Some commenters have pointed out that calling Neanderthals and Denisovans “other hominin species” in this episode breaks the rules of the biological species concept (BSC), which says if two things can interbreed, then they’re the same species. Some paleoanthropologists would agree. They consider both Neanderthals and Denisovans to be subspecies of Homo sapiens, rather than separate species. Other experts would say that Neanderthals have a set of features that make them clearly distinguishable from Homo sapiens, putting them outside the range of variation we include in our species. And we hardly know the Denisovans - like we said in the video, they don’t even have a scientific name yet. The incredible thing about this is that we can even think about applying the BSC to fossils at all. The BSC is a species concept based on living organisms, and it’s only been within the last two decades or so that we’ve had the ancient DNA and the technology to test hypotheses about interbreeding in extinct groups. And it’s not the only way to define a species, either, so it will likely be a while (if ever) before anthropologists decide whether we’re a different species, subspecies, or population from the Neanderthals and Denisovans. (Darcy Shapiro, PhD, script editor)
I don't know. The BSC may be problematic (because of things like ring species, etc), but it's a lot more clear cut than any other definition of species that I've come across.
@@Mayla41400 yes but you can train the human body to do anything especially with today's technology and work out equipment. I think the best thing a human can do to go back to these times is build a gym inside a jungle and live off plants 😂
I think Danz is spot on. Tribalism is still a thing, just look at who we elect and tolerate as leaders of world powers. I think this is where evolution has (for now) got it wrong. It didn't anticipate that we would be able to create a hospitable environment which is suited just for us and where instinctually protective and aggressive behavior, which did work to our advantage in ancient times, actually makes our species more vulnerable to ourselves.
@@whatsupbudbud Even men of the same people can kill each other because they differ only in what sect of their religion they belong (Catholic and Protestant Irishmen, Sunni and Shia Iraqis).
I have so much respect for all the researchers and scientists who work so passionatley to uncover the mysteries of the past. I find it so hard to imagine how much work it takes to find human remains of so long ago, and all the science that goes into researching the finds.
And on top of that they have to deal with people trying to deny the validity of their entire field. I mean, I only have an interest in it and I get mad when people act like human evolution is bogus. Imagine someone telling you that your entire life's work is worth nothing to them.
@Dr.Kraig_Ren 1% are responsible for humanity's achievements? Sounds like you're vastly underestimating just how much every day people achieve things and push the envelope.
This is honestly kinda crazy to me and I think it says something about humanity's desperation for companionship. People will talk to inanimate objects, we adopt pets, we hang out in areas where over a thousand of us live and we're still not satisfied with having that many companions. So we imagined fairies or dragons or other creatures we could communicate and talk to and as we soon learn they probably don't exist, we look to other places where we might find intelligent life, like the stars, or under the sea or we create it ourselves through robots and Artificial Intelligence. There's ghosts in our blood and we're all so desperate for companionship, it. It gives me chills honestly.
That's a bit dismissive to assume that anything outside of our paradigm and level of understanding is to only be considered a figment of our imagination under the assumption that we're lonely. Especially when there are still loads of discoveries that are deliberately being withheld from the general public.
I highly suspect that a lot of the interbreeding was by archaeologists. As an archaeologist, I've always heard that archaeologists will date any old thing.
It’s so sweet to think about our ancestors falling in love and being tender with other hominids and feeling all the ways that we feel about other people!! Human beings have such a great capacity for love when we’re put in the right setting.. If I were an ancient human I would find it really exciting to meet and get to know other hominids.
@@DavidCruickshank Humans and Neanderthals were nomadic, so if groups had hostile enough relationships to motivate one side to take advantage of the other, the weaker group would likely flee than suffer more abuse. So not enough to let a significant amount of interbreeding to occur through it. Thus, I imagine the most interbreeding happened while the groups were mingling which would most easily happen during like trading or socialization or cohabitation. Edit also : most people wouldn’t say Neanderthal females were as attractive to us, so I don’t imagine most people would go out of their way unless they genuinely liked each other for more than just looks
Just thinking about the interactions of different hominid species (or subspecies) gives me chills. It really highlights that humans are just another species on this planet and like many others that have come before us, we will perish just the same. It’s hard for any human to grasp the concept of geological time.
Stop lying. Neanderthals are not humans. Neanders are violent and xenophobic and went to war eoth humans. Those hominids are dofferent from us and we dont need them.
Homo sapiens sapiens are the "new people," the ones who are becoming taller, thinner and so much better at computers and tech...they're the ones who build rocket ships and study DNA in labs and work the Hadron Collider...and then there are those of us who refuse to be reeducated into more sustainable energy work and prefer to dig coal like our great grandpappies did. Homo sapiens only. Guess who shall inherit the wealth of the future?
Gonna be honest, I thought that neanderthals were just part of the evolution of humans. I literally had no idea that there were ever multiple species of humans living at the same time. This video was super informative and introduced my nerdy ass to a really cool new topic for me to aggressively research. Thanks!
To be fair Neanderthals are still in debate ....only a handful exist with successful dna extraction....also idk why anthropologist are so perverted...no other animals mate outside of there species...but apparently we i.e homo sapien sapiens are hentai level pervy to sleep with any creature...lol....
it's mind blowing to think about the fact that in that whole timeline of so many million years you get born into this technological modern world. I know the reason is to answer logical and quite easy but it is just so incredible
Man. I can imagine the hostility we'd have if any of these species survived along with us. Considering how prevalent racism is even after so long within just one specie.
It would be exactly the same as these "species" are just as human as us. Our need to classify humans that are marginally different than us as another species is a product of our bigotry. Just as race is non existent between humans now, there is nothing meaningful that separates us from other Humans like Neanderthals.
@@guidomonto3742 it isn’t like saying that whatsoever. If you can breed with something by definition you are the same species of that thing. That’s the scientific definition of species.
Then you learn better by visual and audio material. Sadly schools are so outdated that the work of physiologists won't convince them that the archaic methods of teaching don't work anymore, if they ever worked
I know. What amazes me the most is that even if we go extinct, there may be a new species in the future capable of doing just the same as us, or even more. Life has evolved so many times already that I know for a fact it won't stop with us. It will continue for as long as this planet exists.
I was been sarcastic lol, Yes I know Earth is 4.5 Billion years old and it is a heck of a long time but still not much in reality compared to how old the universe is overall
@@Juicersen The universe overall is about roughly 13.8 billion years old so yeah there were many other planets ,stars and galaxies that existed way before our Solar system and our sun existed
It is interesting that we could of had two similar yet distinct species living together and what we could of done. I imagine there would of been a ton of slavery/violence seeing as we do that just with other humans for having different skin color/living in a different location/a shiny widget. Maybe we would of killed each other off after a while though.
Every time I see videos like this it just makes me realize that we are all a small part of a bigger picture.. that should be some motivation to wanna do something great in this lifetime your currently living in.. with all the Technology and resources are ancestors just didn't have..
Could you do a video on when true crocodiles, gharials and alligators diverged? There’s some interesting thoughts on why true crocs (even fresh water species) are salt tolerant where gators and caimans are not
@@dimitrisbam1132 Most croc species have glands underneath their tongues ("salt glands") that permit them to excrete excess salt from their blood.... so they are "salt tolerant" - they can live in salty water like brackish-water coastal areas. Nobody really knows why they have salt glands but perhaps they evolved in brackish water habitats, and have just never given up the adaptations which made it possible for them to live in salty waters. Its certainly something SciShow could tackle!!
@@Sultan-lv8sj average height of a modern human in the civil war was about 5'5", abundance of foot and proper nutrition has greatly increased average human heights, you can tell by lookling at more Asian countries and how since full on interworld trade and connectivity of ww2 era the average hieght of their people has gone up as they've had more variations and plenitudes of food.
I thought it was terrible on human dispersion, there is a recent counter argument that humans went into Africa not out of Africa, Mainly From the tibet area of Asia I believe......
@@alexanderwillis9473 could i hear more? I do know there is some evidence that all/ most people left the african continent, then some stayed in eurasia while some came back
@@silvertheelf I think you're wrong there. He says in this video that neanderthals were relatively short. I did some research and they were around 1,50 to 1,60 meters (4,92 to 5,25 feet). Modern humans were indeed shorter back then somewhere around 1,70 m (5,58 feet).
Casey the Neanderthals left Africa really soon which is why people in Africa have 0% Neanderthal DNA but Europeans have 1-2%, so it’s unlikely that some tribe in Africa has its own population of Neanderthals still living, or they would have reproduced with humans at some point in the last 30,000 years
userdetails1 as stated in the video, if u even watched it or came to the comment section to insult Africans, they never encountered Neanderthals, so why don’t u go ask ur parents how the Neanderthals looked like and how they had more brain cells than u
@@audreymuzingo933 yeah I never understand why go back. The biggest and only regret about death is we cannot ever experience what we as humans achieve.
Back in 2008, National Geographic thought it was quite hard and impossible to trace and evidence that Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens interbred, now 11 years later we have this explanation here. Nice
@@Mayhzon Maybe sooner. We keep going from "unknown" to "clearly known", from "hard or impossible" to "several universities in several countries" have shown, more and more rapidly. From finding more materials to study to discovering more ways to study them science is moving faster and faster. I remember "future shock". It was once a real thing, but not anymore.
@@Mayhzon I don't know what you are complaining, that is science at work. When a new evidence brings light to a more complete picture, what's the problem with updating our outdated knowledge? In the face of contradictory evidence, science rejects it's beliefs, while religion rejects the evidence. There is only one option to grow, if you are smart, you'll know what's the right state of mind.
@@Mayhzon "narrative"? You mean scientific advancement? How about you take a second to think about how you're able to view this video or leave a comment, all thanks to electric signals of 1 and 0. Guess that's just more "narrative" since 200 years ago such a thing was thought impossible too, right? SMH
Is it possible that they didn't really go extinct, but more so they were a much smaller population and they completely bred into our species over time?
There are a number of bird species that can interbreed resulting in fertile offerings. Red Siskin and canary, for example, are different species yet they can produce beautiful offsprings.
After more research, researchers discovered that we're living in a simulation runs by Neanderthals in a quest to find out why human went extinct in their world
@@psycheevolved1428 that's actually the opposite of what our current evidence shows. We also can't compare our more advanced society to a younger one like theirs; we weren't much different at the time we coexisted
@@psycheevolved1428 Aaand, we have archeologic evidence that shows they were capable of building large structures which required a great lot of team coordination and thought effort to do so, even more incredible If you consider the tools they must've used back then... Now, tell us, can you make a small building If i gave you the materials and the team to do so?
@qwert y Incorrect Homework is like practice. When done correctly, it is how you get better. Proctored Exams are like refereed matches. I'd agree that they are true test of knowledge, but knowledge by itself is useless. It has to be applied correctly.
"we met neandertals, but there is no evidence of violence between the species" Does it need to be? We are talking about tribes of humans living next to each other for thousands of years. Of course there was violence
I agree considering we are able to convince ourselves that we need kill all members of another tribe of homo sapiens because they are not like us how easy must it have been to do that with neanderthals who actually didn't look like us. I believe that there was interbreeding but there also must have been fighting between the species. It makes no sense to assume otherwise considering what we know about our species even without physical proof of these fights.
@@starryk79 yes exactly Violence must’ve been a thing back then probably even more violence because the lack of a societal structure, intelligence, lack of food etc
@@chrissiek8706 We outbred them, we are less strong then our old brethren. We had a higher population and more fertility. What we call war and violence cannot be used when talking about those times, its like saying apes are murderers. And rewatch 12:00
It's some kind of theme gang, like in a movie called "The Warriors." Instead of baseball uniforms or mime outfits they wear flannel and eat maple syrup.
You guys are really killing it with these videos. Thank you so much. As a teacher, I just like watching them in my own time because they're so well done.
I would take videos from them with a grand of salt. They usually publish videos from papers that aren't peer viewed and didn't go through the required scientific rigors. The whole "homosapiens mating with neanderthals" has no evidence. Just because we share a small genome percentage with them doesn't mean we mated with them.
Why are you calling your great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother a freaky humanoid?! Such disrespect! Besides, back then all your ancestors had mud on their faces and lice in their hairs. It's hard to say who is less appealing...
If you consider the fact that there are humans who attempt to "breed" with other animals now, the thought that two thinking beings of different species (with compatible parts) may decide to do so becomes less strange.
@@CCRLH85 Not to mention the significant lack of genome sequencing 150,000 years ago. It wouldn't have been so much "hey we're different species" as "hey you have some funky eyebrows."
I dont understand how interbreeding is possible though. I thought different species were defined by the fact that they can't interbreed and have children?
I did the national geographic genome project and it came back that I had 3.2% denisovan DNA, which was more than the Neanderthal DNA. I’m from the UK and as far as I’m aware all my family are in the UK. I’d love to find out more about this but I have no clue where to start!
I absolutely love this video. I enjoy anthropology more as a hobby than anything else - which is most likely why I've never pursued study in it - but it's all just so fascinating. I love learning about the species that were our contemporaries, those that came before us, and the early days of our own species. Anyone who doesn't find this sort of thing utterly intriguing just...confuses me.
Same, I could never picture myself working in this kind of field, but you can bet anything that I love to know about this stuff. Dunno about you, but I really love to learn about progress, and evolution in general is one of the best ways to portray progress.
I admire and give respect to all of those ancient relatives because they were THERE, creating tools from the nothing, we owe them our survival because their legacy is made of really hard times, cold, fire, catastrophes, they faced things we couldn't face, we owe them their aim to survive against all odds, they were sensitive because they buried their loved ones and honoured with flowers and cairns. Life was incredible hard and difficut to face in those times, and they did it anyway...so I love to learn about our dear ancestors and honoured to carry them in my DNA.
Orangeninja5000 This isn’t really anthropology. Much more a straight field of Biology or Ancient DNA Biology. Villerslev is a leading researcher in the field and a Biology Prof at UCPH. Also happens to be a real narcissistic asshat. But that’s another topic.
As an anthro major these are my favorite but only by a little bit because ALL OF YOUR VIDEOS ARE AMAZING! Science nerd for life = watching stuff like this and documentaries in my free time 😅❤️
Fantastic organisation and description to understand such a very complex subject. Not a lot of people achieves this clarity, I have to say, we’ll done! Would you kindly make a program on the Homo Antecessor, from Atapuerca, Burgos (Spain) ? I am extremely interested on their role on modern human ancestry! I love your eloquence ! ❤️❤️❤️Elena
@@heygod5444 nah at first i thought like that as well. However, genetic diversity is always superior. Neanderthal genes today affects height in a positive way.
is it weird to say this made me cry??? I have been learning about evolution and human evolution for thirty years and to see the narrative change from one of violence to one of love and befriending just gives me a lot of really big feelings about humanity.
Why would you cry about a dead Neanderthal that died tens of thousand years ago. I bet you can't even cry for a total stranger that died from another block or another city.
Bio contagion. As we met them they got sick and well Ref. the American native tribes and small pox. How to kill off 100 million in the north, central and south America's.
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Always been fascinated by the times when there were different hominids living at the same time as our ancestors, I like to think the idea of dwarves, hobits etc.. comes from ancient stories of that time somehow
Supposedly the different Tolkien races are purely inspired by humans. I mean it makes sense- some parts of the world 4.75 ft is a natural height, some parts 6.25ft is average. Pretty huge variety in h.s.s.!
@@daviegoodtimes Of course, you are joking, but... Tolkien had used the traditional mythological names. And mythological giants, dwarves, etc., are not defined simply as very tall or short humans. They are, for some degree, human-like, but not humans (or gods, which ARE like humans). In Norse Edda, dwarves are sometimes called giants and vice versa. In one case, the giant (troll) is openly called "the ape's kinsman"(!). The tradition clearly preserves the traces of knowledge of our more primitive relatives.
@@FinlaySG the stories of different cultures might have been passed down over time like how stories dragons and big lizards are present in many cultures who hadn't had contact for thousands and thousands of years, it's a very intriguing idea since word of mouth can last for surprisingly long times.
@@FinlaySG Oral traditions basically were passed down for thousands of years before writing came to be, in the grand scheme of things humans have been communicating orally longer than writing.
The ending was really memorable when he told that the Neanderthals aren’t extinct, today they are still living within us. The 4% genetic contribution has been instrumental in deciding our survival. While we are living we are taking them with us.
I constantly think about how disappointed I am that the neanderthals proper died out. It would’ve been so interesting to see what the world would look like had TWO groups of sentient species developed here. Wouldn’t make the universe feel so lonely.
It's not completely your fault tho if you didn't pay attention in school, it can be because the teaching method is awful, or you as a student was given too much knowledge that you can't learn at once...
I feel the same way! I can't stop watching videos. I start with one and then 3hrs and 20 videos later I'm glued to RUclips! Actually, I think I might be addicted to RUclips...🤦♀️
"But there's no evidence of violence or direct competition between the two groups." Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I would like to open my counterargument with the help of Exhibit A: Humans.
@P I didn't try to suggest that those weren't also key factors, but brushing off the idea that early hominids weren't at times also horrendously cruel and warlike with each other strikes me as more than a little presumptuous. Nobody really knows what happened. It's all a big mystery - but our own behavior towards each other and 'outside groups' may offer a clue or two. Tolerance is not a hallmark of Sapians.
@@chrisr6794 it's most likely that some of the sapians enslaved the neanderthals or fought with each other. Not all of them but I guess different tribes with different believes Systems Maybe did
@Matthew Mcgee it has been a long while it could be that those traces disappeared in time. Maybe our violence against each other started when we became a society or maybe we just need a bigger enemy to fight. Whatever it is it's unclear how or why our nature became so destructive
@@chrisr6794 I think what he meant is that Homo Sapiens did not specifically target and purge Neanderthals until they went extinct, since if that was the case we wouldn't have interbred so extensively with them. Sure, there probably were wars and raids and massacres, but more likely than not there were both Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens mixed together in those tribes. Personally I like to think that we were ignorant enough in those days that we never realised that uncle Ooga is not just short and has a funny forehead but is actually from a different species altogether.
The cave was named after Denisov, that's a russian last name. Denisova Cave is Denisov's Cave in russian (Peschera Denisova). So the people are called Denisov's Cave People
It wouldn't surprise me at all if we'd find out that we all are a mix between different kinds of early humans and that there are more branches in the family-tree than we think
@R B J because it will very likely be a factor in why races differ so much when we are one species. E.g. homo floresiensis, recently discovered on the island of Flores in Indonesia, is 3 feet tall. It may be a factor in why East Asians are shorter, especially South East Asians.
@@gvibration1 It could be, but also possibly due to the food as well, you can see the development in height in Europe where hunter gatherers were tall and then when farming became more standard there was a big decrease in height. Which is why you get stories about how when the Romans went north the barbarians were described as giants, then as farming spread over Europe the Northmen and more tribal societies that had a more varied diet were seen as giants, and with the nutritious food available today people in the west are a lot taller than in the past, after about 100+ years of having a rich selection of food. In Asia there are still many people that is eating a very "narrow" selection of food, like having rice for every meal and meat being a luxury, perhaps in a 100 years or so Asian populations will be a lot taller than now.
@@FloatingOer Lots of factors for sure. Cool info, I would have assumed agriculture gave more certainty & hence more food overall. Science will be finding out a lot more about the different factors for a long time.
At least five major ice ages have occurred throughout Earth's history: the earliest was over 2 billion years ago, and the most recent one began approximately 3 million years ago and continues today (yes, we live in an ice age!). Currently, we are in a warm interglacial that began about 11,000 years ago.
If you're curious about Neanderthals, I would strongly recommend the novel "Clan of the Cave Bear" by Jean M. Auel. It goes into great detail about tool making, diets and hunting techniques used by the Neanderthals, backed up with a lot of research by paleoanthropologists. It also gives insights, necessarily speculative, about their social organization as well.
the girl in the image at 2:33 is a speculative reconstruction of a neanderthal child, you can see the same picture on page 18 in Yuval's Sapiens a brief history of humankind. Loved this small amount of detail in the video!
we're not really alone. neanderthals, denisovans, and any other hominins - they all disappeared as distinct species but the fact that they interbred with us means they didn't really disappear. they're just part of us now. it may not be 100% accurate, but i think its not unfair to say that we all just became one species in the end
Yup-- that kinda weirded me out, too. I guess nerds like the narrator are just a bunch of lonely people. But don't bunch the rest of us into that category. I have friends I haven't used yet.
@Aung Zeya the exact opposite obviously, we all know we killed those species off and if we didn't sooner or later they would do it to us. So racism in all likelihood is the only reason you exist.
Chris Garret we did not kill the species , due to cross breeding we were actually more likely to adapt to a harsh environment , it’s not that we killed them cause we were racist towards them , it’s the simple survival of the fittest in the harsh environment ... f ex mix race people are the kind of cross bred offspring of today and we know that they have greater genetic fitness than pure bred offspring. Taking that in consideration being racist actually cause more damage to our modern society , not only in terms of that it’s not fair , but probably if our ancestors wouldn’t have sex with different species, because they were racist towards them we would not be here today ...
Some commenters have pointed out that calling Neanderthals and Denisovans “other hominin species” in this episode breaks the rules of the biological species concept (BSC), which says if two things can interbreed, then they’re the same species. Some paleoanthropologists would agree. They consider both Neanderthals and Denisovans to be subspecies of Homo sapiens, rather than separate species. Other experts would say that Neanderthals have a set of features that make them clearly distinguishable from Homo sapiens, putting them outside the range of variation we include in our species. And we hardly know the Denisovans - like we said in the video, they don’t even have a scientific name yet.
The incredible thing about this is that we can even think about applying the BSC to fossils at all. The BSC is a species concept based on living organisms, and it’s only been within the last two decades or so that we’ve had the ancient DNA and the technology to test hypotheses about interbreeding in extinct groups. And it’s not the only way to define a species, either, so it will likely be a while (if ever) before anthropologists decide whether we’re a different species, subspecies, or population from the Neanderthals and Denisovans.
(Darcy Shapiro, PhD, script editor)
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Agreed. BSC is problematic even when applied on living organisms, let alone fossils.
This is incredibly fascinating information, thank you so much for the clarification!
I don't know. The BSC may be problematic (because of things like ring species, etc), but it's a lot more clear cut than any other definition of species that I've come across.
PBS Eons so what defines a different species? The term is meaningless then.
“They live on in our genes, reminding us of a time when we weren’t alone.” chillssssss literally chilss
Now we're alone and all we can do is start intercontinental slap fights...ya hate to see it..
@@Mayla41400 yes but you can train the human body to do anything especially with today's technology and work out equipment. I think the best thing a human can do to go back to these times is build a gym inside a jungle and live off plants 😂
@@6-98 what
@@zakerzafe ?
it’s really not all that deep at all lmao
Imagine if other hominids survived with us. Our world would have had elder scrolls style diversity,
You see how bad we are just with different skin tones, it's little wonder only we survived.
Actually woulda been so cool
I think Danz is spot on. Tribalism is still a thing, just look at who we elect and tolerate as leaders of world powers. I think this is where evolution has (for now) got it wrong. It didn't anticipate that we would be able to create a hospitable environment which is suited just for us and where instinctually protective and aggressive behavior, which did work to our advantage in ancient times, actually makes our species more vulnerable to ourselves.
whatsupbudbud really good point
@@whatsupbudbud Even men of the same people can kill each other because they differ only in what sect of their religion they belong (Catholic and Protestant Irishmen, Sunni and Shia Iraqis).
I love the Internet. I love having the possibility to learn information like this very easily.
Internet is great when we use it but it's bad when internet uses us.
Not only do you have the ability to learn but the ability to chose what you learn
RUclips is also the biggest time consuming website, which can easily waste a lot of your time in the long run. Be careful binge-watching
@@malthenielsen1370 dumb people will remain dumb, no matter the media they are using.
@@malthenielsen1370 true that! everything is dangerous when it takes all your time
When they said "They live on in our genes reminding us a time when we weren't alone." it kinda made me emotional man...
That final piano chord really made that line hit hard
Meanwhile in an alternate universe, Neanderthals are watching videos about why humans went extinct.
I hate those Neanderthals man
Neanderthals were human they are in the genus homo(hehe) they're just not humans like us
Hmm, for some reason I think our universe may be like that
You just gave the writers of The Flash an idea for their multi-verse push. Just imagine Flash interacting w/ a Neanderthal Flash. Ha!
Lol
(so this is how it worked in the past)
Girl: is sitting
Guy: hmmmm
Girl: stands up on 2 legs
Guy: She's the one
The good old days 😔
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Anthony G. guy: note to self ; don't drag by feet. fills up with sticks and dirt and stuff..,. LOL
James Mueller what fills up?
Bipedal is sexy AF
I think dolphins and canines should come clean about seals.
Lmfaooo I think you’re on to something there hmmm
Underrated 😂
Hahaha 😄
This should be top comment haha
Hahahhhhhah this made my day!
I have so much respect for all the researchers and scientists who work so passionatley to uncover the mysteries of the past. I find it so hard to imagine how much work it takes to find human remains of so long ago, and all the science that goes into researching the finds.
And on top of that they have to deal with people trying to deny the validity of their entire field. I mean, I only have an interest in it and I get mad when people act like human evolution is bogus. Imagine someone telling you that your entire life's work is worth nothing to them.
@@grell5108Blame that on trash religions that came to existence 3000-2000 years ago
@Dr.Kraig_Ren 1% are responsible for humanity's achievements? Sounds like you're vastly underestimating just how much every day people achieve things and push the envelope.
Me too, I llove this comment 😊
This is honestly kinda crazy to me and I think it says something about humanity's desperation for companionship. People will talk to inanimate objects, we adopt pets, we hang out in areas where over a thousand of us live and we're still not satisfied with having that many companions. So we imagined fairies or dragons or other creatures we could communicate and talk to and as we soon learn they probably don't exist, we look to other places where we might find intelligent life, like the stars, or under the sea or we create it ourselves through robots and Artificial Intelligence. There's ghosts in our blood and we're all so desperate for companionship, it. It gives me chills honestly.
Damn. Such a lonely species
"Ghosts in our blood"could be a cool name for a band.
I love this comment
Idk man see some crazy stuff in the woods
That's a bit dismissive to assume that anything outside of our paradigm and level of understanding is to only be considered a figment of our imagination under the assumption that we're lonely. Especially when there are still loads of discoveries that are deliberately being withheld from the general public.
I highly suspect that a lot of the interbreeding was by archaeologists. As an archaeologist, I've always heard that archaeologists will date any old thing.
Underrated joke of the year.
Bigfoot Anthropologist wow genius
Underrated comment😂
Oh my gosh...hilarious.
dad joke of the year
you wouldn't know her, she's from a different species
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LOL
Lmao
I'm right here, carrying the denisovan gene
"So what? She is still prettier tan you..."😆
It’s so sweet to think about our ancestors falling in love and being tender with other hominids and feeling all the ways that we feel about other people!! Human beings have such a great capacity for love when we’re put in the right setting.. If I were an ancient human I would find it really exciting to meet and get to know other hominids.
Comments like your's give me so much hope for humanity and our future. Thank you for putting a smile on my face!
A Khal Drogo and Daenerys relationship seems more likely.
This is cavemen so I'm guessing they were less courted and more forced.
@@DavidCruickshank Humans and Neanderthals were nomadic, so if groups had hostile enough relationships to motivate one side to take advantage of the other, the weaker group would likely flee than suffer more abuse. So not enough to let a significant amount of interbreeding to occur through it.
Thus, I imagine the most interbreeding happened while the groups were mingling which would most easily happen during like trading or socialization or cohabitation.
Edit also : most people wouldn’t say Neanderthal females were as attractive to us, so I don’t imagine most people would go out of their way unless they genuinely liked each other for more than just looks
it's more likely that there were raids and rapes of the females of the species as their populations declined.
"if you can't beat them join them" - some random Neanderthal
More like “I like blondes”
Why can’t we just create a Neanderthal so we can make Neanderthal nation
@@futuristicgirl14 that was never the case at all. 👎
@@thunderlycanthrope7804 it was a joke
@@futuristicgirl14 Blond should be a trait of Neanderthals not modern humans.
They looked enough like us that we didn't fear mating with them.
I know
haha its more like, "ohhh what can I have sex with next! close enough" LMAO
Dwarfs are hot.
The William Shatner version of Captain Kirk did weirder things, I'm sure.
Interracial relationships
Edit: I'm joking😭😭
There has been a moment in history when there was only one Neanderthal left. Imagine being that one.
He didn't even know...
Sitting in Spain. What's that? ANOTHER Ice Age!? Screw that I'm going extinct!
Lorenzo Santigli your comment sucked up all the emotions haha. But that might be true; all of us without recent African ancestor are all Neanderthals.
Unless a whole group was wiped out by one event...
There will be a moment with just one person with autism left. Just imagine being that person.
Just thinking about the interactions of different hominid species (or subspecies) gives me chills. It really highlights that humans are just another species on this planet and like many others that have come before us, we will perish just the same. It’s hard for any human to grasp the concept of geological time.
Stop lying. Neanderthals are not humans. Neanders are violent and xenophobic and went to war eoth humans. Those hominids are dofferent from us and we dont need them.
Stop worshipping xenos
Xenos aint human.
You are brainwashed
We dont need anyone
"It wasn't a one-time thing."
-Homo Sapiens
Homo Sapien Sapien 😊
Nah.....it’s me and my relatives......!!!
Lol...
@ArmchairWarrior That's what I tried to tell my ex but she didn't feel the same way.
Homo sapiens sapiens are the "new people," the ones who are becoming taller, thinner and so much better at computers and tech...they're the ones who build rocket ships and study DNA in labs and work the Hadron Collider...and then there are those of us who refuse to be reeducated into more sustainable energy work and prefer to dig coal like our great grandpappies did. Homo sapiens only. Guess who shall inherit the wealth of the future?
Gonna be honest, I thought that neanderthals were just part of the evolution of humans. I literally had no idea that there were ever multiple species of humans living at the same time. This video was super informative and introduced my nerdy ass to a really cool new topic for me to aggressively research. Thanks!
Parker Bailey same though, I'm such a nerdy geek for these types of things
Gotta love science!
Still is
To be fair Neanderthals are still in debate ....only a handful exist with successful dna extraction....also idk why anthropologist are so perverted...no other animals mate outside of there species...but apparently we i.e homo sapien sapiens are hentai level pervy to sleep with any creature...lol....
Neanderthals are homo sapiens like denisovin ...it will be uncovered sometime.
it's mind blowing to think about the fact that in that whole timeline of so many million years you get born into this technological modern world. I know the reason is to answer logical and quite easy but it is just so incredible
something like 15% of all humans ever born is alive today. so even though it's millions of years, the chances are actually pretty high
Man. I can imagine the hostility we'd have if any of these species survived along with us. Considering how prevalent racism is even after so long within just one specie.
It would be exactly the same as these "species" are just as human as us.
Our need to classify humans that are marginally different than us as another species is a product of our bigotry.
Just as race is non existent between humans now, there is nothing meaningful that separates us from other Humans like Neanderthals.
@@thatsinteresting3415 that’s like saying a horse and donkey are the same. They might be similar, but definitely aren’t the same.
@@guidomonto3742 it isn’t like saying that whatsoever. If you can breed with something by definition you are the same species of that thing. That’s the scientific definition of species.
@@thatsinteresting3415 noticing biological differences isn’t bigotry. Bigotry is not allowing others to have an opinion. Read a dictionary.
@@joshuajackson4742 I guess lions and tigers are the same species because they can breed. Same goes with whales and dolphins.
_"They controlled fire."_
*Everything changed when the fire nation attacked.*
Lol
😄 that was a quality joke
It really was
I'm the 500th like
Abdulaziz Bature I'm the 501 like
This channel is incredible, I have learned more here about this type of stuff than I have at school which is crazy.
Not crazy at all... Schools purpose is not to educate you...
@@Αφροδιτη-ψ9ο exactly
@@Αφροδιτη-ψ9ο US schools may not be for that case.
I wish I was more interested in these subjects at school.
Then you learn better by visual and audio material. Sadly schools are so outdated that the work of physiologists won't convince them that the archaic methods of teaching don't work anymore, if they ever worked
Imagine seeing a human that looks like you, but is another species, imagine if they existed today, their voices and culture. This is so interesting!
people would be both racist and speciest
I’m about to have a stroke thinking about how old this planet is.
I know. What amazes me the most is that even if we go extinct, there may be a new species in the future capable of doing just the same as us, or even more. Life has evolved so many times already that I know for a fact it won't stop with us. It will continue for as long as this planet exists.
Only 4.5 Billion years
@@justanormalguyontheinterne7630 ONLY??
I was been sarcastic lol, Yes I know Earth is 4.5 Billion years old and it is a heck of a long time but still not much in reality compared to how old the universe is overall
@@Juicersen The universe overall is about roughly 13.8 billion years old so yeah there were many other planets ,stars and galaxies that existed way before our Solar system and our sun existed
I guess the real journey was all the friends we reproduced with along the way.
Lmao
Yep don't forget the animals we killed along the way
@@ronjayrose9706 ok
Ronjay Rose no let’s forget about that
The real journey? U mean "prize"?
"Reminds us of a time when we weren't alone"
For some reason this hit harder than it should have...
It is interesting that we could of had two similar yet distinct species living together and what we could of done. I imagine there would of been a ton of slavery/violence seeing as we do that just with other humans for having different skin color/living in a different location/a shiny widget. Maybe we would of killed each other off after a while though.
We do already have a history of that. It could only have been worse if they were different.
Same here. Was looking for a comment like this.
@Alexander Supertramp We cant even handle different skin shades. Can you imagine what we would do to demihumans, for lack of a better word?
honestly that last sentence hit me too..
Every time I see videos like this it just makes me realize that we are all a small part of a bigger picture.. that should be some motivation to wanna do something great in this lifetime your currently living in.. with all the Technology and resources are ancestors just didn't have..
"They live in our own genes, reminding us of a time when we weren't alone." Right in the feelings D:
I almost cried😮💨 it was really touching
that damn piano
Could you do a video on when true crocodiles, gharials and alligators diverged? There’s some interesting thoughts on why true crocs (even fresh water species) are salt tolerant where gators and caimans are not
Oooh yeah that would be cool
why are crocs tolerant could you please elaborate
I want to see this
@dimitris: Alligators can't tolerate salt water, while crocodiles can.
@@dimitrisbam1132 Most croc species have glands underneath their tongues ("salt glands") that permit them to excrete excess salt from their blood.... so they are "salt tolerant" - they can live in salty water like brackish-water coastal areas. Nobody really knows why they have salt glands but perhaps they evolved in brackish water habitats, and have just never given up the adaptations which made it possible for them to live in salty waters. Its certainly something SciShow could tackle!!
"They're shorter, more musculer, and have longer brains"
Me: Real living dwarves!!!
not living....
extinct dwarves
Short compared to nowadays human we got way taller than we used to be
Their average height was 5'5 so, no.
@@Sultan-lv8sj average height of a modern human in the civil war was about 5'5", abundance of foot and proper nutrition has greatly increased average human heights, you can tell by lookling at more Asian countries and how since full on interworld trade and connectivity of ww2 era the average hieght of their people has gone up as they've had more variations and plenitudes of food.
Been binge watching these videos. Very informative stuff! Thanks for putting out content like this!
They drew my boy Denisovan like a Dr. Suess Chewbacca.
R/brandnewsentence
Doctorseussovans
I was thinking "Noob Saibot"....
So a human Did Fu(k & Ape Back when ? Maybe ? More then likely ..
That feel when your name is Denis...
Wow, one of the clearest lectures on human dispersion and DNA I’ve ever seen. The combination of explanation, aided by images is amazing. Thanks!
I thought it was terrible on human dispersion, there is a recent counter argument that humans went into Africa not out of Africa, Mainly From the tibet area of Asia I believe......
Alexander Willis source? If not shut up.
@@alexanderwillis9473 could i hear more? I do know there is some evidence that all/ most people left the african continent, then some stayed in eurasia while some came back
I would take this video with a grand of salt. There is no evidence that homosapien breaded with neanderthals.
When dwarves, elves, hobbits, orcs, and bear folk existed.
Or perhaps all those legends are actually based on something real
Neanderthals = bear folk
Denisicins = ?
Australias little people = hobbit
Modern humans to our ancestors = elves
Idk = orcs
@@silvertheelf orks would be homo erectus or homo habilis
@@silvertheelf More like neanderthals = dwarves, because they were shorter than modern humans, and they had different bone-structures.
@@silvertheelf I think you're wrong there. He says in this video that neanderthals were relatively short. I did some research and they were around 1,50 to 1,60 meters (4,92 to 5,25 feet). Modern humans were indeed shorter back then somewhere around 1,70 m (5,58 feet).
It's always so awe inspiring to learn just how many more mysteries our planet holds for us to discover.
Not if we continue to destroy it with our trash.
I love learning about humans.
Me too
Yes. They are so interesting.
MrAcerulez humans are cool for sure
I love learning about humans so much, I plan to do it as a career.
HUUU MONN
_"It's dark out here, and we're the last humans left."_
Isn't that from "it's okay to be smart" ?
Jim Maskell it’s from exurb1a
exurb1a is my existential hero.
How many people here watch exurb1a?
@@Sammy_82 at least 209
imagine there's an island somewhere with somewhat pure neanderthal descent peoples living there
More kind off an isolated part of Siberia I would imagine
@@argenisjimenez8118 i guess so
Africa
Casey the Neanderthals left Africa really soon which is why people in Africa have 0% Neanderthal DNA but Europeans have 1-2%, so it’s unlikely that some tribe in Africa has its own population of Neanderthals still living, or they would have reproduced with humans at some point in the last 30,000 years
There is a Island near India where there are some people living still in pre fire era. They are very hostile and probably don't have any langauge.
Jeez, the end of this is so sad. What could have been... 😭😭
I can’t lie I wish time travel was real so I could go back in time and see the first humans
Just don't sneeze nor cough anywhere near them
I'd like to go ahead and see the future ones.
Joe mama same
userdetails1 as stated in the video, if u even watched it or came to the comment section to insult Africans, they never encountered Neanderthals, so why don’t u go ask ur parents how the Neanderthals looked like and how they had more brain cells than u
@@audreymuzingo933 yeah I never understand why go back. The biggest and only regret about death is we cannot ever experience what we as humans achieve.
Back in 2008, National Geographic thought it was quite hard and impossible to trace and evidence that Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens interbred, now 11 years later we have this explanation here. Nice
The problem is that it is media. Just because they cannot see it does not meant they are not there.
They change their narrative every other decade. Watch them claim something else in the next 20 years.
@@Mayhzon Maybe sooner. We keep going from "unknown" to "clearly known", from "hard or impossible" to "several universities in several countries" have shown, more and more rapidly. From finding more materials to study to discovering more ways to study them science is moving faster and faster.
I remember "future shock". It was once a real thing, but not anymore.
@@Mayhzon I don't know what you are complaining, that is science at work. When a new evidence brings light to a more complete picture, what's the problem with updating our outdated knowledge?
In the face of contradictory evidence, science rejects it's beliefs, while religion rejects the evidence.
There is only one option to grow, if you are smart, you'll know what's the right state of mind.
@@Mayhzon "narrative"? You mean scientific advancement? How about you take a second to think about how you're able to view this video or leave a comment, all thanks to electric signals of 1 and 0.
Guess that's just more "narrative" since 200 years ago such a thing was thought impossible too, right? SMH
Is it possible that they didn't really go extinct, but more so they were a much smaller population and they completely bred into our species over time?
Brian Cooney That still means they’re extinct lol.
@@zzzarkka it does not, actually, dince the subspecies still exists within another
@@briancooney9952 wouldn't we distinguish more of their genome in ours though?
technically this did happen... only the ones that interbred with us have living decedents now
@@akaakaakaak5779 technically called "pseudoextinction"
Not killed off, but bred away.
There are a number of bird species that can interbreed resulting in fertile offerings. Red Siskin and canary, for example, are different species yet they can produce beautiful offsprings.
After more research, researchers discovered that we're living in a simulation runs by Neanderthals in a quest to find out why human went extinct in their world
Well no because neanderthals were not smart enough
@@psycheevolved1428 theres no evidence they were less intelligent than we were. They used the same sorts of tools and decorations, and organization.
@@psycheevolved1428 that's actually the opposite of what our current evidence shows. We also can't compare our more advanced society to a younger one like theirs; we weren't much different at the time we coexisted
@@psycheevolved1428 Aaand, we have archeologic evidence that shows they were capable of building large structures which required a great lot of team coordination and thought effort to do so, even more incredible If you consider the tools they must've used back then...
Now, tell us, can you make a small building If i gave you the materials and the team to do so?
What is this? The Matrix?
Humans: “Hey can I copy your homework?”
Neanderthals, etc: “sure, just make sure to change it a little bit so it’s not obvious”
LOL
I think it would be more like comparing answers.
@qwert y Incorrect
Homework is like practice. When done correctly, it is how you get better.
Proctored Exams are like refereed matches.
I'd agree that they are true test of knowledge, but knowledge by itself is useless. It has to be applied correctly.
*sapiens
@@rbrannon Okay, professor.
So basically, our species survived because we swiped right on everyone we came across.
No, because we are the most fittest.
A lot of them LIED.
Survival of the fittest, if we wouldn't have wiped them they would have wiped us of the face of earth.
That’s called the “Kirk method” and it’s gonna be our #1 form of diplomacy if we ever meet other intelligent species I’m calling it now.
Nikki Berry XD
Discovered this channel today. Loved it!
"we met neandertals, but there is no evidence of violence between the species"
Does it need to be? We are talking about tribes of humans living next to each other for thousands of years. Of course there was violence
I agree considering we are able to convince ourselves that we need kill all members of another tribe of homo sapiens because they are not like us how easy must it have been to do that with neanderthals who actually didn't look like us. I believe that there was interbreeding but there also must have been fighting between the species. It makes no sense to assume otherwise considering what we know about our species even without physical proof of these fights.
@@starryk79 yes exactly Violence must’ve been a thing back then probably even more violence because the lack of a societal structure, intelligence, lack of food etc
Yeah, "no evidence of violence", but somehow just the one of the species survived....
@@chrissiek8706 well, to be fair we could have outcompeted them at food gathering
@@chrissiek8706 We outbred them, we are less strong then our old brethren. We had a higher population and more fertility. What we call war and violence cannot be used when talking about those times, its like saying apes are murderers.
And rewatch 12:00
They're called Canadians, and they're people too
As canuck, can confirm.
Debatable
What’s a Canadian? Lol.
It's some kind of theme gang, like in a movie called "The Warriors."
Instead of baseball uniforms or mime outfits they wear flannel and eat maple syrup.
Smells like maple syrup. Most nations base their currency on gold, not the Canadians.
I really wish we still had these relatives around, kind of boring being our only species!
True like we can only talk to ourselves.
Kaian凯安 at least it won’t be Africans anymore lol
@@idontlikecaps8823
Stfu
We have trouble accepting people with different skin tones
Really boring
I feel bad about our ex species, as if, a part of me wants to meet them.
You guys are really killing it with these videos. Thank you so much. As a teacher, I just like watching them in my own time because they're so well done.
I would take videos from them with a grand of salt. They usually publish videos from papers that aren't peer viewed and didn't go through the required scientific rigors. The whole "homosapiens mating with neanderthals" has no evidence. Just because we share a small genome percentage with them doesn't mean we mated with them.
Shout out to my ancestor who bred with some freaky humanoid. You're a real one!
Im weak af🤣😭
A hole is a hole. If you put out the light, all girls are pretty :P
@@neutronshiva2498 oh...
both are your ancestors...
Why are you calling your great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother a freaky humanoid?! Such disrespect! Besides, back then all your ancestors had mud on their faces and lice in their hairs. It's hard to say who is less appealing...
“Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy
We’re different species, let’s get freaky”
If you consider the fact that there are humans who attempt to "breed" with other animals now, the thought that two thinking beings of different species (with compatible parts) may decide to do so becomes less strange.
that's speciest.
@@CCRLH85 Not to mention the significant lack of genome sequencing 150,000 years ago. It wouldn't have been so much "hey we're different species" as "hey you have some funky eyebrows."
@@altrag Yes! And then : 'Hey, lets fucc'
I dont understand how interbreeding is possible though. I thought different species were defined by the fact that they can't interbreed and have children?
I did the national geographic genome project and it came back that I had 3.2% denisovan DNA, which was more than the Neanderthal DNA. I’m from the UK and as far as I’m aware all my family are in the UK. I’d love to find out more about this but I have no clue where to start!
I have to ask: what is like being human mixed with human mixed with human? Possibly even more human in there, too. You're, like, 50 people
@@ferretappreciator😂😂😂
Waves of settlers moved into UK before and after Roman times. UK was never hermetically sealed.
I absolutely love this video. I enjoy anthropology more as a hobby than anything else - which is most likely why I've never pursued study in it - but it's all just so fascinating. I love learning about the species that were our contemporaries, those that came before us, and the early days of our own species. Anyone who doesn't find this sort of thing utterly intriguing just...confuses me.
Same, I could never picture myself working in this kind of field, but you can bet anything that I love to know about this stuff.
Dunno about you, but I really love to learn about progress, and evolution in general is one of the best ways to portray progress.
I admire and give respect to all of those ancient relatives because they were THERE, creating tools from the nothing, we owe them our survival because their legacy is made of really hard times, cold, fire, catastrophes, they faced things we couldn't face, we owe them their aim to survive against all odds, they were sensitive because they buried their loved ones and honoured with flowers and cairns.
Life was incredible hard and difficut to face in those times, and they did it anyway...so I love to learn about our dear ancestors and honoured to carry them in my DNA.
@BloxyGurly How so?
Same here 😊
Orangeninja5000 This isn’t really anthropology. Much more a straight field of Biology or Ancient DNA Biology.
Villerslev is a leading researcher in the field and a Biology Prof at UCPH. Also happens to be a real narcissistic asshat. But that’s another topic.
If only my ancestors picked up some genes to better process fried food and donuts.
Yeah, ain't that the truth!
cheer up at least your blood clots
You'd have to have bald eagle in your dna
If they had Genes that could process those CHEMICALS you wouldn't be human. But nice joke!
@@christianmartinez505 Time to get busy. Lol
As an anthro major these are my favorite but only by a little bit because ALL OF YOUR VIDEOS ARE AMAZING! Science nerd for life = watching stuff like this and documentaries in my free time 😅❤️
Im taking a bio anthro class right now so this is pretty perfect timing
i do the same in my free time!
It is the only thing I do
Collecting data...
Hi, could you let me know if any human civilizations existed prior to Egypt in other parts of the world ?
Cassio do Sul I’m so glad to know I’m not the only “weirdo”! Yay for smarts!
I love this channel, thanks!!!
"We are the Humans. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile."
Make it so.
All yor base are belong to us
"We are the Sapiens."
They would be human as well.
👏👏👏
And now, we still can’t get along with each other
And we still keep making up foolish reasons as to why we shouldn't.
and we divide each other by "race" or better known as skin color. We're pathetic!!
@@supplyanddistributions6418 ya race, religion, culture.
@@supplyanddistributions6418 yep. truly pathetic.
@@fernie6299 Yep I feel like even if everyone is mixed of every race people still won't ever get along
That last piece was beautiful, whoever wrote it should be proud.
Fantastic organisation and description to understand such a very complex subject. Not a lot of people achieves this clarity, I have to say, we’ll done!
Would you kindly make a program on the Homo Antecessor, from Atapuerca, Burgos (Spain) ? I am extremely interested on their role on modern human ancestry!
I love your eloquence !
❤️❤️❤️Elena
"We are the Borg. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own."
Sounds kool
May I join?
You're already a member of the collective.
Sounds Swedish.
Resistance is futile.
Everybody: Talking about how Neanderthals are extinct
Me: 4% Neanderthal
Cool!
You are 4% dwarf lol
well off with your brothern you go then
@@heygod5444 nah at first i thought like that as well. However, genetic diversity is always superior. Neanderthal genes today affects height in a positive way.
X D what about gingers are they part Neanderthal?
is it weird to say this made me cry??? I have been learning about evolution and human evolution for thirty years and to see the narrative change from one of violence to one of love and befriending just gives me a lot of really big feelings about humanity.
Dw bro, I got emotional too 😭
Why would you cry about a dead Neanderthal that died tens of thousand years ago. I bet you can't even cry for a total stranger that died from another block or another city.
@@daveaustria555 I love how you assume these things about them, aren’t you just a beautifully compassionate creature🤧
@@sugarcandy654 assume what? crying for a Neanderthal that died tens of thousands of years? I don't know what you mean
Bio contagion. As we met them they got sick and well Ref. the American native tribes and small pox. How to kill off 100 million in the north, central and south America's.
Here three years after this was posted and super glad they changed presenters.
"Made jewelry"
Me: eh thats cool
"From eagle talons"
Me: Dude, thats boss
And they wrote English on their jewelry! 🤓
It's "that's a boss", not boss. Like amore.
@@LetsGoGetThem Nope. "Boss" has six different accepted definitions in English:
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boss
While three of those definitions are noun, there are two verb usages for "boss" and one adjective use that +Serpentmaster 13 exemplified above:
boss adjective
\ˈbȯs\
Definition of boss (Entry 4 of 6)
slang
: EXCELLENT, FIRST-RATE
a boss new rock band
FlyingDwarfman man you sure told him didn't you
@@FlyingDwarfman Well Done. I salute you.
Always been fascinated by the times when there were different hominids living at the same time as our ancestors, I like to think the idea of dwarves, hobits etc.. comes from ancient stories of that time somehow
Bruno Kemp Could be the origin of such stories, could also have just been regular midgets/little people.
Supposedly the different Tolkien races are purely inspired by humans. I mean it makes sense- some parts of the world 4.75 ft is a natural height, some parts 6.25ft is average. Pretty huge variety in h.s.s.!
@@daviegoodtimes Of course, you are joking, but... Tolkien had used the traditional mythological names. And mythological giants, dwarves, etc., are not defined simply as very tall or short humans. They are, for some degree, human-like, but not humans (or gods, which ARE like humans). In Norse Edda, dwarves are sometimes called giants and vice versa. In one case, the giant (troll) is openly called "the ape's kinsman"(!). The tradition clearly preserves the traces of knowledge of our more primitive relatives.
69th like lol
The Song of Ice and Fire series are also rumored to have inspiration from the times of when different types of hominids lived together as well.
Human: I have a round skull
Neanderthal: *B I G B R A I N*
Wow i asked this exact topic/question myself. I find the Idea so fascinating - thank you for this Video
This comment section has some of the smartest people I’ve ever encountered. I’m gonna visit this channel more often
Really? Half the comments I found were sex jokes. Creative yes but wouldn’t call them smart.
@@zestyoverlord6772 what you just did there was a smart assessment 🤓
@@zestyoverlord6772 nerd...
We're twins!
@@saadzamir9327 hahahhahah
I kinda wonder if medieval stories of fighting goblins and trolls, what they were actually fighting were the last other hominem species
The time distance between the medieval period and the existence of other hominem species is way to big for that to be true unfortunately
@@FinlaySG the stories of different cultures might have been passed down over time like how stories dragons and big lizards are present in many cultures who hadn't had contact for thousands and thousands of years, it's a very intriguing idea since word of mouth can last for surprisingly long times.
makes sense
@@FinlaySG You severely underestimate just how long oral tradition can last.
@@FinlaySG Oral traditions basically were passed down for thousands of years before writing came to be, in the grand scheme of things humans have been communicating orally longer than writing.
The ending was really memorable when he told that the Neanderthals aren’t extinct, today they are still living within us. The 4% genetic contribution has been instrumental in deciding our survival. While we are living we are taking them with us.
To get a 100% Neanderthal chop up 100 4% people and put them together.
Massive brain
@@gimbit7583 *EXACTLY*
@@gimbit7583 then you’d get 4*100 that’s 400% Neanderthal 🧐
@@karanupamanyu3897 thought the same thing haha
@@karanupamanyu3897 thats pretty neanderthal
I constantly think about how disappointed I am that the neanderthals proper died out. It would’ve been so interesting to see what the world would look like had TWO groups of sentient species developed here. Wouldn’t make the universe feel so lonely.
Racism would be greater than ever,it still exists even with just ONE species living,imagine if it was two or more...
When you regret never paying attention in school so you decide to watch what you can as often as possible so you can learn things.
Lourine Sarah Yupp pretty much lol
Nothing wrong with that! Its never too late to seek knowledge! ☺
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It's not completely your fault tho if you didn't pay attention in school, it can be because the teaching method is awful, or you as a student was given too much knowledge that you can't learn at once...
I feel the same way! I can't stop watching videos. I start with one and then 3hrs and 20 videos later I'm glued to RUclips! Actually, I think I might be addicted to RUclips...🤦♀️
"But there's no evidence of violence or direct competition between the two groups."
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I would like to open my counterargument with the help of Exhibit A: Humans.
@P I didn't try to suggest that those weren't also key factors, but brushing off the idea that early hominids weren't at times also horrendously cruel and warlike with each other strikes me as more than a little presumptuous. Nobody really knows what happened. It's all a big mystery - but our own behavior towards each other and 'outside groups' may offer a clue or two.
Tolerance is not a hallmark of Sapians.
@@chrisr6794 it's most likely that some of the sapians enslaved the neanderthals or fought with each other. Not all of them but I guess different tribes with different believes Systems Maybe did
@Matthew Mcgee it has been a long while it could be that those traces disappeared in time. Maybe our violence against each other started when we became a society or maybe we just need a bigger enemy to fight. Whatever it is it's unclear how or why our nature became so destructive
@@chrisr6794 I think what he meant is that Homo Sapiens did not specifically target and purge Neanderthals until they went extinct, since if that was the case we wouldn't have interbred so extensively with them. Sure, there probably were wars and raids and massacres, but more likely than not there were both Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens mixed together in those tribes.
Personally I like to think that we were ignorant enough in those days that we never realised that uncle Ooga is not just short and has a funny forehead but is actually from a different species altogether.
@P So are you saying that we absorbed Neanderthals? All of the Neanderthals?
So to get their genes, we first had to get into their jeans, IF YA KNOW WHAT I MEAN
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Best comment!!! 😂😂😂
Not jeans, more like into their Sabre tooth cat pelt
Avalist Gaming But that wouldn't rhyme :(
I don’t think they had jeans perhaps skirts? 😉
Last human: dies
His dog: Aight bipedal time
"Denisovans" sounds like the anthropologist let his son name them, and he named them after himself.
they’re named after denisova cave, suggesting there was a denisova whose dad let him name a cave
@Testicle Thief in nonsovietanymore Russia "Denis" is actual name, so...
It is in the Anglophone world too.
The cave was named after Denisov, that's a russian last name. Denisova Cave is Denisov's Cave in russian (Peschera Denisova). So the people are called Denisov's Cave People
@@birgbirg111 And Denisov means son of denis, no?
Is it possible to get a video on Elephant evolution?
Didn't realize how much I wanted this
There is the one episode about island dwarfism that talks a lot about elephants.
I'd like to see one on mammalian megafauna in general.
there already is one i think some where out there
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0:24 when you meet the people from the next campsite at a festival and they are cool af
lol
I like that interpretation. And it is probably closer to the truth than not.
Mine threw beer bottles.
So cool they had an orgy
Yet more primitive...Widespread Panic 😎
I love finding Hank in weird places! ❤️
It wouldn't surprise me at all if we'd find out that we all are a mix between different kinds of early humans and that there are more branches in the family-tree than we think
They just found a new one in the philippines
@R B J because it will very likely be a factor in why races differ so much when we are one species. E.g. homo floresiensis, recently discovered on the island of Flores in Indonesia, is 3 feet tall. It may be a factor in why East Asians are shorter, especially South East Asians.
@@gvibration1 It could be, but also possibly due to the food as well, you can see the development in height in Europe where hunter gatherers were tall and then when farming became more standard there was a big decrease in height. Which is why you get stories about how when the Romans went north the barbarians were described as giants, then as farming spread over Europe the Northmen and more tribal societies that had a more varied diet were seen as giants, and with the nutritious food available today people in the west are a lot taller than in the past, after about 100+ years of having a rich selection of food. In Asia there are still many people that is eating a very "narrow" selection of food, like having rice for every meal and meat being a luxury, perhaps in a 100 years or so Asian populations will be a lot taller than now.
@@FloatingOer Lots of factors for sure. Cool info, I would have assumed agriculture gave more certainty & hence more food overall.
Science will be finding out a lot more about the different factors for a long time.
We actually are...
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well actually ice age has entered the chat way before neanderthals denisovans and sapiens diverged
At least five major ice ages have occurred throughout Earth's history: the earliest was over 2 billion years ago, and the most recent one began approximately 3 million years ago and continues today (yes, we live in an ice age!). Currently, we are in a warm interglacial that began about 11,000 years ago.
Hurr durr durrrrr I is a Englursh talker.
God I wish it were the 90's
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sapiens: allow us to introduce ourselves
I can't imagine the conversations that were held between them. Incredible 😊.
They don't seem to have had much time for talking ...... ! ;-)
Oooga booogaa gaga !!!..
They most likely would've been too busy raping eachother or killing eachother
Ooga booga
"pass me that rock"
"thanks"
Great stuff! Thank you !
If you're curious about Neanderthals, I would strongly recommend the novel "Clan of the Cave Bear" by Jean M. Auel. It goes into great detail about tool making, diets and hunting techniques used by the Neanderthals, backed up with a lot of research by paleoanthropologists. It also gives insights, necessarily speculative, about their social organization as well.
Thank you. I’ve been very curious lately.
I just commented on this. That series is my favorite series ever. I've read the whole thing 3 times.
I went to college with her grandson… and she dedicated book 2 to him 😳😅😂
@@hannahrobbins1017 Jondalar??!🥰😍🤩
Why do Chechens look like Neanderthals?
"Survival of the fittest."
Neanderthal: Well, that was a lie.
Survival of the horniest? Just brainstorming here. Get back to me, Darwin.
@@toughderek Lol true
Well we were smarter does that count
Fitness = ability to meet the demands of the environment
@@anwin4505 Actually, neanderthals had a larger brain than us as well.
the girl in the image at 2:33 is a speculative reconstruction of a neanderthal child, you can see the same picture on page 18 in Yuval's Sapiens a brief history of humankind. Loved this small amount of detail in the video!
Absolutely brilliant ending statement!! I got choked up there for a bit.
the final sentence ", reminding us of a time where we weren't alone" made me so sad
i saw jupiter today with the naked eye right next to the moon... but yeah the ending to this video was quite a moment
Agreed. Gave me goosebumps.
we're not really alone. neanderthals, denisovans, and any other hominins - they all disappeared as distinct species but the fact that they interbred with us means they didn't really disappear. they're just part of us now. it may not be 100% accurate, but i think its not unfair to say that we all just became one species in the end
That's just auty...
Yup-- that kinda weirded me out, too. I guess nerds like the narrator are just a bunch of lonely people. But don't bunch the rest of us into that category. I have friends I haven't used yet.
So much for "I wouldn't sleep with you, if you were the last Neanderthal on earth"
20 minutes later, "ok, come on"
It's neat that man buns were a thing even back then.
Then the fire nation attacked.
Well, they look like water benders to me 🤡
Well, haircuters surely weren't a thing back then^^ So its eitehr man buns or sharp rocks on your skull.
Are you talking about the most ancient hairstyle since humans learnt to brush their hair with fish bones?
If Neanderthals had had man buns their fate may have been different.
@@cgpcgp3239 at least learn to spell the country
Great Video. I was deep in thought about other hominids and why they aren’t here anymore and this video was perfect
The lesson of the story is to breed with strangers as much as possible!
Lol. 😂So hook-up culture is not a modern trend?
@Aung Zeya the exact opposite obviously, we all know we killed those species off and if we didn't sooner or later they would do it to us. So racism in all likelihood is the only reason you exist.
Chris Garret we did not kill the species , due to cross breeding we were actually more likely to adapt to a harsh environment , it’s not that we killed them cause we were racist towards them , it’s the simple survival of the fittest in the harsh environment ... f ex mix race people are the kind of cross bred offspring of today and we know that they have greater genetic fitness than pure bred offspring. Taking that in consideration being racist actually cause more damage to our modern society , not only in terms of that it’s not fair , but probably if our ancestors wouldn’t have sex with different species, because they were racist towards them we would not be here today ...
Excellent takeaway
Neanderthal: Hey bruh, let's party!
Modern Human: Naw, man. You and the Denisovans party too much.
That speech at the end was just so beautiful. :')
Our ancestors forgot to delete there Browser History ☠️