I find myself fascinated, mesmerised indeed, by the immense diversity of skull shape and size to be seen in the range of living fossils in the audience!
The Point! is a fable that tells the story of a boy named Oblio, the only round-headed person in the Pointed Village, where by law everyone and everything must have a point. Nilsson explained his inspiration for The Point!: "I was on acid and I looked at the trees and I realized that they all came to points, and the little branches came to points, and the houses came to point. I thought, 'Oh! Everything has a point, and if it doesn't, then there's no point to it.'"
Hyenas eat bones and that is why their faeces tend to be white in colour - due to the high calcium content. However, the jaw bones would be discarded because of the hard teeth and gums on them..Perhaps this is why you are only finding lower jaws.
@@cosmicrancher2169 The australopithecines (afarensis) were herbivorous sedge eaters and stone tools have never been found near their sites. Also their feet were like a mountain gorilla's, with semi-opposed big toes and no arches, and so could not have made the Laetoli footprints
He said he was an engineer but did not say what kind. At any rate, his life and academic background are different. He also may not have a concept of the time period. And how do you know whether or not bipedal males were not discovering fairly early on that they needed something to keep their “business” from flapping all over when they ran? Or to protect it when walking through brush? There was no longer the torso breaking a path in advance of the precious parts nor legs protecting them as much either. Think about it dude.
This is the most ad hoc, shallow/unquestioning interpretation of this body of evidence I have ever run into: for instance, the skeleton of Kaduumuu (Big Man) was headless, and about 6ft tall....yet he got placed into Aust. afarensis with little Lucy....and so where do these teeth of his come from????
@The Reverend Braindead yes those questions were not the most informed and well thought out. However your attitude is exactly why Trump is so popular. People do not like elitist talking down to them or acting like they don’t know what is best for themselves.
A lot of people watching this, like me, are not as knowing as you. A question you consider too ignorant to be heard can help clear up things in our minds. Besides, someone who knows everything is not likely to ask a question. Questions give the speaker some feedback. Proves at least some people were actually listening and with interest.
@@clifforddaniels1317 I was responding to Deasy saying they should have edited out questions “off topic and obviously unknowing”. I know that many lectures and presentations I have seen on many subjects have not shown any Q&A’s. I don’t know if they did not have a question and answer period or deleted it entirely. I like it when there is a Q&A because someone might ask a question I was wondering about. University and college channels pretty much upload. They likely send the video to who is in charge of that, just like all the other departments who record lectures to share with the public.
@Steve Deasy ... WOW! You probably never had to go to school or read any books. You must have been born with everything people usually would need to learn from others.
That is a lie. That is exactly what happened and that's where the evidence points. 3.1 billion nucleotide bases that are the instructions for the creation and development of a human can only proceed from the mind of a genius. Random changes to the nucleotide base sequence in other species will only produce garbage and won't lead to a human being.
How exactly are random changes to the nucleotide base sequence in the genome of an animal NOT going to produce garbage? Obviously doing that will simply destroy the instructions for the development and creation of that animal.
- If you want to believe that the instructions for the creation of an animal is nothing like computer code that's up to you. - Mutations will produce garbage. - So because there are similarities between separately created species we can claim that they are "hierarchically nested". Got it. - The creator only made a small fraction of what is possible. - That's some good SpongeBob imagination.
I find myself fascinated, mesmerised indeed, by the immense diversity of skull shape and size to be seen in the range of living fossils in the audience!
The Point! is a fable that tells the story of a boy named Oblio, the only round-headed person in the Pointed Village, where by law everyone and everything must have a point. Nilsson explained his inspiration for The Point!: "I was on acid and I looked at the trees and I realized that they all came to points, and the little branches came to points, and the houses came to point. I thought, 'Oh! Everything has a point, and if it doesn't, then there's no point to it.'"
Excellent lecture!!
Yohannes Haile-Selassie, Cleveland Museum of Natural History
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Hyenas eat bones and that is why their faeces tend to be white in colour - due to the high calcium content. However, the jaw bones would be discarded because of the hard teeth and gums on them..Perhaps this is why you are only finding lower jaws.
I though it might be the omnivorous gracile Australopithecines, the tool makers.
Good info about the hyenas.
@@cosmicrancher2169 The australopithecines (afarensis) were herbivorous sedge eaters and stone tools have never been found near their sites. Also their feet were like a mountain gorilla's, with semi-opposed big toes and no arches, and so could not have made the Laetoli footprints
The last question asked was ridiculous. Did he really imagine that afaransis was wearing clothing?
He said he was an engineer but did not say what kind. At any rate, his life and academic background are different. He also may not have a concept of the time period. And how do you know whether or not bipedal males were not discovering fairly early on that they needed something to keep their “business” from flapping all over when they ran? Or to protect it when walking through brush? There was no longer the torso breaking a path in advance of the precious parts nor legs protecting them as much either. Think about it dude.
This is the most ad hoc, shallow/unquestioning interpretation of this body of evidence I have ever run into: for instance, the skeleton of Kaduumuu (Big Man) was headless, and about 6ft tall....yet he got placed into Aust. afarensis with little Lucy....and so where do these teeth of his come from????
Who were these people in the audience? They sound so ignorant
Americans 🤦♂️
Americans probably...
@@seeglines "yeh"
@The Reverend Braindead yes those questions were not the most informed and well thought out. However your attitude is exactly why Trump is so popular. People do not like elitist talking down to them or acting like they don’t know what is best for themselves.
@@BlGGESTBROTHER yeah right because there are no ignorant people in other Countries.
This should have been edited to remove the off topic or obviously unknowing questions.
A lot of people watching this, like me, are not as knowing as you. A question you consider too ignorant to be heard can help clear up things in our minds. Besides, someone who knows everything is not likely to ask a question. Questions give the speaker some feedback. Proves at least some people were actually listening and with interest.
@@clifforddaniels1317 I was responding to Deasy saying they should have edited out questions “off topic and obviously unknowing”.
I know that many lectures and presentations I have seen on many subjects have not shown any Q&A’s. I don’t know if they did not have a question and answer period or deleted it entirely. I like it when there is a Q&A because someone might ask a question I was wondering about. University and college channels pretty much upload. They likely send the video to who is in charge of that, just like all the other departments who record lectures to share with the public.
the only dumb question is the one that isn't asked - that said the random audience footage from camera 2 was VERY distracting (IMO)
@Steve Deasy ... WOW! You probably never had to go to school or read any books. You must have been born with everything people usually would need to learn from others.
People can't accept the fact that humans were popped into existence by a genius.
That's because there is ZERO evidence.
That is a lie. That is exactly what happened and that's where the evidence points. 3.1 billion nucleotide bases that are the instructions for the creation and development of a human can only proceed from the mind of a genius. Random changes to the nucleotide base sequence in other species will only produce garbage and won't lead to a human being.
@@vesuvandoppelganger Who is this genius? What is the evidence?
How exactly are random changes to the nucleotide base sequence in the genome of an animal NOT going to produce garbage? Obviously doing that will simply destroy the instructions for the development and creation of that animal.
- If you want to believe that the instructions for the creation of an animal is nothing like computer code that's up to you.
- Mutations will produce garbage.
- So because there are similarities between separately created species we can claim that they are "hierarchically nested". Got it.
- The creator only made a small fraction of what is possible.
- That's some good SpongeBob imagination.