When We Tamed Fire

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  • @marktwain622
    @marktwain622 4 роки тому +752

    Imagine the courage of that first genius who, instead of running away from lightning and fire, ran toward it.

    • @KandaiyoR6
      @KandaiyoR6 3 роки тому +14

      the stone age was named after the density of his balls

    • @cryingwater
      @cryingwater 2 роки тому +28

      They are probably stupid and played with it because fire is dangerous

    • @SometimesStarWars
      @SometimesStarWars 2 роки тому +73

      @@cryingwater you wouldn't be alive if they hadent

    • @cryingwater
      @cryingwater 2 роки тому +6

      @@SometimesStarWars I know, but it's still stupid. It's foolish to ignore that fact

    • @SometimesStarWars
      @SometimesStarWars 2 роки тому

      @@cryingwater there must be something off with you to look at the dawn of humanity and feel the need to call your ancestors dumb.

  • @drbigmdftnu
    @drbigmdftnu 5 років тому +1541

    Utilizing fire that was started by nature is one thing. But figuring out how to make a fire is a huge leap. Most of us would be challenged to make a fire without matches or lighter

    • @cendesenrendesen7910
      @cendesenrendesen7910 5 років тому +34

      U wanna come for dinner

    • @drbigmdftnu
      @drbigmdftnu 5 років тому +77

      @@cendesenrendesen7910 I'll bring the lighter

    • @drbigmdftnu
      @drbigmdftnu 5 років тому +12

      @@cendesenrendesen7910 What are we having? What type of wine do you like?

    • @kennmossman8701
      @kennmossman8701 5 років тому +5

      @@BirdmanandPrincess I think I have an app for that on my phone
      :) They would wonder how to duplicate their selfie .......shake that phone!

    • @effigytormented
      @effigytormented 5 років тому +20

      @@BirdmanandPrincess You don't even know what a millennial is, sir. The Latest generation is Gen z, millennial are the people like me who were born in the early 80's, late 70's.

  • @MrStensnask
    @MrStensnask 5 років тому +1838

    Imagine being able to observe that very moment the first hominin created fire on its own. The most pivotal moment in hominin history. Awe-inspiring!

    • @alexisanne8190
      @alexisanne8190 5 років тому +140

      The real prometheus

    • @dindinprivate3477
      @dindinprivate3477 5 років тому +70

      Time travel anyone?

    • @wakawaka1976
      @wakawaka1976 5 років тому +86

      MrStensnask yeah I got excited when I started a friction fire with a stick and a piece of wood. To think that’s been around for over 1 million years... imagine how lost we would be back in the day

    • @mandira_draws
      @mandira_draws 5 років тому +52

      Thinking about it really makes me wanna time travel and see how we got to this point.

    • @JimmyMon666
      @JimmyMon666 5 років тому +53

      I'm guessing it goes like this: Guy says: "Hold my Beer", starts to rub 2 sticks together.

  • @jackheynen9161
    @jackheynen9161 5 років тому +1098

    Fire gets started:
    Molecules: I’m sorry were breaking up

    • @Jinx-iw6zb
      @Jinx-iw6zb 5 років тому +65

      Carbon be like: damn,look at that oxygen booty😍😍😍

    • @siyacer
      @siyacer 4 роки тому +40

      @@Jinx-iw6zb oxygen be kinda thicc tho 😳

    • @bradmetcalf5333
      @bradmetcalf5333 4 роки тому +4

      It’s not you. It’s me.

    • @AbsoluteAbsurd
      @AbsoluteAbsurd 3 роки тому +1

      damnit xD

    • @haikalmiftah2529
      @haikalmiftah2529 3 роки тому

      Atoms: Am getting stronger!!

  • @animeyahallo3887
    @animeyahallo3887 4 роки тому +1230

    Welcome to another episode of "When I got struck in a PBS rabbithole"

  • @molybdaen11
    @molybdaen11 5 років тому +1340

    "Damn it Ugor, you burned the meat again, now we have to hunt again tomorow."
    2 Million jears later: "Look Billy, this burned bones are the only evidence that humans lived here long ago."

    • @משהגדיי-כ3נ
      @משהגדיי-כ3נ 5 років тому +15

      What isnyour point

    • @Asa...S
      @Asa...S 5 років тому +197

      "Damn it Ugor, now you started a forest fire again, now we everyone has to migrate. Again."

    • @kukifitte7357
      @kukifitte7357 4 роки тому +108

      Ugor: me sorry, grug

    • @tlshortyshorty5810
      @tlshortyshorty5810 4 роки тому +48

      “Ugor, you had one job!”

    • @snow.flower
      @snow.flower 4 роки тому +10

      Lmao imagine if this is true

  • @JohnVance
    @JohnVance 5 років тому +642

    Hank I swear I’m not stalking you but somehow you host everything I want to watch on the internet

    • @_AmanSingh-xu9bf
      @_AmanSingh-xu9bf 4 роки тому +8

      please go with this and give your honest review alivechemicals.blogspot.com/2020/04/so-you-know-everything-about-fire.html

    • @cobe398
      @cobe398 4 роки тому +1

      @@_AmanSingh-xu9bf this is really good

    • @cobe398
      @cobe398 4 роки тому

      @@_AmanSingh-xu9bf it must have took some time to gather that info

  • @craigcorson3036
    @craigcorson3036 4 роки тому +339

    "But of course the other advantage of fire is that it keeps you warm"
    And provides light in the darkness, which frightens away nocturnal predators. It also fires clay pots, hardens wooden spear points, clears land, smelts metals, and so on, and so on.

    • @kylieschultz6971
      @kylieschultz6971 4 роки тому

      👇👇👇👇👇👇

    • @craigcorson3036
      @craigcorson3036 4 роки тому +6

      @@kylieschultz6971 You kids these days. What does that MEAN?

    • @lyly_lei_lei
      @lyly_lei_lei 4 роки тому +23

      @@craigcorson3036 He’s telling you to like, dislike, and reply to his comment. Press the second one I said.

    • @craigcorson3036
      @craigcorson3036 4 роки тому +7

      @@lyly_lei_lei I see. Thanks for explaining that to an old man who can no longer keep up.

    • @lyly_lei_lei
      @lyly_lei_lei 4 роки тому +12

      @@craigcorson3036 I was more of joking but your welcome.

  • @PatRNBSN
    @PatRNBSN 3 роки тому +61

    There's a book entitled "Catching Fire, How Cooking Made us Human" by Richard Wrangham. It expands on this video by describing how our bodies changed as our diets changed through the use of fire, and how the changes that preparing food with fire changed our interpersonal and societal relationships.

  • @no-bozos
    @no-bozos 5 років тому +9

    I love that they said, "maybe", instead of making "this is the truth" statements like so many other documentaries.

  • @mandira_draws
    @mandira_draws 5 років тому +284

    This video made me nostalgic for some reason for my human ancestors.

    • @postery5029
      @postery5029 3 роки тому +13

      Ah yes those times when we were all monkeys ooh ooh ah ah ing at fire

    • @crystaltheo8494
      @crystaltheo8494 3 роки тому +1

      @@postery5029 if you watched this channel you’d know we weren’t monkeys

    • @postery5029
      @postery5029 3 роки тому +10

      @@crystaltheo8494 we were monke.

    • @postery5029
      @postery5029 3 роки тому +5

      @@crystaltheo8494 ooh ooh ah ah ah oo

    • @Homophobe101
      @Homophobe101 3 роки тому +2

      Ramro kura garyau timile.

  • @Naiadryade
    @Naiadryade 5 років тому +613

    There is a lot more uncertainty around this topic than I realized.

    • @Ben_the_Ignorant
      @Ben_the_Ignorant 5 років тому +25

      It's sad but a lot of clues have been destroyed or are buried to deep.

    • @thebigpicture2032
      @thebigpicture2032 5 років тому +38

      Yes, early fire use would have been scattered and tentative leaving little evidence. It was probably occurring much earlier than we have a fossil record of.

    • @krumble104
      @krumble104 5 років тому +7

      Get used to it...

    • @Furiends
      @Furiends 5 років тому +16

      Funny enough there's even more uncertainty than is even depicted in the video.

    • @kekoajk05
      @kekoajk05 5 років тому +2

      Seriously.... what did these weirdos do??... burn the evidence??... I don’t care if I’m politically correct or not, there’s a lot of evidence supports my theory that cavemen were actually a bunch of idiots...

  • @McKeelix
    @McKeelix 5 років тому +1828

    No wonder campfires smell so nice to us. We've been making them since before we were humans.
    Edit 12/19/20: Guys, no. I'm not talking about standing in the smoke or shoving your face in the embers.
    I'm talking about being out walking on a cold night and smelling someone's wood-burning fireplace off in the distance. It just makes me feel comforted.

    • @jamesfry552
      @jamesfry552 4 роки тому +45

      "smell nice"
      bruh no

    • @Auradyme
      @Auradyme 4 роки тому +72

      i too love foul smelling headache inducing smoke

    • @everydaycliche1529
      @everydaycliche1529 4 роки тому +255

      There is at the very least the generally calming feeling of staring into a campfire after eating. Think about how far that feeling goes. The relief that we ate again, we are warm, we survived again today

    • @itsmxtwist
      @itsmxtwist 4 роки тому +38

      I kinda like the smell of pine. Nothing too strong though

    • @kamster518
      @kamster518 4 роки тому +53

      Everyday DormRoomCliché So true, taming fore started the next chapter in human history. I feel every time we look into the fire, something in our chimp brain perks up in comfort and awe has those emotions are built into our dna, those feeling are in the blood of every homo sapien who lived and will ever live

  • @claytonberg721
    @claytonberg721 4 роки тому +280

    It's sort of amazing that one of the most important innovations in our development as a species is something that I'm sure 99.9 percent of us couldn't achieve today without modern tools.

    • @one5643
      @one5643 4 роки тому +9

      Underrated comment

    • @boristhespacedude9096
      @boristhespacedude9096 4 роки тому +7

      @Sparky Puddins Imagine a living at a time where you really have to make fire to survive

    • @Benji10109
      @Benji10109 4 роки тому +15

      @Sparky Puddins id say the best method to make a fire is with the bow method. All you need is a piece of string wrapped around two edges of a bendy stick. Then wrap the string around another stick. Then use the bow to move the stick back and forth.

    • @mac11380
      @mac11380 4 роки тому +26

      True, but all we have to do now is spend a buck on a bic lighter.

    • @hellohellohistory7727
      @hellohellohistory7727 4 роки тому +16

      That's like we're dwarfs on the shoulders of giants.

  • @damonbryan7232
    @damonbryan7232 5 років тому +198

    I've accidentally caught my mat on fire while flint napping. Can't help but to think that's how it all started. With making fire. It's one of those answers that will be forever lost in time.

    • @koriko88
      @koriko88 4 роки тому +51

      Yep...most great discoveries are accidental. Someone probably had been working wood earlier and had a pile of dry wood shavings, and then were making stone or flint tools, made a spark and the shavings caught on fire. And the rest is history!

    • @shannonleary2399
      @shannonleary2399 4 роки тому +10

      Yo I had to google that ish! XD I thought it was like sleeping and I was so intrigued... Then I realised that you mis spelled knapping and I felt like a lazy twat 😁😁

    • @bec7357
      @bec7357 4 роки тому +6

      Yes. Just what I was thinking! Making tools led to making fire. Accidentally sparked a fire and said eureka!

    • @YetiCave
      @YetiCave 4 роки тому +2

      Mind blowing! Thank you.

    • @HeyNonyNonymous
      @HeyNonyNonymous 4 роки тому

      You must have a very flamable hat :)

  • @WannonCreekWildlife
    @WannonCreekWildlife 5 років тому +2203

    Could you do a video on when human beings first arrived in Australia and the species they encountered/affected, We had some amazing wildlife here people just don’t know about!
    Edit: Thanks everyone who's hopped over to have a look at some of the animals in our videos!

    • @stevenbaumann8692
      @stevenbaumann8692 5 років тому +26

      Wicked Wildlife I second this.

    • @that_pizza_drive6687
      @that_pizza_drive6687 5 років тому +14

      I third this!

    • @corvs
      @corvs 5 років тому +33

      I dont know the full story but I think they came from south east Asia. Such as Indonesia Malaysia etc. At one point in time sea levels dropped and they island hop their way to the new continent. Although I'm not fully sure is this is correct so don't take my word for it. 🤔😶

    • @WannonCreekWildlife
      @WannonCreekWildlife 5 років тому +26

      Dreadnought yes they must have come through Indonesia but the fact they where here so long and isolated for so long suggests they where an earlier wave of human expansion then ones that went elsewhere

    • @steveknight4291
      @steveknight4291 5 років тому +6

      also about the monotremes

  • @raslasagne
    @raslasagne 4 роки тому +76

    ive honestly learnt more from this channel than 16 years in school

    • @raslasagne
      @raslasagne 4 роки тому +9

      @Sparky Puddins if that helps you sleep at night

    • @Qoolen
      @Qoolen 4 роки тому +2

      @Sparky Puddins no one study’s 😂

    • @paleobc65
      @paleobc65 4 роки тому +2

      I've learned more from UA-cam than I did in college and highschool

    • @jasongodwise6068
      @jasongodwise6068 4 роки тому +2

      @Sparky Puddins this is better than most school courses

    • @Aeternitum13
      @Aeternitum13 4 роки тому +6

      @Sparky Puddins the school system is messed up not his fault

  • @OctorokSushi
    @OctorokSushi 5 років тому +13

    Man stuff like this makes me wish I were omnipotent so I could travel back in time, make myself invisible and just fly around observing early humans. It'd be the ultimate people watching, and it'd be so amazing to see them with the knowledge of what's to come. I could find the very first person to learn how to create fire, it'd be like visiting a great (times however many) grandparent or something. Like "wow so it was you huh? you got things going for us without even the slightest clue of what this moment will lead to" it'd be incredible.

  • @Ch0rr1s
    @Ch0rr1s 4 роки тому +8

    Man, I love the PBS and SciShow channels. So much knowledge tightly packed in a few minutes of video.

  • @denisnjoroge3120
    @denisnjoroge3120 5 років тому +4

    That is my country Kenya, I live about 116km away from the place. Thanks for educating us

  • @gryphonshire
    @gryphonshire 5 років тому +80

    I love the movie, "Quest For Fire" & one of my favorite parts is when our "hero" sees a member of the other tribe start a fire from scratch.
    The awe on that Actor's face deserved an Oscar, IMO! To learn this skill would mean no more "questing" to find fire (not to mention trying to keep it burning), would make all the difference in their world.

    • @KinseySwartz
      @KinseySwartz 5 років тому +8

      It's like when Steve Jobs first showed us the iPhone.

    • @timmillan6701
      @timmillan6701 5 років тому +12

      That movie contained many scenes that felt truly authentic- I thought it was great

    • @cgaccount3669
      @cgaccount3669 5 років тому +13

      Spoiler ahead...My favorite scene is when he finally gets home in the swamp and they accidentally put out the fire while celebrating lol. Awe.

    • @KinseySwartz
      @KinseySwartz 5 років тому +2

      @@m_i_g_5108 Well, yes, all you had to do was listen to Macbreak Weekly's latest episode just before the keynote to hear a summary of the most credible rumors, which all pretty much turned out to be true. "Quest for Fire" also had people in the know about how to start a fire.

    • @olivierdeplanques708
      @olivierdeplanques708 Рік тому

      i totally agree with you, this part is amazing, and the music composed by Philippe Sarde is marvellous

  • @Zootycoonman223
    @Zootycoonman223 5 років тому +556

    My only skepticism is that the ‘harnessing of fire’ is not the same as ‘starting fire’. As is the case with many modern nomadic tribes, they generally don’t favor starting a fire every time they move, they keep smoldering embers that travel with them. It seems much more likely that fire-wielding hominids were keeping fires going for millennia before they were actually creating fire. The process of fire creation is quite involved. Keeping smoldering embers hot for a day and then stoking a fire every night is a far more passive action than spending 30+ minutes starting a fire from scratch. Another thing fire brought that I don’t if I missed in the video or not was the safety fire brought. Most predators will steer clear of fire, meaning fire-wielding hominids could focus more on sleeping well and less on being alert at night. Allowing for greater brain development in that sense too.

    • @notsure6187
      @notsure6187 5 років тому +20

      Zootycoonman223 Great intuitive explanation!

    • @Skythikon
      @Skythikon 5 років тому +19

      ua-cam.com/video/BFhXfmjwrUk/v-deo.html is a relevant video on the transport of fires, and how common that is compared to starting new ones.

    • @parkertalley239
      @parkertalley239 5 років тому +37

      I find it hard to believe that hominids evolved around keeping a naturally occurring fire, that they stumbled upon, going for thousands of years. Imagine those embers get wet.. I suppose that they are just screwed until they find another fire? Those who consistently used, depended upon and evolved around fire, most likely knew how to make it.

    • @Zootycoonman223
      @Zootycoonman223 5 років тому +65

      It’s not so much that a single fire was kept going for millennia, it’s that these earlier hominids probably knew how to keep fire going before they learned how to make fire. The process of just keeping a fire going is advantageous, yet not as complicated as starting fire. Meaning these ancestors were probably wielding naturally occurring fires, keeping them going for weeks or months and then finding new fire to replenish in the case an old fire is extinguished. Of course this is a simplification of the process. You have to imagine that there are multiple generations between each step, until ultimately starting a fire becomes a norm. Fire is much like all tool use. It starts with simple, archaic designs and slowly is sophisticated through trial and error and learning how to use those tools.

    • @Furiends
      @Furiends 5 років тому +22

      Another aspect missing from the video is that much more plausible items to cook like potatoes are also extremely unlikely to be fossilized. Therefor we should take "evidence" like burnt bone with a huge grain of salt. We use to think Neanderthals must have been big angry and dumb based on completely silly assumptions. One of the possible evolutionary advantages of humans was being able to chew lots of different types of foods like seeds or bark, etc which would easily explain Neanderthals "devoted real estate" to their jaws and which would have no longer been of any advantage after fire. Further their extinction can be easily explained by cross breeding which also explains the so far otherwise unexplained rapid genealogical changes of homo sapiens.
      But no the most obvious explanation is clearly that were big aggressive dumb dumbs that smashed their heads with rocks and homo sapiens became protohunters and wiped them out through sophisticated deathtraps. Meanwhile homo sapiens were cutting up meat with extremely sharp rock tools and not getting sick thanks to their exceptional microbial tolerance that of course we lost again after agriculture. That sounds WAYYY more plausible right?
      And hey if we're gonna believe in fanciful stories over being honest about what the evidence actually proves then I choose to believe homo sapiens were providers for Neanderthals. Neanderthals would have had the advantage of being able to chew just about anything for food while homo sapiens would have been able to prepare food including the ability to have better discretion over which foods were poisonous for example. It makes sense than that homo sapiens would have had a better time with migration which helps their species stay alive through climate changes. In the meantime though the cohabitation of Neanderthals leads to cross breeding. Note that in this way cross breeds with mostly Neanderthal traits would have had a much higher morality. Having a lot of muscle puts you at a huge disadvantage for surviving winters for example when calories are extremely limited. But its a lot easier for a species to "go extinct" when its not actually dying out but rather is susceptible to selection pressures in what is technically a new species. In that sense we can say about 20% or so of Neanderthals did survive except that its in each of us rather than separate less adaptable individuals.

  • @Bigcheifer
    @Bigcheifer 5 років тому +558

    Please keep making videos about the origin of man, they are very interesting and my favorite videos of yours! 👍🏾

    • @pendulousphallus
      @pendulousphallus 5 років тому +8

      When a momma and a dadda love eachother really much...

    • @vinicius2uiciniv
      @vinicius2uiciniv 5 років тому +16

      NO! Please, there's too much anthropocentric (Cenozoicenter?) videos. So many marvelous things from the Proterozoic, the Paleozoic and Mesozoic times have yet to be discussed.

    • @KeegoonBarnacle
      @KeegoonBarnacle 5 років тому +11

      Vinícius R S Why should we not be anthropocentric when discussing our own origins? What’s wrong with Cenozoic videos? It’s a very underrated time period like the Paleozoic. Also humans are probably the most unique species to have evolved, the only animal to conquered nature to such an extent and become intelligent designers. Our rise to this position stands out among the more standard stories of other animal species, which by all means should be told, but still pale in comparison to human origins which have entire fields dedicated to it.

    • @vinicius2uiciniv
      @vinicius2uiciniv 5 років тому +7

      @@KeegoonBarnacle Of course we as a specie are insteresting... but the name of the channel is EONS, it could arguably talk about other Eons besides the Phanerozoic one. And about this last Eon, the Cenozoic is just a small part of it, so many primitive lifeforms and peculiarities from other Eras are rarely mentioned or discussed elsewhere.

    • @squillamsquallace2468
      @squillamsquallace2468 5 років тому +3

      @@vinicius2uiciniv Why not both?

  • @JohnFleshman
    @JohnFleshman Рік тому +2

    Thanks you beautiful ancient humanoids for learning how to make fire work for us.

  • @katherine2594
    @katherine2594 5 років тому +34

    You should make a video about how modern cats and dogs came to be from their wild ancestors or maybe just a general video on how domestication can effect evolution.

  • @JL897139
    @JL897139 5 років тому +20

    As an archaeologist, I love these archaeology episodes. Keep em coming!

  • @cavv0667
    @cavv0667 5 років тому +69

    I absolutely enjoy every video produced by PBS eons... thank you very much!!! You help feed my mind with the finest of cuisines!!!

  • @NekoYami13
    @NekoYami13 5 років тому +22

    I think this was probably the most well-written Eons episode yet. It was almost cinematic while staying completely truthful to the tale and knowledge it was attempting to convey

  • @gumonmyshu
    @gumonmyshu 5 років тому +96

    "Fire", so easy even a caveman can do it.

  • @thecunundrumchannel6344
    @thecunundrumchannel6344 3 роки тому +7

    "By someone, somewhere when we first tamed fire..."
    The power of one

  • @87randomnames
    @87randomnames 5 років тому +125

    Dam, Eons just uploaded and it’s nearly midnight... oh who am I kidding, probably won’t sleep for another 3hrs anyway.

  • @scooldrood
    @scooldrood 5 років тому +119

    The First Flame quickly fades.
    Darkness will shortly settle.
    But one day, tiny flames will dance across the darkness.
    Like embers, linked by lords past."

    • @gobzanuff5078
      @gobzanuff5078 5 років тому +14

      Hey, don't remind me the amazing chest ahead... i might go hollow...

    • @rotcivtilems7228
      @rotcivtilems7228 5 років тому +9

      Prithee be careful.

    • @generalkenobi2164
      @generalkenobi2164 5 років тому +7

      Try tongue, but hole

    • @HN-kr1nf
      @HN-kr1nf 4 роки тому +1

      ???

    • @Marek_J
      @Marek_J 4 роки тому

      N H Dark souls video game \[Т]/

  • @Hecatonicosachoron
    @Hecatonicosachoron 5 років тому +495

    Last time I was so early Gondwana was still a thing

  • @ravenmckim5834
    @ravenmckim5834 2 роки тому +9

    Incredible. Also very interesting is how fire could be carried from site to site perhaps even before it could be made allowing us to move north that much earlier. Here in New Mexico Native Americans used plants with massive roots such as bush morning glory, Ipomea sp and desert 4 o'clock Mirabilis sp in containers to keep a living fire with them wherever they go. That would have been a hell of a responsibility. Anyhow that's how I like to imagine we mozied on north so early. Thanks Hank!

  • @thelastcube.
    @thelastcube. Рік тому +3

    the more I watch Eons' videos, the more I'm convinced that Homo Erectus were the original heroes of our evolutionary story, the veterans who had completed their main heroic story arc before the arrival of Homo Sapiens.
    they were the Luke to our Rey
    we're the second primates to conquer the world you guys

    • @zeff8820
      @zeff8820 Рік тому +1

      More like we are their descendants, so they gave us this culture..fire making.

  • @chelskichamp11
    @chelskichamp11 5 років тому +70

    This episode was 🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @jf794
    @jf794 5 років тому +678

    Please make: "When we first tamed wolves"
    Edit: Thank you

    • @landofthelivingskies3318
      @landofthelivingskies3318 5 років тому +20

      You didn't watch Alpha!? That's how we tamed wolves...I think. Regardless excellent movie.

    • @TheNeilDarby
      @TheNeilDarby 5 років тому +12

      It's not quite old enough for eons, but something about our relationship with cats and how that started would be cool. I'm willing to bet it's older than most people think.

    • @reuireuiop0
      @reuireuiop0 5 років тому

      From what game is that, Patriotis ?

    • @tashanognog3419
      @tashanognog3419 5 років тому +1

      reuireuiop0 Minecraft

    • @aykay7828
      @aykay7828 5 років тому +5

      Baboons tamed wild puppies.
      ua-cam.com/video/U2lSZPTa3ho/v-deo.html

  • @michaelwatson113
    @michaelwatson113 5 років тому +6

    Many years ago I attended a lecture on early humans and Fire by Louis Leakey. He told of an experiment in which a group of archeologists spent one night outside stark naked with no fire, and another night with fire, and the amazing difference it made to the group.

  • @azurepulse1870
    @azurepulse1870 5 років тому +2

    This video is made of the same stuff that made me love pbs nature documentaries and other pbs shows while growing up as a kid in the 90's. Thank you so much!

  • @guilhermematos5897
    @guilhermematos5897 5 років тому +9

    Because of this kind of UA-cam channel I wanna be a biology teacher!!! Thank you, guys!!

  • @jackpasternak7586
    @jackpasternak7586 5 років тому +136

    “... and now it’s time to talk about FIRE.
    in the early 1980s, humans discovered fire”

    • @jorandebraekeleer7557
      @jorandebraekeleer7557 5 років тому +4

      sound about right

    • @ArloMathis
      @ArloMathis 5 років тому +13

      But they didn't start it.

    • @xbjrrtc
      @xbjrrtc 5 років тому +8

      @@ArloMathis they didn't start the fi-yur!

    • @xbjrrtc
      @xbjrrtc 5 років тому +1

      I kinda thought that for a split second, too, when I first heard it.

    • @jamesmueller8701
      @jamesmueller8701 4 роки тому +1

      @@ArloMathis ,,, But they shot the sheriff ...

  • @CurtisDensmore1
    @CurtisDensmore1 5 років тому +48

    I'm really impressed with the script, especially the explanation of calorie budget and pre-digestion.

  • @demareatunes
    @demareatunes 5 років тому +108

    as soon as i pull myself out of debt I'll buy that eon shirts

    • @gingergamergirl98
      @gingergamergirl98 5 років тому +8

      Mack Donald Sorry to heat that, dude. Capitalism kinda sucks that way :/

    • @D00dlebugInc
      @D00dlebugInc 5 років тому +3

      @@gingergamergirl98 (70 years later...) I'm in the same boat. It sucks

    • @gingergamergirl98
      @gingergamergirl98 5 років тому

      Michael-Paul Thompson Hope everything gets better for you soon, dude

    • @lasigna0212
      @lasigna0212 5 років тому

      69th like

    • @robertraymond762
      @robertraymond762 5 років тому

      Guys relax; "Debt" might just be the name of his pool.

  • @marycjoyce
    @marycjoyce 3 роки тому +2

    This was totally fascinating. Movement of humans around the globes is still my #1 Eons vid, but this one is definitely top 5. So much info in so little time!

  • @mermaidwe2743
    @mermaidwe2743 5 років тому +3

    I like his presentation the best. Thanks Hank.

  • @archionblu
    @archionblu 5 років тому +6

    honestly, "and /steve/" is one of my favorite parts of each of these videos.

    • @valinorean4816
      @valinorean4816 4 роки тому

      it could only be better if it was "and Buddy Steve-o!"

  • @ludvercz
    @ludvercz 5 років тому +93

    It's not that simple to start a fire without matches or a lighter. I wouldn't be surprised if it were a more exclusive skill for a long while before it became something every member of the general population could do. Which means there could very well have been vast differences between tribes of the same species based on wheter they had a "firestarter" or not.

    • @craigme2583
      @craigme2583 5 років тому +12

      The original weapon of mas distruction

    • @dilaudid1
      @dilaudid1 5 років тому +28

      Yes fire is tough to start the old-fashioned way but have you ever tried making the simplest stone tools from stones? It is very humbling when a modern Homo sapiens cant do what the typical 2 to 3 million year old Homo or Australopithecine could do.

    • @VeronicaGorositoMusic
      @VeronicaGorositoMusic 5 років тому +21

      @@dilaudid1 That's what I remark everytime they say ''ancients were dumb monkeys''.
      Just try flintknapping to being able to cut some animal, and oh man...you'd better buy it on the market or get starving. And YES, they had the same problem to solve! Being hungry developes creativity, we have everything solved by now and don't realize how easy we live.

    • @dilaudid1
      @dilaudid1 5 років тому +13

      @@VeronicaGorositoMusic That is a great point, Gitana. Even throwing any of us back 200 years would be nearly impossible for us to function. Now surviving in the stone age is at least an order of magnitude more difficult!

    • @Breached18
      @Breached18 5 років тому +3

      @@VeronicaGorositoMusic compared to modern humans they are, but they have more survival instincts and are better survivalist

  • @merrymachiavelli2041
    @merrymachiavelli2041 5 років тому +6

    "Or just cuddling a lot"...I like that explanation.

  • @maxwelll1978
    @maxwelll1978 4 роки тому +85

    Awesome. Thank you so very much Hank and friends. It is quite funny how early humans and other extinct hominids are always depicted with terrible hair and skin. As if people who don't have mirrors or tooth paste would not care about their appearance. As far as I can tell, small primates, cats, birds even seem to like a good groom and appear to care a lot about their appearance. Certainly, isolated tribes in the modern day spend a great deal of effort making themselves look the way they like. Why would early hominids have been any different?

    • @Hullj
      @Hullj 2 роки тому +7

      Because they had different notions of beauty and attractiveness which were based on the abilities they had. If you don't have any makeup, you don't expect people to wear any makeup. If you don't have any scissors, you don't expect people to have nicely cut hair. I think that a lot of the illustrations of these people take those things into consideration. I also think that your observation is very important and should color our perceptions of the observations made in videos like this.

    • @mikewhitman745
      @mikewhitman745 2 роки тому +1

      I think that most animals groom themselves because clean fur works better than dirty fur, or feathers.

    • @chriswarburtonbrown1566
      @chriswarburtonbrown1566 Рік тому

      ​@@HulljI'm pretty sure they did have 'make up', from plant dyes and wood ash. Making woad paint, for example, is a pretty simple technology.

    • @Hullj
      @Hullj Рік тому

      @@chriswarburtonbrown1566 True. I was thinking more about glam shiny makeup and dreads, though. And while we're at it, tattoos seem to be makeup that was intermittent in its social acceptance. All I meant was applying our (Western) modern ideas of "beauty" aren't the way every human culture for the past 50k years or so, regardless of location, saw it.

  • @gohazard4284
    @gohazard4284 3 роки тому +9

    I just find is amazing how we are studying our ancestors and trying to find out how they lived.

  • @malikaivillatte9065
    @malikaivillatte9065 5 років тому +5

    I’ve been getting so deep into evolution because of this channel

  • @IICJZII
    @IICJZII 5 років тому +68

    Hey Eons team!!! Would love to see a video on the evolution of language. Books on this subject I would recommend are Robin Dunbar's Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language and also Susan Blackmore's radically different The Meme Machine. Love the videos as always, will be sure to pick up a tee!!

    • @covenawhite4855
      @covenawhite4855 5 років тому +5

      There are videos comparing multiple languages to find the first language on Earth. They believe languages with similar grammar and sounds have common cultural origins. So they divide things in language families. Their is Sino-Tibetan language family, Indo-European language family, Pueblo language family, Semitic language family (Hebrew, Arabic, Aramaic).

  • @akiraryuu6335
    @akiraryuu6335 5 років тому +15

    I find it so funny how the single best thing that they can say about the shirt is that it has a functional pocket 😂😂😂😂😂

  • @simongarrettmusic
    @simongarrettmusic 4 роки тому

    Illustration at 4.34 is wonderful - many others are too

  • @erictaylor5462
    @erictaylor5462 4 роки тому +55

    2:00 Well, the song does say, "We didn't start the fire"

    • @draconix4131
      @draconix4131 4 роки тому +3

      I like that song. Funny comment.

    • @epauletshark3793
      @epauletshark3793 4 роки тому +4

      It was always burnin since the world's bin turnin!

  • @failed_K
    @failed_K 5 років тому +262

    This Video gon be Lit

  • @billyalexander7210
    @billyalexander7210 5 років тому +6

    Could you do a video that talks about how we learned which plants are safe to eat? Did they just dare each other to try different fruits?

    • @tsm688
      @tsm688 2 роки тому +3

      One of their videos makes fun of the 'paleo diet' by pointing out we have found paleo skeletons deformed from eating weird things

  • @cadenrolland5250
    @cadenrolland5250 5 років тому +15

    The history of Fire!
    For a very long time our ancestors loved fire but couldn't create it. They likely tossed foods in a wildfire noting that it was a tasty treat and made some things more edible.
    Then someone came up with the idea of taking fire from the wildfires and cooking with it back at the homestead. A few burning branches near home made a fun, safe, and tasty food prep item.
    As time went on there were probably a lot of our ancestors that kept fires burning as long as they could, maybe even for years, but at some point they always went out.
    As the stone-age intensified and stone tools were being made regularly, there were likely places around the world where stone workers noticed that their sparks could start fires if around dried plants or fur. It was a happy circumstance, a gift from the spirits of nature, but it was fleeting.
    After many more centuries, they figured out how to create the circumstances of starting a fire themselves and began doing so regularly. The knowledge of fire starting was probably discovered, lost, and found again many times over the centuries.
    Still, some of those groups started keeping a tradition of knowing how to start fires, and over time nearly every group had this fire-starting knowledge. It was at this point in time, when cooked food could be a regular occurrence, that fire began to change the course of human evolution and human history forever!
    And over the millennia, no matter how many disasters were caused by fire, or how many people were killed by their precious fire, humans always rekindled the flame.

    • @xxXthekevXxx
      @xxXthekevXxx 5 років тому +1

      Even though your story is only speculation, I found it a fun read :)
      I wonder how close it actually was to this.

    • @cadenrolland5250
      @cadenrolland5250 5 років тому

      @@xxXthekevXxx Thanks I found it fun to write.

  • @Richuru20
    @Richuru20 11 місяців тому +2

    Big shoutout to our ancestors 🙌🙌

  • @pieterkern1668
    @pieterkern1668 3 роки тому +1

    I love this channel. I realy do in the deepest of my heart

  • @scoots8519
    @scoots8519 4 роки тому +3

    You mean the world isn't six thousand years old?? I am devastated.

  • @GageoftheJungle
    @GageoftheJungle 5 років тому +658

    how about when we tamed other animals im not gonna stop asking

    • @GageoftheJungle
      @GageoftheJungle 5 років тому +60

      @@TheBelrick excuse me what

    • @alonealien1474
      @alonealien1474 5 років тому +43

      @@GageoftheJungle Don't feed the troll(s).

    • @carissstewart3211
      @carissstewart3211 5 років тому +21

      @@TheBelrick What? If you mean nothing was domesticated in Africa, well there are cats, asses, and Guinea fowl. If you mean nothing was domesticated outside of Africa, there are horses, camels, and llamas.

    • @nolanwestrich2602
      @nolanwestrich2602 5 років тому +5

      I think they have already done a video on that, though more on specific instances of domestication would be great.

    • @NuncEstBibendumX
      @NuncEstBibendumX 5 років тому +5

      @@nolanwestrich2602 You mean like a video about the origins of our cattle? I thought they already had one about dogs

  • @sanders555
    @sanders555 5 років тому +69

    "Stoned Ape Theory"... I know it's not currently scientific, but dammit, it's a fascinating hypothesis.

    • @post-leftluddite
      @post-leftluddite 4 роки тому +19

      Hey, there's no doubt that mind altering substances had a profound affect on the evolution of our consciousness, and anyone who's taken a psychedelic wouldn't doubt that

    • @abstract5249
      @abstract5249 4 роки тому +9

      @@post-leftluddite I honestly wouldn't be surprised our prehistoric ancestors experienced mind altering substances. The chances of coming across some psychedelic mushrooms in the forest seem just as likely (if not more so) than intentionally walking up to a dangerous forest fire to harness it.

    • @hugonavakopp
      @hugonavakopp 3 роки тому +2

      Wow , I’d never heard of this theory , I’m just reading about it thanks to you . Thanks man !

    • @user-svqmbiv
      @user-svqmbiv 3 роки тому

      Just looked it up and while I definitely don't believe it, it's an interesting and kinda funny theory nonetheless.

    • @tsm688
      @tsm688 2 роки тому +1

      @@post-leftluddite That's not what "evolution" means, is the problem.

  • @torhildsvendsen9424
    @torhildsvendsen9424 Рік тому

    Der erfarer vi igjen hvor viktig det var for det tidligere mennesket være KREATIV

  • @salometsereteli6956
    @salometsereteli6956 4 роки тому +1

    Hi from republic of Georgia 🤗 thank you for this interesting video.

  • @fashionovawigs
    @fashionovawigs 5 років тому +242

    I don't know about you but I burned my foot on a hot coal on my 9th birthday and I don't feel like I tamed any type of fire

    • @kylethompson6837
      @kylethompson6837 5 років тому +7

      ...thank you for a person of reason. I don't think the WILDFIRES that burned parts of California TO ASHES for the past few years was aware "WE TAMED IT "....

    • @kylethompson6837
      @kylethompson6837 5 років тому +5

      ...maybe "WE " should inform it .

    • @fashionovawigs
      @fashionovawigs 5 років тому

      @@applebirds1nthefuture646 😔 I think I stomped the coal to death though

    • @fashionovawigs
      @fashionovawigs 5 років тому +4

      @@kylethompson6837 we can use fire but we'll never control it

    • @milmex317th
      @milmex317th 5 років тому

      Humans have mastered very little.

  • @cynthiatrail3971
    @cynthiatrail3971 5 років тому +9

    Awesome episode.
    I would like to learn more about the evolution of animals with radial symmetry.

    • @draconix4131
      @draconix4131 4 роки тому +1

      What would happen if a different animal evolve to be intelligent as us. It’s possible to happen even now, its just that humans are keeping them beck from becoming more intelligent.

  • @jamilam1980
    @jamilam1980 5 років тому +74

    Today, somebody would try to patent fire. 🔥

    • @walterbushell7029
      @walterbushell7029 4 роки тому +10

      Us corporations take tribal cultavated plants and patent them, without permission or payment. Next step is to sue the originators for using their patented plants.

    • @draconix4131
      @draconix4131 4 роки тому +5

      Couldn’t agree more.

    • @AbsoluteAbsurd
      @AbsoluteAbsurd 3 роки тому +1

      lmao we devolved so much

  • @esshor.
    @esshor. Рік тому +1

    Imagine how delicious that first roasted meal must’ve been to a creature who’d only ever eaten raw food up until that point

  • @myfisharmyisever-growing7393
    @myfisharmyisever-growing7393 4 роки тому +1

    There are so many excellent myths and stories about this pivotal moment. Ancient (like Prometheus), modern (like Starkid's Firebringer). I love how culture can combine the hopeful and the terrifying: hopeful, in that fire allows us the use of the night; terrifying, in that we put ourselves in the way of danger by bringing fire into our homes, and the long road from hunting and gathering to climate change is traveled in the name of progress by the many things we burn. What a symbol. Contemplating it is so cool.

  • @mm88deatmatch
    @mm88deatmatch 2 роки тому +9

    Me, a Boy Scout, mastered fire about 1.5 decades ago in the middleschoolerian period.

  • @jeffreyt903
    @jeffreyt903 5 років тому +3

    I think this channel is my favorite on UA-cam. Keep up the hard work!!!

  • @infinitemonkey917
    @infinitemonkey917 5 років тому +27

    I would like to see a vid on when the atlatyl first appeared.

  • @logank444
    @logank444 4 роки тому +1

    It's a beautiful thing to look back and think of my ancient ancestor sitting by a fire 1 million years ago

  • @flavio-viana-gomide
    @flavio-viana-gomide 5 років тому +4

    Science is hard to do, but it sparks a fire in my heart.

  • @MysticMindAnalysis
    @MysticMindAnalysis 5 років тому +15

    Drawn by quest for fire
    They searched all through the land
    Drawn by quest for fire.
    Discovery of man!
    \m/

    • @bramstedt8997
      @bramstedt8997 5 років тому +1

      Mystic Mind Analysis up the irons

  • @synonymous1079
    @synonymous1079 5 років тому +12

    All hail the mighty STEVE

  • @payton6213
    @payton6213 5 років тому +6

    Y'all should do a video on the difference between archaea and bacteria and how they diverged if we know anything.

  • @happycatginger
    @happycatginger Рік тому

    I've been a fan for quite a while.

  • @DeeRizz
    @DeeRizz Рік тому +2

    The person who invented fire probably felt so special

  • @Jesse__H
    @Jesse__H 5 років тому +6

    Am I to understand that this incredible channel has only FOUR top tier Patrons?
    That is a sad thing indeed, y'all deserve better.

    • @Jesse__H
      @Jesse__H 5 років тому +2

      @thanks Sure, I know that. But having more than one revenue stream is very common for most successful channels, and in the current climate, basically a requirement. I would have just expected more people to want to support Eons as patrons. I guess I shouldn't be too surprised, I'm subbed to NASA's official channel and they get like 50 upvotes per video despite being literally NASA lol 🙄

    • @kalisticmodiani2613
      @kalisticmodiani2613 5 років тому

      @@Jesse__H You can also blame UA-cam for promoting only certain types of videos.

  • @ramblinevilmushroom
    @ramblinevilmushroom 5 років тому +29

    i dunno what kind of sales psychology it speaks to, but telling me it has a functional pocket makes me actually want to buy it.

    • @dilaudid1
      @dilaudid1 5 років тому +2

      "Me too" says the easily impressed Home erectus

  • @himeros5527
    @himeros5527 5 років тому +13

    Please please please make a video of the evolution of bats. It would be so cool! I will never stop asking until you do :^)

    • @slipwaykitsune
      @slipwaykitsune 5 років тому +1

      That would be an awesome video! Hopefully they make one soon!

  • @Catseye189
    @Catseye189 2 роки тому

    Goosebumps! Great video, thank you.

  • @perneco123
    @perneco123 4 роки тому

    One of best Eons episodes. TY!

  • @Efemral
    @Efemral 5 років тому +6

    When you sit around a campfire and talk, and maybe make something with your hands, even just whittling, you can feel the deep human history in your bones. It works for everyone and is a special magical feeling that ties all humans together regardless of race.

    • @chriswarburtonbrown1566
      @chriswarburtonbrown1566 Рік тому

      Yeah I did exactly that last weekend and it was amazing how deep ( and hilarious) the conversation got very quickly. We ended up in a circle round the fire dancing the Time Warp. There's just something magical about fire for the human spirit.

  • @hououinkyouma5539
    @hououinkyouma5539 5 років тому +77

    We've tamed nearly everything but ourselves

    • @vl760
      @vl760 5 років тому

      Thats facts

    • @Jinx-iw6zb
      @Jinx-iw6zb 5 років тому

      Amen to that time traveling man

    • @neckreth
      @neckreth 5 років тому

      new evidence suggests tad we actually "domesticated" ourselves in the biological sense.

    • @neckreth
      @neckreth 5 років тому +4

      @Eriss R. sure, but that is not what I was getting at in terms of biological domestication. It has to do with physiological changes over time.

    • @post-leftluddite
      @post-leftluddite 4 роки тому

      That's not a bad thing, for instance, did you know that domesticated animals on average have approximately 25% smaller brains than their wild predecessors?

  • @aaronmarks9366
    @aaronmarks9366 5 років тому +8

    Can you do a video on the Dodo, the Rodrigues Solitaire, the Reunion Ibis, and other extinct giant birds of the Indian Ocean islands?

  • @gomezmario.f
    @gomezmario.f 5 років тому +1

    The Background Sound Effects adds more sense to the image.. Love It.

  • @rhondajules7647
    @rhondajules7647 3 роки тому +1

    Love love looooove this channel just subscribed ❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @coleshultz26
    @coleshultz26 5 років тому +6

    This video is 🔥🔥🔥

  • @ericingham9925
    @ericingham9925 4 роки тому +7

    How accurate could the wonderful film "Quest For Fire" be ?

  • @Feniso
    @Feniso 5 років тому +26

    I would like to know about the origins of art, including music, please. Thank you (:

    • @barbaravick5634
      @barbaravick5634 5 років тому +6

      Papageno
      Cave walls, drums, whistles/flutes, the human body (painted), animals (painted), I'm tired or I'd come up with more. We've been doing these things since we first had colours and a cave.

    • @mikshin9825
      @mikshin9825 4 роки тому

      This is not something paleonthologists deal with though. Maybe art historians.

    • @Feniso
      @Feniso 4 роки тому

      @@mikshin9825 Jewelry and flutes can be studied along tools. I don't care who does it.

    • @AdmiralBison
      @AdmiralBison 4 роки тому +1

      when one ancient human clubbed another ancient human on the head and it made surprisingly pleasant sound.
      Hence the drums made of human skulls.

    • @bellezavudd
      @bellezavudd 3 роки тому

      Music is everywhere in nature. Rain, thunder, ocean , rivers , birds, wind in the trees...
      Watch a small child ( one who hasnt succumbed to screen addiction) they will mimic the sounds around their world.

  • @olivierdeplanques708
    @olivierdeplanques708 Рік тому +1

    'Quest for Fire' is a very good movie , made in 1981

  • @tomz4332
    @tomz4332 4 роки тому +1

    I started playing Far Cry Primal few days ago and all of this got so interesting suddenly.. Good stuff

  • @WatermelonGems
    @WatermelonGems Рік тому +10

    thanks this series is teaching me what 12 grades of christian school didn’t 👍

  • @nicholasbrownlee4209
    @nicholasbrownlee4209 5 років тому +72

    Thank you for this fascinating video!
    I could say it's lit...but...ok I will anyway.
    :-)

    • @albertsetiawan1969
      @albertsetiawan1969 5 років тому

      Are you, by any chance, a relative to Marques Brownlee (MKBHD)? Lol

  • @madkoog11
    @madkoog11 5 років тому +7

    I would love to see you do a video on the evolution of venom as a defense mechanism in organisms

  • @Pazaluz
    @Pazaluz Рік тому +2

    First, he was afraid of the dark. But when he received his electricity bill, he became afraid of the light.

  • @iamchirantan2183
    @iamchirantan2183 Місяць тому

    It is a beautiful documentary