Whatever Happened to Homo erectus? - Science Talk
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- Опубликовано: 19 окт 2014
- Who’s your (ancient) daddy? Did he walk upright? Could he control fire? Did he have a brow ridge that wouldn’t quit?! Then maybe he was a Homo of the erectus - not so sapient - type. Many new Homo erectus specimens have been added to the global repository in the past decades, and many new interpretations have followed. It is more that most can easily digest. Come join professor Henry Gilbert, discoverer of the Daka Homo erectus cranium, to have the Pleistocene evidence of your ancestors’ evolutionary history explained.
WHO: Henry Gilbert, Assoc. Professor of Anthropology, CSU East Bay, and Researcher, Human Evolution Research Center, UC Berkeley
What a remarkably gifted and well-intentioned teacher.
Very interesting !
Multiple species living at the same time, even closely related ones, should be something important to consider rather than assuming that variation in one species accounts for all the differences in related looking fossils founds. This competition for resources between closely related species is what creates the selective pressure for advantages like the encephalization, frontal lobe abstraction and language skill; the ones that drove our species separation. Without the competition, which could just be environmental changes that create more stress on some but less on the advantaged, not necessarily direct competition or something as dramatic as warfare, there would be little else to drive the changes.
Really good talk! I like his use of scientific reasoning and usage of data.
Things were hard for H. erectus.
This was a great talk. I have always found this subject to be very difficult to grasp due to the huge number of sites and finds and putting them into some order seems to require a very fine mind, which this lecturer obviously has.
I feel like we need more fossils between habilis and erectus. There seems to be this very big leap between the ape-like habilis and rudolfensis type hominids that are not that far removed from Australopithecines to the very human-like erectus. Seems like there's got to be more in-between that.
Probably the best talk I've seen on the topic.
Very informative, very entertaining, excellent presentation... I like the way he summarizes the major trends in paleo-antropology critically.
Wow, Gilbert covers so much in this excellent presentation. Thanks for the video share too.
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This is a GREAT presentation. I've been watching a
Erectus interbred with Denisovans who mated with homo sapiens auustraloids have the genetics
love it when i learn somthing new from talks like this. ive never heard of squatting facets before
Love the open minded approach here!
Great talk. problems: The very earliest tool makers there were moving good rock at least 10 miles when the local rock was crap so five miles isn't likely to be the limit for He. The trouble with bifaced/acheulean tools is that many of them have deliberately dulled edges which knappers do to be able to control fracture better. The conclusion by one knipper is that most bifaces was pretty much being used as a core from which the maximum amount of sharp chips were removed. At Boxgroove England they thought hand axes were being made by design but they were also commonly being broken up to get more edge. Edges were studies on very early stone tools show they were used to cut plants such as tubers, wood, and process animals. He, Homo erectus, surely did at least that much. Did buy the book from Amazon but got the second handed one to save a lot of money.
EXCELLENT PRESENTATION...LOVED THE PACE AND THE FRANK AND CLEAR LANGUAGE...REAL EASY TO LISTEN TO AND UNDERSTAND FOR SOMEONE LIKE MYSELF WHO IS JUST LEARNING ABOUT EVOLTION AND NO SCIENCE BACKGROUND...THANK YOU!
I think Al Bundy did rather well on this talk.
It is truly odd how
I'm no expert,but it seems to me like controlling fire was about the biggest leap humans ever leaped