StarTalk Podcast: Climate and Diet of Early Humans, with Tina Lüdecke
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- Опубликовано: 30 дек 2020
- What were early humans like? What did they eat? What did they do? On this episode of StarTalk Radio, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Matt Kirshen investigate the diet of early humans and the climate conditions of Earth during that time with geochemist Tina Lüdecke.
You’ll find out about Tina’s research studying early humans from 1-4 million years ago. We investigate what happened during the Paleolithic era. How has the environment changed? Tina tells us how isotopes can be used as a “fingerprint” to understand the diet of early humans. You’ll learn why there isn’t just one paleo diet.
We discuss meat consumption in early humans and how that changed the course of civilization. Were there any condiments used by early humans? Can you ever study fossilized food? Tina explains how we can study fossilized feces and we reminisce about Jurassic Park.
Then, we answer fan-submitted Cosmic Queries. Can we learn anything from early humans that might help us adapt to climate change in the future? We explore the invention of cooking meat. You’ll find out why the advancements of cooked food helped our brains grow. All that, plus, we ponder what kind of evolutionary changes might occur due to the impact of climate change.
Thanks to our Patrons Cristina Magistrali, Toren Wallengren, Eric Huffman, Julia Casey, Colton Siefker, Daniel Wenger, Matias Mancini, John Thompson, Chris Krish, and Alvero Wiggins for supporting us this week.
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The fact that I LOVE these types of discourse...... makes me admit how much of a nerd I am. It's so awesome that the world has professionals who specialize in almost anything to be curious about.
HAPPY NEW YEARS TO EVERYONE AT STARTALK🎉 THANK YOU FOR THE AMAZING CONTENT YOU HAVE PROVIDED THIS LAST YEAR 🙏
Merry perihelion
@@thelyrebird1310 Is it, though? isn't it further into 2021..?
Star Talkians, one more lesson before 2021. Thanks, happy new year!
It already is 2021..
Lunch time upload here
I wonder if it's supposed to be Star Talkkies or Star Talkers, or maybe just Talkers/Talkkies.
because Star Talk seems like a play on Star Trek. and Star Trek fans are Trekkies/Trekkers
Wow this discussion was absolutely fascinating, I wanted more... I hope you invite her again to StarTalk. Thank you, all 🤗
Dr Ludeck was great. I have such respect for people with the skill to articulate complicated subjects at a level lay people can engage with. Also its fantastic when you see one specialism used to enhance understanding and discovery in separate fields.
Cheers and happy new year.
Paul
Tina: Hominin.
Neil: Hominid.
Tina: Hominin.
Neil: Hominid.
Tina: It has changed, we're talking about hominins
Neil: Hominid.
Tina: Hominin.
Neil: Wait, you said it changed right?
Tina: Yes, to hominin.
Neil: Hominid.
😂
Someone: ah yes, I see the floor here is made of floor
Neil: actually it's linoleum
That was strange Neil continue to say hominid.
And then she got cut off before she could expand on why we use the term “hominin”
@@southernlights885 I noticed that too. She was trying to explain why about the term but he cut her off
As an anthropologist, I really appreciate this upload. Thank you Neil et al, I'm a big fan!
This brings me back to high school and I would wake up at midnight every night to watch NOVA on PBS.
I always thought is I could go back in time and witness anything, it would be us discovering fire and the story of that individual.
A great explanation and great science!
Way to go, Tina Lüdecke!
Thank you, Neil, for giving voice to scientists like Tina.
You totally need to have her back on the show again!!! Really interesting stuff.
All of the unexpected comedy in this was a pleasant surprise 😂
Terry Pratchett: "There is often an unexpected chocolate." ;)
All of the unexpected science was also a surprise! 😂
This was super interesting. Please invite more scientists from different fields on a specific subject. Great stuff
She’s sooo awesome! Have her back often!
Best sound clip ever at 34:15 "Who had the idea when they see a burning bush 'let me put my meat in that'"
Redheads everywhere went 🤔😌
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@@RandomVideoApparatus this redheaded gal thanks you for the giggle. You are appreciated.
Positive vibes from New Hampshire and remember to be kind to each other and yourself during this pandemic and social crisis
@@tammystockley-loughlin7680 likewise, happy new year to you! Humor is needed at times like this
Peace to all! Big thanks to Neil and Chuck (The King) Nice!
I believe Tina when she says, "In four million years I will come, and I will find your tooth"
Matt has the best smile! It's contagious.
Too bad he’s not the lest bit funny with nothing to contribute to the yogic.
Best way to start the New Year! 4hrs in and this is just perfect 😎👍👍 Happy New Year!🎉
We want Chuck. Chuck for president.
😂
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year's Neil 🎊,love startalk and I would love to see the content you have for 2021.
Thanks for all the great information. It was interesting to hear things I hadn't thought of much from Tina, and I hope you'll have her back at some point.
I loved the laughter surrounding the measurement of a tooth that had drank puddle water. I had a similar reaction as Neil did! @11:11
Happy New Year 2021! Love this Star Talk!
What a interesting topic I was always curious about ancient diets. I like to compare it to what we eat today.
Great episode! I really enjoyed this unique topic!
What a interesting job role it’s really so fascinating to see how discovery is evolving. What new amazing discovery will we continue to uncover
happy new year Dr. Tyson and Chuck and matt.
I learn more on this channel then my 14 years in school
fantastic subject to study and make discoveries in Geochemistry Geophysics and then to investigate the diet of early humans and the climate conditions of Earth during that time and the effects on Human Evolution
Thanks for getting me through 2020 Neil.
I miss chuck😭
He's making Tide laundry detergent commercials with his daughter
Nah man he got rona
i heard him on an ad for clorox i think on soundcloud today
@@samwister6373 roll tide
@@RandomVideoApparatus lol
Happy New Year Neal and Chuck, wishing well to you and your family for the New Year
Lüdecke is essentially an isotope geochemist anthropologist and paleoclimatologist researching the hominids of the Pleistocene. That's gotta be incredibly interesting work. I wonder too if she's seen evidence of extreme weather events from this geological period.
I love anthropology, Professor Worley is the best Anthropology Professor.
Don't know much about biology don't know much about trigonometry or a science book or french I never took...but I enjoy Dr. N.D.P. ...what a wonderful world we could be.
Happy year everyone 🥳
Happy new year fam
Colin Tudge would be so great on startalk.
Please vote up if you think so, too :)
Happy new year!!! 🎉 Guys you should have David Sinclair on the show, his research is so great!!
Hi Neil, I wonder if you can ask geochemist Tina Lüdecke how accurately do cravings for specific foods mirror the body's nutrition needs.
Happy new year , Neil Tyson and all stars
When Neil said Tina’s study of Paleo diet made her Sherlock Holmes, I immediately thought, “Alimentary, my dear Watson.” 😉
Happy New Years Eve, Neil!!
Great guest, great show!
Happy new year Dr. Tyson
I appreciate you Neil!
Aside....Beautiful Inuit artwork, doc!
I’m hungry and the antelopes there, and I’m hungry and it’s like, “yum yum. Let’s do this again”.
-Neil DeGrasse Tyson, 2020
Happy New Year Startalk
How educating is this podcast!
Should speak with CJ Hunt III, author of "The Perfect Human Diet," regarding the paleo diet and its place in human evolution.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR
Feliz Año nuevo. Keep Looking Arriba!!! ;)
Happy New Year!!🍻🍾🥂
Happy New year❤️
Neil, when the sun expands and the Earth is an irradiated, fiery wasteland, I fully expect your post-apocalyptic cyborg self to continue making podcasts and explainer lectures and answering queries until the very end.
this is a very underrated comment
Like at the end of "Childhood's End".
Made out of what, though? It might get hotter than what even Wolfram /tungsten can stand up to...
These things must be considered!
;)
Cyberneil 2099
Thank you Neil as always. Where's Chuck?
Filming a Tide commercial! I just saw it on _The Masked Dancer_ last night.
we lived in a small town called reydon connected to another small town called southwold on the east coast of england that had sea front of sandy and shingle beaches, one day my son and me went looking for dinosaur bones along the beach, we were walking along a part of the beach that had a cliff about 25 feet high we found ourselfs stopped and looking down and there on the ground was something that just looked different it was stoney looking, my son picked it up stone age came to mind about 3/4 of an inch thick by 4 inch long~ 3 inch~ wide tapering to a point triangular in shape, inches away from it was another out of place thing also stone the size and shape of a small finger, home we went and showed my woman who took the triangular stone in her hand and she pointed out how well it fits in the hand so we decided it must be some kind of hand axe got in touch with museum who put us in touch with someone else so we met with them they said they wern't anything and showed us some celtic axes no resemblance, disappointed we left but still had a feeling that these were something, about a year later driving along a road in central france we stoped off at an old building that turned out to be a museum an old castle turned into a museum walking around the displays there in front of us in a stone age area was a dozen of these hand axes, later on we found the photo of the stone finger shaped stone in an encyclopedia turns out to be tools up to million and half years old
Thanks for the Chuck break. Enjoyed it.
I’m here for the isotope section in Whole Foods. And I’m sure that her “I only buy the heavy stuff” rejoinder was very deep if you’re adjacent to her field.
Tina's thoughts on how the first Hominins to try cooked/fire charred food actually blew my mind for its simplicity.
Thank you guys, very informative indeed Can Tina please explain what she means by humans were able to "control fire" 1.9m years ago and can she link the new study she cites here? Does control mean to produce fire, or simply to capture it from the wildfires? Thank v much
Loved it
Gigantopithecus
Jamie pull that up!
I understand that reference.
Might not be a meat eater but I sure try to be... speaking of diets. I know my happy diet is a keto diet I just feel better all around. I always enjoy the topics and knowledge drop, great video y’all
Yes, the Garden of Eden diet was promoted by 7-Day Adventist’s and people like Kellogg’s of cereal fame. As I removed vegetables from my diet the healthier I become. Experiment.
Bocsika hogy bele nyúltam az evolúcióba !
There might not have been condiments, but it should be obvious that herbs were used early. They already knew which plants were edible, matching them to different meat tastes should have been obvious, even to the early fire-using folks.
I'm sure after dragging the meat over the ground of smushed mangoes then cooking it, giving it a extra sweet taste and Bam condiments are born. They may even have planned that route and Bam, mapping is created...
I’ve read some of this in one of Yuval Noah Harari’s book. Super interesting!
Happy New year all
Geologist squad!!
Honestly I have to wonder if perhaps the first "cooking" was using the heat of the sun and a hot rock, the fire came after when our ancestors put 2 and 2 together and realized hot rock + food equals better food and if fire is hot too it was natural for them to try that.
Cooking makes many foods easier to digest.
YESS!! One last one!!
Some pertinent vocabulary for ecological and evolutionary discussions of populations:
Habituation: how a population or individual reacts, within it's set genetic composition and range, to a different environment to better deal with new conditions. This includes behavioral plasticity. Which is humans' strong suit.
Adaptation: when a population, through natural selection, has it's gene pool modified (evolution) to be more fit in a new environment.
Talk about "Benford's Law" please and how it connects with the universe....!!!!!!
Where is Chuck Nice??????
Vacation or maybe some other work thing. The guy has a life.Positive vibes from New Hampshire and remember to be kind to each other and yourself during this pandemic and social crisis
My guess on the first condiment would be salt (technically a seasoning I know). In any location that has salt flats that are flooded during the rainy season and where fish are trapped(or other animals die of thirst/salt poisoning) as the water evaporates has a chance to "salt cure" the resulting corpse. A hungry ancestor comes along and samples the result and "Hey. This would go great with the wildfire barbeque this weekend." 😜
As the Irish say the best sauce is hunger. I imagine early humans were hungry much of the time. No sauce needed.
Wet/dry cold is very real. Comparison: 50 degrees in Florida feels far colder than 35 degrees in Tennessee. Florida cold is damp and just cuts to the bone compared to the dry, crisp cold of the Appalachians.
finally a talk about early humans Neil has talk more about aliens than our hominids ancestors lol
I mean... He's an Astrophysicist.
@@minimalgrammar1276 ...yes but I always wanted to know his opinion about human evolution and yes hes an astrophysicist but his podcast has talk about many different issues that ranges from animal biology, algorithms, social problems etc..
I've only been watching for the past few months and never heard him speak about Aliens. Only to say most people who see lights in the Sky automatically think Aliens. If you want a rabbit hole check out elongated skulls. The people Peru had a weird Species of Humanoid and not by Head Bindings they actually had a bigger cranial capacity, a larger Brain. So they say, but who knows not everything you hear and see on the web is true right...
@@matiasd.c9949 Well he does cover lots of different things- and he should, but keep in mind that it would be illogical for him to mainly cover topics unrelated to space.
@@steve-o6413 Even if that creature was real, I highly doubt it would be anything special. I really don't think one species having a literally, physically, larger brain than another is of meaningful importance.
44:32 Cave Bus, Neil.
This is Science, we use precision.
✨Happy NY 2021 ✨
DeGrasse and Sadhguru on Cosmos talk would be great
Murderer
We can be pure carnivore too. I used to be one and, as far as I know, I was fine. Did intense workouts and recovered fine too. Some alusian tribes were mostly carnivore. I don't know how healthy they are, but they obviously managed to survive till now.
How about, The Family Grass, individuals of the same breed with separate roots?
LVT here. Actually the term to describe disease passing between species, specifically to and from humans, is zoonosis.
His interruptions are vexing
yes, stop interrupting your guests Neil pls :3
Happy calendar date change and a merry perihelion
Positive vibes from New Hampshire and remember to be kind to each other and yourself during this pandemic and social crisis
For what I understand, vegetables actually lose some of their vitaminic content if you overcook them... But for meat makes total sense.
Big Brain!
Sad you didn't get Ray Romano for this episode.
Imagine being the one person who disliked this before they could even watch the whole video.
haters gonna hate hate hate
Kelsey shake it off
Maybe they started the video and saw no Chuck so they immediately disliked.
@@rosemaylone1393 haha 🤣 that’s actually fair. No hate to the other guy but Chuck is my man!
To be fair the audio version is released days before the youtube video is... it's possible they've already heard it
Happy New Year 🥳
Please can we have an interview with:
PROFESSOR MICHAEL CRAWFORD
Director: Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition.
🙏🏽
one carnivorous piano ate a good chunk of my childhood 😭
Hey Neil, in one of your older videos, you talked about the universe still expanding therefore there is no center, because the big bang is still technically happening? I had a query, and I really think it will change the game, why should we not name the universe after the big bang? -Noah
Because there are other Theories of the Universe like a always existing Universe. If the Big Bang really took place then they could trace back all matter to one single point in the Universe and this would be its Center...
Though I"m sure it's possible that kids were just as finicky in years gone by, I can imagine that if you spend so much time just trying to find enough food, you'll be happy with whatever is available. It's either that or starve. There is no alternative.
Great Ep. Most of the things she said are corroborated in Harari's books. 💜💜
I was thinking the same thing. I think Neil should read Harari.
Where were most of the search for archaeology fossilized hormones found?
I’m mad: No chuck nice.
Paleo Man during interview at Mr. Universe tournament: "Milk is for babies. So I drink beer."