Homo Sapiens Were Not Alone
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- Опубликовано: 14 янв 2021
- There were other humans before us, and even some at the same time as us. Now, Homo sapien is the only human left. But who were the others?
"A number of varieties of Homo are grouped into the broad category of archaic humans in the period that precedes and is contemporary to the emergence of the earliest early modern humans (Homo sapiens) around 300 ka. Omo-Kibish I (Omo I) from southern Ethiopia (196 ± 5 ka) and the remains from Jebel Irhoud in Morocco (about 315 ka) and Florisbad in South Africa (259 ka) are the earliest remains of Homo sapiens. The term typically includes Homo neanderthalensis (430+-25 ka), Denisovans, Homo rhodesiensis (300-125 ka), Homo heidelbergensis (600-200 ka), Homo naledi, Homo ergaster, and Homo antecessor.
There is no universal consensus on this terminology, and varieties of "archaic humans" are included under the binomial name of either Homo sapiens or Homo erectus by some authors.
Archaic humans had a brain size averaging 1,200 to 1,400 cubic centimeters, which overlaps with the range of modern humans. Archaics are distinguished from anatomically modern humans by having a thick skull, prominent supraorbital ridges (brow ridges) and the lack of a prominent chin.
Anatomically modern humans appear around 300,000 years ago in Africa, and 70,000 years ago (see Toba catastrophe theory), gradually supplanting the "archaic" human varieties. Non-modern varieties of Homo are certain to have survived until after 30,000 years ago, and perhaps until as recently as 12,000 years ago. Which of these, if any, are included under the term "archaic human" is a matter of definition and varies among authors. Nonetheless, according to recent genetic studies, modern humans may have bred with "at least two groups" of ancient humans: Neanderthals and Denisovans. Other studies have cast doubt on admixture being the source of the shared genetic markers between archaic and modern humans, pointing to an ancestral origin of the traits which originated 500,000-800,000 years ago.
Another group may also have been extant as recently as 11,500 years ago, the Red Deer Cave people of China. Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London has suggested that these people could be a result of mating between Denisovans and modern humans. Other scientists remain skeptical, suggesting that the unique features are within the variations expected for modern human populations."
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Qxir for prime minister of bulgaria
your vids without monologues are way better bud
love the content anyway
We're not actually the only humans species left. Africans are more linked to our ancestors than by alot Europeans. ruclips.net/video/pDUAhrN9F0E/видео.html proof.
Try putting the tayto between two slices of bread. You can fit an entire packet in there.
do you have a channel on odysee. com?
Pov: your a cave rock and some lad stoned out of his mind comes in your cave and starts talking too you
Not different then modern stoners.
"ULA HOI RUNE! HOE R U TOO DAYS?"
All theese replies are barely comprehensible
@@Mikey-zk5wc Don’t do drugs.
@@theluftwaffle1 I'll try my best
Fire was a mistake, return to tree
Return to monke
Return to cell
@Egg T Return to singularity.
Return to innocence...
return to void
What’s truly mind boggling is that it took us hundreds of thousands of years to invent the wheel and other simple tools, but in just one century we went from horse drawn wagons to space travel.
Kurzweil's theorem, "the law of accelerating returns" is basically that idea.
Wow we learnt how to make and control fire 1millions years ago. It took us that long to get "fire go boom big spear fly". Yes great achievement.
aliens
It all boils down to the passage of information. Early humans weren't dumber, they just didn't have information. Without information, human intelligence can't reach it's full potential. As time progresses, information becomes more and more accessible, allowing us to push ourselves further. We don't have to individually discover things on our own like early humans did and instead can be told about things that have already been discovered which allows us to build on those, accelerating scientific and technological progress.
@@drosera88 exactly. If you somehow got a infant from the dawn of homo sapien and raised it today, it'd be as intelligent as any other child.
Invention and innovation don't just happen. To them, the first human making a spear was probably looked at oddly, until they showed its usage and effectiveness... Thus, the spear was passed down. All these things they created show their intelligence. I know I couldn't craft a spear that'd take down a mammoth.
There's a theory that the reason we experience the 'uncanny valley' effect when looking at things that aren't *quite* human is that we evolved it in response to another, similar looking, species of human (one probably as violent as we are) so we could spot them more easily.
Speaking of which, some of the images in this video got me feeling super uncomfortable
He totally forgot about Ardipithecus.
human: sees something human like.
brain: *that's sus*
I've seen people mention the first part of how something instilled the uncanny valley fear into us, but it this makes it make so much more sense than all the horror-theories Ive heard around
@@hoaxghost3268 Clearly it's because of the alien shapeshifters
Nukes are just extra-spicy thrown rocks.
*_SPICY_*
Tru. Or you could say theyre extra spicey rocket proppeld spears.
pop rocks
Quite
@MKULTRA GET OUT OF MY HEADGET OUT OF MY HEADGET OUT OF MY HEADGET OUT OF MY HEADGET OUT OF MY HEADGET OUT OF MY HEADGET OUT OF MY HEADGET OUT OF MY HEADGET OUT OF MY HEADGET OUT OF MY HEADGET OUT OF MY HEADGET OUT OF MY HEADGET OUT OF MY HEADGET OUT OF MY HEADGET OUT OF MY HEADGET OUT OF MY HEADGET OUT OF MY HEADGET OUT OF MY HEADGET OUT OF MY HEADGET OUT OF MY HEADGET OUT OF MY HEAD
Youre like Sam O'nella acadeny but irish and not dead
Edit: he bacc
Dude died... What happened?
@@funnyman2482 college is litteraly a waste of time and money
@Egg T what the fu
Wait someone tell me is he dead or not
@@dvsdav3733 didn't you know? He like died in a freak car accident. According to the Instagram post. RIP....
There was a branch of early ancestors called "Homo Flaccidus," but were wiped out by "stiff competition. "
Lol. Gay
🥁 ((📀))
🤦♂️uggggghhhhhh
@@spacejihadist4246 sure, there were gay cavemen; that's great that you are. You do you. I won't judge.
@@shentsaceve5642 how tf did you know that anyway. You gay af.
"... gettin' together and throwing rocks is still THE strategy for humans."
I did not know there where so many spices of gay
Apparently your not asking the right questions...
I had no idea spices could be gay, species on the other hand yeah it happens
Komrade
50 spices of gay
Spices
“Evolution points”
*tierzoo intensifies*
I appreciate tbis
EVO Search for Eden
@SURVIVAL OUTPOST CHANNEL what in the cinnamon toasted fuck are you on about?
Can somone help me level up? I keep getting spawnkilled
@SURVIVAL OUTPOST CHANNEL wtf
Something I’ve learned from my anthro and evo bio classes is that people say we will look different millions of years from now but homo erectus survived for 2 million years and consistently looked the same throughout their era, and that was with evolutionary pressures against them. We have very little evolutionary pressures to deal with (aside from diet changes) which means we will probably look the same overall if we do end up existing for millions of years! Cool thought!
Wow! Interesting studies.🤔 I wonder if our jaws will get smaller since we no longer require a powerful jaw w/the diet humans have today.😊
@@isabellind1292 they actually are getting smaller! Who knows what our jaws might look like in the future tho!
@@francovlla IKR?! I'm sure most people would gladly say good riddance to wisdom teeth too (except for dentists who make tons of money off of extracting them).😬
I mean, minor things have changed. Our jaws have changed, we've developed a minor overbite to suit forks and we're gradually phasing out wisdom teeth
@@kalkuttadrop6371 eating hard foods prevents overbites. But yes our soft diets have changed things dramatically, that is an environmental factor affecting our biology, doesnt mean it is a sign of us evolving only adapting to an external factor.
imagine they think skyscrapers are naturally occurring and they try to figure out the process for their formation
Literally started reading Sapiens: a brief history of humankind yesterday a lot of great information in regards to this topic
yo wtf nice profile picture king
I thought this comment was me, based comment also
I thought Ricky didn’t know how to read
great book!
Reading the same book too
Imagine how awkward it would be if one of the other species was still around
Neanderthal lives matter...
For them to be still around they would have to be sooooo heavily imbred im sure they would be laying somewhere in the american south on a bench 'thinkin bout kfc' lol
Wait a second... Europeans are more diverse than non-Europeans due to Neanderthal DNA
Racism on a whole new level
@@wanoinsane9988 I mean we DID wipe them out... supposedly of course.
Is sad to lose the other Homies :(
10:31 "15 of tha fookers were found in a cave"
This is why we need you narrating history documentaries, nothin captures my attention faster than that lovely irish accent
This video looks like a major improvement over the last one, but I do miss the drawings
The "animated" ones are from "Tales from the Bottle." This is just a video he simply wanted to put out.
@Finn [Redacted] nothing, this one is just of better quality.
The fucking drums just kept getting funnier and funnier as it continued through the video
To stoned for that lmao
I think it's a parody of Joe Scott's bongo transitions
I love the endings recently you've become quite good at the setting the mood and tones I really commend you and wish I could do more as fan. As of right now I can only morally support you but you have definitely become someone i look forward to hearing from. You're just you man and i appreciate that so much!!! Super rare and quality content if things go become dier trust I'll scrounge up the change and ol' buddy Qxir will be having tales from the bottle soon enough!!!
What a nice compliment to Qxir. I only recently found his channel. I've learned many things!😊👍👍
human: man i feel so lonely, if only there were other sentient species here
also human: *kills every other sentient hominid species he comes across*
I think they just got bred out of existence
@@oiuii Not even that really there were more of us homo sapien than them and so while their genetic legacy still exist its a smaller part of us than homo spaien.
good job with the green screen, im surprised how good you edited yourself into the cave.
bro this is where I live
@@Qxir can a loc come up in your crib?
@@Qxir understandable have a great day
@@Qxir gotta appreciate how calm you talked while playin the drums
@@ironoob nah, fuck you
Biology (specifically genetics) is my field of study, and "Homo Erectus" never stops getting a chuckle.
"Homo Biggus Dickus"
How else could we have gotten here?!?! Homo Flaccidus quickly died out by lack of procreation.
Sounds like a Harry Potter spell
@@Smile4theKillCam456 interesting observation. The reason it sounds like one is this weird, not that well-known language called "latin"
@@Chris_wintherscalm down, nerd.
I think one of the coolest things ever would be an 'Evolution museum'.
Pretty much you pick a species, and it starts from their very first known ancestor and keeps on going until it gets to where they are today. Imagine it starts from a single celled organism, then you keep walking down a hallway and that single celled organism slowly evolves until you hit the end of the hallway where it's the species you picked. It would be so damn fascinating seeing how species got to where they are today and what they looked like in the past.
That sounds good until you remember that species don't really exist and that the museum would either be the same thing we have today: a bunch of incomplete specimens that have existed thousands or millions of years apart from each others and don't show the full picture; a collection of all the individual animals that have existed, which would be extremely boring, extremely impractical, and impossible; or a curated version of this where someone arbitrarily decides to pick a few animals out of the billions that have existed, but then how do you decide that some creature is sufficiently different from its predecessors to justify its presence in the museum? (For now, nature decides for us as fossils are so rare.)
I think this idea isn't fit for human brains, the history of life is just too complicated for us and the debates regarding what humans belong to what species show that even our best specialists can't go past the compulsion to simplify reality by cutting parts of it and sewing them together in nonsensical ways. Maybe some day, some AIs will be able to fill the gaps and create an accurate history of life and have a mental representation of it, but I doubt they would build a gigantic museum with that information.
@@unutilisateur4729OneZoom says otherwise. Yes, it is incomplete, but I think it proves that this idea might just be fit for human brains.
0:15 hits a bit differently now
Other variants of humanity: *exist*
Homo sapiens: *it's cleansing time*
The Moustache man: *time to party like it's 50,000 BC*
@@employee962 The cheddar man:
The God emperor smiles
@@jjcoola998 No he won't. Xenos and mutants are bad but abhumans are cool. :P
And a little mating can't forget that
No shit we weren’t alone. But we made damn sure we were in the end!
Guess its just human nature...
Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated? I see the way you're acting like you're somebody else. Gets me frustrated. Just admit that you love the videos I make, my dear mizcj
@@snailsaredumb9412 unless we are educated not to do so
We saw competition and dealt with it. It'd be a strange society we lived in if there were multiple cognitive species living on Earth. Humans would almost always hold intellectual superiority. That could lead to some pretty fucked class structures to be set up. Why enslave people when you can just enslave another species. They're too dumb to stand up to you anyway right?
Fuck yeah! Humanity for the win!
No wonder modern human genetics have such a wide range ; you see all sorts of different physiques and minds due to the many different humans that lived , mated and influenced eachother over all these years .
I love how Qxir made a video of him saying homo as many times as he wanted making it pass as an educational footage.
Obviously, you can’t forget about the hetero and bi sapiens!
@Bryan Solis it’s a joke.
@@Sharp26 he’s got an among us pfp do you think he can understand that?
Dont forgot about the trans sapien
pansapiens
Niice
The title sounds like a creepypasta title.
Actually thought it was that kind of video at first lol
The lizard people will be in contact with you shortly
Holy shit it does!
Let me stretch my writing skills, oh boy.
"Homo Sapiens Were Not Alone."
*Hi, my name is Steve, i am here to tell you the story about how homo sapiens, and humans were not alone at all.
Let me make it clear that i will be calling homo sapiens as humans, cause it's tiring to type homo sapiens every 5 seconds.
So it began a very long time ago, when humans were already bashing rocks together and making weapons to kill eachother, along them, they lived with some sort of alien species.
They looked like humans, but could shapeshift into any other animal, they came from some sort of cave, instead of giving birth they laid eggs like lizards and chickens.
Now these guys were intelligent, smarter then us humans, they already had wheels, so us humans started to follow them.
They got angry, and decided to wage war on us, we almost lost because of their advanced tech, but we copied some of their ideas like canons and killed all of them.
After the war, in the dead of night, a blue light was seen picking up the corpses of the Alien species.
How do I know all this? well, I have some DNA that strikingly resembles the DNA of the Alien species.*
@@tricksterzyro3230
Truly the greatest creepypasta on RUclips.
I doubt Sapiens and Neanderthal would think of each other as separate species, for centuries even APES were confused for human tribes.
Videos like these make me want someone to invent a time machine so we can learn more about the beings that used to co-exist with us.
You would probably be disappointed since they are literally savages
"15 of the feckers were found in a cave in South Africa" 10:32 lmao. Had me laughing
A m m m m me too
Yeah, my children luved that. Sensorship and common sense are dead.
fuckers*
The founders of the illuminati were in that cave.
@@alpenglow123 go cry about a word
Imagine that, 3 species of human once existed all at one time.
Imagine those little hobbit dudes hunting a mega elephant.
@@SangerZonvolt I think the elephants were also tiny
@@BackToBackJames
At 16.39 there is a picture comparing them to modern elephants and they are bigger.
@@SangerZonvolt The hobbit people (known as Flores man) lived alongside elephants which were five feet tall at the shoulder. They also lived alongside abnormally large birds, reptiles, and rats.
I just wish they were more intelligent...
I love you qxir! This is literally my favourite channel out here! Thank you for the amazing content!
the subtitles on this are flawless
Perfect phonetic transcription, totally worth the cash investment and risk of Terminators.
I've got one of those round bulbous skull protrusions on the back of my head, the occipital bun. That's a Neanderthal thing
Unga bunga
Throws shit
@@oldgreggsmadmemes4431 throws it back
@@zh9664 throws spear
@@oldgreggsmadmemes4431 HAHA. YOU HAVE SHIT ON YOUR FACE THO
I’m both fascinated & _massively_ impressed by how you managed to keep your visible upper body quite so still as you were skilfully maintaining a continuous rhythmic soundtrack throughout the _entirety_ of this video’s 19:31 runtime, playing a _wide_ variety of percussive instrumental timpani, drums, & surfaces, striking them with an assortment of sticks, implements &/or body parts - no doubt utilising *EVERY* appendage & digit to maximum effect! - whilst _ALSO_ providing the narration! Premium multitasking at its finest! And to record it *ALL* in only one take...? Just, *WOW!!!🤯🤩*
I respect your work ethic & dedication. Kudos, good sir!✊😎
Qxir.... likes?
Please never stop the quality on your clips. Definitely class A narrative
Love all your videos mate!! One of my favourite you tubers, I recommend you to all my friends :)
We’ve been around for 300k years and I still have to wait for another human to deliver my pizza
Or, ya know, you could just buy the ingredients or purchase a pizza kit.
It's sad to think that those Hobbits were massacred
Massacreted? Massacred, yeah? Or did I miss something lol?
I feel bad for the hobbits
Hobbit lives matter
#HLM
@@oiuii Too late man
I really enjoyed your style of delivering info. Good pace, good tone....this is my first time seeing a video of yours.
You've got a new fan!
I wonder how many takes it took qxir to pronounce homoerectus without laughing but from the looks of it he gave up hope lmao loved the video as always
Imagine future humans or aliens finding the SCP wiki...
They'd think Earth is cursed and run away.
“What kind of place is this”- Patrick Star
they would react like we react with Simpsons.
"hey! they predicted X thing!"
Alien: Is that my uncle?
Or the full lore of the 40k universe as the only evidence of human existence
Incredible video. Jam packed with information and entertaining at the same time. I love it.
I can't wait until Homosapien 2.0 comes out! I've been waiting so long for the update.
Last time I was this early the Neanderthals were still alive.
Damn, 35 000 years old, huh?
OK boomer.
Imagine having another species of humans today, we can't even handle multiple races🤣
There's one race, the human race.
Y'all know what I meant, Im not gonna argue
@@naka8919 We actually could be grouped into subspecies. The requriments for dividing a species into different subspecies are extremely low. Even though it doesn’t sound like it based on the name, subspecies.
You would recognize most of them as human, the differences were not much more than between races today. Species is an artificial label and is nothing to do with whether you can interbreed or not (they did).
@@wepsar Human breeds then, if you want to be taxonomically correct...
Good video, anthropology is so interesting. To be clear though, you always make good videos Qixr, much love bro.
Thank you for interesting me in like, everything. I love biology and chemistry, alittle bit of history, but you always get me hooked in alot of things I generally am not very interested in. Saw a video of yours years back that sounded fun and I've been hoooooked. Thanks again! Eagerly awaiting your every upload! -Alyssa
its a good day when qxir uploads
I just wanna take a moment to say thank you for the content I’m sure you don’t care to hear it but some of us literally live in the middle of nowhere and appreciate the videos
Tis better to live in the middle of nowhere than outside of nowhere at all.🏡😊
I’m a geologist and I wrote a paper about Jinx (another humanoid species living alongside Homo habilis)
I love this video, this is well organized and presented in an entertaining way.
Thanks, Homo
This is my favorite video on this channel. Good work.
0:00 ah yes. Qxir. The human. Yup.
**Trust me bro**
20 minute Qxir video? A blessing from the heavens
How does qxir only have 500,000 subs? Man u cover all the coolest shit. Definetly the coolest Irish guy I've ever seen lol just seem less like a guy with a kilt than the rest hah. Thx 4 the vid man. War history stories r my favorite thing u cover like the ww2 meth guy but any war history is interesting to me. Next time u get time for a war story up your sleeve would love to hear one. I usually cant stand an Irish accent like old British is also nails on a chalkboard for me but this guy is pretty chill I don't even notice it. I live in the sticks of Kentucky so im sure I sound strange to some people. Conor McGregor gave u fellas a bad rep god tht dude is obnoxious lol. Keep it up man love the content 5 star quality. I'm honestly suprised you don't have more subs
You are my favorite channel to watch as I eat dinner and have a whiskey. Your writing, sense of humor, and delivery are all fantastic. Please never change, and thank you for all the awesome content.
crazy how your vids are only getting better
Pov: you just finished throwing rocks with the boys and your fellow grug ate a weird plant and started talking as you eat antelope meat
I love this as I love all your videos, so so good!!! Well done.
Loved the drumming transitions!
The Chris Chan clip made me audibly laugh.
We do not speak of Sonichu.
Did not expect that for sure LMFAO
Those damned dirty trolls make a mockery of the True and Honest Sonichu fans!
Didnt age well
@@leemon908 yupp
Yikes…!
A funny thing just happened, when he said "did we ever cross paths? Maybe, maybe that contributed to their disappearance" the ad that came up was tinder as if RUclips suggested something else.
The bone flute was an ibex bone and the holes made by the teeth of hyena. The break is also consistent with the bone being broken from the powerful bite. So, not a flute. Hyena just grabbing a leg, running off with it to a secluded cave, and munching down.
You did a great job on this.
Ok so the hyena made a flute. 😱
Your videos remind me of OKIs weird stories but I don’t have to wait 3 months between each video. Cheers buddy your content is some of the most interesting stuff out there, most of the topics almost don’t feel real 14:50 this is why I watch
I can't even remember why I subbed but I'm so glad I did this is fantastic I love this kind of stuff
Probably the killdozer video
I like how you didn't need a greenscreen to get the background for this video.
He’s a caveman
I love how one of the species has Rudolph Fentz as the name. Guy was known as the "man out of time" who suddenly appeared on a busy street dressed in clothes that were at least a century out of date, freaked out and got hit by a carriage I believe. When authorities checked his belongings he had quite a few interesting things in his pockets. But I'll let you guys look into it more if you're curious.
Fictional character :\
@@kainwittrig2180 The most unbelievable part of that story is how the guy had 70 bucks on him.
A) the species is named after Lake Rudolf, the old name for Lake Turkana, where remains were found
B) the story is completely fictional
Best biology class I ever had! Replace teachers with RUclips pls.
14:45 they did have their own empires, they did fight in world wars. I understand what Qxir means when he says 'I wonder about having another species'....
There is no alternate history, they are part of us, and we are in essence... part of them.
That Chris Chan clip tho
@Bryan Solis you go to Lichtenstein.
I wasn't ready
You should make more longer history videos like this.
I like closing my eyes and imagining hes playing the drums as he speaks
WHOOOOO! New video from my absolute favorite RUclipsr!
many believe that the neanderthals were assimilated into the groups homo sapiens more than being eraticated. which is a nice thought. (source: some documentary on curiosity stream)
The ecology of the island of Flores is very interesting itself the Hobbits were hunted by the unique creatures of the island like titanic storks and giant Komodo dragons
Just recently found this channel, I like your style so I subscribed... and I watched a commercial for u, you're welcome.
Qxir upload let's fucking go
where
@@jamescannone1425 to the comments section
@@jamescannone1425 ruclips.net/video/sVxxylhOgBw/видео.html
@Egg T ?
"prehistoric example of early auto-focus"
i love you
The scratches on the cutting tool at 13:18 looks like a grip, to me. It could be art, I wonder if it could also be a practical way to get more grip on your tools.
3:18 I started laughing before he even made the joke about laughing.
Christans: *"This is beyond god"*
Those are just the very devout/fantical most of us accept science, especially considering Christian history is filled with educational/scientific stuff (the Church was the main center of education during the Medieval ages) despite stuff like Galileo being imprisoned because he contradicted scripture.
I'm a Christian and believe in evolution.
@Egg T these are not morals
@Egg T don't generalize the whole of Christianity he has many sects that hate each other but not modern day
Or "... God put their remnants to test our only 6,000 year old faith..."
Im just learning this in class rn
jealous. I miss education lol real life is boring as fuck
@@realchilldude1271 Schools are being changed to be focused on crap that doesn't even matter. Like critical theory and gender studies.
@@OddZodd I said I missed education, not schools. lol re read
@@realchilldude1271 all i'm saying is that they are changing the core fundementals of education, and removing the actual good points of our history and even moving into math.
@@realchilldude1271 there's always time to educate yourself in that case
Hey mate, i really enjoy your channel ! Keep it up and take care !
Great video, I’ll be sure to subscribe.
3:55 holy shit he's staring into my soul
"Hello there, would you like a cup of tea"
That homo erectus does have nice eyes
That Chris Chan reference at the beginning was a TRUE AND HONEST surprise!
There's a theory that stone shaping was an instinctive behavioural trait originally because a lot of the likes of spear heads and hand axe shaped stones showed no signs of wear from use. That ancient species somewhere in the australopitecine (sorry if I butchered the spelling) to homo lineage discovered they could be used as tools rather than invented them specifically for that purpose.
Kind of gives new meaning to the expression "no homo".
The thing to always remember about hominids, including great apes, which includes humans and human ancestors, is that even the most liberal estimates put our collection of examples of the Hominidae family at no more than 5% of total historical members. In other words, we have almost no idea, because we have never found any remains, of 95% of the Hominidae that have ever existed on the planet. We're able to see the suggestions of a handful of unknown species in genomes of humans and other hominids, but that gives us no info beyond the knowledge we are missing a record of some species similar enough to contribute genetic material. Given how unlikely it is to find fossilized Hominidae bones, it's actually kind of amazing we know as much about human ancestry as we do, but that knowledge is highly speculative and liable to be completely rewritten with a single discovery (as has happened more than once in the past) simply because even the most solid theories in the field of study are based an incredibly small number of fossils, and we can't even be sure that the fossils we have a representative of actual populations or if they just happened to survive because of more optimal conditions. In other words, there may have been a species that was far more numerous and evolutionarily similar to modern humans living at the same time as, say, homo Habilis, but because they lived exclusively in hot, moist environments, full of predators ans scavengers, none of their remains survived to become fossilized and therefore we have no idea they existed. Their tools would probably look very similar to those of Habilis, and without anything in the fossil record, we don't even know what we don't know, so to speak.
This isn't to say the entire field of paleoanthropology is bunk, it just means that we should always keep in mind that what is accepted fact today in the story of human evolution might very well be shown to be completely wrong tomorrow. And even more so than in other academic fields, it's vitally important in this one to never get too attached to a theory, or invested in a position. Thisleads to bad science, something paleoanthropolgy has suffered from at times, for that very reaon.
I like your way of thinking. 👍
Dislike
Thanks for the new video king.
2:51 lmao imagine a world where we all have the faces of orangutans
It would be normal I guess.
At that point anything different would be odd, because we would know nothing else.
This man just summarized my entire 6th grade social studies
Wait, so you're saying modern humans are a hybrid species??? 😮
Some humans have neanderthal DNA
So far 61 creationists didn’t like the video.
I myself liked it very much!
Great video!
1 week later!? I watched your video today before seeing this one in my sub feed :@
That chrischan clip aged like milk
I’ve always wanted to see a story that takes place in a universe in which one of the other homo species rose to prominence. A universe in which we are just the subject of study, being called homo (wherever our bones were found).