I never get tired of you talking about less modern apes (and associated critters). You are among the very best of science educators on UA-cam. Thank you!
No, Robert Sepher is the bestest, most siency and absolutely not racist educater on You Tube 😂 My god, I really do think that Hovind knows more about science and evolution than Sepher.
This channel has been KEY in helping me Deconstruct my Evangelical upbringing. I went to a private christian school my entire preschool to highschool existence, and every single young earth talking point was taught to me as fact. Seeing actual scientific reasons for things instead of "micro evolution vs macro" and shit. Thank you!
Welcome to the world of science and discovery, there's so much to learn and that's what's amazing. Always something new around the corner. And I'm from a similar background, although I was in public school taught science and my church teaching YEC (which I bought hook line and sinker).
My parents are young earth creationists, my dad being an especially staunch one. He follows channels like Answers in Genesis religiously and believes evolution is essentially a conspiracy designed by Satan, and that anyone who believes in evolution just needs to watch channels like Answers in Genesis to be enlightened. He has no idea that other scientists have actually heard of and disregarded these YEC claims that he believes "debunks" evolution. I, on the other hand, love learning about hominin evolution and have been dying to show my parents one of your or Forrest Valkai's videos. Well, I think this is it. This video is so straight and to the point; it may be a good starting point for me. Wish me luck!
That's a nice idea. If you're looking for yet another source of info that doesn't get too in the face of YECs, I recommend Jon Perry - Genetics & Evolution Stated Casually. He also makes a strong point to avoid insulting people for their beliefs and just explain why certain ideas are scientifically or historically incorrect.
Your parwnts are 100% right ! here is the proof. was done years ago and they never knew youtube would be out.. proof right here Lucy is a Hoax… ua-cam.com/video/EeO0JlZsXio/v-deo.htmlsi=XRQH7YvH04xuW_ku
I am so tickled to see a fellow anthropologist explaining things on the internet - since I'd returned to school (late middle age), I've often said that we needed to get out of the ivory towers and start sharing our knowledge with the general public. They might watch a short video like this, rather than sitting in a lecture hall for an hour or more (especially considering the difference in cost). Indeed, many of those who need knowledge the most are the ones who are not likely to be able to afford classes or don't feel the need for a degree (or worse, been "tracked" away from being educated). There is a great need for more people like you - doing online general public teaching. (I've been thinking about doing something similar regarding my areas of study - archaeology, some areas of Linguistic, and Cultural.) It's something to consider - especially since IRL politicians in some areas have 'outlawed' teaching subjects like race issues and history. Doing teaching like you have would answer a huge need in this country. Maybe I could turn online teaching into some sort of career - once I finish writing my dissertation.
Well done video. My recent anthropology exam was in the form of a paper diagnosing the identity of hominin fossil remains, some of which included assessing evidence of probable motion mechanics. I wish I had this video to have helped me then. You do good work!
So happy to see there is now a series where an actual description of what it means to be bipedal is explained and how it is diagnosed. If this one is anything to go by, the videos in the series will be short enough to keep the viewer's attention but long enough give detailed descriptions of the anatomies of the species being compared, while not getting bogged down with too much detail. Great video, Erika. I enjoyed it and learned some things, too. Can't wait for the next one!
As well as being fascinating, this channel has one of the best openings on UA-cam. Sometimes I think I'll skip it because it's so long, then I end up watching it anyway and the song goes round in my head for the rest of the day.
You are fantastic teacher. When I was a faculty member, I would evaluate my peers, sitting in their class. Your lecture presentation is very good. You set up and answer questions. Do you mind some advice? Keep your youtube talks. They are public talks, and you can also argue that they are community service, especially if you make yourself accessible in a safe and reasonable way, I used to be a social anthropologist; academia is not kind to disability no matter how inclusive policies. So I am no longer that. I miss teaching and mentoring. Give me 1 second of that. Go for it, you are brilliant, and your field needs you.
(Laugh!) I've done some reading in social anthropology, and my M.A. areas of focus (in Cultural) are Race and Poverty issues. It's good to encounter colleagues on things like this! (I do understand the lack of kindness to disability (been there, done that), and have even encountered it (mainly from students - peers) based on my being Native American.) I strongly believe that we're needed more in the field and out of the ivory towers... and finding ways to sharing our discoveries with 'ordinary citizens' as well as colleagues. I think Erika might be an example of how we could get out of the tower and help people in general.
@@benjamindover5676 I'm not so stupid that I have to have (or do) everything in sound bites. Understand, or is that not enough? I don't do sound bites, and never will.
I loved seeing pelvis and leg bones of the three species side by side. It helps make it so much more real. My only regret is that Ms Gibbon did not address Lucy's FABULOUS cheek bones!
Thank you for this! Being able to see the actual bones side by side with you explaining them makes it way easier to visualize what separates our ancestors from our cousins. My favorite vid of yours yet!
Very useful! I never actually learned anatomy. We were supposed to, but it was at the end of the year and we ran out of time. Then our teacher changed and h didn't know we never covered it. It was in the middle of the year when he said "and this you learned of anatomy". We all stared at him and told him we never did. He didn't get to it either. So I always appreciate when someone teaches it to me. I don't work with anything biology, but it has always been my favourite subject.
It's amazing to see all of the adaptations that went into hominin bipedality. On surface level, it kind of looks like a small leap, other great apes can sort of walk bipedally and it doesn't seem like such a big deal for some to become obligatory bipeds, but to actually see all of the changes that had to happen is a little bit mind blowing
It's even more mind blowing imagining evolution did it. The adaptations are imagined. There is no observable evidence that this did or ever could have happened.
@@walterl322 You can't catch a break? That is funny! Anywhere, did you see the beginning of the video, the introduction? That cartoon is the only observable evidence you have for evolution. Enjoy.
@@theintelligentatom3599"there is no observable evidence" hmmmm. Using your logic, there is a lot in this world that cannot be true because the evidence cannot be observed.
Ah, but you see, a book written by goat headers 2,000 years ago says humans were specially created and therefore this Lucy was just another ancient ape. Check mate
Thanks so much for your work Gutsick. I was made to watch AIG videos when we were learning about Australopithecus afarensis in high school. Could you please also touch on the cast of Lucy's pelvis that was cut up and fit back together, it is an argument that is often thrown back to dispute the bipedality.
That reminds me of flat earthers criticizing the "big blue marble" photograph on the basis that it was photoshopped. They think the photoshopping was fakery. In reality, the photoshopping was the only way to piece together clear images of every part of the earth, editing in clear images and editing out clouds and poorly lit areas.
This argument is based on deliberatly misunderstanding a clip from a science communication show with one of the people that found the original Lucy. They looked at the pelvis and realized that its shape did not fit with the other parts of the body that showed clear signs of bipedalism. So they took an even closer look and saw that the fossil looked like the hip was broken into multiple pieces, and then fused together when the bone fossilized. To test this idea they made a plastic copy of the fossil and cut it into the pieces of which they saw the outline. And then they reassambled the whole thing and got a hip that would fit a bipedal creature. So, neither is it true, that they destroyed the original. Nor did they do so to hide or cover up something. But what is even more important: Lucy was the first, but not the last of her species, that we found, and were hips were found, the reaffirmed the reconstructed bipedal shape.
@@hannajung7512 And, as GG has stated in an earlier episode, the pelvis was not anatomically possible. The pubic bones would not have connected with how the hip was shaped at the time.
@@hannajung7512 thanks, I think the biggest defeater to the arguments made in the material I was shown is the fact that many individuals have been found with intact hips. I think it would be cool to see the original fossil of Lucy's hips next to the reconstruction- or even a current video of the reconstruction process to show young earth creationists why it was done.
Thank you Gutsick G! Your presence on UA-cam and your contributions to educating the layman concerning human evolution is extremely important and needed in today's world. Keep up the good work! And thank you!
Excellent video. As one who has no formal training in paleoanthropology, but with a keen interest in the subject, I found the actual comparisons of the three species to be especially informative. I can't wait for the bipedality video!
Quadrupedal Lucy: face in the dirt, knees constantly getting scratched up, massive cramps and aches, and much worse back and feet problems than we have.
I am liking this video before watching it because your content is so good the only time I don't like it is when my gentle ape brain is being not so modern and I am having trouble understanding.
As an art student with an interest in natural history, I really love watching your videos!! I'm retaking a figure drawing class (which is also partly an anatomy class) and now I feel understanding some of this stuff can be really helpful for me!! It's funny you mentioned our pelvis is bowl-shaped because my professor pointed that out to me when we were drawing the skeleton; I was struggling with it lol. I mostly only draw non-ape animals so drawing humans is a real challenge I want to work through. Ps. I really love your animations and drawings!! You have a really nice art style :)
The only thing that bugs me about the intro is the right nipple on the later hominids. They're in 3/4 perspective, so the nipple should be pointing almost at the viewer instead of due right. But yeah, man, I love how anatomy classes are great for really different fields.
Thank you for teaching this old dog new stuff. I avoided this un high school for mechanical and architectural drawing. But wow am I fascinated with it now.
We share these physical characteristics with apes, which is why we are biologically defined as apes 1)We have white sclera (The whites of your eyes) just like all other apes. 2) We have fingernails instead of claws. 3)Opposable thumbs 4)Higher brain-to-body ratio 5)Binocular vision 6)Padded digits with finger prints 7)prehensility (ability to grasp with fingers and/or toes.) 8)Reduced olfactory sense and dependent on vision far more than smell. 9) foramen magnum (the great hole in the bottom of our skull that the spinal cord runs through). It indicates the position of the spine in relation to the head, and therefore whether the creature was bipedal or not. 10 Distinctive molar teeth in the lower jaw which have a “Y5” pattern (five cusps or raised bumps arranged in a Y shape) 11)Shoulder and arm structure that enables arms to rotate freely around the shoulder 12)A rib cage that forms a wide but shallow crest. 13)No external tail 14)An appendix 15)We, like the other apes have trichromatic vision (red/green/blue colour receptors) unlike most other mammals.
I was wondering if she was borrowing them from school or if she's added to the collection, the bone pile as it were. Previously I've only seen the skulls in her videos.
Excellent short video providing demonstrable evidence why Australopithecus afarensis was bipedal. Good science communication 👏 noticeable how some cranks come on here to comment on their own bias but not the subject of the video.
I like to picture Lucy dressed up as a ninja, fighting off evil samurai.... no no... I like to picture Lucy in a tuxedo T-shirt, cause she kind of makes a statement like, “I wanna be formal, but I’m here to party, too.” Cause I like to party, so I like to imagine Lucy being a frequent partier.
Your merging of concise and complete explanations is exemplary in this video, Erika. Looking forward to you being seen as a peer to great communicators like Janna Levin and Brian Cox.
Once again, thank you for a wonderfully clear explication of basic “walking” adaptations! You define the more scientific terms within your sentences and visually point out about what you are speaking. I certainly hope you will delve further into teaching( of course, that is what you are doing now): your clarity and humour make the in depth scope of your “lessons” palatable, informative, memorable, and fun! Kudos!!!
I know the videos critiquing young earth creationist and their ilk do better with the algorithm but I love these “just talking about the science” videos so much more.
love this detailed comparison. I watched this a few months ago and liked it. Not long ago, I came a across a music video by the Viagra Boys called “The Cognitve Tradeoff Hypothesis “ that you might like to know about. I think it’s fun and sounds great. YMMV. Not to be taken seriously!
Hearing that the arboreal traits didn't interfere with the terrestrial abilities depressed me. Can you imagine how the world would be different if humans had never forgotten to climb trees?
As usual, awesomely informative video. I just have one question, as I seem to be missing something. When you were discussing the carrying angle of the femurs and showing at 14:40 how the human femur has more of an angle than the chimp, I wasn’t really seeing much of a difference at all. They seem to be pretty parallel. How exactly are the angles different? Thanks, I just like to be sure of what I’m talking about if I ever bring this kind of stuff up in conversation.
The difference in angle doesn't show up great in this video, but a small change makes a big difference in biomechanics. There's also sexual dimorphism in humans in that angle to allow for the slight difference in the pelvis
Hello Gibbon, I was wondering, is it accepted that bipedeality evolved in many ape species in Africa, or still only one line thst dpread? Thank you for such a dedicated channel
Oh good. You still kicking. Most of your videos seem to be from 2 years ago. I played around with some monkeys in Africa - VERY like us. Never met a gibbon though. I agree with you on Ardi.
I think the angle of the femur would have been much better displayed if placed where it connects into the pelvis. Since you held them against the table at the knee, you incidentally changed the way a chimp would naturally hold its leg. The femurs look almost parallel.
I think the exhibit also excluded Australopithecus africanus and Australopithecus sediba. They may be included, but Ive seen no sign of them. If that's true, I wonder why they wouldn't include the two species of Australopithecus that have very human like traits, especially sediba.
You are very like my daughter. She is not like you though. She is a finance manager for a group of theatres. Her old dad doesn't understand what she is talking about anymore. You stay safe.
Are you going to make a video of it’s possibly new predator there’s a river otter that it’s the size of a lion but it may have hunted them since the isotopes confirm that it hunted terrestrial animals so it may have hunted Australopithecus afferentsus
I never get tired of you talking about less modern apes (and associated critters). You are among the very best of science educators on UA-cam. Thank you!
When they say "great apes", they aren't referring to all of us, just the great ones like Gutsick Gibbon.
No, Robert Sepher is the bestest, most siency and absolutely not racist educater on You Tube
😂 My god, I really do think that Hovind knows more about science and evolution than Sepher.
@@TheReaverOfDarkness Yes - Gutsick Gibbon is the greatest of the great apes.
@@whatabouttheearth That bar is so low it imploded James Cameron's submersible!
I love this channel
This channel has been KEY in helping me Deconstruct my Evangelical upbringing. I went to a private christian school my entire preschool to highschool existence, and every single young earth talking point was taught to me as fact. Seeing actual scientific reasons for things instead of "micro evolution vs macro" and shit. Thank you!
Welcome to the world of science and discovery, there's so much to learn and that's what's amazing. Always something new around the corner.
And I'm from a similar background, although I was in public school taught science and my church teaching YEC (which I bought hook line and sinker).
Giving modern names to old fossils is pretty smart, gives people a sense of closeness with their geological past.
My parents are young earth creationists, my dad being an especially staunch one. He follows channels like Answers in Genesis religiously and believes evolution is essentially a conspiracy designed by Satan, and that anyone who believes in evolution just needs to watch channels like Answers in Genesis to be enlightened. He has no idea that other scientists have actually heard of and disregarded these YEC claims that he believes "debunks" evolution.
I, on the other hand, love learning about hominin evolution and have been dying to show my parents one of your or Forrest Valkai's videos. Well, I think this is it. This video is so straight and to the point; it may be a good starting point for me. Wish me luck!
That's a nice idea. If you're looking for yet another source of info that doesn't get too in the face of YECs, I recommend Jon Perry - Genetics & Evolution Stated Casually. He also makes a strong point to avoid insulting people for their beliefs and just explain why certain ideas are scientifically or historically incorrect.
Let us know how it went !
Good luck
Any Update?
Your parwnts are 100% right ! here is the proof. was done years ago and they never knew youtube would be out.. proof right here Lucy is a Hoax… ua-cam.com/video/EeO0JlZsXio/v-deo.htmlsi=XRQH7YvH04xuW_ku
I am so tickled to see a fellow anthropologist explaining things on the internet - since I'd returned to school (late middle age), I've often said that we needed to get out of the ivory towers and start sharing our knowledge with the general public. They might watch a short video like this, rather than sitting in a lecture hall for an hour or more (especially considering the difference in cost). Indeed, many of those who need knowledge the most are the ones who are not likely to be able to afford classes or don't feel the need for a degree (or worse, been "tracked" away from being educated).
There is a great need for more people like you - doing online general public teaching. (I've been thinking about doing something similar regarding my areas of study - archaeology, some areas of Linguistic, and Cultural.) It's something to consider - especially since IRL politicians in some areas have 'outlawed' teaching subjects like race issues and history. Doing teaching like you have would answer a huge need in this country. Maybe I could turn online teaching into some sort of career - once I finish writing my dissertation.
Well done video. My recent anthropology exam was in the form of a paper diagnosing the identity of hominin fossil remains, some of which included assessing evidence of probable motion mechanics. I wish I had this video to have helped me then. You do good work!
So happy to see there is now a series where an actual description of what it means to be bipedal is explained and how it is diagnosed. If this one is anything to go by, the videos in the series will be short enough to keep the viewer's attention but long enough give detailed descriptions of the anatomies of the species being compared, while not getting bogged down with too much detail.
Great video, Erika. I enjoyed it and learned some things, too. Can't wait for the next one!
I really appreciate your presentation style; it’s nicely simplified and very accessible without infantilizing the viewer.
As well as being fascinating, this channel has one of the best openings on UA-cam. Sometimes I think I'll skip it because it's so long, then I end up watching it anyway and the song goes round in my head for the rest of the day.
And Erica did the animation herself! She’s a very clever, and very gentle modern ape. 😊
Today's the first time I skipped it. Nature was calling and I was in a rush. 😊
If I were one of your students I'm sure I would ace any exam. You explain so clearly everything you say. Excellent work!
You are fantastic teacher. When I was a faculty member, I would evaluate my peers, sitting in their class. Your lecture presentation is very good. You set up and answer questions. Do you mind some advice? Keep your youtube talks. They are public talks, and you can also argue that they are community service, especially if you make yourself accessible in a safe and reasonable way,
I used to be a social anthropologist; academia is not kind to disability no matter how inclusive policies. So I am no longer that. I miss teaching and mentoring. Give me 1 second of that. Go for it, you are brilliant, and your field needs you.
(Laugh!) I've done some reading in social anthropology, and my M.A. areas of focus (in Cultural) are Race and Poverty issues. It's good to encounter colleagues on things like this! (I do understand the lack of kindness to disability (been there, done that), and have even encountered it (mainly from students - peers) based on my being Native American.)
I strongly believe that we're needed more in the field and out of the ivory towers... and finding ways to sharing our discoveries with 'ordinary citizens' as well as colleagues. I think Erika might be an example of how we could get out of the tower and help people in general.
@@RedHeart64
Brevity is the soul of wit.
~Shakespeare
Maybe you could learn from that?
@@benjamindover5676 I'm not so stupid that I have to have (or do) everything in sound bites. Understand, or is that not enough?
I don't do sound bites, and never will.
@@RedHeart64 Good,, My mistake,, I apologize.
@@benjamindover5676 - You single-handedly prioved Shakespeare wrong.
I loved seeing pelvis and leg bones of the three species side by side. It helps make it so much more real.
My only regret is that Ms Gibbon did not address Lucy's FABULOUS cheek bones!
Thank you for this! Being able to see the actual bones side by side with you explaining them makes it way easier to visualize what separates our ancestors from our cousins. My favorite vid of yours yet!
Thank you! This is so much easier to process when you have the actual thing in front of you. Good job.
Greetings from Germany
Lucy is a hoax.. ua-cam.com/video/EeO0JlZsXio/v-deo.htmlsi=XRQH7YvH04xuW_ku
Feels like free college. Thank you.
Very useful! I never actually learned anatomy. We were supposed to, but it was at the end of the year and we ran out of time. Then our teacher changed and h didn't know we never covered it. It was in the middle of the year when he said "and this you learned of anatomy". We all stared at him and told him we never did. He didn't get to it either. So I always appreciate when someone teaches it to me. I don't work with anything biology, but it has always been my favourite subject.
It's amazing to see all of the adaptations that went into hominin bipedality. On surface level, it kind of looks like a small leap, other great apes can sort of walk bipedally and it doesn't seem like such a big deal for some to become obligatory bipeds, but to actually see all of the changes that had to happen is a little bit mind blowing
It's even more mind blowing imagining evolution did it. The adaptations are imagined. There is no observable evidence that this did or ever could have happened.
@@theintelligentatom3599 can't catch a break from you people, just go watch her videos debunking creationism and leave me alone...
@@walterl322 You can't catch a break? That is funny! Anywhere, did you see the beginning of the video, the introduction? That cartoon is the only observable evidence you have for evolution. Enjoy.
@@theintelligentatom3599"there is no observable evidence" hmmmm. Using your logic, there is a lot in this world that cannot be true because the evidence cannot be observed.
"I hope to see you next time when we really sink our teeth into that question. "...wait - that's not foreshadowing, is it?
Fascinating comparison of Lucy to chimpanzees and Homo sapiens. Love these anthropology lessons. You’re a great teacher.
Ah, but you see, a book written by goat headers 2,000 years ago says humans were specially created and therefore this Lucy was just another ancient ape. Check mate
Thanks so much for your work Gutsick. I was made to watch AIG videos when we were learning about Australopithecus afarensis in high school. Could you please also touch on the cast of Lucy's pelvis that was cut up and fit back together, it is an argument that is often thrown back to dispute the bipedality.
That reminds me of flat earthers criticizing the "big blue marble" photograph on the basis that it was photoshopped. They think the photoshopping was fakery. In reality, the photoshopping was the only way to piece together clear images of every part of the earth, editing in clear images and editing out clouds and poorly lit areas.
This argument is based on deliberatly misunderstanding a clip from a science communication show with one of the people that found the original Lucy.
They looked at the pelvis and realized that its shape did not fit with the other parts of the body that showed clear signs of bipedalism. So they took an even closer look and saw that the fossil looked like the hip was broken into multiple pieces, and then fused together when the bone fossilized. To test this idea they made a plastic copy of the fossil and cut it into the pieces of which they saw the outline. And then they reassambled the whole thing and got a hip that would fit a bipedal creature.
So, neither is it true, that they destroyed the original. Nor did they do so to hide or cover up something.
But what is even more important: Lucy was the first, but not the last of her species, that we found, and were hips were found, the reaffirmed the reconstructed bipedal shape.
@@hannajung7512 And, as GG has stated in an earlier episode, the pelvis was not anatomically possible. The pubic bones would not have connected with how the hip was shaped at the time.
@@hannajung7512 thanks, I think the biggest defeater to the arguments made in the material I was shown is the fact that many individuals have been found with intact hips. I think it would be cool to see the original fossil of Lucy's hips next to the reconstruction- or even a current video of the reconstruction process to show young earth creationists why it was done.
Wasn't it also a case of using bilateral symmetry to show us, despite the damage to a single side, what it would have looked like?
Thank you, such fascinating detail. Please keep teaching. Your content is invaluable.
Thank you Gutsick G! Your presence on UA-cam and your contributions to educating the layman concerning human evolution is extremely important and needed in today's world. Keep up the good work! And thank you!
Excellent video. As one who has no formal training in paleoanthropology, but with a keen interest in the subject, I found the actual comparisons of the three species to be especially informative. I can't wait for the bipedality video!
Quadrupedal Lucy: face in the dirt, knees constantly getting scratched up, massive cramps and aches, and much worse back and feet problems than we have.
Thanks Erika!
Very well explained, even my pea brain could understand it!
Thank you so much for explaining HOW we know what we know!
Honey, prepare the primate shaped cookies, new GG banger just dropped
This episode was awesome, The props, they make it so clear.
I am liking this video before watching it because your content is so good the only time I don't like it is when my gentle ape brain is being not so modern and I am having trouble understanding.
I enjoy these educational videos. Thanks for sharing and teaching.
As an art student with an interest in natural history, I really love watching your videos!! I'm retaking a figure drawing class (which is also partly an anatomy class) and now I feel understanding some of this stuff can be really helpful for me!! It's funny you mentioned our pelvis is bowl-shaped because my professor pointed that out to me when we were drawing the skeleton; I was struggling with it lol. I mostly only draw non-ape animals so drawing humans is a real challenge I want to work through.
Ps. I really love your animations and drawings!! You have a really nice art style :)
The only thing that bugs me about the intro is the right nipple on the later hominids. They're in 3/4 perspective, so the nipple should be pointing almost at the viewer instead of due right. But yeah, man, I love how anatomy classes are great for really different fields.
@@EBDavis111 I do get that, though. Perspective in drawing can be really hard to figure out sometimes !
Thank you for teaching this old dog new stuff. I avoided this un high school for mechanical and architectural drawing. But wow am I fascinated with it now.
We share these physical characteristics with apes, which is why we are biologically defined as apes
1)We have white sclera (The whites of your eyes) just like all other apes.
2) We have fingernails instead of claws.
3)Opposable thumbs
4)Higher brain-to-body ratio
5)Binocular vision
6)Padded digits with finger prints
7)prehensility (ability to grasp with fingers and/or toes.)
8)Reduced olfactory sense and dependent on vision far more than smell.
9) foramen magnum (the great hole in the bottom of our skull that the spinal cord runs through). It indicates the position of the spine in relation to the head, and therefore whether the creature was bipedal or not.
10 Distinctive molar teeth in the lower jaw which have a “Y5” pattern (five cusps or raised bumps arranged in a Y shape)
11)Shoulder and arm structure that enables arms to rotate freely around the shoulder
12)A rib cage that forms a wide but shallow crest.
13)No external tail
14)An appendix
15)We, like the other apes have trichromatic vision (red/green/blue colour receptors) unlike most other mammals.
Not all of those exclusively diagnose an ape.
How effective. Thank you Erika. I can just about imagine how hip-walking must feel.
just here to say I love that you have so many actual bones to demonstrate
thank you for making this material so interesting
I was wondering if she was borrowing them from school or if she's added to the collection, the bone pile as it were. Previously I've only seen the skulls in her videos.
This was very informative, thank you very much !
This comparative anatomy is just totally Cool! It clarifies an area of biology where I'm sorely lacking. Thank so much for filling the gaps.
Sometimes I click your videos just to watch your kickass intro. I stick around for the great content just as a bonus.
Excellent short video providing demonstrable evidence why Australopithecus afarensis was bipedal. Good science communication 👏 noticeable how some cranks come on here to comment on their own bias but not the subject of the video.
This was super helpful to sit down with the bones! Like, I learned a ton. I wish I had info like this in school. =D
The Lucy display at the Cretin Museum, I mean creation museum is a joke.
Today I learned. A lot. Thank you!
Great work Erika. I wish I could get my parents who unironically went to the creation museum/ark encounter to watch your stuff lol
Your videos are educational and entertaining, but I would probably watch just for your opening song. I LOVE IT!!
I like to picture Lucy dressed up as a ninja, fighting off evil samurai.... no no... I like to picture Lucy in a tuxedo T-shirt, cause she kind of makes a statement like, “I wanna be formal, but I’m here to party, too.” Cause I like to party, so I like to imagine Lucy being a frequent partier.
Your merging of concise and complete explanations is exemplary in this video, Erika. Looking forward to you being seen as a peer to great communicators like Janna Levin and Brian Cox.
Lucy is a Hoax ! proof right here.. ua-cam.com/video/EeO0JlZsXio/v-deo.htmlsi=XRQH7YvH04xuW_ku
Once again, thank you for a wonderfully clear explication of basic “walking” adaptations! You define the more scientific terms within your sentences and visually point out about what you are speaking. I certainly hope you will delve further into teaching( of course, that is what you are doing now): your clarity and humour make the in depth scope of your “lessons” palatable, informative, memorable, and fun! Kudos!!!
Awesome thanks for this easy to understand video. The evidence is clear.
Very clear and.well explained video! Thanks as always Gutsick
An *EXCELLENT* presentation. ❤️👍🏻👍🏻
Great video...Love how you break down the big words..Thx
Great video. Love the visuals and terminology.
Your daily dose of biological anthropology.
Been watching these videos for a while and i cant help but say that intro is really cool
I like the shorter more specific video
Thank you for getting me through the last half hour of work 🐒🦍
Having an anterior foramen magnum and arguing for quadrupedality will be stretching things to the limit...
Centaur: *challenge accepted*
one reason why it's clearly mythological.
I love GG's videos...
I love this channel
Very interesting and informative. Thank you.
What a cliffhanger at the end there, I need to know!!!!
Useful stuff well presented. I much prefer these instructional and scholarly vids to the unfortunately necessary anti-fanatic ones..
This video is awesome. Very informative.
Excellent video! Thank you very much.
Well done as usual.
excited for the next video!
Wonderful job! Great video!
"Hey GG, whatcha doin?"
"Oh, just talkin' bout bones again."
Very well done video 🙂
For the algorithm
Very nice job👌thank you for making sense👍
I know the videos critiquing young earth creationist and their ilk do better with the algorithm but I love these “just talking about the science” videos so much more.
Well done! 👏
I bet you have the best taste in music!
She's a fan of Gorillaz.
Bad-um tshh!
Also yes, she does genuinely seem to like Gorillaz.
idk, the way you said "sink our teeth into that question" makes it kinda sound like foreshadowing
More anatomy and bones!
How I love Show & Tell Erika!
Introduced my 'older sister' to your vids - older? Me 66, she's 70
love this detailed comparison. I watched this a few months ago and liked it. Not long ago, I came a across a music video by the Viagra Boys called “The Cognitve Tradeoff Hypothesis “ that you might like to know about. I think it’s fun and sounds great. YMMV. Not to be taken seriously!
If anyone has never seen the work of the late Clyde Snow, PhD ... I would recommend having a read over some of his work in forensic anthropology.
Hearing that the arboreal traits didn't interfere with the terrestrial abilities depressed me. Can you imagine how the world would be different if humans had never forgotten to climb trees?
As I rock climber I proudly continue our ancestors heritage. I have not forgotten
@@joshjones3733 A human is not humanity, but good; it's good exercise and lots of fun, too.
To be fair, Lucy died falling from a tree.
@@petersmythe6462 My mom almost killed herself with a piece of celery string from a Bloody Caesar. Life is full of danger.
I just had an epiphany looking at the skulls side by side... We're the Pugs of the Ape world, aren't we? That explains my sinus problems. lol
OMG where did you get the skulls of 3 cyclopses (cyclopi? cyclopsis?) @5:25 Amazing!
As usual, awesomely informative video.
I just have one question, as I seem to be missing something. When you were discussing the carrying angle of the femurs and showing at 14:40 how the human femur has more of an angle than the chimp, I wasn’t really seeing much of a difference at all. They seem to be pretty parallel. How exactly are the angles different?
Thanks, I just like to be sure of what I’m talking about if I ever bring this kind of stuff up in conversation.
The difference in angle doesn't show up great in this video, but a small change makes a big difference in biomechanics. There's also sexual dimorphism in humans in that angle to allow for the slight difference in the pelvis
@@golddragonette7795 Thanks!
Thank you.
Damn.
My abnormal feet disqualify me as human.
No Idea what I'm doing with these flipper ass flesh wedges. Ain't an arch to be seen.
Hello Gibbon, I was wondering, is it accepted that bipedeality evolved in many ape species in Africa, or still only one line thst dpread? Thank you for such a dedicated channel
Lucy and his kin are basically humans from the neck down.
Oh good. You still kicking. Most of your videos seem to be from 2 years ago. I played around with some monkeys in Africa - VERY like us. Never met a gibbon though. I agree with you on Ardi.
Snoop: "for shizzle, it's all about the trees" (he probably said that)
Shakira: "the hips don't lie"
AIC: "gonna end up a big ole pile of them bones"
Ooh, Erica is dropping some biomechanics truth bombs?
Nice! ^_^
**popcorn**
I think the angle of the femur would have been much better displayed if placed where it connects into the pelvis. Since you held them against the table at the knee, you incidentally changed the way a chimp would naturally hold its leg. The femurs look almost parallel.
Seeing you touch bones makes my non-medical personality cringe a little bit this was super informative anyway. 👍
Stellar explanation. Could you comment on the Lucy exhibit at the Creation Museum? Is there skullduggery (no pun intended) going on with that display?
I think the exhibit also excluded Australopithecus africanus and Australopithecus sediba. They may be included, but Ive seen no sign of them. If that's true, I wonder why they wouldn't include the two species of Australopithecus that have very human like traits, especially sediba.
You are very like my daughter. She is not like you though. She is a finance manager for a group of theatres. Her old dad doesn't understand what she is talking about anymore. You stay safe.
So you just... have all those bone models in your house?
Aw hell yeah, bone table
My favorite monkey channel.
Are you going to make a video of it’s possibly new predator there’s a river otter that it’s the size of a lion but it may have hunted them since the isotopes confirm that it hunted terrestrial animals so it may have hunted Australopithecus afferentsus