Fossil Hunting, Ancient DNA & Human Evolution | John Hawks |#10
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- Опубліковано 22 тра 2024
- Nick talks to paleoanthropologist John Hawks about the story of human evolution.
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0:00:00 Intro
0:02:15 Emergence of modern humans
0:07:10 Neanderthals & interbreeding
0:10:35 Studying ancient DNA
0:12:41 Genes from Neanderthals
0:17:29 What Neanderthals looked like
0:21:48 Human brain evolution
0:27:55 Evolution of human diet
0:34:56 Early stone tools
0:40:37 Evolution of social organization
0:43:18 Language evolution
0:49:55 Hunter gatherer group organization
0:54:16 Tool innovation over time
0:59:02 Mortality & early human burials
1:08:32 Shamanism
1:16:05 Beer-making & medicinal plants
1:21:44 Very recent human evolution
1:33:22 Rising Star Cave in South Africa
1:43:10 How many human species were there?
1:47:28 Interbreeding among ancient human species
1:53:58 Modern human + Neanderthal interactions
2:01:37 How John got into paleoanthropology
2:06:35 Upcoming discoveries
2:10:47 What it's like visiting an ancient human site
2:13:58 Best human evolution documentaries
2:17:59 How to follow John's work - Наука та технологія
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Thanks!
This was awesome. Thanks. I try to watch all the John hawks and Lee Berger I can. They are both brilliant.
Me too. I've been keeping an eye out for John Hawks and Lee Berger ever since they announced Naledi. They are both so interesting on the subject of human origins.
I as well! Fantastically interesting...
Hawks, Berger, Mathias Meyer and Chris Stringer are my faves om human origins. CARTA is also a great resource for curious ammeters.
One of the best podcasts about human evolution on yt
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Great interview. Intelligent questions and letting the expert speak without interruption. Rare but much appreciated.
seriously good interview. I hang out for John Hawks stuff ... this is probably the best I've heard.
LUV Prof. Hawks!
Wonderful time spent on my favorite topic. Thank you for your time and keeping us all in the loop of these fascinating discoveries. These talks are informative and better than reading newspapers, keeping with the times.
Such a great interview! John is obviously a font of knowledge on many subjects and you really drew out such interesting facts. 2 1/2 hours well spent.
Hawks is such a natural teacher. Thanks for the great content!
Awesome and very consistent throughout, congrats to both. Quite a performance considering the 2 and a half hours!
Learned alot !
The time just flew by hahaa.
Keep up the awesome work Nick!
These are some serious top quality podcasts 👌
Thank you! Really good one releases tomorrow (4/30) and upgrades will come throughout the year.
Thanks for this podcast! The subject matter was so interesting. I was locked in the whole time! This and the Hamilton one are my favorites so far.
What intrigues me is what the hybridisation of the two most complex structures known to us, our brains, would produce. Our genetic intermingling predates the cultural explosion of the upper palaeolithic by some 10 thousand years. I think there may be a connection.
Great talk. Great interview. Thank you
Really interesting talk. Thank you.
good stuff
This was fantastic. Thank you for making this. You've earned a sub and a like. Looking forward to more of your work.
Great interview
Great Interview and discussion !
Hawks is especially great for lay people. Explains the evidence in clear terms. He's been a great "co spokesman" with Berger for the Rising Star work. The fusion of the bones and stones guys with the geneticists has been particularly enlightening, but best explained by Hawks, Berger, Stringer.....
Read Neil Shubin - Some Assembly Required. or his youtube videos. He is really good too.
What are brain sizes proportional to body sizes?
Where can a guy or gal have a look at the full genome sequence of this v!rus that is referred to in the beginning. Thanks! And awesome show, been searching hard for some fresh content on these subjects.
Seems ominous that only one species is left in the hominem clade. What are examples of other single species phenotypes?
One thing I read about “homo naledi” is that that group appeared to have been dumping the dead bodies of their group as a protective measure from outside elements. It is easy to assume some form of predation by a possible another hominid group?
That gets covered in my conversation with Lee Berger: ua-cam.com/video/wzDvAWVJaMY/v-deo.html
Best podcast I ever heard! I've avoided podcasts, often just ppl gabbing, but this was really good. I watch YT via Roku on my TV, but this was worth getting on the PC simply to say how great it was! Question: I am a Rocker so know some kinky ppl. Does John think any of our long-standing gender roles (rape especially) date from the Neandertal era?
Rape is not a "gender role"
Too bad you didn't talk with him about the influence of S2A receptor agonists upon ewrly humans brain development.
I have worked way out in the middle of no where on MOUNTAINS, why do some of the Backward people that are not in contact with the outside world have web Fingers and some even have six Fingers and six toes, I have talked to some of them after we had been there for a while, they are proud of it, they seem to be real Honest, but it takes a while to be able to talk to them. They have no Electricity or running water , but they have hand Doug wells, and mules and wagons, and plows, they seem to make it just fine. Just thought I would ask. Thanks.
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'Cognitive Trade off' and 'expensive tissues' hypothesis may well suit the understanding of the remarkable differences exhibited with H neanderthalensis morphology. Neanderthals were similar to H sapiens in terms of being relatively closely related fellow Hominins, but the remarkable differences are distinctive.
Larger eyes, differently formed inner ear (bones), projecting midface and huge sinus (basal primate, similar to Bodo skull) together with overall cranial robusticity is far different and well outside the range of extent populations of H sapiens.
Neanderthals were not simply stocky nor did they resemble Eskimos or any other extent populations of humans anywhere.
The similarities are largely based around overall stature and height, however the heavy bones of the post cranial anatomy are not similar when inspected closely and/or even if in the same room and not being handled.
From a distance and camouflaged in clothes the differences may go undetected, but otherwise i see the Neanderthals as far more impressive and remarkable for their differences and divergences.
Different head and neck, spine, ribs cage (bell shaped, another primate basal trait), distinctly different pelvis, shoulder and limb bone morphology including a more archaic and robust thumb and hand morphology (same as with the distal long bones etc).
I think lectures and discussions regarding the distinct differences between H neanderthalensis and H sapiens would be interesting perspective and much is skipped over and left out of the discussion and topic at large. The unique bone structures, huge eyes, mid face snout like projection and huge sinus (see turbo breathing theory) and recent studies regarding H neanderthalensis rib cage and spine/pelvis alignment and hand/thumb morphology. Remarkable stuff. Aside from Brain size it doesnt seem that Neanderthals were anymore similar to us physically than was Bodo, Kabwe or Turkana skeletons.
The Neanderthals had larger brains and so therefore they must be one of us? Hybrid offspring and associated complications evident in the genomes also argue against assertions of 'same species', a closely related Hominin, but different species at time of mergers that resulted in hybrid offspring, with chromosomal complications and compromises common to hybrid offspring.
I think its amazing and H neanderthalensis and other archaic extinct forms that were once contemporary with our species must have been spectacular and unlike anything any of us has ever seen. Thats what i bet, thanks for reading.
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Supplimental:
www.researchgate.net/publication/284729873_The_false_dichotomy_A_refutation_of_the_Neandertal_indistinguishability_claim
Is star cave used continuously or occasionally? Are the bodies related? Is this successive generations using this cave or random groups occasionally using the cave? Are all the bodies from the same time?✌️❤️🇬🇧
Cave art is tourist information, a warning of dangerous animals, a recommendation of which animals are good to hunt, landscape maps of the local area and plant life suggestions, useful for migratory people passing through, an aid to nearby friendly tribes on the move, a sign of awareness to help the community on a larger scale people beyond the horizon who you may not have met yet, this is the purpose of cave art, prehistory google ✌️❤️🇬🇧
Good interview. John Hawk sticks to the science and when he does speculate, it is clear that it is educated guessing. Too bad Lee Berger fell off the deep end into pseudoscience.
The gap between primates and today’s humans is not as big as people think, basic tools and walking upright is present in primates, so is basic language and a social order and working together as a group. Only cooking is a new activity from the tree dwellers to the hairy ground walkers. Take off the hair and give them some new habits on the ground and the difference is minimal. The mind is the great difference.✌️❤️🇬🇧
With so much diversity among primates and hominids and various levels of mental capacity and behaviour it was impossible to know immediately what people’s abilities were, add to this constant steady migration from continents and people moving with animal herds you were bumping into all sorts of primates and hominids all the time, hard to know who is compatible and who has similar abilities and who is a killer psychopath, wide variety breeding with wide variety gave us all massive genetic complexity and diversity, remember no rules no police, kill to eat fornicate to maintain the future population, straight uninterrupted lineages don’t exist, everyone has some of ape and monkey in their genetic heritage and various hominids. Shared caves shared genetic material. The world was a hominid wildlife park for a long time 100’000’s of years ago. Convergence into one species was the result ✌️❤️🇬🇧