Your Place in the Primate Family Tree

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    Purgatorius, a kind of mammal called a plesiadapiform, might’ve been one of your earliest ancestors. But how did we get from a mouse-sized creature that looked more like a squirrel than a monkey -- to you, a member of Homo sapiens?
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  • @eons
    @eons  6 лет назад +356

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    • @stevenbaumann8692
      @stevenbaumann8692 6 лет назад +4

      PBS Eons I low genus designations are somewhat arbitrary. But why do we put Homo where we do? Shouldn’t it logically go with the first species with a similar brain size and habits such as Heidelbergensis and Neanderthals?

    • @citycrusher9308
      @citycrusher9308 6 лет назад +4

      I'm often accused of being a primate. Thanks for clearing that up PBS

    • @FiddlerForest
      @FiddlerForest 6 лет назад +5

      I like that you have a shop but i'd really like a poster that looks more like your timeline scale where the eons - eras are all lined up on the left side. A poster styled like that with some neat facts and images from the show for each period would quickly find a home adorning my office where i design literal rockets!! (Also if you did them as a series of posters with more details i'd TOTALLY buy the set!)
      Love the show, I cannot wait to for each new episode!!

    • @tec-jones5445
      @tec-jones5445 6 лет назад +2

      Where do you guys take suggestions?

    • @davidfoster5561
      @davidfoster5561 6 лет назад +1

      Steven Baumann I thought they did.... i.e. Homo Neanderthalis and Homo Heidelbergensis? Unless I'm misunderstanding your question, in which case I don't have the answer. Lol

  • @chegeny
    @chegeny 6 лет назад +2973

    It's great to see the whole family together again.

    • @Baamthe25th
      @Baamthe25th 5 лет назад +76

      Except for the ones who are extinct.

    • @lobehold2263
      @lobehold2263 5 лет назад +76

      @MX Yes why, is someone messing with the thermostat again?

    • @josec.desampaio119
      @josec.desampaio119 5 лет назад +7

      @@edwardofhydeiii666 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Nice one. 👍

    • @NajwaLaylah
      @NajwaLaylah 4 года назад +17

      We should do this *every* year.

    • @thecrippledpancake9455
      @thecrippledpancake9455 4 года назад +22

      MX Yes Don’t forget brother, we are also slaughtering ourselves with climate change. It does not discriminate

  • @samrizzardi2213
    @samrizzardi2213 6 лет назад +2518

    A really good sequel to this would be "Your chicken's place in the dinosaur family tree"

    • @kindlin
      @kindlin 6 лет назад +110

      If chickens are dinosaurs (and I believe they are), then, actually, we're all just fish.

    • @SteleCat
      @SteleCat 6 лет назад +4

      *parakeet

    • @Seadalgo
      @Seadalgo 6 лет назад +52

      Unless 'fish' is a non-scientific word and permissibly paraphyletic. Because since turtles likely branch off of the diapsid line before synapsids and turtles are colloquially called reptiles then all Mammals and Birds would also be reptiles. Unless the turtle body plan is convergent over both modern anapsids with diapsid ancestors and a previous naturally anapsid line of turtles in which case reptiles could be monophyletic if they include birds but then the word turtle would become polyphyletic and I've gone cross-eyed O.o

    • @ksoundkaiju9256
      @ksoundkaiju9256 6 лет назад +9

      @@kindlin What are you a Creationist?

    • @samrizzardi2213
      @samrizzardi2213 6 лет назад +35

      "Fish" is a descriptive term, not a diagnostic one like "dinosaur" is.

  • @TigirlakaLaserwolf6
    @TigirlakaLaserwolf6 4 года назад +818

    Me: "I'm not very good"
    Primateologist: "You're a _great_ ape."
    Me: :)

    • @ANAYELIPALACIOS
      @ANAYELIPALACIOS 3 года назад +31

      That’s wholesome

    • @mzrohan3226
      @mzrohan3226 3 года назад +65

      The lesser apes on Twitter : TRIGGERED!

    • @georgeb.wolffsohn30
      @georgeb.wolffsohn30 3 года назад +13

      I do like bananas . . . 🤔❓

    • @neeharika422
      @neeharika422 3 года назад +3

      @@georgeb.wolffsohn30 You like termites as well?

    • @northamerica5142
      @northamerica5142 3 года назад +8

      @@neeharika422 I mean they offer alot of protein... So don't knock it till you try it I suppose

  • @DenTheGodKing
    @DenTheGodKing 3 года назад +330

    We are incredibly lucky to be born in a time and place in the universe where we can actually understand and contemplate our history/existence.

    • @nerdyspinosaurid
      @nerdyspinosaurid 2 года назад +15

      I think humans have always tried to do so to the best of our abilities; in 200 years, a lot of things about current scientific theories will probably be seen as ridiculous.

    • @NelsonDiscovery
      @NelsonDiscovery 2 года назад

      Nnnnot really... But whatever makes you happy.

    • @SolracCAP
      @SolracCAP Год назад +5

      If intelligent life is indeed rare in the universe, we are truly special.

  • @orangeSoda35
    @orangeSoda35 6 лет назад +1369

    My place on the primate family tree doesn't matter cause primates don't stay on one branch for long.

  • @solk.posner7201
    @solk.posner7201 6 лет назад +660

    This is cool. Having a common ancestor with other animals makes me feel more connected to them.
    We aren't that different yet unique in our way.

    • @joshuastreet8664
      @joshuastreet8664 6 лет назад +71

      Zoom in very closely and you'll see we're all just the same. All made of the same cells, just arranged in different ways to better suit our specific needs.

    • @meci6625
      @meci6625 5 лет назад +51

      Well, technically speaking we are all related. It's a fact that gets thrown out almost always but stop and think about it like seriously, it's so freaking cool

    • @lightenergy17
      @lightenergy17 3 года назад +19

      *looks at fish*
      B-brother?

    • @silverschmid4591
      @silverschmid4591 3 года назад +9

      @@lightenergy17 you have achieved comedy

    • @Minish4rk360
      @Minish4rk360 3 года назад +3

      @@lightenergy17 uncle would be more accurate

  • @yaboicolleen
    @yaboicolleen 3 года назад +373

    I went to a religious school for K-12, so evolution was never covered in science classes. This twelve-minute video taught me more than an entire year of sophomore-level biology. Thanks :)

    • @xroyalbloodx
      @xroyalbloodx 3 года назад +84

      Not bashing but how are such schools even allowed? Doesn't that kinda defeat the purpose of schooling? That's like if I open up a school and decided to simply not teach mathematics.

    • @Alepoudiitsa
      @Alepoudiitsa 2 года назад +47

      Same here I thot growing up that dinosaur were just myths that I saw in movies I never knew that the were fossil out there. I really believed that we were kicked from heaven 😅. Till I find this channel and it open my eyes. I wish I saw it when I was younger I will love to have become an pedologist. I think that how you spell it sorry eng is self learned.

    • @ianharrison5758
      @ianharrison5758 2 года назад +18

      @@xroyalbloodx idek. I won’t get into it super heavy cause it’s not relevant but there’s no reason why religion and education should mix.
      Teach what is known, what has evidence. Not what you believe. However, I would rather see religious schools than see freedom of religion be tampered with in any way so I guess it’s a trade off.

    • @Xyxle410
      @Xyxle410 2 года назад +4

      I had a hyperfixation once I think I've watched 8 years or seven years worth of evolution videos

    • @athenastewart9167
      @athenastewart9167 Год назад +3

      @@Alepoudiitsa Do you mean paleontologist, those who study ancient forms of life and fossils?
      It is never too late to do what you love. :-)

  • @hauntedmasc
    @hauntedmasc 6 лет назад +761

    Considering its controversial status in taxonomic limbo, it's sort of darkly ironic that it's named "Purgatorius."

    • @petercarioscia9189
      @petercarioscia9189 6 лет назад +62

      I...I think that's intentional...you do realize scientist named it right? We didn't it find it with a darkly ironic name plate?

    • @robinchesterfield42
      @robinchesterfield42 6 лет назад +57

      First time I heard about it, was in the context of "This early mammal was around during the last days of the dinosaurs", so I thought maybe it was named Purgatorius because it lived in kind of a chaotic limbo-world that wasn't quite one thing or the other? Like, not dinosaurs in charge anymore really, but the mammals hadn't truly taken over yet either.
      ...it's really too bad about the Purgatory Hill thing. All of our other guesses are way more interesting. :P

    • @jameskaminski2813
      @jameskaminski2813 6 лет назад +30

      Call me Pedanticus because I believe you mean coincidental and not ironic. Ironic would be like if it had the name "Classifiabilicus" or something.

    • @chadoftoons
      @chadoftoons 6 лет назад +9

      James i request that you change your username to "James Pedanticus Kaminski"

    • @austinharding9734
      @austinharding9734 5 лет назад +1

      @Giuarco97 i prolly would have said the exact same thing so props to you for the correction

  • @chekeichan
    @chekeichan 6 лет назад +475

    It's hard to fit all of these names on my business card.

    • @ewoewo1113
      @ewoewo1113 5 лет назад +16

      You made my day, aha !

  • @barkasz6066
    @barkasz6066 6 лет назад +260

    Nature is more amazing and fascinating than any story humans can come up with on their own.

    • @thsimpsonsguy
      @thsimpsonsguy 4 года назад +14

      You clearly haven't watched Inception

    • @user-hnjga8is1zr6u
      @user-hnjga8is1zr6u 3 года назад +4

      You won't believe what my grandparents had to do when they went to their schools.

  • @factsinmotion3978
    @factsinmotion3978 6 лет назад +980

    I hate family reunions.

  • @louisehaley5105
    @louisehaley5105 4 года назад +57

    I never understand why creationists hate the idea that we share a common ancestor with other primates. I think it an honour to be related to such wonderful creatures !

    • @caviramus0993
      @caviramus0993 4 года назад +15

      Because for them animals are filthy

  • @VeronicaGorositoMusic
    @VeronicaGorositoMusic 5 лет назад +179

    I don't know if it's important to many people, but we owe our ancestors every piece of life & joy we can obtain today, because they fought hard to survive in extreme conditions and adversities.
    I'm proud of being a part of their MIllion Years Heritage...the ancients that faced terrible times, they didn't had our intellectual speed and brain power to understand what was happening....
    Even that, they DID MAKE IT.
    We are here thanks to Them.

    • @regular-joe
      @regular-joe 4 года назад +8

      Bravo! Well stated!

    • @potatonoodlebear8035
      @potatonoodlebear8035 4 года назад +27

      I hope thousands years later, our descendants will say the same about us. I wish they will thank us for the technologies we obtain in this age. I wish our descendants will be walking among the stars and never be bothered by diseases or lack of resources. I wish they will be living in an age of such prosperity that we us now would never have dreamed of. I wish they will thanks us for laying down the solid foundation for them just like our ancestors did for us.

    • @VerSaati
      @VerSaati 4 года назад +9

      We don't "owe" them anything besides the promise to continue surviving and keeping the species alive just like they did. We are, however, grateful that they took on the unfair battle of life, survived and evolved long enough for us to be here and be how we are today.

    • @georgeb.wolffsohn30
      @georgeb.wolffsohn30 3 года назад +3

      They fought, they hadn't "fighted"

    • @scum.3966
      @scum.3966 3 года назад +1

      *fought* + it’s a 3.5 billion year heritage + *they didn’t have* + *Even then, they MADE IT.*

  • @Draegoron
    @Draegoron 4 года назад +104

    This is more beautiful than any creation myth could ever hope to be.

    • @richardblazer8070
      @richardblazer8070 4 года назад +9

      No, it is a fact. Well established and substantiated fact actually.

    • @Shinigami15436
      @Shinigami15436 3 года назад

      @@koba763 Comparative anatomy, DNA sequencing and phylogenetic taxonomy. Look up what a primate is instead of proudly displaying your ignorance.

    • @koba763
      @koba763 3 года назад +2

      @@Shinigami15436 oh sorry i meant to reply to the original comment, which at the time seemed like it was against evolution. My comment must have made me seem like a creationist there lmao. I can assure you i’m not.

    • @NA-vh1ny
      @NA-vh1ny 3 года назад +29

      Omg yes. Religious people always get so offended when you talk to them about evolution. But as a religious person I think billions of years of perfecting each species is so much more compelling, and teaches us empathy, morality and love for the world around us. The orangutan is a close relative of ours and we are destroying its habitat for palm oil. If we acknowledged how closely related they were to us, would we still treat them that way?

    • @JayBravo612
      @JayBravo612 Год назад +3

      THIS is the comment I have been waiting for. Evolution is mind blowing and it's verifiable!

  • @chrisbynum4438
    @chrisbynum4438 4 года назад +84

    5 years ago I didn’t believe in evolution. Now I’m obsessed and in love with it. Gotta love growing up in the Bible Belt.

    • @hammalammadingdong6244
      @hammalammadingdong6244 4 года назад +2

      Chris Bynum - What changed your mind, if you don’t mind me asking?

    • @pedrosabino8751
      @pedrosabino8751 4 года назад +6

      You can mix the 2 things. When someone is inventing something, he doesn't immediately come to the final form, there some prototypes before and he will updating/upgrading.

    • @chrisbynum4438
      @chrisbynum4438 4 года назад +10

      Dami same. Shows like Planet Earth were what gave me interest in learning more about the natural evolution of the animal kingdom. But RUclips definitely definitely helped me form my new opinion

  • @JamesDumas-b1x
    @JamesDumas-b1x 9 месяцев назад +11

    My place on the tree? Laying on the ground at the bottom of it yelling help, l've fallen and I can't get up.

  • @citiesskyscrapers4561
    @citiesskyscrapers4561 6 лет назад +1515

    Proud to be a primate.

    • @mvsawyer
      @mvsawyer 6 лет назад +34

      As am I.

    • @Hiznogood
      @Hiznogood 6 лет назад +43

      Oock oock! 👍 🍌

    • @sasshole8121
      @sasshole8121 6 лет назад +16

      Watch out. I don't like where you're going.

    • @zm_azathoth8797
      @zm_azathoth8797 6 лет назад +94

      Christian triggered

    • @OEHOEH100
      @OEHOEH100 6 лет назад +8

      wrong anwere racict 😠 *proud 2 be native american* 😂

  • @wilhelmdietz4023
    @wilhelmdietz4023 4 года назад +17

    Isn't this story much better than some guy named Adam just randomly existing and his wife Eve, made from his rib?

  • @pegeonpera
    @pegeonpera 6 лет назад +593

    The last time I was this early to a PBS Eons video, it was a RNA world...

    • @thelastcube.
      @thelastcube. 6 лет назад +23

      So you're telling me that you're the first DNA organism
      Seems legit.

    • @IK-my5oq
      @IK-my5oq 6 лет назад +5

      A Snake nah he just says that for likes.

    • @strangelic4234
      @strangelic4234 6 лет назад +11

      Katherine, hand me the mop. Reddit leaks again.

    • @pegeonpera
      @pegeonpera 6 лет назад +2

      Well, I had to make a meme related to paleontology

    • @that_pizza_drive6687
      @that_pizza_drive6687 6 лет назад

      lmao

  • @hugonavakopp
    @hugonavakopp 2 года назад +16

    Jeez , this video should be part of the curriculum in all high schools.
    It would make biology and anthropology that much interesting and exciting !
    This video is not far from being a work of genius , one can tell the amount of effort put into it , for instance the masterful summarising of a huge quantity of information into 12 mins , or the brilliant editing of images , diagrams , storytelling and verbal delivery .
    Seriously, this video could change the lives of teenager education and their enjoyment of natural sciences.
    Ps : the comedic choice of pictures of the apes and monkeys just takes this video to another level 😂

  • @donnycooksey2032
    @donnycooksey2032 4 года назад +9

    Just imagine how far back you would have to go back like this to find how closely related you are to say an octopus or a jellyfish, yet it could still be done. Amazing.

  • @frozenweevil4022
    @frozenweevil4022 3 года назад +22

    It's really weird to think that we're the last hominins, with so many others that are never gonna be here again. It would be so interesting to go back in time and meet different hominins.

    • @ProFow
      @ProFow 3 года назад +5

      You never know, maybe in the distant future we might have evolved to have multi-branches again

    • @JubioHDX
      @JubioHDX Год назад

      @@ProFow i think if space travel/colonization ever happens that will, but as we are now with how interconnected the whole world is i dont know if humans will be able to diversify on earth, its not any of us truly occupy different niches, and we all breed together even when from differing environments

  • @Fullmetalminos
    @Fullmetalminos 6 лет назад +96

    0:45 Add an acorn and two fangs and you got Scrat.

    • @firenationfiles2063
      @firenationfiles2063 6 лет назад +3

      😂

    • @tec-jones5445
      @tec-jones5445 6 лет назад +12

      I knew that bastard was behind this... he's always starting something with that dang acorn of his.

    • @bernieponcik1351
      @bernieponcik1351 6 лет назад +4

      * Inside joke/Easter egg from Ice Age movies...

    • @AndrewBrownK
      @AndrewBrownK 6 лет назад +3

      Saber teeth.... they’re saber teeth

    • @marcpeterson1092
      @marcpeterson1092 6 лет назад +5

      Thank you, that's just what I was thinking.

  • @jcortese3300
    @jcortese3300 6 лет назад +925

    I will never understand why religious nuts are bothered by this. It's SO COOL that we're just part of a big interwoven tapestry of living things. This is way more interesting and awe-inspiring.

    • @Theo0x89
      @Theo0x89 5 лет назад +238

      They are bothered because evolution suggests that we can understand ourselves based on the laws of nature, and that our existence is finite. Religious nuts want to be eternal magic ghosts, unfathomable mysteries in the image of their favorite god.

    • @medad5502
      @medad5502 5 лет назад +126

      Please don't generalize, I'm a practicing muslim and believe in evolution and have no conflicting ideas between religion and "laws of nature".

    • @joshuastreet8664
      @joshuastreet8664 5 лет назад +103

      @@medad5502 well I hope you can see why people generalize about religions. They literally say in their books that they declare themselves as correct and everything else as false. You can choose to believe what you want out of the religions book, but if you don't follow the whole thing, isn't that blasphemous?

    • @ProximaCentauri88
      @ProximaCentauri88 5 лет назад +54

      J Cortese
      I am a devout Catholic and I LOVE these videos about evolution. The man behind the Big Bang Theory was a Catholic priest, Lemaître although the world only recognizes Hubble.

    • @tyrmundr3111
      @tyrmundr3111 5 лет назад +112

      @@medad5502 I don't think "religious nuts" means every single religious person but those who truly lost their minds. Sadly they are the loudest and that's part of why people tend to generalize.

  • @CannonRanger-1
    @CannonRanger-1 6 лет назад +70

    There are some days I wish our ancestors never climbed down from the trees. I wonder, is it too late to climb back up? I love this channel.

    • @robinchesterfield42
      @robinchesterfield42 6 лет назад +26

      And now I'm remembering that one quote from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: "And some thought even the trees had been a bad idea, and that nobody should ever have left the oceans." XD

    • @numberjackfiutro7412
      @numberjackfiutro7412 5 лет назад +11

      Well, technically, you can still live in the trees.

    • @TheUltimateNatural
      @TheUltimateNatural 4 года назад +5

      They likely didn't come down by choice.

  • @cesaralcaraz819
    @cesaralcaraz819 4 года назад +19

    I find it odd that religious people think it's crazy to think that humans came from monkeys yet say it's rational to believe that humans came from dirt

    • @jarlbalgruuf7701
      @jarlbalgruuf7701 3 года назад +8

      They demand so much evidence of evolution but yet will believe in magic described in an ancient book

    • @aarontavolacci2311
      @aarontavolacci2311 3 года назад +3

      I mean not all religious people think that. Conservative Judaism mostly accepts evolution in my experience

    • @Tripple_777-3
      @Tripple_777-3 3 года назад

      Not all God believers deny science..

    • @pauliethompson3922
      @pauliethompson3922 3 года назад

      Im a christian and i dont believe that text is to be taken literally. Like most things in the bible the conveyed message that humans were taken from the earth is symbolism and some sort of metaphor. But with everything you see on our planet cant you say that it may be possible that there is a collective consciousness that christians call god?

  • @jkfecke
    @jkfecke 6 лет назад +19

    This is so much more beautiful than any just-so story, a grand, sweeping history that goes back so long that we can't conceptualize it.

  • @paulilorenz3039
    @paulilorenz3039 5 лет назад +15

    6:00
    'They're basically built in seat cushions!'
    The delivery of that line is amazing :D
    Next time I want to sit down somewhere I'm going to confuse someone by saying 'Oh damn, I wish I still had my Ischial Callosities' :P

  • @MrTumshie
    @MrTumshie 6 лет назад +334

    “Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.”
    ― Douglas Adams
    I think this is something we should change. An all primate dinner party might be great fun. Or alternatively it might be a disaster that would make a great RUclips video.

    • @justincronkright5025
      @justincronkright5025 5 лет назад +32

      The use of the word 'ancestors' here is incorrect. It would be best to just call them 'distant cousins', as is usually used in videoes such as these.
      But absolutely agreed. I've been thinking - i.e. having mental experiments/thoughts on how the social inter-play between myself and the different Ape & Semiiformes species might work & play out. Been fantastic in my head, thinking it would be a hundred times better in person.

    • @MrTumshie
      @MrTumshie 5 лет назад +14

      You are, of course, correct. But the joke needs to use the word ancestors in order to work.

    • @714Sluggo
      @714Sluggo 5 лет назад +16

      We invite our distant cousins over for dinner all the time! Then we eat them.

    • @stefantherainbowphoenix
      @stefantherainbowphoenix 4 года назад +4

      Extant primates are not our ancestors.

    • @johnalanelson
      @johnalanelson 4 года назад +2

      @@stefantherainbowphoenix One of the smartest comments on here!

  • @Healtsome
    @Healtsome 6 лет назад +111

    idk about you, but i consider myself a quite intelligent gibbon

  • @Kissanminttu2
    @Kissanminttu2 4 года назад +11

    It's amazing to watch videos of baby gorillas and see how similar their movements and facial expressions are to human babies.

  • @CAPace09
    @CAPace09 4 года назад +14

    "But you can still pick out some features that you share with, say your second cousins..."
    Habsburg jawline intensifies,

    • @okije
      @okije 3 года назад

      at least you're a royalty

  • @dimensionhopper
    @dimensionhopper 6 лет назад +40

    PLEASE CONTINUE THIS!!! It would be amazing to see where we sit in relation to other mammals. I've done a lot of browsing through Wikipedia to see this but it would be awesome to see it in your videos.

    • @Dragrath1
      @Dragrath1 6 лет назад +1

      Part of the problem is that its hard to place where various more distantly related mammal groups fit in together with respect to each other beyond the level there are all placental mammals. Around the time of divergence mammals that would split to become the placental mammals left a very scarce fossil record dominated by teeth and trace fossils which isn't much to go by...

  • @Symbioticism
    @Symbioticism 6 лет назад +35

    How have lorises evolved to be so cute?? WHY?? THEY ARE SO WONDERFUL!

    • @simonj3413
      @simonj3413 6 лет назад +13

      Only for another primate species to keep them as exotic pets and cause them massive population declines

    • @Symbioticism
      @Symbioticism 6 лет назад +4

      Simon Janevic Yes, that is very very sad.

    • @aronchai
      @aronchai 5 лет назад +11

      It's because primates lack a tapetum lucidum, which is the reflective layer on the retina that gives most mammals better night vision. That means that nocturnal primates have had to evolve gigantic eyes instead.

    • @ASLUHLUHC3
      @ASLUHLUHC3 4 года назад +3

      @@simonj3413 Being cute in the eyes of homo sapiens is a massive advantage. It's the only reason pandas still exist

    • @joeasher2876
      @joeasher2876 3 года назад +2

      Lorises evolved about 9-10 million years before homo sapians appeared, so they've been cute to us for longer than we have existed. The more accurate question is why have we evolved to find them cute.

  • @lethallizard963
    @lethallizard963 6 лет назад +196

    Im interested in the evolutionary history of angiosperms, the flowering plant. How did plants start reproducing like that?

    • @Aurgelmir87
      @Aurgelmir87 6 лет назад +14

      I would like to redirect you to Benjamin Burgers channel for that, he has a pretty comprehensive outline on the evolution of plant reproduction here: ruclips.net/p/PL9o6KRlci4eAyElYru4zsTRJDZQqz37fF
      I would recommend looking at lectures 27-37 for a look at the evolution history of land plants or just 36-37 on angiosperms in particular.

    • @lethallizard963
      @lethallizard963 6 лет назад +2

      Aurgelmir87 Thank you :) but I was also hinting for this channel to cover it. Appreciated tho

    • @Ezullof
      @Ezullof 6 лет назад +10

      This channel already covered this topic: ruclips.net/video/13aUo5fEjNY/видео.html

    • @anthonyrymer4391
      @anthonyrymer4391 6 лет назад +5

      @Aurgelmir87 May your days be filled with glory and achieve Valhalla for sharing this information!

    • @doommagic
      @doommagic 6 лет назад

      laser325 Yes, I really want to know more about the past of that. I'd ask "why would a plant...?" but the opportunistic animal that remains in me simply says "just because it was an available food source". ....But still, "WHY?? And HOW??"

  • @2a2777f2g
    @2a2777f2g 6 лет назад +15

    Thank you so much! I'm an English teacher and I've been using lots of your videos. I can't support you on patrion, but I tell people around me about the worlk you do. So even in Russia you are known and loved!
    Please go on being an awesome bunch of professionals you are! 🌻

    • @strakhovandrri
      @strakhovandrri 2 года назад +1

      Мне б такие уроки.

    • @2a2777f2g
      @2a2777f2g 2 года назад

      @@strakhovandrri thanks 😊

  • @theoregonguy
    @theoregonguy 6 лет назад +52

    Wow, that was a lot of information to take in but I'm really glad you guys made this video. It helps my understanding of this topic quite a bit to hear explained this way.

    • @duhduhvesta
      @duhduhvesta 6 лет назад

      TheJeffreyJJones agreed this was a great video

  • @veggieboyultimate
    @veggieboyultimate 6 лет назад +43

    thank goodness someone explains this taxonomic system; this video is very useful!
    Can u do a video on interglacial periods

    • @SteleCat
      @SteleCat 6 лет назад

      The glaciers are melting and I want to go home.

  • @schooleyspence1464
    @schooleyspence1464 6 лет назад +62

    It would be fantastic if you guys could cover the evolution of blood!! Great work

    • @elizabethhutt7743
      @elizabethhutt7743 6 лет назад +1

      Schooley Spencer Yes!! I can’t find any good information about this and it really interests me 😊

    • @SherriLyle80s
      @SherriLyle80s 5 лет назад

      They did it recently. History of your blood or something like that. Just search it. It's facinating

    • @ASLUHLUHC3
      @ASLUHLUHC3 4 года назад

      Oddly specific but sounds interesting

  • @Cloud-df3hy
    @Cloud-df3hy 4 года назад +3

    Found this channel during corna virus isolation. I've learnt so much and watched so many all the things mentioned before I'm "like oh yeah I get you". I think it be easier trying to watch them in some kind of order though. I feel like a Professor though.

    • @jamesanderson5599
      @jamesanderson5599 4 года назад

      yes. coronavirus has turned me into a PBS eons junkie.

  • @firenationfiles2063
    @firenationfiles2063 6 лет назад +59

    I am highly evolved Scrat.

  • @desiderata8811
    @desiderata8811 6 лет назад +48

    Because of you, I know a little more about me. Well reasoned. Thank you.

  • @x0xtran9x0x
    @x0xtran9x0x 5 лет назад +37

    Kally is the best narrator amazing voice, pace, pitch, love love love!!

  • @SunnyBurnsAll
    @SunnyBurnsAll 2 года назад +8

    I got admission into a university just to understand the molecular clock and am now trying to complete a presentation about it.
    I hope you guys are happy with what you've done.

    • @anandviswanathan4625
      @anandviswanathan4625 8 месяцев назад

      So, did you understand it? I am asking this because even I am very curious about the actual process, mathematics and techniques of the "molecular clock".

    • @SunnyBurnsAll
      @SunnyBurnsAll 8 месяцев назад

      @@anandviswanathan4625 Did a presentation on it.

  • @thorium222
    @thorium222 2 года назад +3

    Whenever I look at my Chihuaha I can't help but think that my ancestors and his ancestors were in the same litter 85 million years ago.

  • @nolanwestrich2602
    @nolanwestrich2602 6 лет назад +200

    How about an episode on the other human species? I'm disappointed that this episode didn't cover neanderthals, denisovans, hobbits, eldar, etc.

    • @shibolinemress8913
      @shibolinemress8913 6 лет назад +25

      Or the Naboo

    • @htoodoh5770
      @htoodoh5770 6 лет назад +1

      Nolan Westrich We shared some gene from those species.

    • @magicavocado6528
      @magicavocado6528 6 лет назад +1

      Nolan Westrich yep, especially since we are a hybrid of them

    • @シロダサンダー
      @シロダサンダー 6 лет назад +4

      @@patrickmccurry1563 thanks. Now I gotta find out where Floriensis fits on the family tree. ^_^

    • @skraddypoo
      @skraddypoo 6 лет назад +15

      I'm not remotely disappointed in the video, but I'd also love another video on other human species!

  • @TheRealFlenuan
    @TheRealFlenuan 6 лет назад +139

    "They're basically built-in seat cushions"
    But this misses the most important part. The reason they're so big, hairless and red is so that they can act as sexual signals. That is why they brighten during mating season and don't attain their appearance until after puberty. The same is true of female human breasts, which are much larger than they need to be just to provide ample milk.

    • @spindash64
      @spindash64 5 лет назад +21

      It’s funny to me that a defining feature of Homininae is apparently a lack of these, since it seems like the sexual selection for those “features” kinda made a comeback with people in a downplayed variant

    • @lotfibouhedjeur9897
      @lotfibouhedjeur9897 5 лет назад +1

      Don't you just know so much about the family?

    • @chloe-tj2rv
      @chloe-tj2rv 4 года назад +17

      The size of a female humans breasts doesn’t actually affect the amount of milk they produce.

    • @garethbaus5471
      @garethbaus5471 4 года назад +16

      @@chloe-tj2rv that was part of what the OP was saying.

    • @SoftSpeakin6
      @SoftSpeakin6 4 года назад

      u mean the female booty

  • @garycpriestley
    @garycpriestley 5 лет назад +7

    My new favourite EONS video. Really amazing stuff. You consistently manage to deliver complex topics in easier-to-understand presentations. This rapid look back 60 million years is fascinating. I would have loved to see it go even further back..

    • @Playongo
      @Playongo 5 лет назад +1

      You might want to check out the book, The Ancestor's Tale.

  • @360History
    @360History 3 года назад +2

    I searched and watch lot of videos and read articles but this video is very easy to understand and useful. Thanks

  • @semaj_5022
    @semaj_5022 4 года назад +3

    Came back to rewatch this and the human evolution playlist and I gotta say, this is the single best channel on RUclips. The only one I've even made a patron for. I hope it sticks around for a long, long time.

  • @birdwomanobservations
    @birdwomanobservations 2 года назад +2

    The script for this video is one of the best I’ve seen because it explains how we know what we know in a clear, logical, and readily understandable format. The illustrations are relevant and the characteristics described are things anyone could see if the look, say at a zoo, online, or in a museum. As an educator, I think this is one of the best the team at Eons has produced. Great job.

  • @abineshanbazhagan6703
    @abineshanbazhagan6703 4 года назад +6

    Simplifying us in just a frame is awesome but being a Wildlife science PhD scholar and being into taxonomy, I would really bow my head to all those researchers behind all those researches all these decades! Not easy,it's filled with a pure dedication, passion and patience, and moreover the love for the field! HATSOFF! - A modern Homind!

  • @Otravistafoto
    @Otravistafoto 3 года назад +5

    I don't understand why so many people have problem to understand the evolution.

    • @spatrk6634
      @spatrk6634 3 года назад

      because they are raised to dont understand it.
      and to deny it as soon as they hear the word...
      same as different people believe in different gods and different ideologies.
      that are raised into it

    • @thecircle1724
      @thecircle1724 3 года назад +1

      It's kinda complicated too
      Soo

  • @ghqebvful
    @ghqebvful 6 лет назад +12

    This video has made me realize chimps are about a foot taller than my mental image of them.

    • @slwrabbits
      @slwrabbits 3 года назад +1

      I saw a live male orangutan in person once. His arm was as long as I am tall. Let me tell you, I've never left a zoo exhibit faster. I don't care how many walls you put between me and him, I'm not getting any closer unless he's sedated off his rump.

    • @101trus
      @101trus 2 года назад

      He’s not going to hurt you :(

  • @harishthethird
    @harishthethird 3 года назад +2

    Thanking Papa Purgatorius for not turning down that movie date back in the Paleocene

  • @dannya1854
    @dannya1854 3 года назад +4

    Me: wow it's like we're all one big family
    Also me: *avoids human contact and mistrusts people*

  • @99unclesam17
    @99unclesam17 5 лет назад +15

    When your dog is also watching so he now thinks he's human.

    • @alfredochavezv
      @alfredochavezv 2 года назад

      You basically raised him to think that, don't blame the channel for that! 😁

  • @richardbidinger2577
    @richardbidinger2577 6 лет назад +3

    I don't think I've ever been so focused on a video as I was for this one. Nice work. Love these videos. I may have said this before, but I have learned more about life on earth from these videos, then I ever did way back when I was in school.

  • @turmunhkganba1705
    @turmunhkganba1705 6 лет назад +66

    Could you please cover the evolution of blood?

    • @SherriLyle80s
      @SherriLyle80s 5 лет назад +9

      They did it already

    • @Villosa64
      @Villosa64 3 года назад +2

      @@SherriLyle80s that was a year after they made the comment

  • @CragynosII
    @CragynosII 3 года назад +9

    We do not need to return to monke
    For we have always been monke

  • @redline6802
    @redline6802 6 лет назад +13

    Thanks for explaining Git branching for us, it is always nice to see people help new developers.
    Though maybe you should talk about Git merging as well.

  • @DirtyPhlegm
    @DirtyPhlegm 4 года назад +4

    That is why I hate people who eat monkeys. We should respect the family relationship that ties us to fellow primates.

    • @TheQueenofNeckbeards
      @TheQueenofNeckbeards 4 года назад

      unnecessarily eating any highly intelligent animal is pretty gross tbh

  • @lizzykay9912
    @lizzykay9912 3 года назад +2

    Thank you Eons for this wonderful episode. It's comforting to know where one lies on the family tree. Last time I visited the monkey enclosure at the zoo I was fascinated by their ear whorles that look so "human".

  • @mattkkr
    @mattkkr 6 лет назад +26

    Thank you so much for this channel!! It's my absolutely favorite, especially the videos about human evolution!

    • @davidsi5376
      @davidsi5376 6 лет назад +4

      I agree! I love watching every eposode! I cant belive we get this for free 😢😢😢. Once i finish school and start working, i will contribute to them!

  • @justinianthegreat1444
    @justinianthegreat1444 3 года назад +8

    It's funny when some humans get offended by getting called apes which they are apes

    • @consarge
      @consarge 3 года назад +9

      human superiority complex, mainly among those who are fundamentalist religious creationists. so pathetic.

    • @archive2500
      @archive2500 3 года назад +6

      Creationists do, not me. Because if someone called me an ape, I will even be enthusiastic and get interested about evolution, classification and taxonomic terms lol!

  • @Nae_Ayy
    @Nae_Ayy 6 лет назад +12

    Totally watched the video before I commented. (who am I kidding, any youtuber that sees a video that just came out will comment before watching)
    Anyway, I always click these videos. One of the most entertaining science channels out there.

  • @shivramsanap9690
    @shivramsanap9690 4 года назад +1

    What an reconstruction... Hats off to all of you... It is much better way to learn... I am the student of geology so understood it fully..again thanks to everyone.

  • @dadcelo
    @dadcelo Год назад +3

    One of the most beautiful videos I’ve seen. I’m happy to be a part of this family ❤

  • @SlyPearTree
    @SlyPearTree 6 лет назад +4

    This was great. Thank you PBS Eons team.

  • @benjamindover5676
    @benjamindover5676 3 года назад +3

    Beats the Hell out of magic stories from the bronze age.

  • @clydemosis
    @clydemosis 4 года назад +2

    I'm not buying everyone a Christmas gift this year!

  • @vincy19961
    @vincy19961 3 года назад +4

    That is one hell of a family

  • @landrum3893
    @landrum3893 2 года назад +1

    Excellent. PBS has great content imo. Straight forward, interesting, entertaining, informative from talented people.

  • @fulviopontarollo2952
    @fulviopontarollo2952 4 года назад +3

    One mammal just learned how to grab stuff, and walk. No, like, walk like that, and grab stuff at the same time.
    And bang rocks together to make pointed rocks
    “Ouch”
    And set things on fire
    “Yeouch”
    And make different sounds with their voice
    “Gneurshk”
    Which can mean different things
    ( _”Hi” “Bye” “Can you hand me that rock over there?”_ )
    *THAT’S A HUMAN PERSON!*

    • @koba763
      @koba763 4 года назад +1

      Underrated comment.

  • @cesaralcaraz819
    @cesaralcaraz819 4 года назад +6

    Proud to be an ape

  • @entieme
    @entieme 5 лет назад +3

    Sorry for being flippant.. Amazing video.. Incredibly informative!! Thank you so much PBS Eons!

  • @damirsaurio
    @damirsaurio 6 лет назад +42

    Hey amazing video!!
    Could you make a video about gondwanian terrestrial crocodilomorphs? Why they got extinct and it relation with the gondwana breake up?!

    • @justcallmeSheriff
      @justcallmeSheriff 6 лет назад

      I would love an episode dedicated to all crocodilomorphs. The fact that there were many marine and fully terrestrial species until humans killed the last of them is kinda mind blowing. Our concepts of dragons and sea serpents probably derive from this amazing group of animals.

  • @247custard
    @247custard 2 года назад +3

    This is a fantastic video. Great job!

  • @williamconrad1087
    @williamconrad1087 2 года назад +3

    Learned more here than all of college.

  • @davidls187
    @davidls187 6 лет назад +5

    I'm a simple man, I see a new Eons video, I click.

  • @imhyperer-P
    @imhyperer-P 5 лет назад +1

    I'm in my first university level anthropology class and it is so interesting watching these videos after my classes! Very helpful with solidifying that information that I picked up at school, and shown in both an educational and entertaining way!

  • @philforbes8671
    @philforbes8671 6 лет назад +3

    My boy Steve is still doing us proud. You got an exclamation point today man.

  • @James-gm9cs
    @James-gm9cs 6 лет назад +293

    Can you do one that shows how we evolved over time to be adapted to eat meat (red or otherwise)?

  • @harrietharlow9929
    @harrietharlow9929 3 года назад +3

    Thank you for putting this up! Evolution, especially human evolution, is fascinating to me. Thanks to videos, like yours I understand the subject much better.

  • @naturewandererZ
    @naturewandererZ 3 года назад +5

    This makes me so proud to be called an ape

  • @drew8443
    @drew8443 6 лет назад +48

    Evolution of insects pls

    • @peterisawesomeplease
      @peterisawesomeplease 6 лет назад +1

      eusocial insects especially.

    • @greysquirrel404
      @greysquirrel404 6 лет назад +4

      That might take a while; most animals are insects.

    • @gelinrefira
      @gelinrefira 6 лет назад +4

      Beetles then. They are the most diverse and one of the most successful insects.

    • @duhduhvesta
      @duhduhvesta 6 лет назад +1

      Rodoks42 viva la Lepidoptera!

    • @Kat-PM
      @Kat-PM 6 лет назад

      They did one on "when insects first flew" here: ruclips.net/video/7QMcXEj7IT0/видео.html
      :) I would like to see more, though.

  • @issagahan6693
    @issagahan6693 3 года назад +3

    I'm eager to meet my distant relatives and hug them

  • @myspacetimesaucegoog5632
    @myspacetimesaucegoog5632 6 лет назад +8

    Beautiful primate footage and so interesting!

  • @rowanmelton7643
    @rowanmelton7643 2 года назад +1

    It's fascinating how diverse life is and how it's also simultaneously so connected. We share 17-25% of our genetics with bananas. In the bigger picture, we are all pretty much family.

    • @bamboozled8955
      @bamboozled8955 2 года назад

      With bananas?

    • @spatrk6634
      @spatrk6634 2 года назад +2

      @@bamboozled8955 yea being eukaryote makes you pretty much distant cousin of all plant life and fungi

    • @rowanmelton7643
      @rowanmelton7643 2 года назад

      @Anon Ymous Cheers man

  • @cyrax2112
    @cyrax2112 6 лет назад +25

    You can debate all you want about evolution, but if you don't like tacos, I don't even want to talk to you...

    • @SteleCat
      @SteleCat 6 лет назад

      "Well that depends on what you mean by taco. And it depends on what you mean by evolution. The evolution of tacos as a culinary achievement reaching across generations and cultures is actually very complicated. It is way more bloody complicated than you might think."
      -Peter Jordanson, _12 Recipes for Tacos._

    • @wolfinside5675
      @wolfinside5675 6 лет назад

      L

  • @mattwilson8298
    @mattwilson8298 Год назад +2

    SO EVOLUTION SCREWED ME OUT OF A PERMANENT BUTT PILLOW!?!?!?
    I WANT TO SPEAK TO THE MANAGER!!!!!

  • @Himewna
    @Himewna 6 лет назад +9

    being alive is Wild

  • @josec.desampaio119
    @josec.desampaio119 5 лет назад +2

    Thank you, remembering taxonomy was pretty cool. When I studied was from the start with the most simple form of life until now, it's a really cool matter to study and learn about.
    Once again thank you very much.👍

  • @christinerequiso4985
    @christinerequiso4985 2 года назад +3

    Im soo proud that im part of the primate family tree

  • @SPACEMONKEY288
    @SPACEMONKEY288 4 года назад +3

    this channel is amazing!! absolutely love it dont stop!

  • @muhammadnaveed7856
    @muhammadnaveed7856 6 лет назад +3

    Magnificent description, hats off for your hard work

  • @Rico-Suave_
    @Rico-Suave_ 2 года назад +1

    Watched all of it, so much information I needed to slow down the video to digest it, I normally multitask and play these videos in the background

  • @jul1440
    @jul1440 5 месяцев назад +3

    Haplorhines lack the ability to synthesize vitamin-C; we must obtain it from our diet, hence scurvy being a thing. However, we haplorhines have the rare ability to move our upper lips.

  • @edthurber6265
    @edthurber6265 6 лет назад +5

    My head esploded about halfway through.