"Is that a model?" No, Jo, it's a real Neanderthal. We found one frozen in a glacier and managed to revive him, then we put him in front of a camera. Or should I say her, since it is their producer, after all. Jeeezzzuuussss . . . . . . .
Our ancestors were used to tracking pray over vast, open distances - having developed in the desert, whereas Neanderthal had evolved in dense forests and woodland. When that forest and woodland became less dense and more open, we were simply more developed and prepared for it. There's absolutely no evidence to even remotely suggest that our ancestors and Neanderthal didn't get along. There is, however, evidence that we traded information and skills between eachother.
No one quite knows why they went extinct? I think the fact that their spears were made for stabbing pray, whereas ours were meant to be thrown. Europe's forest areas, where H. Neanderthalensis lived, were becoming less and less dense, so it was harder for them to get up close to their pray or surround them to stab them. Whereas, we could throw our spears, which was better in open plains - which Europe was becoming. The environment changed, our high stamina and thrown spears in...
spears in... the new environment, vs their heavy, stabbing-spears, made it easier and easier for us to hunt as hunting spaces became more open, and harder and harder for them to hunt, which gave us the upper hand - there's obviously more to it than that, their extiction can be attributed to a lot of factors, but this was definately one of them. Stamina vs strength. Thrown vs close quarter stabbing. The latter 2 good for dense forest, the former 2 good for open areas. Europe was opening up.
@AngelBiLove Fry did not mention heidelbergensis, nor did he imply it. All he said was we shared a common ancestor. And that is most right. (Evolutionary biology, anyone?) Keep in mind: Thou shalt not question Stephen Fry.
He did imply it. It is the common ancestor he mentioned as both Neanderthals evolved from it. He didn't name them because this section wasn't about them or maybe he did but it was edited out because it was off topic.
There is one thought that the neaderthal was a territorial human where as modern humans migrated around the world following the herds and food supplies.
We get 1-4% of our genome from neanderthal ancestors. Our genomes are over 99% identical. This means that of that 1-4% of our genome that we get from neanderthals, over 99% of it was present in humans before interbreeding.
If the bus is in Melbourne put an Essendon scarf on him and nobody will know the difference. If the bus is in London a Fulham or West Ham shirt should do the trick.
I assumed that it was common knowledge. Just google it, if it's a problem. Our tools were better than those of neanderthals simply because they were thrown. "Better" denotes effectiveness, in which case a thrown weapon is definitely better than a stabbing weapon, for reasons of efficiency and safety. A heavy thrusting spear is definitely not as good a weapon as an atlatl. Also, neanderthals apparently lacked the backwards displacement of the shoulders to allow comfortable overhand throwing.
Do you have any sources on that? Also, what would be the logic behind that? It seems obvious once one is capable of making tools that there is benefit in improving them, regardless of their function, or their advantage over other tools. Were humans being lazy? Were Neanderthals too stupid to throw things but somehow capable of crafting better tools than us? That would seem mysterious to me, unless I'm missing something.
Her husband jokes are all very odd to me because I remember reading an article online about her and her family life, and her hubby seems to be a very nice man. I guess this particular "Jo Brand" is a different character she plays.
I assumed it was common knowledge for the kind of people that watch videos about neanderthals...on youtube. I guess that was pretty stupid of me. I'm also a bit of a nerd (in case you hadn't realized) so I tend to annoy people with rudeness stemming from that. My deep apologies. But yes, although their tools were amazingly sharp and exhibited delightfully advanced construction, they were not projectiles. Also, the current consensus is that neanderthals most likely did not divide labor.
Technically speaking you could sort of tell because their limbs would be shorter than the average human, with wide feet & hands, and they wouldn't be able to speak like the average human becuase their tongues are longer and therefore can't make certain letter sounds. But unless you were looking really closely (and that would be a bit creepy) you probably wouldn't tell.... sorry for the geeking, just did an exam on human evolution :)
@AngelBiLove You say Belgium has one of the hardest education systems in the world, and yet you lack the reading comprehension to understand my point. Three months of class grants you three months experience over a layman. Considering professionals have careers that last 30 years or more, that really is very little. Not nothing, but little. Difficulty does not equate to quality, in terms of education. I quoted my numbers from the OECD education report for 2010. What about yours?
@AngelBiLove You seem to assume that because you can do Canadian university in 'spare time' that you're special! You may not realize this but we Canadians can and do take university courses *gasp* in grade 12! You aren't proving very much. Don't attack the Canadian education system without reading about it, it's well-known throughout the world for being very high quality. This isn't nationalism, these are just facts. Don't conflate Canada with the United States, we're worlds apart in many ways.
Based exclusively on present day comedic conceptualization and innovation I think it's fair to say Jo Brand is the Neanderthal. Same old opportunistic and predictive misandry as always.
@AngelBiLove So you have intimate knowledge of Neanderthals, and claim that Homo Sapiens have no foreign DNA, yet you can't spell CROSSBREED? For some reason, I doubt your 'credentials'. P.S. Studying a particular subject for 3 months is no more impressive than taking an undergraduate course, considering the time period. You may have more knowledge on the subject than a layman, but not much more.
After such toxic and sick comedy which was before 2020 new world order now all the world are trying to fix biologically degenerated and injured humanity 🤣
"If, an I dream of it, we shaved & dressed our producer one day, put HER on a bus, she might look like a normal person."
Nearly died at that line.
"Is that a model?" No, Jo, it's a real Neanderthal. We found one frozen in a glacier and managed to revive him, then we put him in front of a camera. Or should I say her, since it is their producer, after all. Jeeezzzuuussss . . . . . . .
"that's our producer" brilliant
Our ancestors were used to tracking pray over vast, open distances - having developed in the desert, whereas Neanderthal had evolved in dense forests and woodland. When that forest and woodland became less dense and more open, we were simply more developed and prepared for it.
There's absolutely no evidence to even remotely suggest that our ancestors and Neanderthal didn't get along. There is, however, evidence that we traded information and skills between eachother.
From the pictures that I have seen of the New York City subway, he would stand out as the sane one.
QI, the best panel show on tv.
That is one hell of a long preview! Nice :D
No one quite knows why they went extinct?
I think the fact that their spears were made for stabbing pray, whereas ours were meant to be thrown. Europe's forest areas, where H. Neanderthalensis lived, were becoming less and less dense, so it was harder for them to get up close to their pray or surround them to stab them.
Whereas, we could throw our spears, which was better in open plains - which Europe was becoming.
The environment changed, our high stamina and thrown spears in...
Is anyone else impressed by Stephens almost an anagram, leatherdant 😂
As someone who works in the television industry, I can promise you the crew had a hard time working after the producer joke.
this show is really educational
The really weird thing is, they also seemed to have better tools than us! So it's really very mysterious that we survived and they didnt...
spears in... the new environment, vs their heavy, stabbing-spears, made it easier and easier for us to hunt as hunting spaces became more open, and harder and harder for them to hunt, which gave us the upper hand - there's obviously more to it than that, their extiction can be attributed to a lot of factors, but this was definately one of them.
Stamina vs strength.
Thrown vs close quarter stabbing.
The latter 2 good for dense forest, the former 2 good for open areas. Europe was opening up.
@AngelBiLove Fry did not mention heidelbergensis, nor did he imply it. All he said was we shared a common ancestor. And that is most right. (Evolutionary biology, anyone?)
Keep in mind: Thou shalt not question Stephen Fry.
He did imply it. It is the common ancestor he mentioned as both Neanderthals evolved from it. He didn't name them because this section wasn't about them or maybe he did but it was edited out because it was off topic.
There is one thought that the neaderthal was a territorial human where as modern humans migrated around the world following the herds and food supplies.
We get 1-4% of our genome from neanderthal ancestors. Our genomes are over 99% identical. This means that of that 1-4% of our genome that we get from neanderthals, over 99% of it was present in humans before interbreeding.
This makes no sense. If we already had it, then we didn't get it from Neanderthals.
We talked about all this in anthropology class... but it wasn't nearly as amusing.
If the bus is in Melbourne put an Essendon scarf on him and nobody will know the difference. If the bus is in London a Fulham or West Ham shirt should do the trick.
I assumed that it was common knowledge. Just google it, if it's a problem. Our tools were better than those of neanderthals simply because they were thrown. "Better" denotes effectiveness, in which case a thrown weapon is definitely better than a stabbing weapon, for reasons of efficiency and safety. A heavy thrusting spear is definitely not as good a weapon as an atlatl. Also, neanderthals apparently lacked the backwards displacement of the shoulders to allow comfortable overhand throwing.
@spress97 What's a "panel" show?
I'd've said "He's the one that has a stupidly high pitched voice when I spoke to him."
he looked a bit like gandalf in my opinion
"Yeah, I don't really fancy that as a sex slave."
XD
tfw you live in Basildon
@FreedomValentine I was watching a documentary on this and I thought the exact same thing.
We invented the bus though...
Do you have any sources on that?
Also, what would be the logic behind that? It seems obvious once one is capable of making tools that there is benefit in improving them, regardless of their function, or their advantage over other tools. Were humans being lazy? Were Neanderthals too stupid to throw things but somehow capable of crafting better tools than us? That would seem mysterious to me, unless I'm missing something.
Is every Jo Brand joke about her husband?
Her husband jokes are all very odd to me because I remember reading an article online about her and her family life, and her hubby seems to be a very nice man. I guess this particular "Jo Brand" is a different character she plays.
You say 'every' like she has more than one joke.
2:04 Vampire!!!
I assumed it was common knowledge for the kind of people that watch videos about neanderthals...on youtube. I guess that was pretty stupid of me. I'm also a bit of a nerd (in case you hadn't realized) so I tend to annoy people with rudeness stemming from that. My deep apologies. But yes, although their tools were amazingly sharp and exhibited delightfully advanced construction, they were not projectiles. Also, the current consensus is that neanderthals most likely did not divide labor.
Their tools were for stabbing, ours were for throwing. It's not that mysterious.
Technically speaking you could sort of tell because their limbs would be shorter than the average human, with wide feet & hands, and they wouldn't be able to speak like the average human becuase their tongues are longer and therefore can't make certain letter sounds. But unless you were looking really closely (and that would be a bit creepy) you probably wouldn't tell.... sorry for the geeking, just did an exam on human evolution :)
@SkrateBeastin
not neccessarily a myth though eh?
i wish we were strong and smart
@PaleoPlaytime ok then :D
@wishcraft4u2 I suppose we are more vicious.
I'm not a nutter or anything...
German on his suitcase.
@AngelBiLove You say Belgium has one of the hardest education systems in the world, and yet you lack the reading comprehension to understand my point. Three months of class grants you three months experience over a layman. Considering professionals have careers that last 30 years or more, that really is very little. Not nothing, but little. Difficulty does not equate to quality, in terms of education. I quoted my numbers from the OECD education report for 2010. What about yours?
@BaileyJapes lol I appreciate the humour, but please give me the real definition. :)
@alaswoeisme Shhhh! He'll bite you....
@AngelBiLove You seem to assume that because you can do Canadian university in 'spare time' that you're special! You may not realize this but we Canadians can and do take university courses *gasp* in grade 12! You aren't proving very much. Don't attack the Canadian education system without reading about it, it's well-known throughout the world for being very high quality. This isn't nationalism, these are just facts. Don't conflate Canada with the United States, we're worlds apart in many ways.
Homo Sapien Sapien POWAH!!!
lol XD
He's wearing a Yankees hat.
Based exclusively on present day comedic conceptualization and innovation I think it's fair to say Jo Brand is the Neanderthal. Same old opportunistic and predictive misandry as always.
@AngelBiLove So you have intimate knowledge of Neanderthals, and claim that Homo Sapiens have no foreign DNA, yet you can't spell CROSSBREED? For some reason, I doubt your 'credentials'.
P.S. Studying a particular subject for 3 months is no more impressive than taking an undergraduate course, considering the time period. You may have more knowledge on the subject than a layman, but not much more.
After such toxic and sick comedy which was before 2020 new world order now all the world are trying to fix biologically degenerated and injured humanity 🤣