Homo Erectus - The First Humans

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  • Опубликовано: 31 окт 2024

Комментарии • 7 тыс.

  • @StefanMilo
    @StefanMilo  3 года назад +458

    Made a follow up video on whether hand axes were made to seduce partners. Check it out.
    ruclips.net/video/0UnJIf_WTQs/видео.html

    • @ShadowVXMaster
      @ShadowVXMaster 3 года назад +9

      ayo me monke

    • @yaelhart9206
      @yaelhart9206 3 года назад +7

      There is so much potential for comment just in your choice of symbols. Food for thought.

    • @randallridnour8954
      @randallridnour8954 3 года назад +1

      That's not an axe, THIS..... is an axe. phys.org/news/2009-09-giant-stone-age-axes-african-lake.html

    • @kvarnerinfoTV
      @kvarnerinfoTV 3 года назад +1

      As we invented term "humans" so it is defined by what we put in that box.

    • @rangerg7278
      @rangerg7278 3 года назад +1

      Stefan, hello!
      For a fellow educator that I consider a layman anthropologist ( no insult intended ) I think you do pretty well, but are a more humane or 'generous' person than are most of us. I see chimpanzees or bonobos and I see "us", so I get it. I sometimes see us in red foxes playing fox games. Many or most people ( or homo sapiens ) who saw any other homo species probably would have screamed "monster!" and killed them for looking different than themselves. We, or at least half of us, give or take, are still that way. Keep your generosity. We may need it to survive.

  • @Prrocess
    @Prrocess 3 года назад +7264

    It really fascinates me to imagine that for 2 million years, there was another species of intelligent human beings struggling to survive on a very different Earth. They had real thoughts, dreams at night, aspirations and emotional connections, relationships. What was their life like? So many untold stories man, I wish time travel was possible. Just to observe our ancestors

    • @CAMSLAYER13
      @CAMSLAYER13 3 года назад +405

      It was probably a lot like isolated tribes you find in say Africa or the Amazon

    • @shaelisenberg8533
      @shaelisenberg8533 3 года назад +951

      Buying a home was probably way cheaper tho

    • @Ziggerath
      @Ziggerath 3 года назад +146

      One of the first things we did as a species was killout all other intelligent life until it was just humans lol

    • @Prrocess
      @Prrocess 3 года назад +559

      @@Ziggerath Not really. Genetic evidence indicates that we interbred with most, if not all other human species

    • @Ziggerath
      @Ziggerath 3 года назад +20

      @@Prrocess they still got killed off overall

  • @TheHistocrat
    @TheHistocrat 3 года назад +5682

    Never been so excited to see some Erectus.

    • @jasonjohinke5651
      @jasonjohinke5651 3 года назад +329

      Liar

    • @histotrash4449
      @histotrash4449 3 года назад +141

      @@jasonjohinke5651 what can I say, I was young

    • @SuperManning11
      @SuperManning11 3 года назад +98

      Who says History isn’t sexy?!

    • @willek1335
      @willek1335 3 года назад +79

      Homo erectus

    • @usernamesrlamo
      @usernamesrlamo 3 года назад +14

      Is that THE Histrocrat?! You do some premium historical/anthropology documentaries yourself. Love that channel!

  • @grahamsteele7907
    @grahamsteele7907 3 года назад +5112

    Love how these guys made tools, migrated thousands of miles, and survived nearly 2 million years all to be named “Homo erectus”

  • @lip4159
    @lip4159 Год назад +701

    the whole video built up to the end where he giggles after saying “there is a little erectus in all of us” literally my fav part of the whole video😭

    • @trebor3731
      @trebor3731 Год назад +29

      Why is nobody talking about this 💀

    • @StaryzHelios
      @StaryzHelios Год назад

      Homo Erectus is NOT The First Humans (homo sepians)
      Homo Erectus is DIFFERENT species that have no intelletual
      Homo Sepians have intellectual

    • @justsomeguy335
      @justsomeguy335 Год назад

      There is a little erectus 🤏 lmao

    • @abelhapedras
      @abelhapedras Год назад +46

      "little erectus" new nickname for my boyfriend

    • @CaptainUnikitty
      @CaptainUnikitty 11 месяцев назад +2

      Same!

  • @piland9167
    @piland9167 3 года назад +536

    Did anyone walk by when you were sitting in the snow, talking to a camera, holding a spoon and waving a skull around?

    • @StefanMilo
      @StefanMilo  3 года назад +286

      Nah that’s my worst nightmare. I go pretty deep in the woods to avoid it.

    • @Thor-Orion
      @Thor-Orion 3 года назад +167

      @@StefanMilo i’m pretty sure my worst nightmare is coming across someone doing something similar.

    • @kelleren4840
      @kelleren4840 3 года назад +10

      @@Thor-Orion🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @derekk.2263
      @derekk.2263 3 года назад +15

      Talking about erections too.

    • @dylanthompson869
      @dylanthompson869 3 года назад +3

      @Greg Artley was that just to flex you can run a mile in 7 mins

  • @sophitsa79
    @sophitsa79 2 года назад +452

    Before this video I watched a 1 hr lecture On the same topic. In 25 minutes you covered basically all the same areas and did it in a highly accessible way. There is a great talent in that

    • @cyberblock7619
      @cyberblock7619 Год назад +3

      The best book on this subject is called "Erectus walks among us"

  • @KhAnubis
    @KhAnubis 3 года назад +970

    Geez, leave some documentary-style quality for the rest of us!

    • @StefanMilo
      @StefanMilo  3 года назад +160

      No can do. I’m going to be the last documentarian standing.

    • @joshadams8761
      @joshadams8761 3 года назад +10

      The next Ken Burns!

    • @rustyspurs771
      @rustyspurs771 3 года назад +6

      (points at the documentary-style quality and shakes his head in the negative repeatedly)

    • @animavideography1379
      @animavideography1379 3 года назад +9

      @@StefanMilo no better man here Stefan. You de fossil hominin man!

    • @Mynameismyumame
      @Mynameismyumame 3 года назад

      DARE

  • @AlanRobson_
    @AlanRobson_ Год назад +152

    I´m a brazilian guy and your channel is being a wonderful find for me. Because here in Brazil the lack of the tipe of content is considerable. Paleoanthropology open a new world in my field of interess. Congratulation for your work here.

    • @AlanRobson_
      @AlanRobson_ Год назад +2

      @@pollyanne234 I didn't understand exactly what you meant. but if it was in a jocular tone it failed.

    • @StaryzHelios
      @StaryzHelios Год назад

      Homo Erectus is NOT The First Humans (homo sepians)
      Homo Erectus is DIFFERENT species that have no intelletual
      Homo Sepians have intellectual

    • @Just.A.T-Rex
      @Just.A.T-Rex 8 месяцев назад

      Work in the Amazon! So many lost cities that can be found with LiDAR

    • @nkjsl791
      @nkjsl791 Месяц назад

      i love your vocabulary

  • @D-me-dream-smp
    @D-me-dream-smp 3 года назад +442

    Your “story telling” abilities are wonderful. No fancy effects or irrelevant stock footage just fascinating information in an easy to understand format. Thank you for sharing your big brain with us (and the adorable assistant who provided us with demonstrations of early communication)

    • @justinbone4238
      @justinbone4238 2 года назад +5

      He has a great voice for narrating the story.

    • @driedpancake
      @driedpancake 2 года назад +6

      theres plenty of irrelevant stock footage lol

    • @michael7324
      @michael7324 2 года назад +1

      Drives me crazy when people put in unrelated B roll shots of thi gs that have no relevance to the video.

    • @harshbutfair8993
      @harshbutfair8993 Год назад +1

      I think his story telling abilities are wonderful, BUT there are stock footages, and background music throughout the video. It does my head in when documentary style videos do this, actually any non music videos for that matter. I can't watch docu vids who do this., I wish Stefan didn't do this, because otherwise enjoy his channel.

    • @AndrewCavaletto
      @AndrewCavaletto Год назад +1

      ​@@harshbutfair8993 cringe take

  • @saratemp790
    @saratemp790 3 года назад +444

    I also like the "boiling water" theory of food. This ties back to my earlier theory, that early man developed, not with spears, but with 'baskets'. Some early monkey humanoid figured out you can carry more bird eggs, if you carry the whole nest down, with the eggs in them. So they figured out how to use containers. This use of containers led to us humanoids walking upright, so we would carry our baskets.

    • @Craig_Black
      @Craig_Black 3 года назад +38

      I like the way you think

    • @psihostrumpf6233
      @psihostrumpf6233 2 года назад +62

      I like your theory, never heard something like that. However, i'm more prone to believe that upright walk had to do with predators. Descending from trees and into high grass and bushes it would be a great advantage to be able to see further than your natural height. Especially while spreading into new territories, where you would much more often have to check what roams around you. And with stereo vision it would be a game changer... such containers could be easily carried in our mouth when climbing down the tree and they wouldn't need to go that far to collect eggs and berries as they would to follow and hunt down the prey. Convenience of basket seems lesser of incentive for such endeavor, than it is to timely defend yourself or ambush a prey with your tools. Keep thinking, it seems like you do it well. And who knows after all, maybe you are absolutely right.

    • @catpoke9557
      @catpoke9557 2 года назад +22

      @@psihostrumpf6233 It was probably a mix of many things. Baskets and predators both call for upright walking, and so that's what happened.

    • @TheMudwatcher
      @TheMudwatcher 2 года назад +10

      I like your thinking. Most people seem pretty good at making twine, ropes, cordage, and basketry is a very useful skill. Most people had no metal or means of cooking over fire. In my part of the world -the Pacific - cooking was steamed in parcels wrapped in leaves or woven baskets, buried with preheated stones .I think the upright posture originally provided a far better view of what was going on, providing more time to grab one of the kids and get out of trouble .and only much later was two legs a stamina advantage. In a sprint to a tree and climb, chimps are twice as quick.

    • @ahklys1321
      @ahklys1321 2 года назад +5

      Hmm, a basket case.

  • @aresgardner
    @aresgardner 3 года назад +426

    I love how as we learn about our ancestors and evolutionary cousins we’re beginning to view them with more respect and insight. Love what you do, Stefan! Shout out from Oregon!

    • @HendrikTheThird
      @HendrikTheThird 3 года назад +16

      @@nickadm8321 No.

    • @XAVIERCUERVO
      @XAVIERCUERVO 3 года назад +1

      another lazy erectus here

    • @blazeedge1631
      @blazeedge1631 3 года назад +19

      @@nickadm8321 Well for starters, learn what a monkey is

    • @Thor-Orion
      @Thor-Orion 3 года назад +6

      @@blazeedge1631 well he’s not entirely wrong though. Apes evolved from monkeys with tails. It was just way longer ago.

    • @seal9390
      @seal9390 3 года назад

      Their is no evidence

  • @cottonwoodslim3497
    @cottonwoodslim3497 Год назад +67

    I just discovered Stefan and his videos today. His sense of humor, frequent charges of locations, and talking into a spoon spices up what could be a dry presentation of a fascinating subject. Great job!

  • @kostja789
    @kostja789 3 года назад +295

    I love that you still have your spoon on the microphone

    • @RhodeIslandWildlife
      @RhodeIslandWildlife 3 года назад +9

      The segment with him in the snow, waving around a skull with the spoon pasted to his mic was epic.
      What must innocent pedestrians must have thought stumbling across that scene?

    • @jsheridan693
      @jsheridan693 3 года назад +22

      I believe that the microphone is on the spoon, which points out the question "Which came first, the microphone or the spoon?"

    • @papal1ef
      @papal1ef 3 года назад +2

      @@jsheridan693 the spoon :)

    • @daveputnam5809
      @daveputnam5809 3 года назад +2

      @@papal1ef it was, in fact, The Tick

    • @Gorboduc
      @Gorboduc 3 года назад +15

      The spoon is probably a religious ritual of some kind.

  • @comatose1818
    @comatose1818 3 года назад +141

    the part where he showed the inscribed seashell in Java made me tear up, it's something so human to carve your mark into something, almost everytime I go for a walk in the wods I find a stick or a rock that grabs my attention and makes me wanna carve it, it's so humbling to see how the seeds of our existence date so far back in time, how even our most distant cousins were in a way human just like us would be, curious, inventive, kind and resourceful.

    • @StonedtotheBones13
      @StonedtotheBones13 2 года назад +9

      Graffiti, graffiti everywhere would certainly agree with you

    • @nicoleKerry23
      @nicoleKerry23 2 года назад +11

      I think it's very human to interact with our environment, such as making marks or arrange nature in an artistic way (I like to make structures with twigs). It's a comforting thought that someone will see those twigs arranged in such a way, and think "another person did this".

    • @beatjuiceworldwide1560
      @beatjuiceworldwide1560 2 года назад +3

      I found an arrowhead in my front yard that was so old it didn’t have the tool marks on it anymore. They were all worn off. I used to find pottery too. I lost that damn arrowhead.

  • @TylerMcKinney
    @TylerMcKinney 3 года назад +1809

    We've evolved more in terms of technology in 80 years than our entire species has in millions of years. Wild.

    • @organicfarm5524
      @organicfarm5524 3 года назад +114

      So much of untold stories in between..... Crazy

    • @catlarry
      @catlarry 3 года назад +123

      ...or devolved depending on how you wish to look at it.

    • @levidestin6783
      @levidestin6783 3 года назад +225

      @@catlarry boomer

    • @kolticc
      @kolticc 3 года назад +74

      @@catlarry ok boomer 😐

    • @wally2597
      @wally2597 3 года назад

      more like 1 year

  • @kadanker
    @kadanker 5 месяцев назад +13

    i love videos like these because they’re not overstimulating and they are SO good as background noise when youre doing something

  • @larryparis925
    @larryparis925 3 года назад +130

    Having watched a number of Stefan's videos, I have to say this is one of his best. Not only the science, but the way the science is communicated. Excellent. Louis Leakey and Carl Sagan would be proud.

    • @StefanMilo
      @StefanMilo  3 года назад +20

      That’s too kind by far, but I’m glad you enjoyed it. I’m always trying to improve my craft.

    • @gnosticelk8193
      @gnosticelk8193 2 года назад +1

      @@StefanMilo the picture of a face you drew on the notepad looks remarkably like the coach in the adult swim series, home movies

  • @patriciaclay.2683
    @patriciaclay.2683 2 года назад +257

    During the 1950s I was a Patrol Officer with the Australian Administration in Papua New Guinea. I used to patrol the villages built along the Turama River. There were also villages in the pinnacle limestone eastern interior which I also visited. On the way to these villages I walked past a number of huge caves. I have often wondered since if anyone has done any digging in these caves as I am sure people would have lived in them.

    • @pollyanne234
      @pollyanne234 Год назад

      There could be a few homos in them or even an erectus

    • @cyberblock7619
      @cyberblock7619 Год назад +1

      ​@@dr2599The best book on this subject is called "Erectus walks among us"

    • @arthurdewith7608
      @arthurdewith7608 Год назад

      @@cyberblock7619 well I hope he covers up its a very sensitive area

    • @colbyr7811
      @colbyr7811 6 месяцев назад

      Damn shawty you old as hell

  • @DoctorProfessorPablo
    @DoctorProfessorPablo 3 года назад +581

    Since a young child, I've had this fantasy that I somehow got access to a time machine. Somehow it didn't affect the environment, it was as if I wasn't there. Made for the perfect observatory of our ancient past.
    And sadly it's only science fiction!

    • @adarshtiwari2727
      @adarshtiwari2727 3 года назад +37

      Damn! .....i had the exact same fantasy!.....i still fantasize about this sometimes lol

    • @bigred8438
      @bigred8438 3 года назад +1

      Snap.

    • @bigred8438
      @bigred8438 3 года назад +13

      Would it not be strange to think that astral travel was true and we have gone back and made observations in our sleep like creepy spirits hanging around.

    • @joecraven2712
      @joecraven2712 3 года назад +12

      @@bigred8438 Yes that would be strange. Because it’s entering the realm of silly spiritual nonsense.

    • @Ray-lw2rh
      @Ray-lw2rh 3 года назад

      Same!

  • @commentingaccount1383
    @commentingaccount1383 Год назад +18

    Im honestly astounded that an anthropology channel has so many subscribers. Well, you deserve it!

  • @DavidBrocekArt
    @DavidBrocekArt 3 года назад +2250

    Adult me: "This is such a great documentary."
    That 13 yo me still living in the back of my head: "Hehe, Early Homo."

    • @DavidBrocekArt
      @DavidBrocekArt 3 года назад +29

      @Mickey Last Yeah, I guess no one's perfect

    • @insaneyogurt4993
      @insaneyogurt4993 3 года назад +64

      You are kicked from the mickey mouse club

    • @yuibkys3522
      @yuibkys3522 3 года назад +38

      @Mickey Last you know whats sad? replying to youtube comments instead of doing something useful with your day

    • @brute6436
      @brute6436 3 года назад +2

      Lol

    • @averageminecraftenjoyer9419
      @averageminecraftenjoyer9419 3 года назад +52

      Erectus 😏

  • @StefanMilo
    @StefanMilo  3 года назад +245

    Hey everyone! With every video I make, there’s always stuff that has to be left out, just for the sake of time. This is especially the case with homo erectus who lived for so long and was so crucial to our development.
    Stay tuned for some bonus vids including extra detail about the handaxes because there’s a lot of debate around those.
    Thanks for watching!

    • @mireillelebeau2513
      @mireillelebeau2513 3 года назад +6

      Thanks for posting.

    • @abiku2923
      @abiku2923 3 года назад +6

      Where do you buy your plastic skulls?

    • @StefanMilo
      @StefanMilo  3 года назад +10

      Bone clones

    • @dustydesert1674
      @dustydesert1674 3 года назад +11

      Stone tools dating to 2.12 million years ago have been found in China recently.

    • @StefanMilo
      @StefanMilo  3 года назад +9

      Wow that’s crazy, I have to check that out

  • @thegreatestshenfan6484
    @thegreatestshenfan6484 3 года назад +663

    I thought Homo Erectus was a spell that wizards could use on men to make their "Wands" go up

    • @DavoidJohnson
      @DavoidJohnson 3 года назад +87

      Now that's the Harry Potter film they did not make.

    • @thegreatestshenfan6484
      @thegreatestshenfan6484 3 года назад +23

      @@DavoidJohnson I'm sure thay did somewhere

    • @ant7699
      @ant7699 3 года назад

      I was like... Wait.. What? Is that a video? Like. Wtf man. Its that a freaking video son? Like wtf man... Wh at th r f u ck man. Is that like a video or something man.. Is that like like like a video man..or what? Like.. Wtf man. Hello.... Anyone there man. L. I. K. E wtf mon.. Helooooo???

    • @thegreatestshenfan6484
      @thegreatestshenfan6484 3 года назад +9

      @@ant7699 Sharted, I farted, I just turned gay. Prince phillip's balls be BC

    • @fomalhauto
      @fomalhauto 3 года назад

      nope
      I learned about Homo Erectus as an archaic hominid species back in jr high school in 1980s

  • @dannydevito5729
    @dannydevito5729 Год назад +12

    I've been binging all of your videos and I'm really impressed by your ability to talk about such a complicated subject for a half hour and you don't say "uh" 1,000 times

    • @gjeraldh2989
      @gjeraldh2989 Год назад +3

      It’s literally the bare minimum given that this is not a single take.

    • @SD-os2ym
      @SD-os2ym 2 месяца назад

      And you thankfully don't use "like" every sentence either! ❤

  • @DynamicAlex
    @DynamicAlex 2 года назад +110

    Dude, you are so natural at spreading your passion around, and you make it feel it so light, that seeing your videos is not just knowledge, but a pleasure and entertainment...

  • @mrandrew481
    @mrandrew481 3 года назад +76

    For me, all these chaps and chapettes are like family, I wish I could know more about them, even meet them, and it makes me sad knowing that I won't

    • @RedDragon91
      @RedDragon91 3 года назад +17

      My wife thinks I'm crazy for this but I genuinely feel sad when I think about the future and everything I won't know or see because I'll be gone. I almost mourn what I will never learn because it will be figured out after my time. It feels like a great loss.

    • @PCFND
      @PCFND 3 года назад

      I don't relate...so I'm gonna be ignorant and say that sounds stupid, both of you 😂

    • @ianrandall482
      @ianrandall482 3 года назад +2

      if you know any white people, you probably know someone that is a hybrid of Neanderthal and Cro Magnon. If you know anyone from SE Asia or Australasia, then you know someone that is a cross between Cro Magnon and Denesivians. Just say Hi, we are still here.

    • @bigalsnow8199
      @bigalsnow8199 3 года назад

      @@ianrandall482 If you know any sub Sahara Africans you probably know someone who is among the only pure homo sapians left. Don't genocide them or you'll wipe out yet Another human species .

    • @dodgecrockett3474
      @dodgecrockett3474 3 года назад +3

      @@bigalsnow8199, well since you asked nicely, I'll cancel the slaughter that I'd planned.

  • @hectoraarlott
    @hectoraarlott 3 года назад +258

    ahh Home Erectus. the most hilarious science name next to Uranus

    • @coalkingryan881
      @coalkingryan881 3 года назад +61

      Unfortunately the Homo Erectus couldn’t land on Uranus due to them disappearing before the deed could be done.

    • @ThehoodieGuy.
      @ThehoodieGuy. 3 года назад +1

      @@coalkingryan881 lmfao I'm cryinggg🤣🤣

    • @clementnade972
      @clementnade972 3 года назад +14

      God created Adam and Eve, not Erectus in Uranus.

    • @cakapcakep241
      @cakapcakep241 3 года назад +1

      Homo Erectus. Homo means G*y and Erectus means er*ection. So Homo Erectus means a g*y who had an er***tion.

    • @sitdown3991
      @sitdown3991 3 года назад +1

      @@cakapcakep241 it’s not tik tok you can say the whole thing

  • @lilykatmoon4508
    @lilykatmoon4508 10 месяцев назад +3

    The complicated story of how we became to be is of endless fascination to me. Earlier today I watched a video by PBS Eons in fermentation and in this video they hypothesized that perhaps Homo Erectus had discovered the benefits of fermentation in food to aid in digestion since we don’t have any real evidence that they cooked their food in a regular basis. This would have allowed for the better diet that aided in our evolution. Like you, I think that the sophisticated tools they made and their ability to successfully spread across the globe suggests some rudimentary ability for purposeful communication not to mention the rudimentary art they produced. Fascinating video!

  • @romz1
    @romz1 3 года назад +321

    These guys hunted, survived the elements while struggling to survive at times, where im here sat on the sofa eating a bowl of cereal that someone made and packaged for me. Whos more 'human' ? 🤔

    • @kinglyzard
      @kinglyzard 3 года назад +5

      Exactly the same here! Lol

    • @norlanderduwallis9074
      @norlanderduwallis9074 3 года назад +56

      Neither, cause I haven't met either of you. Therefore you are a figment of my imagination, as am I to you.

    • @olliecherpuzi5045
      @olliecherpuzi5045 3 года назад +32

      We’re equally human we just collectively figured it out and through collaboration. We created supply chains and massive farms that give us both a high quality of life and leisure time.

    • @ThouArtOfWar0724
      @ThouArtOfWar0724 3 года назад +24

      Being lazy doesn't make you less human. It just makes a liability because you can do all the same things they could. You just choose not to.

    • @csatacsibe
      @csatacsibe 3 года назад +6

      Your question was about whos more 'animal'.

  • @shadowphoenix8962
    @shadowphoenix8962 3 года назад +180

    On the subject of language,babies easily pickup gestures. So it's not hard to believe the first languages were non verbal and that fired the nerves to create verbal language.

    • @tortron
      @tortron 3 года назад +9

      my dog follows hand gestures better than spoken commands, so its not a stretch

    • @KRYMauL
      @KRYMauL 3 года назад +19

      Chimps and other great apes can learn sign language, so I wouldn't put it pass the Hominds to develop sign language on their own.

    • @thedwightguy
      @thedwightguy 3 года назад +29

      My son caught up with his Japanese cousin and since neither spoke each others language, as TODDLERS, they simply started inventing their own language. Grandparents were puzzled.

    • @ianrandall482
      @ianrandall482 3 года назад +13

      Babies are smarter than anyone thinks, spend enough time around the little ones, and you understand that they have, we had, a way of communicating that is not totally verbal. Yes they can laugh, cry and make coo noises, but there is so much more than that.

    • @KRYMauL
      @KRYMauL 3 года назад +2

      @@ianrandall482 Babies are as smart as most animals.

  • @mothlightmedia1936
    @mothlightmedia1936 3 года назад +542

    Great Video!

    • @swagilyph
      @swagilyph 3 года назад +44

      me seeing that one guy I watch comment on that other guy I watch

    • @foxhound963
      @foxhound963 3 года назад +4

      I he was on the last video I watched too.

    • @StefanMilo
      @StefanMilo  3 года назад +43

      Thanks man! I’m just trying to keep up with you.

    • @listentome2648
      @listentome2648 3 года назад +3

      @@swagilyph so true!!! I can relate to this :'D

    • @andrewmantle7627
      @andrewmantle7627 3 года назад +3

      Hear hear.

  • @TheRealestBubby
    @TheRealestBubby Месяц назад +6

    Oh to be a 7 year old son of a group leader 1.5 million years ago. early in the morning, you’re making your way through the dew and grass to potty outside of the cave, you hear a yell followed by 3 short yells, the hunting party has returned, father and the others appear through the thick morning fog hauling a blood covered 60ft long titanaboa, 9 of them left in early dawn, 6 return, you walk by them feeling the sadness in the air, but decide to help by carrying the tail end of the beast, your father looks back at you and grunts proudly, at least you all know dinner will be good tonight.

  • @user-pt6uu4ry2g
    @user-pt6uu4ry2g 3 года назад +409

    I love that the first humans were named “homo” and “erectus”

    • @kerenhumphreys43
      @kerenhumphreys43 2 года назад +10

      Joey and Rachel laughed at homo erectus 🤣

    • @Julian-qs8xq
      @Julian-qs8xq 2 года назад +12

      Haha well we are still named homo to this day

    • @Bruh-oy7wh
      @Bruh-oy7wh 2 года назад +14

      @@thatpandaz6094 why is the sapien homo😆😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😆🤣😆🤣😆😆😆😆😆😂🤭😹😆😂😹😆😆😆😂🤣😂🤣🤣😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😆🤣😆🤣😆😆😆😆😆😂🤭😹😆😂😹😆😆😆😂🤣😂🤣🤣😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😆🤣😆🤣😆😆😆😆😆😂🤭😹😆😂😹😆😆😆😂🤣😂🤣🤣😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😆🤣😆🤣😆😆😆😆😆😂🤭😹😆😂😹😆😆😆😂🤣😂🤣🤣😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @pollyanne234
      @pollyanne234 Год назад +11

      It was the erectus bit that got me.

    • @flatearthgodsarenotreal
      @flatearthgodsarenotreal Год назад +7

      I'm a homoerectus also 😭 it's always up

  • @jackieroberts6316
    @jackieroberts6316 3 года назад +68

    How can anyone not think the hand axe is art!

    • @StefanMilo
      @StefanMilo  3 года назад +31

      Very true, that attention to detail certainly suggests an interest in form and symmetry. Wish I’d said that in the video, next time

    • @terraflow__bryanburdo4547
      @terraflow__bryanburdo4547 3 года назад +7

      I think there are some that think that some of the bigger ones are ceremonial/decorative.

    • @chairde
      @chairde 3 года назад +1

      Art is symbolic isn’t it. An axe is a tool. The decorations on the axe may be art though.

    • @lucidd4103
      @lucidd4103 3 года назад +2

      @@chairde Study a bit more flintknapping and then you'd get a better idea. Making the axe the way it is need some kind of artistic sense. The symmetry alone is a testament to this, but the evolution of flintknapping is a proof of it.

    • @chairde
      @chairde 3 года назад +2

      @@lucidd4103 Yes, a good point. The man must have a vision in his head.

  • @mstalcup
    @mstalcup 3 года назад +149

    Acheulean hand axes are so complex I don't see how H. erectus could have passed on skills like that without using language.

    • @555Trout
      @555Trout 3 года назад +32

      I think some experiments were done trying to teach it without language. As I recall it was possible . But of course that was with a sapien brain.
      Though I tend to agree with your premise.

    • @StefanMilo
      @StefanMilo  3 года назад +53

      I agree to be honest

    • @onahilltopsatthemoon
      @onahilltopsatthemoon 3 года назад +57

      We're so reliant on language today so it's easy for us to overestimate the need of it to accomplish things. As someone mentioned before there was an experiment on passing a skill nonverbally, but with human brain "replacements". What if erectus was a master visual learner compared top us?
      This is not so far-fetched, average chimp today "destroys" average human in photographic memory experiments. Humans eventually gained a language ability but it's harder to account for millions years old things we've lost on our way there.

    • @STALKER1918
      @STALKER1918 3 года назад +11

      Even though much emphasis is being put on the importance of lanuguage, and even if we can say that even australopitheci had means of communications, i'm sure that knowledge transmission by these means of communication, visual observation, trial and error is definitely possible. The bifacial knapping method (or alternate flaking as called by some) which is used when knapping a handaxe was used to prepare the Oldowan and Early Acheulean choppers, which in my opinion is an indication of a `longue durée` knowledge and know-how transmission, or what other call cumulative culture

    • @Pouncer9000
      @Pouncer9000 3 года назад +26

      @@onahilltopsatthemoon We're still very much visual learners though, "Here, let me show you" has got to be the most common phrase uttered when teaching a skill. And while chimps are stunning at instant visual memorisation I doubt they can internalise what they see to the degree we do: when you watch someone knap a flintstone you're absorbing a truckload of info: you're feeling the weight of the piece in your hand, you're noting the angle and speed of the hammer which combined with the sound of the impact tells you a lot about the consistency of flint even if you've never handled it in your life, you'll start analysing the pattern it's being worked by, and maybe even worry about the risks involved, such as hitting a finger or cutting the palm of your hand on the new edge _all without any internal vocalisation_.
      And then we go into effing overdrive when we actually use language because that allows us to explain _why_ we just did what we did.

  • @JohnVance
    @JohnVance Год назад +2

    Your gesturing with the skull just never gets old.

  • @stefanottomanski
    @stefanottomanski 3 года назад +6

    This is such a slick and smoothly produced video. Clever use of obviously limited resources, disciplined research, tight editing, passionate delivery with a rich voice and killer smile.
    Have only recently discovered this channel and have been binge-watching all your videos.
    Great stuff. You are doing important work.

  • @memomorph5375
    @memomorph5375 3 года назад +57

    I remember reading a paper on how an orthopedic surgeon recognized an early hominid’s skeletal injury as a “fall on outstretched limb”, one he sees in people frequently

    • @fredneecher1746
      @fredneecher1746 3 года назад +3

      A Collis fracture? Like when you fall suddenly and stick your arm out and your hand gets thrust back a 90 degrees.

  • @talltayls21
    @talltayls21 Год назад +3

    Its so wild to think about the time scales here, with some of these beings having lived 1.5 to 2 million years ago, on this same Earth we live now, and then to think that our ENTIRE recorded history for humans that live even somewhat similarly to what we do today can be traced over only the last few thousand years. A few thousand, compared to a few MILLION years in the past. At the direction we are currently moving our species, and assuming we can manage to keep our Earth in livable conditions, imagine what our species (with our brains) could accomplish given several MILLION years on this planet…!!! We’ve managed to influence huuge changes/evolution in dog species in just the last 200 years or so!

  • @Sournale
    @Sournale 2 года назад +14

    ❗️⚠️ WARNING, DO NOT. REPEAT. DO NOT CLICK THE TAB “NEWEST FIRST” IN THE COMMENT SECTION. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED, THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. STAY SAFE, SOLDIERS ⚠️❗️

    • @thatpigboss
      @thatpigboss 7 месяцев назад +2

      THANKS FOR SAVING ME CUZ AS A HOMO, ITS NATURE FOR US TO BE CURIOUS. SORRY CAPTAIN

  • @chuckvt5196
    @chuckvt5196 3 года назад +25

    IT really puts things in perspective! When I was a wee lad many years ago, I had walk miles to school in any weather and brave the elements and nature. Homo Erectus crossed continents and oceans. I bow to their spirit!

  • @lumberBT
    @lumberBT 3 года назад +180

    Im just a simple hominid, i see new Milo video, I tap.

    • @machematix
      @machematix 3 года назад +8

      We're all just simple hominids. But damn Milo makes great work. I think he has a big cc brain.

    • @morcoroni
      @morcoroni 3 года назад

      same 😩

    • @getayereigns2438
      @getayereigns2438 3 года назад

      @@machematix you're all just simple mutations of us hominids

  • @Changelax
    @Changelax 7 месяцев назад +21

    Why's there a plastic spoon on your mic

    • @YingYang1259
      @YingYang1259 5 месяцев назад +5

      the spoon records the audio

    • @MDuarte-vp7bm
      @MDuarte-vp7bm 2 месяца назад

      I think the spoon is holding the battery in. He lost the battery's compartment cover, and now it falls out easily, hence the spoon. Or maybe he is covering a button, so he doesn't accidentally turn his mic off, not notice, then have to record an hour of lecture all over again.

    • @homebrewedthoughts2033
      @homebrewedthoughts2033 2 месяца назад +3

      @Changelax it's a call back to when all he had for a mic was a small crappy lav mic that didn't have a handle so he attached it to a spoon. It's a reminder of where he started

  • @sonjavandenende9586
    @sonjavandenende9586 3 года назад +105

    Human evolution keeps getting more fascinating! Thanks for another very informative video. :^)

    • @StefanMilo
      @StefanMilo  3 года назад +5

      Glad you think you enjoyed it!

    • @vklnew9824
      @vklnew9824 3 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/pOBQpV5L_Cw/видео.html

  • @mrbonk3139
    @mrbonk3139 3 года назад +50

    I’m taking anthropology this year and I’m learning about human history since 8 mya or so. It’s crazy, we don’t really know why we’re the last one of our species. And we haven’t been so prominent compared to other species up until some thousands of years ago out of just 200k years ago. This class I’m taking is honestly extremely interesting.

    • @cyberblock7619
      @cyberblock7619 Год назад +1

      The best book on this subject is called "Erectus walks among us"

    • @monicaluketich6913
      @monicaluketich6913 Год назад

      Do we really know that we are the last Homo species? We are still evolving and do have genes from other species or subspecies. We are a very young subspecies. In 200,000 years, we will probably look different, that is only if we don't change our climate to the point we can no longer survive.

  • @adamchilders836
    @adamchilders836 3 года назад +57

    I wish I could observe our ancient ancestors. Very interesting. Many species use sound to communicate, it benefits survival and reproduction, but the impact of our development in that area of our history is really cool to think about. I also wonder how art can be linked to our evolution as a relatively hyper intelligent species. I assume the same parts of our brain that are easily explained with evolution such as caring for our tribe, thinking creatively to get out of a dangerous situation or make a kill, curiosity and being amused enjoying new things, are linked to artistic development as well.

    • @StaryzHelios
      @StaryzHelios Год назад

      Homo Erectus is NOT The First Humans (homo sepians)
      Homo Erectus is DIFFERENT species that have no intelletual
      Homo Sepians have intellectual
      The first human is ADAM!

  • @bombasticbushkin4985
    @bombasticbushkin4985 Год назад +5

    Very nice presentation Stefan. Very human and pointing out the flaws or unknowns in today's evidence. No effort to "make stuff up" and not delineate the possible deviations. Thanks, learning new things is fun and conscious raising.

    • @cyberblock7619
      @cyberblock7619 Год назад

      The best book on this subject is called "Erectus walks among us"

  • @JohnnyUtah13
    @JohnnyUtah13 3 года назад +83

    I didn't realize how much I wanted this video. Homo erectus has always been one of my favorite humans. Great video!

    • @richardschuerger3214
      @richardschuerger3214 3 года назад +2

      By far the most successful.

    • @kellkenyon406
      @kellkenyon406 3 года назад +1

      The person who came up with the name was clearly a homosexual.

    • @RageTyrannosaurus
      @RageTyrannosaurus 3 года назад

      @@kellkenyon406
      Is that also true for those who named homo sapiens sapiens?

    • @kellkenyon406
      @kellkenyon406 3 года назад +1

      @@RageTyrannosaurus Very

    • @arandompharaoh5549
      @arandompharaoh5549 3 года назад

      @@RageTyrannosaurus
      Apparently that's Google's answer, not that I mind being named homo :)
      Homo can mean two things in biology, the Greek meaning (same) is used in genetics for words like homozygous, while the Latin meaning (man) is used in the binomial naming of species such as Homo sapiens (wise man). Here homo means the same and hetero simply means different.
      mammothmemory.net/biology/dna-genetics-and-inheritance/gregor-mendel/homo-vs-hetero.html#:~:text=Homo%20can%20mean%20two%20things,and%20hetero%20simply%20means%20different.

  • @0mVi
    @0mVi 3 года назад +48

    Very nice and well researched video once again, props to you and Amanda for that. The artwork is amazing as always. I just have one complaint, how dare you explode my heart there for a minute, very distracting, I involuntarily went awww!

    • @StefanMilo
      @StefanMilo  3 года назад +13

      I know! My daughter really steals the show.

  • @Eamonshort1
    @Eamonshort1 3 года назад +191

    I am unoriginal and have nothing clever to say just commenting to boost engagement with the algorithm

    • @LuxisAlukard
      @LuxisAlukard 3 года назад +11

      I'm just lazy, but here's a comment

    • @sonkeschluter3654
      @sonkeschluter3654 3 года назад +7

      Similar unoriginal answer for the algorithm.

    • @drkalowski256
      @drkalowski256 3 года назад +6

      Testicles.

    • @poleroso85
      @poleroso85 3 года назад +4

      Well done, we need to get the Silver Play Button for Stefan.
      Great channel, thank you for the great content!

    • @oddjam
      @oddjam 3 года назад

      🙌

  • @sliceymcdicey7974
    @sliceymcdicey7974 3 года назад +192

    "It's quite heavy and could definitely kill something"
    *murders random banana without warning*

    • @venicec3310
      @venicec3310 3 года назад

      Lol

    • @ollytropics1735
      @ollytropics1735 3 года назад +7

      A non circumsized goomba a man of culture I see

    • @jonothandoeser
      @jonothandoeser 3 года назад +2

      "Homo Erectus" sound like gay porn.

    • @roberthickerty390
      @roberthickerty390 3 года назад

      Now I know which weapon to use when attacked by someone wielding a banana. Still not sure how to survive an attack with a handful of cherries😱

    • @jonothandoeser
      @jonothandoeser 3 года назад

      @@roberthickerty390 It's the pits.

  • @johnbrasher1495
    @johnbrasher1495 3 года назад +12

    Your videos are getting far more sophisticated, and more enjoyable. Keep at it, your channel is close to blowing up!

  • @TexRenner
    @TexRenner 3 года назад +8

    Following your development these last few years has been lots of fun; I always appreciate the research you put into them. Keep up the good work, and hold on to that sense of humor (it isn't lost on everybody). And thanks for introducing me to the illustrations of Ettore Mazza!

  • @ghmh
    @ghmh 21 день назад +4

    IMHO At a point in time, the evolution towards homo sapiens alike species became inevitable, like the Australopithecus. But evolution of species is similar to colours on a spectrum, a change very subtile, but after enough change, we agree it's a new color.

  • @glennmejorada7395
    @glennmejorada7395 3 года назад +54

    "There's a little erectus in all of us."
    True. But some bigger than others.

  • @kraekennedy
    @kraekennedy 3 года назад +31

    So happy to hear from Stephen Milo again! I have been searching RUclips. You have been missed!🤗

    • @paulryan2128
      @paulryan2128 3 года назад

      So Kimberly, if you subscribe to his channel then you will get a notice of new content. Also, if you "touch" the photo of Milo in just under the thumbnail pic, YT will bring you to his channel, which has ALL his past video content. FYI.

    • @kraekennedy
      @kraekennedy 3 года назад +1

      @@paulryan2128 I am already subscribed Paul, but thanks for the suggestion. I am a big fan of Stephen's videos. I simply meant that I assumed I had missed a video because it had been awhile. Thanks again.

    • @구독자500명되면이같은
      @구독자500명되면이같은 3 года назад

      @@kraekennedy you look so cutte in your profile pic ^-^

    • @sfall616
      @sfall616 3 года назад

      @@구독자500명되면이같은 Ur so cutte as well homie.

    • @구독자500명되면이같은
      @구독자500명되면이같은 3 года назад

      @brett smith oh its very tough for me irl I look exactly like the dude in my pfp ;_;

  • @OAlem
    @OAlem 3 года назад +14

    Nice argument and I tend to agree. As an anthropologist, I'm quite certain that while Erectus was not the first upright hominid, erect posture itself in the savannas was the key essential trait that led to all the others that define us, including speech, because a flute-like trachea entering the foramen magnum at 90 degrees is required for vocalizing human language.

  • @solaceinshelling6552
    @solaceinshelling6552 7 месяцев назад +1

    Dude, you channel is literally 🔥
    Your knowledge, and presentation is unlike anything else on YT. I can't wait to see where you will take your content!

  • @BryanCrowson
    @BryanCrowson 3 года назад +20

    You have a knack for being deeply informative and entertaining at the same time, Stefan. You are a natural teacher. I am learning so much from you! Thank you for your efforts.

  • @turdbbburgersam4318
    @turdbbburgersam4318 2 года назад +17

    I really like how you do these mini documentaries with your own twist. This subject has always intrigued me on how we got here.

  • @WallytheZebra
    @WallytheZebra 3 года назад +107

    Ive been on youtube since it first came out, and I have never left a comment before, until now. This is the first and only (so far) video I have watched from this channel, and just wanted to say this is one of the most well-put together videos ive seen. Great use of imagery, I love the multiple filming locations that add to the story, the separation of facts vs what you believe, etc. Amazing job, excited for more

    • @danzig159
      @danzig159 3 года назад +4

      I have great difficulty believing you have been on RUclips since it started but this is only the first time you've commented. By the look of your picture you must've been around 8 years old when RUclips came out and you have definitely made comments since then.

    • @lilstrickkkyyy2626
      @lilstrickkkyyy2626 3 года назад +5

      you know we can view when you joined

    • @imapigeonyoupeasant1489
      @imapigeonyoupeasant1489 3 года назад +4

      First of all, you've joined in 2020, second of all, you clearly haven't been on youtube since it came up as there are millions of well made videos just like and even better than this.

    • @drain4314
      @drain4314 3 года назад +1

      x doubt

    • @johndoney2665
      @johndoney2665 3 года назад

      Sorry to burst your feel good bubble but did you notice that nobody seems to address our shrinking sun? Just ponder for a minute how many metric tons of sub atomic particles the sun has emitted over the last 14 billion years that the universe supposedly has existed. You can`t know someone is wrong unless you know what is right!

  • @Just-MACCHEESE
    @Just-MACCHEESE 3 месяца назад +19

    That’s a funny ass name

  • @MarkVrem
    @MarkVrem 3 года назад +34

    Not sure why I never thought of those HandAxes as being that huge. I like it.

    • @StefanMilo
      @StefanMilo  3 года назад +25

      Some are massive, suspiciously massive. Stay tuned for a bonus video on them very soon.

    • @TheEloheim
      @TheEloheim 3 года назад

      Honestly this was the first time I realized hand-axe means an axe held in hand, without a handle. Somehow that never clicked for me before.

    • @mpetersen6
      @mpetersen6 3 года назад +1

      @@StefanMilo
      Hand axes are a tool. Making or fashioning one out of rock requires the ability to analyze and plan. The really big leap in my opinion is when the first person realized they could somehow attach that worked piece of stone onto a stick to make either a better spear or a more effective club. This is when humanity went from simple to complex tools.
      I also happen to think that Erectus was using worked bone in tools. Primarily as stabbing weapons for hunting and probably war. War or tribal conflict seems to be hardwired into us.

    • @angelsinthearchitecture7106
      @angelsinthearchitecture7106 3 года назад

      @@mpetersen6 Hand axes require a parent stone and a hammerstone. No intense intelligence required. They're pretty easy to make.

    • @mpetersen6
      @mpetersen6 3 года назад

      @@angelsinthearchitecture7106
      And just how many have you made?

  • @conorlong6243
    @conorlong6243 3 года назад +6

    You go through all sides of the discussion but then you show the beauty in it and that just keeps me coming back man

  • @gerulais
    @gerulais 2 года назад +20

    It's fascinating to imagine that at some point in our anthropological past, several species of humans would live side by side and, perhaps, interact with each other. Just like you see different species of the same animals interacting with each other. I wonder how the world would look like right now if there would not one, but two or three more species of humans in the present day?!

    • @cyberblock7619
      @cyberblock7619 Год назад +4

      The best book on this subject is called "Erectus walks among us"

    • @basilbrush9075
      @basilbrush9075 8 месяцев назад +1

      Slavery probably :( but an interesting thought

    • @thatpigboss
      @thatpigboss 7 месяцев назад

      ​@@basilbrush9075and specism

    • @solen5529
      @solen5529 2 месяца назад

      considering that homo sapiens can’t even handle other homo sapiens having a different skin color than each other i can’t even imagine how bad the “speciesism” would’ve been if there were other humans walking around right now lol

  • @SaltedKillick
    @SaltedKillick Год назад +2

    Zooming in on that 400,000 year old shell was fascinating. I have to wonder if there was more intent than just squiggly lines. Almost see other faint images on it - perhaps those lines were intended to be trees and other lines behind it faded?
    There is one part of the evolutionary dynamic that's not spoken enough about and that's the fact our spinal column exits straight out of our skull unlike other hominids which is out of the back or foramen magnum.
    The constant evolutionary imagery of a line of succession portraying apes and then man is wrong, imo. The spinal column and limbs are totally different. This is the real reason we walk upright and we don't have proof it was food scarcity that forced a bone composition changes over a million years to an upright status. Theirs has not changed one iota.
    You've shone an interesting light on ancient homo-erectus and makes sense on that species' ability to migrate.

  • @Tom-li1og
    @Tom-li1og 3 года назад +24

    The editing is so good! It looks professional--seriously

    • @StefanMilo
      @StefanMilo  3 года назад +7

      Thanks man, I do try to improve

    • @terraflow__bryanburdo4547
      @terraflow__bryanburdo4547 3 года назад +3

      He keeps evolving!

    • @mireillelebeau2513
      @mireillelebeau2513 3 года назад +1

      @@terraflow__bryanburdo4547 ha! ha! ha! you're right

    • @thenbwkmtkspktrminc.4613
      @thenbwkmtkspktrminc.4613 3 года назад

      @@StefanMilo Hi Stef, where did
      Homo erectus origionate?
      But can you and your team please
      not make "CHEDDAR MAN" another
      pale skinned person.
      I know you and ALL of YOUR team,
      You know, yall came from those really
      really biGG universities, so yall really
      really know everything! But are STILL
      in denial. Oh well till next commentary👍🏼

  • @Schmerb
    @Schmerb 3 года назад +17

    The artwork is so amazing on these videos, it really makes them stand out, big fan!

  • @gartengeflugel924
    @gartengeflugel924 3 года назад +13

    I really love your thoughts about the little things that matter, like the scratched sea shell. Video quality was on point, really loved it throughout.

  • @JohnEglick-oz6cd
    @JohnEglick-oz6cd Год назад

    What really boggled my mind was the video of Mr Begun 's finding the ancestors of our ancestors in a brilliant brief synapsis on this topic .
    The synergistic occurrences in climate , plate tectonics ( continental drifting ) all shaped the evolution of the Humans going as far back as nearly 12 million years ago , and one can go further back than that most definitely !

  • @PeteKellyHistory
    @PeteKellyHistory 3 года назад +15

    Yes

  • @mophia339
    @mophia339 3 года назад +76

    Most theories I've seen with Homo Erectus was that they didn't learn how to start fire themselves, but they did discover the benefits of fire from volcanic regions, lightning strikes and wild fires.

    • @benedibrava
      @benedibrava 3 года назад +3

      Evolutionism is a lie.

    • @vegancannibal1839
      @vegancannibal1839 3 года назад +9

      @@benedibrava dude shut up a book that was written 2000 years ago isn’t proof

    • @benedibrava
      @benedibrava 3 года назад +3

      @@vegancannibal1839 I am talking about science, bible happens to match reality because they have the same creator. Why do you people find pleasure in deception lie and fantasy instead accept reality?

    • @benedibrava
      @benedibrava 3 года назад +3

      @@vegancannibal1839 with simple question you would know evolutionism is a lie: why life is complete like bible teaches? Because it can’t happen other wise

    • @vegancannibal1839
      @vegancannibal1839 3 года назад +16

      @@benedibrava I’m so sorry I don’t understand what you’re trying to say and I am very sorry for being rude in my previous reply. But there is one very good piece of proof that involves vestigial bones. And that is that whales still have leg bones from when they where land mammals.

  • @stevefranklin9176
    @stevefranklin9176 3 года назад +8

    Solid, consistent narration, totally erratic narration backgrounds. Thanks again Stefan. Quality stuff.

  • @PhanTasmGoriA
    @PhanTasmGoriA 8 месяцев назад +1

    The Homo Erectus skull has some interesting features. Firstly, archaic Proto-Hominids retained their prognathism from earlier great ape ancestors; As the protrusion creates more jaw muscle attachment sites, allowing for a more powerful bite. Simian prognathism is always correlated with smaller cranial capacity, whereas a flatter facial profile and level jaw bone - as seen in Cro-Magnon - is correlated with a more developed pre-frontal cortex and larger cranial capacity. Secondly, the recessed, sloping forehead is indicative of the under-evolved pre-frontal cortex - An essential development in human reasoning, cognition, and the quelling of our emotional, animalistic impulses.

  • @jommysalami227
    @jommysalami227 3 года назад +26

    So glad that this popped up in my recommendations. Such a well put together video

  • @lizabme7678
    @lizabme7678 3 года назад +15

    In regards to your thought about the hydro thermal springs and reminding you of the moneys in the hot springs I immediately thought of the jackasses that were arrested throwing a burlap bag of chickens in Yellowstone's Shoshone Geyser basin. I guess some of us haven't evolved much! Btw great video as always.

  • @GustavSvard
    @GustavSvard 3 года назад +7

    A pleasant calm voice explaining who Erectus were and how they fit into the greater human saga. This is some of the best content on all of youtube.

  • @southernfriedheathen994
    @southernfriedheathen994 5 месяцев назад +1

    Your channel is my new favorite! I truly love how you present the information. You do it with an unpretentious scientific purity that I wholly respect.

  • @gertsgarden
    @gertsgarden 3 года назад +5

    I’ve been missing your posts. What a great excuse to take a break! Thanks for all the time and effort you put into your presentations.

  • @judeangione3732
    @judeangione3732 3 года назад +23

    I love the idea of us sitting around in hot tubs, chillin' and waiting for our soup to boil.

    • @sfall616
      @sfall616 3 года назад +1

      They probably cooked their soup while relaxing *in* the soup.

    • @brucetucker4847
      @brucetucker4847 3 года назад +2

      That, or we were sitting in hot tubs while a saber-tooth was lurking around waiting for its dinner to boil.

  • @Sriram-ve4ge
    @Sriram-ve4ge 3 года назад +7

    I was binge watching Stefan's videos again and he uploads a new one. What a pleasant surprise. Thanks Stefan.

  • @Nonamelol.
    @Nonamelol. Год назад +1

    Homo-sapiens (us) were honestly the luckiest species on the planet. We were also the most advantaged. Many would argue that we almost went extinct several times and although that may be true, those near extinctions were lessons which simply made us stronger. We prioritized intelligence over power which lead to more advanced technology, our profound sexual drive which lead us to outnumbering other humans, our greed for power and territory, all these factors are what makes us us.

  • @bryaneberly3588
    @bryaneberly3588 3 года назад +33

    The idea of H. Erectus terrifies me.
    Look how horrifying humans are WITH COHERANCE.
    Now imagine the same species, but they don't ACTUALLY know what they are doing, and they don't consider their destruction. They just want to eat.
    Highly intelligent eating machines.
    That's H. Erectus.
    Thank the gods we evolved, I suppose.

    • @Lvestfold4143
      @Lvestfold4143 3 года назад +10

      But was it better or worse for the planet that we evolved?

    • @bryaneberly3588
      @bryaneberly3588 3 года назад +5

      @@Lvestfold4143 there’s still time. We could get a redemption arc

    • @ToxicNoxic
      @ToxicNoxic 3 года назад +1

      @@Lvestfold4143 worse 100% lol

    • @BrooklynStormTrooper
      @BrooklynStormTrooper 3 года назад +3

      Lol I guess that’s what Michal Myers is

    • @bryaneberly3588
      @bryaneberly3588 3 года назад

      @@BrooklynStormTrooper bingo

  • @peerpede-p.
    @peerpede-p. 3 года назад +10

    Hi Stefan, I just love the way you can explain rather complex things, in a way that even I can get a grip on.

  • @kwiefinpussi6796
    @kwiefinpussi6796 3 года назад +7

    I watch your Debunking Graham Hancock video almost daily and can quote large portions of it verbatim, whenever someone recommends his books, so I just started playing your video for them or send them a link.

  • @norcalgaming1259
    @norcalgaming1259 Год назад

    Always love to see someone who actually sites sources instead of just spewing word vomit and give no reason why you should listen to anything they said great channel practice and too rare to find!

  • @lukeyznaga7627
    @lukeyznaga7627 3 года назад +20

    Thank you for showing us ON THE MAPs, where these important discoveries or evolutionary changes took place. Rarely is that done well, in other documentaries.

    • @perneco123
      @perneco123 2 года назад +2

      Agreed! It really puts everything in perspective.

    • @lukeyznaga7627
      @lukeyznaga7627 2 года назад

      @@perneco123 I know this may sound weird, but its sort of a confession. I used to be a die hard superhero geek and movie watcher but. I got tired of that. I want serious knowledge and now love the ARts, classic films and want to know science and history. My other geek friends now pretty much reject me for this. I want this better world and want to learn. I love studying this kind of teachings. I wish I could go back to college and go for a different degree...BUT i CAN'T.

  • @andrew30m
    @andrew30m 3 года назад +71

    “To quote my teenage daughter “what was life back in the olden days dad, before you had iPads “ 😭😭

    • @RhodeIslandWildlife
      @RhodeIslandWildlife 3 года назад +10

      If you want to mess a kid up, have them try to make a call on a rotary phone.

    • @andrew30m
      @andrew30m 3 года назад +1

      Locadio Marcucco 😂😂😂 What a pain they were!

    • @RhodeIslandWildlife
      @RhodeIslandWildlife 3 года назад +2

      @@andrew30m My nieces were dumbfounded. it was hysterical.

    • @andrew30m
      @andrew30m 3 года назад +2

      Locadio Marcucco 👍As I am dumbfounded by WhatsApp, it is their world.

    • @tsopmocful1958
      @tsopmocful1958 3 года назад +3

      Handaxes and sharpened sticks.

  • @dianadegracia3586
    @dianadegracia3586 3 года назад +4

    i think ive just found my next favourite channel. everything about paleontological anthropology fascinates me and i LOVE whenever you mention art and creativity and it makes me love humans so much more :D you just GET it, man, i love this so much

  • @Driven2Beers
    @Driven2Beers 27 дней назад +2

    1:00 Cue uncontrolled laughter from Beavis and Butthead.

  • @anniesearle6181
    @anniesearle6181 3 года назад +6

    I did my undergraduate dissertation on Homo luzonensis, it was an absolutely fascinating topic

  • @dipakgupta8470
    @dipakgupta8470 3 года назад +9

    I really like Stephan's way of presenting scientific facts with a shy smile, furtive looks, and a touch of humor that does not make his narration a Disney production.

  • @dyadica7151
    @dyadica7151 3 года назад +14

    One of the things that causes me some reflection is that, duration-wise, one could say the Erectus were the most successful human species.

    • @TheBananamonger
      @TheBananamonger 3 года назад +1

      Duration is meaningless. They did so little, other than survive. We innovated and changed. In the amount of time that they existed, imagine what we could accomplish.

    • @crowmedicine3890
      @crowmedicine3890 3 года назад +1

      @@TheBananamonger we've done a fantastic job...

    • @jonathansturm4163
      @jonathansturm4163 2 года назад

      @@TheBananamonger Survival is the only meaningful measure of success. The alternative is extinction.

    • @sethtenrec
      @sethtenrec 2 года назад

      @@TheBananamonger wow, you think you are special! Your kind! Lmao. Take away those thumbs and you’re just inferior to dolphins.

    • @lilspacecoupe1585
      @lilspacecoupe1585 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@TheBananamongerlet’s see if sapiens last 2 million years of not then they were more successful than us after all the point of evolution is to survive not to create technology

  • @rfvtgbzhn
    @rfvtgbzhn 5 месяцев назад +2

    12:55-13:22 maybe they didn't even use something like stems, but just swam. Modern humans are known to swim much further than a few miles, for example a few people crossed the English Channel, which is around 32 km (around 20 miles) wide at it's narrowest point, but swimmers often take a much longer route because of currents.

  • @mindfulskills
    @mindfulskills 3 года назад +8

    Stefan, I really enjoy your videos. And like you, I'm a real homo erectus fan. Now, one of the most compelling arguments I've heard for their use of language is that modern university students trying to reproduce Achulean tools typically take about 500 hours to master the process. Any skill that complex requires instruction, implying some form of language that is shared by the teacher and student. The same can be said for the building of rafts and the crossing of bodies of water. This would certainly have required detailed coordination of labor and probably some specialization of tasks, again implying language. As you pointed out in this video, the language would not have to be verbal. American Sign Language demonstrates that hand signs and facial expressions can express virtually anything we express with speech, including subtle nuances, emphasis, and even slang, accents and dialects.

  • @joeystories6946
    @joeystories6946 3 года назад +11

    IMORTAL words by Stephan Milos. "THERE'S A LITTLE ERECTUS IN ALL OF US". Thanks for the memories Stephan.

  • @yaredtsegayeart4970
    @yaredtsegayeart4970 2 года назад +31

    "There's a little Erectus in all of us" Well said lol

  • @PirateRo333
    @PirateRo333 4 месяца назад +1

    So, nice artwork, if a bit creepy. I take exception to how he’s holding the stone knife. I don’t think anyone could get and power behind that strike using fingers. The hand needs to wrap around it to line up the wrist and forearm to deliver body weight to the point of the device. The implication is that there should have been something wrapped around it to increase gripping strength to prevent slipping or deflection and to protect the hand.

  • @eacalvert
    @eacalvert 3 года назад +16

    Yay a new episode. And love the "we're good at running at least some of us." I am def not one of us that is good at running lol