I want to thank every ancestor I ever had, for fighting their battles, surviving hardship, looking after their children and keeping them safe, so that I could be here right now. I’ll never know you, but thank you for everything you did. I’ll do the same for my kid ❤️
Host: "She isnt the first woman of our species or the first anatomical human or anyone really special for that matter" Me: What you say about my momma :[
Imagine meeting them. The people who bridge all human beings in the modern world together. You would be looking at everyone you ever knew in one person, your greatest grandmother. What would you show her? I would show her everything. All 7000 pics on my phone
This videos only 9 minutes long but this talented man packed an hours worth of information in a well enunciated and precisely pronounced manner and I am impressed
Anytime he says "mitochondria", my brain automatically replies "Is the power house of a cell" Edit: this blew up so much, I want to thank you all and also know which countries you guys are from. where do they teach this stuff at? Fly your flag(s) where you learnt this at. Mine = 🇳🇬✌🏾
The most distantly you could be related to anyone on earth is 50th cousins. This means you’ve shared a common ancestor with everyone on earth, with the your most distantly related relatives sharing a common ancestor with you around 1,000 years ago. (give or take a couple hundred years)
It is sad that many of us live like we're entirely different from one another. I mean this shouldn't even come as a surprise that all of us share a common human ancestor. Would it have been any different? It is sad that some people would scoff at this fact. Very great video, thank you.
@@chloe4675 it doesn't matter whether one believes in Christianity or thinks evolution is the truth. Both say that humans had one singular point of origin.
If I’m learning more watching an 11 minute video than I am sitting in an hour and a half class, then all of my teachers are doing something horribly wrong
This whole education system is designed to get people ready for work. It isn't really interested in higher learning. For that, you have to seek elsewhere. Pay attention to what gets cut out of education curriculums when money "gets tight." They want us smart enough to run the machines but dumb enough to where we don't question our reality or our government.
@@debbiecurtis4021 hi Debbie I agree I realised sanskrit has so much words similar to European languages..even basic words I use in bengali is very similar to Latin origins and European languages
Of course. Schools have been setting the low bar for decades where you can expect to be less competent than your grandparents were after they graduated. Only way to elevate yourself is to take initiative. Decades ago, those who wanted to learn more than the masses and elevate themselves would spend their free time at the library. Now, we have the Internet!
My generation built the Internet. This has given me a library greater than I ever could have imagined. It is a wonderland for the kid who wants to know everything. This library fits in my hand.
Like someone else mentioned, Eons has been talking a lot about human ancestors recently. I greatly appreciate it because I never really learned much about this in school! Thanks for the lessons, Eons :)
I had a vaguest understanding when people would do genetic test and say “I had the markers for x group!” This video finally explained what the “markers” are, without me having to research way over my head.
It's a testament to how long we were in Africa that despite how superficially different we all became, there's still more genetic variation within africa today.
@@jesuscrust4946all anthropological, archeological and genetic evidence points to that not being the case. it's still a theory based on a hypothesized model of evolution that has since been updated and corrected that relies on there being a series of different species bridging modern homo sapiens to early primates that there has been no evidence of
We are all brothers and sisters. Not literally, but. We should treat one another in such a compassionate way. This episode has me pause and exclaim, "What????" when I heard about how far back these two people go. Truly amazing and awesome.
@@est9949 no? they literally said in the comment that they didnt mean it literally but just that we should treat eachother as such. how in any possible way did you determine that meant he hadnt paid attention to the video???
i found this fascinating!!! you spoke pretty quickly so thankfully i'm a nurse and kept up with you.....still don't completely get it, but get it enough that i'm totally interested
I'm curious this is what we know from the dna we have studied. I mean if we were to study more people's dna we would find a possible different lineage?
Just to confirm my interpretation - so this lady 70,000 years ago is essentially everyone’s great-great-great-great grandma? And every woman alive has a direct maternal lineage that goes back to that woman?
Yes. But not only is she everyone's great-great-great... grandmom. She's everyone's MATERNAL great-great-great... grandmom. So there are other women who lived at the same time as this woman, who is known as "mitochondrial Eve", who are also your great-great-great... grandmom. But not in a direct maternal line.
@@E.a.Z.S.e.n.T It is extremely far away from impossible. It is more like inevitable. So what is the reason why you think it's impossible? I think it's simply because you don't understand it.
How crazy would it be to go back in time and tell these two people "You both will be the true parents of humanity." I think they might be a little disappointed in us.
They are not. It's like you just read the title and went straight to commenting without actually watching the damn video. If you actually watched it, you'd hear he said we have a ton of ancestors, but due to the limitation in genome sequencing process which was done by hand, we used to only be able to trace a small fraction of human genes, ie these two simplest-to-trace genomes (mitochondrial and Y) that never crossed over but passed on along multiple direct lines of all-male or all-female lineages. Meaning that due to our limited computational tool, we used to have only a small window to peek at only two simplest people out of the whole combinatorial population of our ancestors, while the rest of our ancestors whose MAJORITY of our chromosomes (non-mitochondrial, non-Y) got shuffled and passed on to us in a more complex pathways over the millions of years were beyond our capability to trace, pre computer-based genome sequencing. And this is changing, with computers, we're just starting to learn more about the rest of our ancestor population.
@@est9949 I understand we all come from more than 2 people. It's completely impossible that all of us would have. You missed completely what I meant. I should probably put this on r/whoosh
Fascinating. Considering that our "common male ancestor" would have had more opportunities, biologically speaking, to pass on his genetic material than our common female ancestor, who perhaps could have had as many as 15 children or so versus the male who may have been that "productive" every year of his adult life, her story is more impressive to me. Thank you for your service, super grandmom.
I only have a vague understanding of mtDNA and all that, but this video did a wonderful job of synthesizing that down to something bite sized and still kinda fun. THANK YOU PBS - I love that 30 years later you still teach me.
I’m always so happy when I get a notification for a new pbs eons video ❤️ Will you guys be able to do a video sometime about the evolution of my favorite animal, the kangaroo?
This is a really big topic, but I find fascinating how unique the wild life is in Oceania in general. So maybe a video about the animals that might have originally migrated there and given rise to the diversity there is there now?
When I saw you asking about the kangaroo,I thought about a thumbnail I'd seen with a T-Rex,which said "Why were T-Rex's arm so short?" I did not read the article,but thought,"Probably the same reason kangaroo's arm are short."We need more answers,don't we?
"Thats actually crazy if you think about it we're like a huge family inhabiting an entire planet" that is flighting on the thanksgiving dinner table and shooting trying to kill other members of the family.
Wow, I knew about the mitochondrial DNA passed down from mothers but I didn't realize it was an unbroken line from mother to daughter repeating all the way till now! That's absolutely crazy. I thought it must live in male DNA too but I guess not.
I read Out of Eden: The Peopling of the World by Stephen Oppenheimer in 2004 and since then more and more comes out about human history and maternal lineage. Anthropology is fascinating.
What do you mean by evolution? Micro or macro? I highly recommend the Cross Examined and Living Waters RUclips channels, especially the videos about evolution. Cold-Case Christianity also has a lot of content about evolution and evidence :)
Can we have a more focused on the evolution of placental mammals? You have mentioned therapsids and ancestors in other episodes but haven't gone through placental evolution.
totally, and the few which menstruate. iirc it's just bats, elephant shrews, and us humans who have menses. it's super strange. even stranger, sweating is even rarer in the animal kingdom, it's just us in that one, sorry shrews and bats!
Phish N' Chimps I’m assuming you didn’t go to school. And before you say anything I went to both a public school and a Christian private school (it was also a college prep school) long story short, I am no longer a Christian, and it wasn’t the public school who did that to me, it was the Christian school where I spent most of my time in my critical years as a teen. Stop running from science, embrace it, it’s not a secret plot by atheists.
Kudos to the whole team, you're doing an amazing job! I think most of us can relate to those boring classes from school were no one really cared what science is for, but you sort of remember some terms.. And now all those things make so such sense when you put up all your visual displays and explain the higher power of science to simple humans, like me.. Great job
Well, what I think is that he meant that she wasn't necessarily somebody special while she lived. But she did become important after she was gone since she happened to have daughters and granddaughters and so on, who passed on a strain of her DNA. However, it is probably just a coincidence that she and no other woman became "Mitochondrial Eve"...
Shout out to great-great-great-great-great-great-great-and so on-Granduncle Bob and thx great-great-great-great-you get what i mean-Grandaunt Susan for letting everybody know that you dont jump down that cliff that totally looks survivable and teaching everyone to not eat that brightly coloured plant or animal. Really. Thanks alot. Wished your works would reach more people.
The headline was"Back to Eve"on the Indian science journal"Science Today"on the March,1987 issue and the cover page was"DNA fingerprinting",I still remember.
@bou path so *that* is illegal but two people who are blind, deaf, or have some other disability they know will be passed on are still allowed to have offspring? I'll be honest, it does seem like just an 'acceptable' form of eugenics.
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No wonder we never truly get along.
We are all siblings
@cmon Bill really I cannot read that
@Nate Smith I literally couldn't read that. I use android and can't read some fonts.
cmon Bill really that made me snort O-o
@cmon Bill really she says "SWEET HOME ALBAMA"
@@berrystein9197 It says: SWEET HOME ALABAMA in big, bold font.
So we're all just one, big, dysfunctional family.
I don't believe this.
@@l.dmoody8356 You can believe what you want. Science doesn't Work with belief, but rather proof.
@@dlskakaka7441 So all living things on earth are related to each other.
@@dlskakaka7441 You imply you dun understand the joke.
nyyotam hahahahaha yesss
I no longer experience social anxiety knowing I'm just amongst family.
A little unususl,but it sounds kind of nice too.
That just bumped UP my anxiety.
Not really
I stil do
@@thisbushnell4824 Don’t worry, We won’t judge you! Only the mean siblings will.
I want to thank every ancestor I ever had, for fighting their battles, surviving hardship, looking after their children and keeping them safe, so that I could be here right now. I’ll never know you, but thank you for everything you did. I’ll do the same for my kid ❤️
beautiful quote
Mine should’ve aborted smh stop the generational curses b4 they begin
Mine also survived plagues, travelled to the other side of the world by ship, got to this land and started with nothing. Thanks, ancestors
Your dead ancestors aren’t in the youtube comments. Just strangers you’ve never met yet somehow want to impress.
@@WafflesNPotholes Why would you waste time on that negative energy
Unknown guy: hit the lottery
Me: Hi Uncle
L G my thousands of unknown great uncles: helo
Hey auntie
🤣🤣🤣🤣
me: *sends him this video*
Sharing is caring 😂
Well, that blows up the wedding invitations list.
If not the wedding itself
@@zempire9633 hi uncle
@@rioneru4410 hi grandpa
See you at the reception
Africa all humans motherland!
Hello my cousins, hope u have a great life!!!
Generic Guy you too cuz
See ya at the next reunion.
Hello
Remember that next time you have sex.MAH COUSIN!!!
Just shows, that no matter what. You will marry your cousin
"I don't have friends, I got family."
- Vin Diesel
Maybe more people would want to be his friend if he treated them better.
huuh bener
Host: "She isnt the first woman of our species or the first anatomical human or anyone really special for that matter"
Me: What you say about my momma :[
Jess O. You mean your a few thousand great grandma....
You're 70k years old??! 😮🤨🤔
"She's special to me!"
@@GREENHOUSE_LIGHTSHOW i wonder how many greats we can put in front of that grandma😐
Great^(7*10^4) grandma
Aight then, time to call my distant cousin jeff bezo’s for my birthday present
Get a Nissan skyline
I hope he puts money in my card
When you understand even your close relative for give anything to you
your present will be a nice article in Washington Post, owned by Bezos
Yesss cousin jeff pay that amazon prime❤🔥
Thanks infinitely great grandmother.
Nub
Nub
Nub
Nub
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“You don’t know me!”
Me: “shut up I’m your brother…”
Lol
Thats actually crazy if you think about it we're like a huge family inhabiting an entire planet
Exactly, we humans are like the virus
All live it connected. Circle of life, we are the world
And U know what is crazy once upon a time there was actually more that two genders
@@AlyxAesthetics You tell him cousin, you're right, there were only two genders
Eric Yao we’re more like bacteria than a virus
We are one big unhappy human family
Wheat & Tares will never get Along , ones without a SOUL SPIRIT.👍
I hate to say it but a few natural disasters would be welcome right about now. Take the pressure off.
At least we are not extinct. Not yet.
mr zed I know what you mean
Paul Mooney been said it. 😂
Oh I get it...
*Where the hells my 7 1/2 billion birthday presents 😠*
You were the least favorite out of all 7 billion of us, bet you feel loved 😂
Where’s my present from you!?
@@christinaatwell6338 idk...I'm a bad brother😭
THE ANIMATOR I’m sorry I missed my cousin...
7.5B cuzzies hate you my dear cousin. Mine's in the mail.
Imagine meeting them. The people who bridge all human beings in the modern world together. You would be looking at everyone you ever knew in one person, your greatest grandmother. What would you show her? I would show her everything. All 7000 pics on my phone
😂 all 7k pics
Id take her on a walk
pretty sure if i met them, they'd instantly shake their heads in disappointment like my parents and grandparents do right now...
😂
Trust me, they'd eat you
Thank you for writing this, it is like a poem to me❤
Wow, all these comments are hilarious, and I thought I was the funny one in the family..
You may just be funny looking lol
The comments arent funny
@@stratant.8722 also a depressing who just ruin the happiness
@@lucaff5899 nah just children who copy paste dead memes
@@stratant.8722 You're the one big bro which tell the kid about santa aren't you?
When you realize that a distant cousin died today, ☹️
But a new one is born
every minute
60 thousand are born every day
Pretty witty
Don't forget all the 'kissing cousins'. Kinda makes it a whole less taboo though. D~
And so the cycle continues
“The two people we’re all related to.”
Ah yes,our parents.
We are, indeed, all related to our parents
I'm learning so much!
*Communism intensifies*
@RonnyDonny13 I think so
*No no... he’s got a point...*
I’ve been thinking about this concept for the past few months and this video randomly shows up on my timeline
“How many family members do you have?”
“7 billion and counting.”
“wut....”
*”including you.....”*
The Census is gonna be wild
Lol love it!
@@CMBell1985 census is just a giant plan for family reunions
Where are my 7 billion birthday presents :(
Stepbro?
That’s gonna be one big family barbecue
Where is it being held? Texas?
Papaw cooked dinner for all the cousins, but only 1 billion of us showed up :C
love u Papaw
And more idiots to deal with on Thanksgiving
Our cousins will bring a mammoth, several grass salads topped with grubs.
They all died
I used to only be thankful for my mom and dad for me being alive. Now I’m thankful for
every
single
person
who lived before me
At least you don't have to be thankful for all of us that live at the same time as you, we just all gotta thank the same person.
even ones that raped and pillaged to create some of your ancestors?
@@Blake4014 yes
Boring
@@Blake4014 especially them
This videos only 9 minutes long but this talented man packed an hours worth of information in a well enunciated and precisely pronounced manner and I am impressed
so...9 minutes worth. he wasn't exactly talking at 6x speed.
Should be an indication that alot of information is being left out lol.
It seems like PBS is focusing on human and primate evolution recently, I am loving it
Only the last two videos so far
Dude... You're on the channel specially focusing on evolution.
absolutely loving it too, was hoping for it for some time :)
João Pedro it’s so awesome
I don't care much for humans so I like the other stuff more
Anytime he says "mitochondria", my brain automatically replies "Is the power house of a cell"
Edit: this blew up so much, I want to thank you all and also know which countries you guys are from. where do they teach this stuff at? Fly your flag(s) where you learnt this at.
Mine = 🇳🇬✌🏾
bruh, same
are of the cells*
That's so funny. Guess they really are brainwashing us the same stuff! Lol.
Same🤣
Prince ea
"Some 10,000 generations"?
Houston, I'm gonna need a bigger tree.
Dalia Capellan - Lol, yeah. Struggling to fit 7 partially filled generations onto my family tree...
Nobody's bothered about your lineage
It's pronounced 'circle'
You guys didn't appreciate this humor nearly enough.
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The most distantly you could be related to anyone on earth is 50th cousins. This means you’ve shared a common ancestor with everyone on earth, with the your most distantly related relatives sharing a common ancestor with you around 1,000 years ago. (give or take a couple hundred years)
The fact that he could say mitochondria and not finish with "the powerhouse of the cell" makes me never want to turn my back on this man
Why is that? Does “power house” make you feel inadequate?
@@Z8terfix its a joke
@InsiderBox2000 It was one of USA’s best known memes, before we knew about memes.
Normie
@@chrlpolk not just usa. any nation with an english biology textbook
It is sad that many of us live like we're entirely different from one another. I mean this shouldn't even come as a surprise that all of us share a common human ancestor. Would it have been any different? It is sad that some people would scoff at this fact. Very great video, thank you.
Right.
Christians don't belive him
We also share a common ancestor with cockroaches. This isn't a reason to be nice to people, the fact that it's in your best interests to be is.
yeah ya know we are just a couple hundred billion ancestors apart
@@chloe4675 it doesn't matter whether one believes in Christianity or thinks evolution is the truth. Both say that humans had one singular point of origin.
Hi cousins, I love you deep down inside because we all have the same great-grandma and grandpa, we fam
Hey cousin
Hi cousin
Why weren't you at grans funeral
Love u too fam xxxx
You smell bad
The rapid commentary keeps it from ever getting boring. Fascinating episode!
My Christmas card list just got 7 billion times bigger.
Are you santa or something
*TIMES* ?
@@MemerCat0 he probably only has one relative.
Damn that's cool, send me a Christmas card too lolol
Where’s my card!?
If I’m learning more watching an 11 minute video than I am sitting in an hour and a half class, then all of my teachers are doing something horribly wrong
To be fair this is a huge effort of manpower to produce this information
Or you can think of it this way: the people making these videos are doing something incredibly right :D
not all your classmate have the same learning capacity/speed as you do. You know that right?
Do you pay as close attention to your teachers as you paid to this video?
This whole education system is designed to get people ready for work. It isn't really interested in higher learning. For that, you have to seek elsewhere. Pay attention to what gets cut out of education curriculums when money "gets tight." They want us smart enough to run the machines but dumb enough to where we don't question our reality or our government.
This reminds me of linguistics and how you can trace language families and the migration of those languages.
Yes, and they do follow the same patterns of migration too. Shame that we only have more registers of the sinnitic and indo european branches.
@@debbiecurtis4021 hi Debbie I agree I realised sanskrit has so much words similar to European languages..even basic words I use in bengali is very similar to Latin origins and European languages
sadly language and genetics arent that strongly correlated
because of things like assimilation
Evolution and linguistics have a LOT of strange parallels, languages evolve just like life does.
@@AspireGMD so language has a single common ancestor?
That was really cool. I love these Eons videos. They take really complex ideas and make them understandable, even for people like me! :)
Thanks!
I learn more from this channel than I do at school.
the internet is the new university. And thankfully most of it’s free.
Of course. Schools have been setting the low bar for decades where you can expect to be less competent than your grandparents were after they graduated. Only way to elevate yourself is to take initiative. Decades ago, those who wanted to learn more than the masses and elevate themselves would spend their free time at the library. Now, we have the Internet!
My generation built the Internet. This has given me a library greater than I ever could have imagined. It is a wonderland for the kid who wants to know everything. This library fits in my hand.
You school sucks lol
Rad Derry English Is my 3rd. Language ? It worse for people who are their first language.
so im related to beyonce?
😳😁😂
technically, even if you're not descended from Beyonce, you would still be a somewhat far removed cousin of her. As am I and everyone else
Yes, we all are
...were you surprised? We're, uhh, humans.
Maybe your far beyonce anchestors are common ancestor
Learn to see me as your brother, instead of two distant strangers -
tupac shakur
What a pick-up line.
Two Pack was a gangbanger
@@puncheex2 sweet home alabama
i dont know how the hell tupac got in this comment section but sure
GAIUS IULIUS CAESAR the Romancaths are pedos but who said we have to like everything about one another.
Anyone who watches this video will owe me all the birthday gifts they missed so about 117 billion presents
Yep community st
Softe talaq
Ya gpp
Gw udh duluann kabur 😂😂😂
What I love about this guy is that he speaks quickly and doesn't waffle.
Don't you mean "what I love about this cousin"?
👫👬👭🧑🤝🧑
"Doesn't waffle" - what do you mean by that?
I concur. I hate slow speaking videos- it wastes time and I feel like they’re just stretching it out to hit a minute mark. Not this guy
I hate that he speed talks about eons of history.
@@cathunter3042 He must not be from your side of the family...
They should be teaching this in schools.
"They" are.
Unless they only teach creationism and call it fact.
"We DO teach it in school. You're too busy eating sugar snacks and horsing around!"
- Principal Skinner, The Simpsons
@@user-sx4yu3nw4j ok tim
Justina they does
Hey all my super distance related cousins!
'Sup.
Heeeey
Let's go bowling.
Technically you’re related to your neighbour
HEY CUZZZZ I LIKE TO YELL
It's almost like hating other people for whatever reason is insane because we're all essentially the same. Hmmm
Like someone else mentioned, Eons has been talking a lot about human ancestors recently. I greatly appreciate it because I never really learned much about this in school! Thanks for the lessons, Eons :)
Sadly we in the USA don’t ever learn much in school. What we do learn is usually outdated information
I had a vaguest understanding when people would do genetic test and say “I had the markers for x group!” This video finally explained what the “markers” are, without me having to research way over my head.
So, the saying "we're more alike than we are different" has more than 1 meaning.
We're truly all brothers and sisters! I love you!
Technically all cousins but close enough lmao
I'm your 100,000th removed cousin.
"Hi". 🤣
Love you too
@dafuqawew 💀💀
Hehe love from India
It's a testament to how long we were in Africa that despite how superficially different we all became, there's still more genetic variation within africa today.
Hahaha, no.
@@ZikimuraHahaha, yes. Op is right lol.
I don’t understand what you are trying to say
This happens in a study on macaques too. Genetically closely related macaque species looked radically different based on geographic distribution.
@@jesuscrust4946all anthropological, archeological and genetic evidence points to that not being the case. it's still a theory based on a hypothesized model of evolution that has since been updated and corrected that relies on there being a series of different species bridging modern homo sapiens to early primates that there has been no evidence of
We are all brothers and sisters. Not literally, but. We should treat one another in such a compassionate way. This episode has me pause and exclaim, "What????" when I heard about how far back these two people go. Truly amazing and awesome.
not exactly.. these two people never met each other
@@Ra-Hul-K ikr, it's like all these people just read the title and went straight to commenting without actually watching the damn video.
@@est9949 no? they literally said in the comment that they didnt mean it literally but just that we should treat eachother as such. how in any possible way did you determine that meant he hadnt paid attention to the video???
I like how that made some complex ideas fairly simple to understand. Good job.
This is the basis of an ancient Indian philosophy in Sanskrit - "Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam" which translates to "the whole world is one family".
@@maxotto9877 there is a difference between philosophy and superstition. I think you may not be able to comprehend it with your peanut sized brain.
@@maxotto9877 What's your problem, just asking......you are just sprewing hate in here. Your statements are just assumptions without solid proofs.
This is the principal of many philosophies yet there is so much hate in the world…
I was thinking the same thing, actually. like we all came from some where in the distant past a single celled organism
Unfortunately most of us dont have the basic rationality to think beyond race religion and ethnicity @catlord777x3
Thanksgiving Family get togethers have just become more unmanageable then ever before.
Oh, while I'm here... HI family!
be sure to talk about politics and religion.......
Yo watch your tone that’s my grandad you’re talking about
LordlyLlama hi cousin
@@professorsquiggles1841 hi cousin I'm dad
HumzDaCrazyD you can’t run away from the truth, cousin
I think you mean *our* grandfather
you mean our **GRANDESTFATHER**
I feel like hugging everyone around the world right now. ❤️
@Varoon 😆🤣😂
Manish, that's a good gesture :-)
Online hug
🤗
@Varoon why you call my cousin that
I wish this was taught in school, would definitely help children to bond and mingle regardless of their race
I agree 1000%
True
Well, if you go to catholic school, it is.
!!!
In the USA it is in many places. But in others there are new laws forbidding it.
i found this fascinating!!! you spoke pretty quickly so thankfully i'm a nurse and kept up with you.....still don't completely get it, but get it enough that i'm totally interested
"We don't understand why these two individuals left the indelible mark that they have in our genomes."
Because if they hadn't someone else would've.
Thank you... I loved the episode, but rolled my eyes when I heard that.
T.
😂😂
Actually no. There would have been a good chance for several groups to´compete against each other.
I'm curious this is what we know from the dna we have studied. I mean if we were to study more people's dna we would find a possible different lineage?
“We are family.....I’ve got all my sisters (and brothers) with me” 🎵🎶 Be well, Fam. Look after yourselves in these trying times.
Pommie bears does that mean your dating your cousin?
I was in that huge crowd btw hi cousin
Mitochondrial Eve
Underated comment
Y chromosomal Adam
Just to confirm my interpretation - so this lady 70,000 years ago is essentially everyone’s great-great-great-great grandma? And every woman alive has a direct maternal lineage that goes back to that woman?
She must have made the best snacks
Yes.
But not only is she everyone's great-great-great... grandmom. She's everyone's MATERNAL great-great-great... grandmom.
So there are other women who lived at the same time as this woman, who is known as "mitochondrial Eve", who are also your great-great-great... grandmom. But not in a direct maternal line.
yeah i dont buy it it seems impossible
@@E.a.Z.S.e.n.T It is extremely far away from impossible. It is more like inevitable.
So what is the reason why you think it's impossible? I think it's simply because you don't understand it.
@@Tjalve70 everybody was not made from 2 people that's common sense why we have many races of people and where not all in bread
We're all in this TOGETHER!!!
How crazy would it be to go back in time and tell these two people "You both will be the true parents of humanity." I think they might be a little disappointed in us.
They are not. It's like you just read the title and went straight to commenting without actually watching the damn video.
If you actually watched it, you'd hear he said we have a ton of ancestors, but due to the limitation in genome sequencing process which was done by hand, we used to only be able to trace a small fraction of human genes, ie these two simplest-to-trace genomes (mitochondrial and Y) that never crossed over but passed on along multiple direct lines of all-male or all-female lineages. Meaning that due to our limited computational tool, we used to have only a small window to peek at only two simplest people out of the whole combinatorial population of our ancestors, while the rest of our ancestors whose MAJORITY of our chromosomes (non-mitochondrial, non-Y) got shuffled and passed on to us in a more complex pathways over the millions of years were beyond our capability to trace, pre computer-based genome sequencing.
And this is changing, with computers, we're just starting to learn more about the rest of our ancestor population.
@@est9949 I understand we all come from more than 2 people. It's completely impossible that all of us would have. You missed completely what I meant. I should probably put this on r/whoosh
@@est9949You really need decaf.
@@est9949 Calm down
They’d only be mad at the racist ones.
Yet another reminder that ultimately, all of us are one big Human Family--whether we like it or not.
We're all part of this ever evolving earth
untill those warships from Proxima Centauri get here and wipe all you humans out.
I notice you said
one big human family, not
one big happy family.
When will people learn to get along...
@@jasons8479 when people learn to accept it universally.
no ty
Thanks!
We're one huge dysfunctional family.
@Milhouse lol i read a comment that said
“World wars are just family arguments”
Copied comment
@Leonardo Micarelli who?
Totally!!! 🤣
@@Lamenteinglesa uncle?!😳
Could you cover the evolution of blood
Turmunhk Ganba that would be a good Halloween special!
@@davidcliff2141 yup
That would be great
It's easy actually
Oh that would be super interesting! Please do.
Glad to see all my relatives in the comment section lol 😂
Fascinating. Considering that our "common male ancestor" would have had more opportunities, biologically speaking, to pass on his genetic material than our common female ancestor, who perhaps could have had as many as 15 children or so versus the male who may have been that "productive" every year of his adult life, her story is more impressive to me. Thank you for your service, super grandmom.
I only have a vague understanding of mtDNA and all that, but this video did a wonderful job of synthesizing that down to something bite sized and still kinda fun. THANK YOU PBS - I love that 30 years later you still teach me.
I’m always so happy when I get a notification for a new pbs eons video ❤️
Will you guys be able to do a video sometime about the evolution of my favorite animal, the kangaroo?
Or the platypus!
They should!
I HAVE A MIGHTY NEED FOR KANGAROO INFO POST HASTE
This is a really big topic, but I find fascinating how unique the wild life is in Oceania in general. So maybe a video about the animals that might have originally migrated there and given rise to the diversity there is there now?
When I saw you asking about the kangaroo,I thought about a thumbnail I'd seen with a T-Rex,which said "Why were T-Rex's arm so short?" I did not read the article,but thought,"Probably the same reason kangaroo's arm are short."We need more answers,don't we?
We are all family, so we should all learn to treat each other with dignity and respect.
In a perfect world yes, but sadly it's in human nature to constantly bicker and fight over just about anything.
Nah fam, I ain't treating my sister with dignity and respect.
@@11Survivor but with dicknity
thank you for your comment :)
Sometimes family is overrated. Manson had a family and that didnt work out too well.
"Thats actually crazy if you think about it we're like a huge family inhabiting an entire planet" that is flighting on the thanksgiving dinner table and shooting trying to kill other members of the family.
Me : Wait are all Alabamians..?
🔫PBS : Always have been.
Alabamans*
I expected this to be about Gengis Khan and someone else. I'm glad I clicked anyway, and learned something.
The other guy was supposedly Charlemagne.
@@tootieq6527 at least for those of us of European descent
@@tootieq6527 or Ramsés II if you're african
@@joedirte716 Why, gross?
@@KlavierMenn you know why he said that
Wow, I knew about the mitochondrial DNA passed down from mothers but I didn't realize it was an unbroken line from mother to daughter repeating all the way till now! That's absolutely crazy. I thought it must live in male DNA too but I guess not.
It does, it just doesn't get passed down to the children.
And all throughout history we had it wrong, thinking the specialness was in men’s lineage!
@@chrlpolk I don't know that many people thought genetics were only passed in make lineage.
It is more of a legal thing.
@@chrlpolk Nobody thought that
Men have mitochondrial DNA from their mothers too, but they don't become mothers and therefore can't pass it on further.
I read Out of Eden: The Peopling of the World by Stephen Oppenheimer in 2004 and since then more and more comes out about human history and maternal lineage. Anthropology is fascinating.
I think this was the book I read, but I couldn’t remember the title. Thanks.
I don’t understand anything he’s saying but I still watched
Lol.
In summary we all are distance cousins
Watched it 3 times...Will keep trying to get it...
Go to the PBS space time and see how confused you get then loool.
Muhammed Ali Inamdar same lol
the word 'mitochondria' gives me war flashbacks
If it's Star Wars flashbacks, you might be dyslexic.
This video should be part of your human evolution playlist
What do you mean by evolution? Micro or macro? I highly recommend the Cross Examined and Living Waters RUclips channels, especially the videos about evolution. Cold-Case Christianity also has a lot of content about evolution and evidence :)
@@heavnxbound micro evolution is macro evolution
That was so cool! Thank you.
Can we have a more focused on the evolution of placental mammals? You have mentioned therapsids and ancestors in other episodes but haven't gone through placental evolution.
Also, a video about fossil mammal lineages would be cool
totally, and the few which menstruate. iirc it's just bats, elephant shrews, and us humans who have menses. it's super strange. even stranger, sweating is even rarer in the animal kingdom, it's just us in that one, sorry shrews and bats!
Cari. did you go to a public school?
Shut up NERD!
Phish N' Chimps I’m assuming you didn’t go to school. And before you say anything I went to both a public school and a Christian private school (it was also a college prep school) long story short, I am no longer a Christian, and it wasn’t the public school who did that to me, it was the Christian school where I spent most of my time in my critical years as a teen. Stop running from science, embrace it, it’s not a secret plot by atheists.
"mah boi steve" LOL
Noice
Barney Is Right!!
*"I LOVE YOU YOU LOVE ME WE ARE HAPPY FAMILY"*
Hello brother
LOL
Thanks great-great-great------------------------------- (you know, it keeps going) great- grandad & grandma. You guys were the truth 😁🙌👑👑
Kudos to the whole team, you're doing an amazing job! I think most of us can relate to those boring classes from school were no one really cared what science is for, but you sort of remember some terms.. And now all those things make so such sense when you put up all your visual displays and explain the higher power of science to simple humans, like me.. Great job
How can she not be special? She's related to every woman alive today
Every man too. We all are.
that explains everything. it's all making sense now.
@@kindnessfirst9670 how is she related to every man?
@Tegu Iguana YEAH?! Not going to rewatch the video but I thought it was about MCRA and mitochondria
Well, what I think is that he meant that she wasn't necessarily somebody special while she lived.
But she did become important after she was gone since she happened to have daughters and granddaughters and so on, who passed on a strain of her DNA.
However, it is probably just a coincidence that she and no other woman became "Mitochondrial Eve"...
This channel deserves more than just subscribes and likes because they add references
Shout out to great-great-great-great-great-great-great-and so on-Granduncle Bob and thx great-great-great-great-you get what i mean-Grandaunt Susan for letting everybody know that you dont jump down that cliff that totally looks survivable and teaching everyone to not eat that brightly coloured plant or animal. Really. Thanks alot. Wished your works would reach more people.
The headline was"Back to Eve"on the Indian science journal"Science Today"on the March,1987 issue and the cover page was"DNA fingerprinting",I still remember.
That's an amazing memory you have.
@@poietes7337 Thanks, for your complement.
I bless the rains down in Africaaaaaaaa
Jeff Vader your corporate government Washington cough cough Illuminati stopped it with their button! Haarp
We're all related to two people who'd never met.
* mind blown *
But what if they did?😳
Amy Golden
Humanoid!
@@amygolden523 They weren't even alive at the same time.
i've never met you and i'm related to you
I really find that fascinating.
This is all very fascinating. However, all this information makes me just want to sit down with a good cold beer.
Hey bro, you get that cold beer?
Hey bro, you got the beer yet? It's probably starting to get warm
America: it’s will now be illegal to marry your relatives.
People that live in America: bruh, were all related
Alabama
@bou path one word.... Alabama
‘*cough cough* Gacha Life *cough*
@bou path so *that* is illegal but two people who are blind, deaf, or have some other disability they know will be passed on are still allowed to have offspring?
I'll be honest, it does seem like just an 'acceptable' form of eugenics.
*SWEET HOMEEE ALABAMAAAA*
Great video! Your video was so informative. Thank you so much!
I'd love to know more about super old trees, like the Methusula, the Great Basin bristlecone pine, and, and Pando, the 80,000 year old clone forest.
Andy. I'm glad to read your comment. We have many Great Basin bristlecone pines here everywhere.
Reading you post brought to mind the words, “I’m a lumberjack and that’s okay…”
Try searching for those topics? Why comment that you'd like to know more about something when you have the internet at your fingertips?
He says he wants to know more about their DNA and how it has evolved @@jamisojo
1:33 _"Hey you! Yes, You! You're now my battery."_
So interesting,well researched and presented. Well done. Thank you
we're all extended family so we should treat each other like it.
Im starting to see why human beings fight so much
end no doing sex because that is sick!
@@Slikarxxx Too late 🗿
some of us treat family like trash so I can treat people like trash cool
Nope. What fun is that? We're all stuck on this one big rock we need something to do to pass the time.
This was a great episode, I truly enjoy EONS so much. You always learn something new. 😊
Thank you cousin 👍
Chortle 😆