my mum to please buy me the book with the strange human like apes in it. Then it was quit difficult to understand but it blew me away. In school we had religion class with God creating everything and here I had this wonderful book that said something totally different. It made me think and go look for other books about fossils. A whole new world opened up for me. I may say that I was a dinosaur enthusiast long before Jurassic Park. I’m so glad that my mother bought that book so many years ago, it changed my way of thinking and made me look with awe at the natural world.
Millions of years ago monkeys existed and still exist. If human is evolved from monkeys where r the intermediate apes now.
Dear these r just theories supported by incomplete evidences.
@@MuhammadAsif-blue Misunderstandings all around so let me set you straight.
1. Humans evolved from apes and still are apes.
2. Other primates still exist today because they fill a niche in an environment.
3. Progression through evolution occurs through trial and error, not linearly. Causing species to *branch* out from one another.
4. Intermediate species between Humans and our last common ancestor with the Genus Pan died out from error.
That is why we must keep religion out of common education . Religion is wholly incompatible with reaon and reality .
Think of it this way: Let's say your great-grandfather was a farmer. He had two kids, one of whom stayed on the farm, and the other moved to the city and became a factory worker. Fast forward to the present, you're working in the factory like your grandparents, and your second cousin still works the old farm. But your mutual great-grandfather is long dead.
Muhammad Asif You have absolutely no clue. Your inability to understand evolution is not evidence against it.
My teacher is making me watch this
Hahahaha
yep mine too and it's 2020 right now 🤣😂
bruh same
@Gengar Phantom yea she's great
its really interesting
Our species is just amazing. The fact that we can know anything about this universe makes our arrangement of atoms special.
There is no "arrangement" to our atoms. That would require an arranger. Our atoms just luckily got that way by accident. Pure 100% luck. They just defied entropy and got that way, arranging themselves. Scientists can prove it using the scientific method. Honest, just ask them.
@@facitenonvictimarumThey don't care if the theory is true, they NEED it to be true. When it comes to macroevolution science is dead.
TheStarflight41: You accept microevolution? Then you accept evolution, because
microevolution = macroevolution + more time.
Archbiship Usher was mistaken about the age of the earth. There has been exactly enough time to evolve all the life forms we know of since life began on this globe, about 3.5 billion years ago. .
@@TheStarflight41 Go get a brain. Give any evidence of creationism
@ Doctor Drywell... He wouldn't know how to even *read* a real scientific paper... just like his probable semi-literate hero and source of moral guidance, Donald J. Trump.
Recently a direct ancestor of Lucy was unearthed not far from where Lucy was found by the same Yohannes Haile-Salassie mentioned in this video. Forensic scientists were able to reconstruct its face, making it the earliest human ancestor that we have a good idea of what it looked like. It also appears that australopithecines are not our direct ancestors, but rather a separate lineage closely related to us.
Interesting. Where can I find this information? I'd like to research it.
Very high-quality video, beautiful work, not too long. Bravo! This is the kind of effective teaching tool that is needed.
What a false teaching tool ...lol
@@chazzlucas6395 Go get a brain
@ Fausto Fernandez... But if he could get out of the Bible Belt long enough to find one, how would he get it into a cinder block head?
@@chazzlucas6395 How is it false, bible boy.
the story of human evolution is a truly beautiful thing. i'm glad to live in a time like this where we are able to learn about our lowly origins.
started from the bottom, now we're here!
Yep were here and we are garbage for the most part.
@@sunworship5080 Cringe for yourself
@@sunworship5080 We are here through a random process. If we are "garbage" it is because we ARE "garbage" through evolution. "Good and evil" go hand in hand.
I was really moved seeing how excited everyone involved in these discoveries were, even just revisiting the memories of making the discoveries!
Glad you enjoyed it!
We really have come so far in the nearly 70 years since Louis and Mary Leakey made their first discoveries.
quarantine homework!
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I am required to watch this for class, but I am trying my best to stay interested and truly learn it. Very cool stuff.
It's wonderful to be taken through the history of discovery and learn about our shared human history and connection to other species. Thank you!
Darwin 'speculated' and there is NO way his speculation is now conclusive. We may have evolved from common ancestors, but NOTHING says those ancestors were apes or even neanderthal, the breaks in our line, came SOONER!
@@jan_phd Neither Darwin nor science say we were descended from neanderthals and all evidence point to our common ape ancestors . . Your refusal to accept science I am willing to bet is related to your religion . Odd that you operate on two separate demands on proof for science than you will for religion , should my assumption be correct .
Jan PhD there is evidence for evolution. I would rather take heed of that than believe we were made by an invisible fairy man in the sky.
@@jan_phd PhD.....yeah right! LMFAO
@ Unicorn... It very likely stands for "Phool for Demogoguery". 😤
I can't imagine a career which requires more patience.
Medicine, surgery, nursing, more bleeding patients than enough...
Michelangelo Buonarroti meddicine
raising 10kids as a solo parent
Studying stars and planets
Lol, look up Darwin's study of barnacles... just barnacles.
In my graduate research from about 20 years ago, I concluded that bipedality first emerged in an arboreal environment. Nobody I told this to at the time gave my hypothesis much credence, but I knew I was right, partly because I found the savanna hypothesis to be unworkable. One also needs to bear in mind that the old growth forest environment back then contained trees with horizontal branch runs that were large enough for hominins to transverse easily bipedally where they could stabilize themselves by reaching out - brachiating - for balance, the way present day orangs and gibbons do. Thus, bipedality emerged not as a primary, but as a secondary trait, a trait that was just what the species needed when the Savannah grasslands began to emerge.
I totally agree with you. Bipedality must have originated first when our ancient ancestors were still forest dwellers, I still thinking about what the advantages would have been, maybe you can give me your thoughts on that.
Cannot wait to find more about our origins
Great teaching, and it only took about 19 min. Thank you.
i know less after resing this
Though I'm a late riser, morning is my very favourite.History is the mornings and Archeology is the early mornings.
I really enjoy the videos that hhmi posts. Always worthwhile to watch.
Thanks, Howard
Human brain is like an empty hard-drive with basic built-in traits or senses. It evolves with outside interaction and it communicates accordingly. Some basic functions of organs don't require to be taught. Those are built-in if brain functions normally.
My neighbor is definitely not human, although he has all the traits. Is he from a different species?
No, just less evolved ;-)
What is it a neanderthal?
This video has good production quality, camera work, and audio.
I chuckled at the quarantine homework comments. Please understand, though, that videos like this represent the very small percentage of reasonably accurate and informative scientific discussion on the internet. So the teacher did you a solid.
Fabulous. This is the story of our beginning. Most interesting story ever told.
More like an absurd fairy tale.
@@OnSafari247 why? Cause sky daddy wasn't mentioned to magically speak things into existence?
@@OnSafari247you mean the bible or the quran?
@@Dr.vonKrankenhausen Don't forget the Torah...
@@cjhepburn7406 The Torah isn't their religious book, for the Jews it's the Talmud
Forgot language! And the evolved location of the human larynx. That's the huge difference between humans and all other living things: Our ability to communicate complex ideas and emotions.
Ravens can make upwards of two hundred distinct sounds. Obviously the anatomy of the larynx is important, but I think the brain likely played a fare greater role in the development of language. Or to put it more simply we developed brains capable of language and then evolved the anatomy to do so, not the otherway around in my estimation.
Complex ideas - maybe. Emotions are clearly communicated by dogs, and even by cats who are not social animals and don't have any natural use for communicating happiness.
Language developed with brain development which partially happened due to a loosening of the muscles around the head connected to the jaw which is why we human have a weaker bite. We are still classified as the FAMILY of Hominidae, great apes, because those are the SPECIES most closely related to our SPECIES of Homo Sapien.
Just because birds have wings doesnt mean Penguins can fly or that they are not still birds.
We probably developedmore complex pattern recognition by being a more migratory ape and that advancement of pattern recognition probably assisted in the Wernickies and Brocas areas of the brain which are primary for the understanding and transmission of spoken word
Well we definitely see many other animal species with displays of emotion. We see more and more how almost any species of a socialistic pattern develop and have a moral system of some sort. While humans have evolved to develop a more complex speech , almost all species have a speech form to communicate and some are quite complex . Look at whales for example.
Here is a form of complex communication for you to look at, luminescent jellyfish and other light giving deep sea creatures. They communicate by light. And they have no "eyes" to perceive that light as we do as humans and other life that can see it.
Humans are jot that much above other species..we are just evolved differently. Look at all of our weaknesses compared to the strengths of other species..
Guess the lesson would be..try changing your perspective of how you look at things...keep an open mind..try different approaches and views. Be a bit open minded.
It is amazing how all those fossils from different geological epochs are so easily found on the surface today!
I don't know how easy they are to find, but if you're wondering how they get to the surface, the answer is weathering.
Paul Millbank While weathering plays a roll, uplift plays a bigger part. Older layers of strata are brought to the surface in anticlines cause by compressional forces exerted onto them.
People have been looking for 100 years. Defo not easy.
How curious they are about their work.
This makes it very interesting. Love you guys for your efforts
Thanks for watching!
I love like this kind of stuff about human it’s give me hope to see the future. Thank you guys!!👌🏾👌🏾
Utterly fascinating, much respect to the persistence of scientists and their commitment to research 📚💡 Just how we became Human.
Side Note: Anazing how some people have not accepted these fundamental truths 🤷🏾♂️
Why didn't they include Orrorin Tugenensis in the video? Orrorin fossil which was found in Kenya dates back 6 mya. It is also a hominid, bipedal tree dweller like Ardi only more ancient than the Ardipithecus specie.
Thank you for not having blaring background music. 😊
no problemo
Just pure brilliance amazing!
Amazing. A true eye opener that’s very well done.
Where does God and Jesus come in?
Excellent videos! Most educational.
I had to stop the video from time to time to shiver. Oh for a time machine. And either of those early homonids could be the ancestor of someone alive today.
Not "someone" but either everyone or no one.
One of those is yours!
@@jasonmathias5343 Pretty much the case, I was going to say the same thing.
Im really intrested to know the details about the changing point in which ancient primates become early hominids
because this is an important station in human evolution.
Very well made documentary. Although more recent evidence has shown Australopithecus could make a few simple stone tools.
And I have heard recent lectures that maintain that chimps are tool users, and even that the common ancestor from which our line and chimps both descended used stone tools. Of course we know that crows, and monkeys use stones as tools. Maybe the real distinction is in crafting tools rather than using found stones, or simply breaking bigger stones into smaller ones.
please, not this again. crows use tool ffs. the point is no other species uses tools to the extent that humans do.
@@bobaldo2339 Actually, chimps MAKE tools: they strip the leaves from small branches so they can probe termite holes to bring termites out that then they eat
@ kelamuni... No, that *isn't* the point in this context. The point went right over your head, 🔝 ➡ *Whooosh* ❗
@@kelamuni They have to start somewhere like we did. Evolution.
Excellent Video !!! What books would you recommend so that I can learn more ?
The bible
- Richard Dawkins, has written a few. As has Dr Alice Roberts
@@miklo6907 LMFAO, he wasn't asking for toilet paper but something he's actually going to read.
Dr Alice Roberts book atlas of human evolution is the best.
@@miklo6907 (eyeroll)
Wow. Just wow such a long evolutionary history of we human. Worth watching.
10:30 Millions of years old footprints, ancestors who weren't even using tools, but walked upright through the volcanic mud. I see an adult, a child, and what appears to be some sort of dog!
Does Dr Tim White love this stuff?? YEP...if everyone could enjoy what they do, half as much as him. I am impressed by people like Dr White.
Thank you for the film congratulation for your job!!!
0:31 what is the criteria for characterizing humans as having big brains?
Adrian Dane Kenny bigger skull
I may be mistaken but I believe it is based on the size of the brain in relation to the size of the body. An elephant has aa much bigger brain overall but in comparison to the size of their body this isn't so. It takes more brain matter to be used to make a bigger body simply function (as opposed to being used for higher thinking) to live [heart beat, breathe, etc.] than it does for a smaller body. So the bigger the brain in relation to body size, the more of that brain can be put to other uses such as higher cognitive thinking other than functions necessary for just survival only. I'm no expert on the matter but I believe this is at least part of the answer.
it was mind blowing and recommenced by my anthropology teacher :))
I like how easily they can explain the latter and time line
Wow amazing video, I love learning about how we evolved, trying to keep myself from being ignorant , watched it twice
Glad you enjoyed it!
Very good indeed. Great music at the end too.
Who's here because of online school
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I heard Australopithicus does, or maybe it was Ardipithicus.
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Well your teacher is very smart & wants you to learn something important.
Spectacular work, and I hope that we will continue to explore with open minds, as there is infinite time and space beyond the ages we have unearthed and revealed so far
I relate to Lucy, being so short 😂 watching this for my anthropology class, can't believe I get to take a class on such a cool topic 💖 even since this video came out, there have been several more discoveries!
I followed documentaries and remember the finding of Lucy
The existence of the Kenhamopithecus suggests that evolution goes both ways
evolution does not go any way... if a trait helps an organism survive in a given environment, that gene is passed on.... simple as that.
Crikey! DANGER! DANGER! DANGER!
hahaha, i actually googled it to see what the heck you were talking about, then caught myself and got it...nicely done
@@Daniel-yo5es Being a delusional conman does have it's survival value in a world where ignorance is revered.
@@@clinthodo: alas 'tis true.
Excellent video which explains our lineage using archaeological evidences. Also try the quiz in there website :)
Fantastic video! I liked it so much that I'm citing it in my book.
Wonderful!
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge well done sir!
Simply enthralling 👍👍
Bravo excellent video!
Amazing documentary! Keep it up
Thank you! Will do!
great piece of work I need more more more
Anyone knows the song from around 18:50? Thanks!
this guy has evolved beyond the need for an uper lip
at 12:29, while tim white is recounting the story of a then-grad student finding the fossil, the captions say "[? Johannes ?] [INAUDIBLE]" -- the name he said was that of yohannes haile-selassie, a renowned ethiopian paleoanthropologist.
Thanks very much, fixed!
@@biointeractive no problem, happy to help, it's a great video
I was always interested in Dinosaurs. That progressed to evolution and how it actually works. Religious zealots hate evolution, as it throws into disarray their carefully crafted fantasy world. That in itself is worth the time taken to understand the subject, even at a basic level.
Watched it again and sent it to my brothers and sisters
This is amazing. Thank you.
What makes us human is our brain. The evolution of the brain is the key. I'm no scientist but it seems to me the evolution of the brain triggered with emerging from the deep jungle. In the jungle the sense of sight was only useful at very close distance. By the time you saw a predator it was too late. As the jungle shrank eyesight became more useful and the pre-humans began to stand up on to feet to look over tall grass and further.
As they did this they began to "think" about what they saw. They couldn't smell or hear it but they "learned" about what they saw. This led to reason, predicting the movement of a prey or predator. They probably lived largely on insects and seeds easily obtainable. When they saw grass moving abnormally they learned it was a hoard of grasshoppers and they would gorge themselves on them and recognize from a distance a patch of berries or other food sources.
The wider open the plains became the more useful eyesight. The more they used eyesight the more thy used their brain to think about what they saw. The eyes and brain evolved together. In later times they would see quarry, deer for example, and predict where they might intercept them and develop sophisticated hunting strategy. Thinking became more and more useful. Keenest eyesight and biggest brains were the "fittest" and it probably really accelerated compared to pelvises and such.
This makes me wonder what we will evolve further into in another million years; should the earth even last that long.
Has any hominid specie lived that long? The earth will be here long after we are gone. Many species of animals have been here and are now extinct.
a monopedal no-brainer :-)
@@quercus4730 It's said that of all species that have existed on Earth, 99.9 percent are now extinct.
greets with fire and we will never find any fossils for most of those creatures because they didn’t die in areas that preserved them. All we can ever do is guess
Stacie 413 We are still evolving, yes. Our planet will not last forever. We will go extinct earlier, with or leave it. Our only options really.
Thank you for the video, it certainly gives us all something to think about.
So, a couple of million years in the future, what will anthropologists discover of our species?
David Miller superman comics from which a new religion will emerge.
they'll discover that we rapidly took over the world, our population exploded in a way unprecedented in the previous 500 million year history of multicellular life, we developed advanced industrial technology, and it killed us very quickly! Actually, we are taking all of the fossils out of the ground. Will future archaeologists even be able to piece together the story of life like we have?
A couple million years in the future we will have been extinct for a couple million years - hence, no anthropologists.
@@commentingaccount1383 As long as we protect the accumulation of science they will .
@@bobaldo2339 Why would their be no no anthropologists ? One only need be intelkigent and aware of humanity to becone an anthropologist ....
Crawling a continent with a laser focus looking for tiny remnants of bons. Human’s thirst to know is just amazing
Great doc`o , well made
A Reader's Digest version of a very complicated story. Had to bookmark this video!
Come a long way from a single cell.
A single cell is a long way from lifeless individual atoms.
But when did inanimate become animated...?
Fascinating! Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Excelente trabajo
Better story than creation of adam and eve.
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No no no!!!!!!!
Yeah ,for a horror movie.
This video then answer anything that is important in life only the story of Adam and Eve can
@@kronos01ful Who dictates what is important in life? You?
HAHAHA we are god, humanity is a sort of god we will colonize the whole solar system and more
Lucy in the valley with footprints...
@Ashley Haadt You crack me up! That was truly funny! LOL LOL LOL
LVF will fuel a coming counterculture.
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes...
Land Vertebrate Faunachron? Can you smoke it?
I prefer diamonds.
I am trying to understand why someone wouldn't like a video like this? you either like or you don't care but dislike? why?
angry creationists
well because this content runs athwart to their worldview, and people generally dont like it, it is hard to admit that I was stupid and gullable for most of my life.
I cant imagine how frustrating it has to be for a person to only have a very tiny scope that they have to make everything fit or not have a career, it has to be sad. no black swans aloud.
Yall over here doing it for school I'm here cause its quarantine
Who got the answers bruhh 🤣
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great video , thanks
Thank you for making this! Love science and I am a Christian!!
thank you!!!
Keep digging
Must have been difficult to continue after LUCY,like looking for a ancient water molecule in sargasso sea,pay offs are few and far between
You do know Lucy was a fraudulent claim, he lied to keep his funding going
great video
I wonder what advantage those earliest ancestors gained from bipedal walking while still in the trees.
They are making a leap. The second skull could have been a petering out “losing” branch of evolution and not necessarily our ancestor. That would open up the timeframe for development. Need to protect against “tunnel vision” earthlings lol
I agree 100%
After you find the transitional fossils try and find one for the apes .I say there are none . We reproduce after our " kind ".
Love you from Vietnam
Love this kind of videos
16:37 seems to falsify Marvin Harris's idea that 'in the beginning was the foot'. Any comments would be welcomed.
jack mack really, any? Here's my idea, then: in that beginning were feet, and, beside them, paws.
In another beginning, there was an idea, on how to put this to that to create sth useful to solve a problem. It seemed to come out of nowhere, and it worked.
Who is this Marvin guy?
These finds are amazing but I do worry that some of them might just be extinct primates not along our lineage at all. I can see how some of these early discoverers might wish their discoveries to be hominid and therefore interpret them as such with a little bias. Like Lucy's pelvis. Still amazing finds.
I have hairy knuckles still. Where do I fit?
Newcastle, why aye man,
Stuff just keeps changing.
Yes, this is the nature of science. Things change as we find new facts and information. As Please Complete All Fields asked: would it be better if nothing changed? Like how religion works? That way we could still be walking or riding mules, know nothing of disease, have no electricity or clean water...in short have absolutely zero idea about anything that's going on at all. We could cure extremely contagious diseases the way they do deep in the jungles of 3rd world Africa: by "bleeding the witches out" thereby spreading more hepatitis to everyone in the vicinity. That'd be great huh?
@Please Complete All Fields New evidence is found? And its not religion or science , its the truth I am looking for. So, whenever, some "new evidence" comes along you just except, huh. Well I am sorry, but too many lies have been told
@@American-Plague The nature of science? Well it depends on whose telling it and their reason. Too many lies have been told, but I should believe the latest that's been told. You go right ahead and believe.
If you don't like change, you need to change.
@@bluntrapture you continue to be a robot. And who was it that told you that Columbus didn't discover America, and when did you believed it. Some scientists and researchers have said that Africans were in America before the red man and the white man. Do you accept that change.
Fabulous video...
Many many thanks
I remember watching this in 6th grade and after our teacher played Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Yes!
We analyse soil and rock samples between two layers of volcanic eruptions and ensuing ash to look at the age of fossils found within them. But somehow we assume that those fossils have lain there undisturbed for millions of years, whereas volcanic eruptions and earthquake upheavals can cause fossil bones to become reburied miles away from their original burial locations. These upheavals can also change the depths at which fossils can become reburied. In addition, the fossil remains and parts of say an Ardipithecus will likely not remain together as complete fossil skeletons when upheavals occur. So what I am saying is that the evidence that we have from fossil records is not only scanty, but also usually incomplete and likely to have moved away from its original location due to earthquakes, floods, wind erosion etc. In conclusion I want to say that judging the age of an ancient fossil by calculating the age of the surrounding rock or soil sediment is no guarantee that a fossil found therein is the same age.
However, I am no paleontologist or scientist, and would therefore request someone to throw more light on the subject; in other words what else is involved in determining the age of a fossil apart from the radio-active disintegration of the sediment where a fossil is found?
Comments welcome.