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Literally every claim you make here is soundly disproven by genetic studies. That and archeological evidence. I’ve heard a thousand versions of this narrative by now. I’m leaving this here as a note. This is not science. Its ideology.
It's a bit mind-blowing to me that Homo Erectus was around with its home-building and tool-making technology for about 1.75 million years. All that history, and we'll never know anything more than a minuscule fraction of the broadest outlines.
Humans have been around far longer than 1.75 million years. everyone will know in the near future. They can't hide it much longer and many already are becoming aware. You'll be hearing it from their descendants.. not people on the surface of Terra.
And at some point in the future very much the same thing will probably be said about us. Little will be left of our technology in any evidence of how we lived, if those in the future looking back are so advanced in their technology, that what we could do impressed them but still classified us primitive.
Post singularity AI will be able to simulate what it was like for them with high fidelity. The question is will we live long enough to see that time? Also, assuming society doesn’t collapse before or because of it.
An interesting question along those lines is: did bands Homo Erectus engage in warfare with other bands of Homo erectus? Is there any evidence in skeletal remains of injuries that are the apparent result of attack by another human? Or, were the bands so spread out (that is, was the human population so small and sparse) that bands rarely, if ever, encountered one another?
Knowing these lines of early humans lived so long and accomplished so much really boggles the mind. In a very real way, we stand on the shoulders of those who went before us, giving humanity an amazing legacy to live up to.
One thing is clear: We don’t agree on how they actually looked. All jokes aside, thank you for an insightful documentary with great narration and great imagery
From looking at the many different skulls, it might be that ancient humans were more similar like dog breeds are today. All human, but slightly different, hopefully we’ll learn more.
Absolutely most successful human species, not only by longevity, but by the advancements they made (sapiens excluded) Using and making fire, clothes, advanced weaponry and tools, caring for others for extended periods...remarkable people.
@@fredkelly6953Is that a mockery? They evolved and adapted to become us. They were here for 2 million years and we are here for only 300,000. With our current speed in tech advances, I believe our own specie will be gone in a shorter time. Our descendants will call us dead too.
Yea I think something like this would be more achievable then taking someone back in time. Like opening some kind of hole to se in space woth telescope idk
@@wingedhussar1453alright... Hear me out... What if we used complex AI that basically "does the math* on like, the whole planet... It would be a huge thing and maybe not even possible. But if it scanned an area it could determine how everything got there right? By like crunching the numbers? Like how certain geological formations occured or how certain things could or couldn't be possible? Idk I'm not a genius lol. I'm rather average just thought of it when I was a kid....
Nowadays people complain when they have to walk more than a block between escalators and elevators. Our ancestors were able to spread throughout the world, in between long dangerous swims or boat voyages, in every possible weather condition, entirely on foot! What heroes!
Not really a big deal. Most fit people today walk on average 5 miles. 5 miles x 365 days in a year is 1825 miles. In slightly more than a year you can easily walk across a continent. To me the hard part would be not having shoes so i suppose they must've made shoes - or had tougher feet
to be fair though, some of us have deformities that prevent us from stuff like endurance running (i have one leg longer than the other, i have asthma, super high arches on my feet, not much fat cushioning in my feet, etc.)
Ive always felt theres a deep biological connection in our brains between how we portray the villians in slasher movies, And how it is we hunt. The similarity is eerie if you think about it. The killer never runs. hes a walking, steady pace, never tiring brute with a sharp implement. You run away from him, he only walks, so you MUST get away right? wrong. Just when you think you can relax, here he is again. you can never escape. ...... you can run a hundred times faster than him trying to save your life, But he still runs you down, and never even ran to begin with......................... The victims in slasher movies are the legit experiences of our prey.
I dont know how they did it, if me and a group of guys walked into the woods now with a spear each and saw a deer, it would bolt and there is no way we would be able to find it again yet alone stalk it and wear it down, amazing
@@killgazmotron Injuring the animal on initial contact seems necessary for the entire hunting success. Predatory is our inherent demeanor. Oh, how one longs for the Garden of Eden.
@TM-ch3hl persistence hunting works best in hot, open areas, as heat exhaustion is part of what wears the animals down. Humans are better at staying moving when hot than some other animals. In a colder, woodland habitat with a lot of brush to slow you down, I dont think that strategy would work very well, so being stealthy and taking game down quickly before it can get away would be better.
The biggest problem I see with all these hypotheses is that whoever is coming up with them pretty obviously spends most of their time indoors. Like the idea that humans first captured naturally occurring fire rather than created it. Humans always gathered up dry grass for bedding. Apes do that. When humans started flaking stone tools is was inevitable that they would spark their dry grass bedding on fire. And this idea that physically modern vocal cords are required for speech. Apes talk to each other. My dogs talk to each other. I can tell by the way they bark what they're after. It's different for rat or snake or cat or possum. Solresol is a language with seven syllables. Southern Koisan uses five different clicks. It really doesn't require vocal cords to have a language.
Fire, for example: was probably discovered sporadically throughout different regions and time spans. Probably the same for other major discoveries as well.
I got the distinct impression that the video was referring to modern speech. Homo Erectus could communicate vocally, they just did not have the apparatus to make the sounds WE depend on for communication.
Shit, babies talk, if you count screaming and babbling. Most organisms have some means of communication, so something as sophisticated as these folks would definitely have some kind of language. Maybe not ancient Latin, but something, they must have had something.
Perfect timing, I was looking for something exactly like this. Started with dinosaurs, then pterosaurs, now homo. Love the history of our distant, yet closest relatives. A video about the earliest homo sapiens would nice (and other groups too, like heidelbergensis, habilis, neanderthalensis etc.).
Smells like fraud or evolutionary misrepresentation doesn't it? .....considering that we are not homogeneous but several hybrids with other animals and rightfully deserve more distinctive categories.
@@kekkic I found out there's no evolution but there is rampant hybridisation and crossbreeding with other life forms. It wasn't even "natural selection" but beastiality. Good thing there are still real humans left to sort it out.
I assume that Homo Erectus probably used logboats and rafts to paddle across open water, rather than anything as sophisticated as a sail? Either way, it was one hell of a feat.
Mankind during Paleolithic spent many a night in caves...our hormonal rhythms /endocrine system operate best under total darkness (with the illuminated dials and 'winky-blinky' lights bad for your normal body day/night endocrine balance)...therefore cave-sleeping allowed for our natural day-night cycle to develop.
I would argue that a charitable and fair explanation for the disappearance of *Homo erectus* is as a result of isolated populations diversifying into other forms of *Homo:* namely, *Heidelberginsist->Neanderthalensis, Denisovans, Sapiens, and likely Floresiensis as well as Ludonensis.* Sure, there were isolated populations of them that simply died out, but this is not representative of all of what seems to have been going on during the later parts of their presence in the ecosystem.
The upper crust non-hybridized rh negatives were the source of the male part of the homo erectus lineages today via an "animal Eve" from the homo erectus group and an offworld male. The families with no homo erectus in them are vastly different, posessing the mtDNA of "divine Eve" that is apparent;y necessary for the ascension practise.
Erectus aren't the direct ancestors of any of the species you mentioned except the latter two due to differences in shoulder, skull, & limb morphology as well as overlapping temporal ranges. We still don't know the crown ancestor of Homo sapiens s, assuming there even is a single one we could point to given how fluid the notion of "species" is amongst Hominins.
@@Aerxis The black headed people were often said to not be able to learn ascension because they had no soul. They were exempted from the ten commandments according to ancient accounts such as king Og and were farmed like goats in the region with the highest dolmen counts in the world. Some bred in, even though original human strain with the rh negative blood can't host rh positive pregnancies very well. The mtDNA of a human with divine female markers is not from homo erectus. There were several original unrelated species.
@7:45 It is amazing how successful groups of predators can be with cooperative hunting tactics. Able to bring down much larger, stronger, and hardier prey than any one individual predator. Humans being pack hunters, tool users, and tool makers, were advantaged by physiology that also allowed them to become superb pursuit hunters.
Things have changed. My mother was one of nine, but their neighbor had 15 kids in the 30s. And that was under modern civilization conditions. Homoerectus woman probably popped out one kid or even two every fertile year of her life.
Wow, this was a fascinating video on Homo erectus, the longest-lived human species ever. I learned a lot from your summary and highlights of their achievements, such as hunting, fire, and seafaring. One thing that I think is also interesting is that Homo erectus may have been the first human to use symbols and art, as evidenced by the engraved shells found in Java that date back to 500,000 years ago [00:19:21]1. These shells are the oldest known examples of abstract patterns made by humans, and they suggest that Homo erectus had some form of symbolic communication and expression. I wonder what they were trying to convey with these engravings. Maybe they were the first artists of our kind. Thanks for the great video!
I read a report from 1950 from mexico city that stated during the laying of a new water pipe thru the city that 4 ancient humans were laying next to a wolly mamoth.Spears and tools were laying around the site.Just one year later,close by the first find they found another wolly mamoth.
The truth is so much more complex than old Anthropologists like to debate. These ancestors of ours roamed back and forth and all over the World as best they could. They stayed in places for long periods of time, they migrated frequently at the same time others stayed put. They simultaneously evolved independently and interbred. It is not one or the other.
As some Africans can remind you, not every speech sound rely on the pneumatic system: imagine a hunting party that not only have to conserve breath, but also be quiet - so we have a lot of clicking and clacking sounds in some languages, thus it's not at all necessary to have those organs to develop and use speech :-P
FUN FACT: 'Peking Man' was a great band in 1980's New Zealand. Their biggest hit was "Room that Echoes". The music video used what was, for the time, cutting edge computer graphics.
4:07 "Pecking man," lol! That was a needed giggle, although it didn't seem deliberate; thank you! Thanks also for the interesting presentation! It was especially interesting to see that chart, featuring the various species of Homo, and where their timelines overlapped.
I became fascinated with Homo Erectus when I saw an Illustration of the earliest known human-made tools. I noticed that it was Homo Erectus who first created tools that were not only recognizable but almost pretty. When I read the book Java Man I learned of their nearly world-wide migration and their use of fire. Now they're my favorite early hominids.
Something I will always remember from all these findings is one particular thing: the sense of community. Humans have always had an innate longing of community. They tended to their old and sick. They fed each other and protected eachother. Humans are bred for love and companionship.
The graph @ 20:34 is a good summation of what we know thus far. Only, it lacks a KEY hominid, in that the Denisovan is not on it. This particular subspecies is primary in the genetic code of people of South Asia and Australia.
Interesting that H. erectus "disappeared" during the previous glacial warm interval, a time between glaciations much like our own Holocene. They persisted as themselves apparently only in refugia, like Indonesian islands. Also interesting that the appearance of "modern humans" occurred at the time of an earlier warm interval. My guess is that during warm intervals there would be some forced and some opportunistic migrations, bringing different branches of humanity into contact with one another.
There's a positive correlation between warm temps and violent behaviors in modern civilization. Maybe there were interspecies wars during these periods.
@@ThisPartIsAndrew I'm not sure why they think this way, but scientists apparently think there may have been as few as 800 individuals at a time in all of Europe in the Aurignacian period (42,000 - 33,000). If this low count also applied in the Mousterian (160,000 - 40,000) which covered all of Europe and east to the Altai Mountains, it's hard to imagine any violent encounters of scale occurring during these early periods, warm or not. Hard to imagine any encounters at all, frankly.
@@ThisPartIsAndrew It's probably even more than you think, because they also say that in the past the density of animal populations was much higher than people tend to assume.
Is it not a bit outdated to think that evolution was 'sudden'? The first human species to leave Africa have also been contributed to being Homo Habilis. Between Habilis and Erectus there is probably a lot of in-between variants.
There probably are a lot of in-between variants. It takes several several several generations to evolve. I didn't think they were saying this happened suddenly. But these are the fossils we found and classified as these several species. The in-between variants just haven't been found or have fallen under these other species. There are a lot of gaps, always will be gaps.
@@fiona_6719 there's also the fact that in order to find the changes through evolution you would need the full evidence of a dig which would be the intact skeletal structure. Nevermind needing to be in the exact location the subject passed away at.
Fire is also a weapon. IMHO Homo evolved, while Australopithecus and Paranthropus went extinct, because of the dialectics between lions, just arrived to Africa back then, and fire, just tamed in Africa around the same time. Previously we (australopithecines) survived big predators by climbing to trees, especially at night, as neither hyenas nor saber tooth cats could do that, but when lions (and their individualist cousins: the leopards) arrived from Asia, those who could not muster fire and some half decent weapons, were at great risk.
I think you would have to define speech! Homo erectus spread widely over the habitable planet. They lived in a wide range of environments which meant over time they had to adapt their physiology to live in those environments - body covering, footwear, fire, plant and tree awareness, directional awareness, and advanced planning skills, etc. They made tools, most probably some form of weapons and I've read they used water to transport. It's ridiculous to think they didn't have some kind of verbal communication skills to live successfully in their environment. I think those skills were probably more than squeals and grunts but whatever they used helped them be successful. They lived a long time and were probably taken out by advanced weapons and far more intelligent Homo sapiens.
Think again. Erectus led to Heidelbergensus which led to the common ancestor of Neanderthals and us. We are several steps down the line, much too late to be responsible for their decline.
Life's short span i.e. higher death rate due to the conditions certainly were the factors, this incl. lots of infants or newborn lost etc., men died often during the hunt or wars, women naturally exceeded them in numbers, and were also tolerated or in demand of other packs around, as it produced men - fighters, hunters protectors, so my guess the birth rate was very healthy, but the odds were not quite "pro" life in general.
Humans can have kids anytime, other species normally can't. Higher replacement rate. Only limitation is carrying 1 child only when migrating. I expect predation also led to faster development. Get smart or die.
@@indyawichofficial1346 interestingly there's very little evidence of human on human conflict during the stone age. Around the bronze age (or was it copper age?) Was when we start seeing a lot of conflict.
I’m a bit confused about the diagram at 18:47 and the clothes analysis. From my understanding of the current knowledge of homo Erectus there are no artifacts that indicate clothes were worn. In the timeline diagram at 18:47 the artifacts shown between 2 Mya and 3 Mya were dated to about 2000-5000 BC. I like the theory of clothing being created and worn my homo Erectus and I think it is plausible but currently there is no evidence to support the theory due to the deterioration of clothing materials. If im missing any new articles or artifact reports that provide evidence to support this theory could someone link them?
Agree. And no housing 1.75 million years ago, those are temporary shelters. Housing is a year round space that only began about 10,000 years ago when Sapiens needed a place to store grains year round.
~ Surprizingly, HomoErectus has an authentic Asian ancestry, whereas they were the first to develop the ability to look over the tall grasslands in order to see predators approaching by watching the grass patterns made as the predators traveled across. If there were trees around & HomoErectus could see predators from afar, then they would give a warning signal, but if there were no trees around, then listening for predators traveling across the grasses & looking over by standing & watching for falling grass as the predators roamed, was the way to be aware of their presence approaching. ~ A great advantage for HomoErectus was bamboo, one of the first largest grasses, per as it first served as weapon then eventually used for refuge from predators because bamboo is very strong & sturdy. ~ DID YOU KNOW: Ancient humans eventually developed strong vocal cords to ward off predators when they were being attacked, by screaming at them in protest.
Wait one second, you're saying that primitive humans were able to scream and yell, just like most jungle monkeys do today? And for that matter, most other animal species too!...... Well that is amazing, isn't it! By the way, have you ever seen how a lion moves through very tall grass? Is like a freaking shark moving through the water!.... You sense it, but you really don't see it much..... It's freaking awesome!
I don't think there's any argument, Homo Erectus, apart from sounding like a gay porn movie, has to be the most successful human species in history. We think we're clever, but to invent the use of fire, construction, advanced tools where there none before shows a level of ingenuity up there with luminaries such as Newton, Einstein, and Hawking, and we've barely been around a fraction of the time they were.
Yeah, and then they died out because on their island were growing more trees? Nah, man, that sounds so stupid. Evtl, some kind of virus or other things combined drove them to extinction, but a simple klimate change? when they had developed seafahring, fire, tools? Sorry but no.
And we haven't got any further than their use of fire - imagine it had never been harnessed. Where would we be? What wouldn't we have? Our entire existence is the result of the expert use of fire.
You should do a video on the ancient human use of psychedelic mushrooms. It's a wacky theory for sure, but Terence and Dennis McKenna share the idea that there may have been a point in time when psychedelic mushrooms greatly impacted human society in ancient times. I won't get into their detailed ideas since that's a rabbit hole of its own, but if you are a reader or listener of their ideas, it's interesting to look into.
I would be very surprised if they *didn't* impact human society. I find it very unlikely that word of magic mushrooms or psychoactive plants wouldn't have traveled far and wide, and we have historical analogues for "medicine men" going back for hundreds and hundreds of years: apothecary gardens were preceded by shamanic practice that almost certainly circulated through the oral tradition. I think the only real question is, how far back did human ancestors collectively make a choice to make these plants a central part of their lives and/or culture? What I really find amusing to imagine is, what was the first moment a human ancestor *really* went on a trip profound enough to impact their perspective? Was it an accidental ingestion? Or like, were there hominids watching other animals accidentally trip who decided they wanted to get in on that? "Grok, dude, look! Look at that horse! Dude, that horse is spacin' out! What did he EAT? Lolol, he's on another continent! Oh, wait - hey, it's those mushrooms that are making him wild out! Wowwwww...yo. Hey, hey hey Grok, hey man, you wanna try some?"
Maybe the engraving on ivory and shells were “maps” as Jean M. Auel portrays in The Mammoth Hunters. Highly recommend reading her series The Clan Of The Cave Bear. Simply marvelous storytelling!✌️
It takes such a perfect set of conditions for fossils to form that just because they disappear from the fossil records that in no way means that they were not around. Archaeologists are the biggest class snobs in all of Academia. I hate how they are always displayed in just a hide thrown over them because there's also been sewing needles found at these sites. I wish they would they would just be honest for once, and say that we got not a fucking clue. For someone to be buried with grave goods in the first place, there has to be such an abundance that those items are not detrimentally useful to the survival of the tribe.
@@jeremycoffen4619_"evidence of what"_ The highest level of technology achieved by the other human species. _"we haven’t gone anywhere yet"_ We've gone further than any other human species.
@beingsentient there is a fine line between arrogance and confidence. Confidence is a healthy belief in your abilities, while arrogance is an excessive one.
Arrogance most likely comes from the sheboons. Real rh negative non-hybrid Adamics have a hard time assimilating many of the emotives the hybrids profess.
@beingsentientThe basic motivation (of any species) is to transmit genes. Arrogance (and many other character elements ie compassion, ingenuity,...) are tools to improve the individual's chances of transmitting her/his genes. Belief became a property of the species when it was realized that larger groups offered better survival rates than smaller groups. To maintain coherence in a group, religion turned out to be a good tool (also of control). "Belief" probably only became relevant after Homo x managed to strike a match and started exchanging instinct for intelligence.
0:05 homo is Latin for “same” ,in the like of homonym. Homo became the term to classify human ancestors based on they were similar or “same” to us. I also paused 5 seconds in to this video to comment this.
Thanks for the great video. I think you got the naming at the shoulder view diagram wrong, looks like the chimp is more modern looking than erectus @11:44
At 11:39 you show an illustration depicting chimpanzee, homo erectus, and homo sapiens. I think it is mislabeled with the chimpanzee and homo erectus being switched. One for sure mistake is the misspelling of homo sapiens as homo sapien, without the s.
I highly disagree with treating them like they are entirely different species. These are also human beings but of races much more different than the differences of today. I don't believe these highly adaptive and intelligent people totally died out, but live on in modern people just as the Neanderthal people do. This treatment would be like finding the bones of Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli and concluding that Aragorn and Legolas closely related races of the same species, but stumpy broad Gimli was a primitive sub-human and perhaps could only grunt and groan about superior elves. The world once had much more diverse races as populations were small and spread out, but as they grew they blended together as is no longer disputed regarding Neanderthal. They were weird looking and differently built as some people are today, but I consider them human until proven otherwise.
In a way you’re right, the distinction of separate “species”was created by us and race is a social construct that doesn’t correlate to actual modern human variation. However, the distinctions between us and other extinct human species can be extrapolated through genetics. All Homo sapiens sapiens are very closely related albeit with many groups having small genetic admixtures with extinct species. But again H. Erectus for example was probably something like nearly 2 million years removed from our modern lineage so the distinction of them as separate species is definitely a fair distinction and both useful and important for taxonomy and categorization for the purposes of researching and understanding biological anthropology. Edit/: Also all other species of humans did technically “die out” because they no longer exist as distinct lineages/populations. Gotta be careful with these types of assertions because these type conclusions are now being used to promote new types of dangerous pseudoscientific racism (I don’t believe this was your intention though). Finally, with all due respect, LOTR; which is a fantasy world is a terrible comparison. It is cool though, I also enjoy LOTR and other fantasy worlds. I think that a high fantasy that world that includes interaction with other human species and extinct fauna would be awesome! (I’m also literally working on this exact world building project, so I’m biased!)
Well said. I just made a similar comment. I think there's a political motive lurking in this "they weren't us" narrative. Soon "we" will be blamed for exterminating "them".
Also,these differences would have occurred slowly over many many generations. It's not like some homo erects parents looked at their kids and said, " these kids dont look like us, they must be homo sapiens"
'A walk in the park', I did not learn this expression in school. But I think I understand. We started learning foreign languages in primary school. In primary school we started with French. In secondary school we also learned English and German. I continued learning English but I prefer French. I prefer French over English. I also prefer German over English. Thanks for the video.
Group hunting is probably the norm among most felines that predate on herds or large species. Although cats often specialise in solo ambush predation cheetahs are team predators, Lions still practice a small variation on the feline norm of females and young hunting in groups and the males being pretty parasitic on the rest of the group except when extra muscle is required.
@FarmerDrew once again thts only cats in Africa where humans migrated out of. Cats outside of Africa dint have groups .seems like lions evolved to b pact animals.suprised scientists didn't put those two facts together
Peculiarly pedantic point to pontificate, based as it is on a mispronounciation of the largely obsolete Wade-Giles transliteration for Beijing, but its "peeking" not "pecking".
I reckon the CG AI voice thingy has discovered, quite by chance, the Pecking man. A totally new subspecies of Homo Erectus. Shudder the thought. Wonder of its got a beak?
Sorry to say that’s unlikely due to our warlike nature. We no longer have to fight for food, so we fight for land, water, beliefs and politics. We graduated from killing animals, to killing humans and now we have the capacity to destroy the planet efficiently. I’m not sure if we can survive another upgrade. ❤
Fire is ubiquitous thus hominid groups must have discovered how to create it many times, perhaps in many cases through tool making because some types of rock give-off sparks when struck.
17:17 so, if I want to see those houses mentioned in the title, I have to watch the 17 minutes of everything everybody should already know about our ancestors?! Is this a novel way to attract more viewers?! Or shall we call it something else?
Lmao. Usually the technical term would be what you use, and the general term would be in brackets for clarification. But I guess you're just looking out for those autistic scientists out there, aren't you. xD Absolutely true, though. It's practically a superpower. People take the human body way too much for granted. we are absolute marvels, really.
@@anomonyous I added the brackets as an afterthought because I was afraid some idiot might seek clarification for something not easily understood to be a uniquely empowering ability. Turns out a smart person noticed.😄
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Literally every claim you make here is soundly disproven by genetic studies. That and archeological evidence. I’ve heard a thousand versions of this narrative by now. I’m leaving this here as a note.
This is not science. Its ideology.
stick your heritage u know where....👎🤧
Immagine being there for the first boat ever to cast off... "GRUG! LOOK AT THIS, IT CAN FLOAT! HOP ON HOMIES WE GOIN SOMEWHERE"
"It's witchcraft don't trust it"
"What's witchcraft you're not imagining things again are you Gorsh?"
the first boat moment was also probably the first "hold my beer" moment 🤔🤣
I'm convinced that 90% of human* discoveries were just some homies f*ckin around and finding out
*human: as in the Homo gene
No respectfully.
The 2nd boat was made and they went
Racing.
And you have to name him Grog. Can't resist the temptation, can you? 😂😂
Me, pulling up in my sled pulled by dogs
"Get in losers, we're making cave art in Colombia"
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Awesome comment man!!
It's a bit mind-blowing to me that Homo Erectus was around with its home-building and tool-making technology for about 1.75 million years. All that history, and we'll never know anything more than a minuscule fraction of the broadest outlines.
Humans have been around far longer than 1.75 million years. everyone will know in the near future. They can't hide it much longer and many already are becoming aware. You'll be hearing it from their descendants.. not people on the surface of Terra.
And at some point in the future very much the same thing will probably be said about us. Little will be left of our technology in any evidence of how we lived, if those in the future looking back are so advanced in their technology, that what we could do impressed them but still classified us primitive.
Post singularity AI will be able to simulate what it was like for them with high fidelity. The question is will we live long enough to see that time? Also, assuming society doesn’t collapse before or because of it.
Caves sites show that Homo erectus only had use of the flip phone.
An interesting question along those lines is: did bands Homo Erectus engage in warfare with other bands of Homo erectus? Is there any evidence in skeletal remains of injuries that are the apparent result of attack by another human?
Or, were the bands so spread out (that is, was the human population so small and sparse) that bands rarely, if ever, encountered one another?
Knowing these lines of early humans lived so long and accomplished so much really boggles the mind. In a very real way, we stand on the shoulders of those who went before us, giving humanity an amazing legacy to live up to.
Do you ever wonder if they are just making this stuff up? They are. All we've ever been told are lies.
One thing is clear: We don’t agree on how they actually looked.
All jokes aside, thank you for an insightful documentary with great narration and great imagery
From looking at the many different skulls, it might be that ancient humans were more similar like dog breeds are today.
All human, but slightly different, hopefully we’ll learn more.
@CalisthenicsForTheBrain 🤣🤣🤣
If they came back to modern times, the first thing they'd do is sue for defamation based on all the crude depictions.
Absolutely most successful human species, not only by longevity, but by the advancements they made (sapiens excluded) Using and making fire, clothes, advanced weaponry and tools, caring for others for extended periods...remarkable people.
Well they're remarkably dead now.
@fredkelly6953 they were around for longer than we've been here. Maybe in another 600 000 years homo sapiens will all be gone too
@@fredkelly6953 did they not assimilate with later species?...or evolve?
@@fredkelly6953Is that a mockery? They evolved and adapted to become us. They were here for 2 million years and we are here for only 300,000. With our current speed in tech advances, I believe our own specie will be gone in a shorter time. Our descendants will call us dead too.
@@xtinctube7283yeah, part of them evolved eventually into us.
A time machine that would allow us to see into the past without affecting it would be useful.
Understatement of all time.
Yea I think something like this would be more achievable then taking someone back in time. Like opening some kind of hole to se in space woth telescope idk
Would be nice to see history without living in it 😂
We have one!! Paleontology 😀
@@wingedhussar1453alright... Hear me out... What if we used complex AI that basically "does the math* on like, the whole planet... It would be a huge thing and maybe not even possible. But if it scanned an area it could determine how everything got there right? By like crunching the numbers? Like how certain geological formations occured or how certain things could or couldn't be possible? Idk I'm not a genius lol. I'm rather average just thought of it when I was a kid....
Hey man, I don't know if you'll see this or not but this is a really good video. I appreciate you and that you take the time to make videos like this.
Nowadays people complain when they have to walk more than a block between escalators and elevators. Our ancestors were able to spread throughout the world, in between long dangerous swims or boat voyages, in every possible weather condition, entirely on foot! What heroes!
Not really a big deal. Most fit people today walk on average 5 miles. 5 miles x 365 days in a year is 1825 miles. In slightly more than a year you can easily walk across a continent. To me the hard part would be not having shoes so i suppose they must've made shoes - or had tougher feet
PS It would only take a few hours to walk those 5 miles leaving vast majority of day for other activities
Dogs pulled Beringians on sleds
to be fair though, some of us have deformities that prevent us from stuff like endurance running (i have one leg longer than the other, i have asthma, super high arches on my feet, not much fat cushioning in my feet, etc.)
Who are those people? Fat colleagues?🇺🇸
Ive always felt theres a deep biological connection in our brains between how we portray the villians in slasher movies,
And how it is we hunt. The similarity is eerie if you think about it.
The killer never runs. hes a walking, steady pace, never tiring brute with a sharp implement. You run away from him, he only walks, so you MUST get away right?
wrong. Just when you think you can relax, here he is again. you can never escape. ...... you can run a hundred times faster than him trying to save your life, But he still runs you down, and never even ran to begin with.........................
The victims in slasher movies are the legit experiences of our prey.
I dont know how they did it, if me and a group of guys walked into the woods now with a spear each and saw a deer, it would bolt and there is no way we would be able to find it again yet alone stalk it and wear it down, amazing
@@TM-ch3hlthere was almost certainly stealth involved in the initial aproach too no doubt. which changes nothing, becuase that is also difficult lol.
@@killgazmotron Injuring the animal on initial contact seems necessary for the entire hunting success. Predatory is our inherent demeanor. Oh, how one longs for the Garden of Eden.
@@TM-ch3hl Trackers are amazing people. Hard thing to learn, I'm sure.
@TM-ch3hl persistence hunting works best in hot, open areas, as heat exhaustion is part of what wears the animals down. Humans are better at staying moving when hot than some other animals. In a colder, woodland habitat with a lot of brush to slow you down, I dont think that strategy would work very well, so being stealthy and taking game down quickly before it can get away would be better.
The biggest problem I see with all these hypotheses is that whoever is coming up with them pretty obviously spends most of their time indoors. Like the idea that humans first captured naturally occurring fire rather than created it. Humans always gathered up dry grass for bedding. Apes do that. When humans started flaking stone tools is was inevitable that they would spark their dry grass bedding on fire. And this idea that physically modern vocal cords are required for speech. Apes talk to each other. My dogs talk to each other. I can tell by the way they bark what they're after. It's different for rat or snake or cat or possum. Solresol is a language with seven syllables. Southern Koisan uses five different clicks. It really doesn't require vocal cords to have a language.
Fire, for example: was probably discovered sporadically throughout different regions and time spans. Probably the same for other major discoveries as well.
I talk to my cat. And she talks back!
I got the distinct impression that the video was referring to modern speech. Homo Erectus could communicate vocally, they just did not have the apparatus to make the sounds WE depend on for communication.
Don’t forget whistle languages (which I find fascinating)
Shit, babies talk, if you count screaming and babbling. Most organisms have some means of communication, so something as sophisticated as these folks would definitely have some kind of language. Maybe not ancient Latin, but something, they must have had something.
Perfect timing, I was looking for something exactly like this. Started with dinosaurs, then pterosaurs, now homo. Love the history of our distant, yet closest relatives. A video about the earliest homo sapiens would nice (and other groups too, like heidelbergensis, habilis, neanderthalensis etc.).
0:01
"...the homogenous,"
I see what you did there.
Smells like fraud or evolutionary misrepresentation doesn't it? .....considering that we are not homogeneous but several hybrids with other animals and rightfully deserve more distinctive categories.
Homo genus
@@Aerxis homo genius
Homogeneous lol
Homo Erectus is by far my favorite Homo name. This is purely a scientific opinion.
Man standing.
@@randallbesch2424 Man standing to attention? If you get my drift lol
@@randallbesch2424 Man standing erect.
@@andyf1235lol
@@randallbesch2424 As you say...
excellent! just in time for my most recent hyperfixation: human evolution 😂
same i lowkey only found out about this channel because i was hyper fixated on dinosaurs
I’m hyper fixated on both
@@kekkic I found out there's no evolution but there is rampant hybridisation and crossbreeding with other life forms. It wasn't even "natural selection" but beastiality. Good thing there are still real humans left to sort it out.
oh I am not alone I see
oh, I see I am not alone in my obsession
I assume that Homo Erectus probably used logboats and rafts to paddle across open water, rather than anything as sophisticated as a sail? Either way, it was one hell of a feat.
Why couldn't they figure that out? Even the simple Portuguese Man O' War use their "fin" as a sail to go thousands of miles
They turned their jesus hack on walked across my dude
Our Australian Aboriginals were an undisturbed Civilization for 75,000 years, and never had sails on their canoes.
@@johntomasini3916Pacific islanders had pontoon style canoes they paddled everywhere. Sails leave you at the mercy of the winds and tides
It would make sense we built homes before fire.. Seeing how most animals build nests.. The complexity, on the other hand.. Brains
Mankind during Paleolithic spent many a night in caves...our hormonal rhythms /endocrine system operate best under total darkness (with the illuminated dials and 'winky-blinky' lights bad for your normal body day/night endocrine balance)...therefore cave-sleeping allowed for our natural day-night cycle to develop.
@@johndesade126 this implies that all diurnal animals evolved that way because they inhabited caves. untrue
You had to have somewhere (and someone) to bring your catch home to. Nothing special about a species having a burrow, nest, etc..
I would argue that a charitable and fair explanation for the disappearance of *Homo erectus* is as a result of isolated populations diversifying into other forms of *Homo:* namely, *Heidelberginsist->Neanderthalensis, Denisovans, Sapiens, and likely Floresiensis as well as Ludonensis.*
Sure, there were isolated populations of them that simply died out, but this is not representative of all of what seems to have been going on during the later parts of their presence in the ecosystem.
The upper crust non-hybridized rh negatives were the source of the male part of the homo erectus lineages today via an "animal Eve" from the homo erectus group and an offworld male. The families with no homo erectus in them are vastly different, posessing the mtDNA of "divine Eve" that is apparent;y necessary for the ascension practise.
Erectus aren't the direct ancestors of any of the species you mentioned except the latter two due to differences in shoulder, skull, & limb morphology as well as overlapping temporal ranges. We still don't know the crown ancestor of Homo sapiens s, assuming there even is a single one we could point to given how fluid the notion of "species" is amongst Hominins.
@@DrCorvid what are you mumbling about?
@@Aerxis The black headed people were often said to not be able to learn ascension because they had no soul. They were exempted from the ten commandments according to ancient accounts such as king Og and were farmed like goats in the region with the highest dolmen counts in the world. Some bred in, even though original human strain with the rh negative blood can't host rh positive pregnancies very well. The mtDNA of a human with divine female markers is not from homo erectus. There were several original unrelated species.
Isn’t it though that at some point Homo Erectus lived alongside all those forms of Homo
@7:45 It is amazing how successful groups of predators can be with cooperative hunting tactics. Able to bring down much larger, stronger, and hardier prey than any one individual predator. Humans being pack hunters, tool users, and tool makers, were advantaged by physiology that also allowed them to become superb pursuit hunters.
Much like African wild dogs
Amusing. You go on to memtion these very points.
*mention
Things have changed. My mother was one of nine, but their neighbor had 15 kids in the 30s. And that was under modern civilization conditions. Homoerectus woman probably popped out one kid or even two every fertile year of her life.
@@SewingBoxDesigns Potentially, depending on resource availability.
Thanks this was an excellent doco and kept me interested all the way through
Dang I wish humans still built houses
Boy do I have great news for you
underrated comment
never been to Indian huh
No! You only get brick prison..
😂 that is boss level sarcasm
Sea faring H RErectus may also be the mastodon butchers in California 130,000 years ago
Shoot, I rememeber back when teeth first appeared in the cambrian seas. Now that was a game changer.
"Okay, Helicocystis" 🙄
(Cambrian joke, had to, 😅)
You are of very great age.
Java Man at 5:43 took ages to decide which was the campest selfie to post for the Employee of the Month wall
Oh, come on. Modern humans first appeared on a park bench in New York City, and possibly delivered there by a flying saucer witnessed by Alice Cooper.
😂
Why not?
Brian of Nazareth was kidnapped by a flying saucer.
Admittedly they gave him back.
@@michaelreifenstein2114too plausible needs rewrite
Your confused, you mean aqualung
Yeah what are WE?
15:59 bro was literally the meme of the girl taking a pic of a burning house 💀
Wow, this was a fascinating video on Homo erectus, the longest-lived human species ever. I learned a lot from your summary and highlights of their achievements, such as hunting, fire, and seafaring. One thing that I think is also interesting is that Homo erectus may have been the first human to use symbols and art, as evidenced by the engraved shells found in Java that date back to 500,000 years ago [00:19:21]1.
These shells are the oldest known examples of abstract patterns made by humans, and they suggest that Homo erectus had some form of symbolic communication and expression. I wonder what they were trying to convey with these engravings. Maybe they were the first artists of our kind. Thanks for the great video!
I love intellectuals. Always interesting 🤔
I read a report from 1950 from mexico city that stated during the laying of a new water pipe thru the city that 4 ancient humans were laying next to a wolly mamoth.Spears and tools were laying around the site.Just one year later,close by the first find they found another wolly mamoth.
IN MEXICO!? W O A H!!!!
Wooly Mammoth 🦣
Thanks proffessor
The truth is so much more complex than old Anthropologists like to debate. These ancestors of ours roamed back and forth and all over the World as best they could. They stayed in places for long periods of time, they migrated frequently at the same time others stayed put. They simultaneously evolved independently and interbred. It is not one or the other.
Some of us don't have a genetic trace of that kind of archaic-sourced hybrid. Game on huh?
Thats a lot of assumptions 😂
extinctzoo is the best paleo channel
As some Africans can remind you, not every speech sound rely on the pneumatic system: imagine a hunting party that not only have to conserve breath, but also be quiet - so we have a lot of clicking and clacking sounds in some languages, thus it's not at all necessary to have those organs to develop and use speech :-P
Exactly! There are so many ways ways to communicate besides speech.
@@woodsplitter3274Shouldn’t everyone know about sign language by now.
Exactly! Sign language and non-verbal communication. It's mastered by every animal species out there.
@anandsharma7430 *nodding*
FUN FACT:
'Peking Man' was a great band in 1980's New Zealand. Their biggest hit was "Room that Echoes". The music video used what was, for the time, cutting edge computer graphics.
I totally admire our ancestors who tried their hardest to survive in such harsh conditions.
I'm happy that this channel exists
4:07 "Pecking man," lol! That was a needed giggle, although it didn't seem deliberate; thank you!
Thanks also for the interesting presentation! It was especially interesting to see that chart, featuring the various species of Homo, and where their timelines overlapped.
I became fascinated with Homo Erectus when I saw an Illustration of the earliest known human-made tools.
I noticed that it was Homo Erectus who first created tools that were not only recognizable but almost pretty.
When I read the book Java Man I learned of their nearly world-wide migration and their use of fire.
Now they're my favorite early hominids.
Something I will always remember from all these findings is one particular thing: the sense of community.
Humans have always had an innate longing of community. They tended to their old and sick. They fed each other and protected eachother.
Humans are bred for love and companionship.
The graph @ 20:34 is a good summation of what we know thus far. Only, it lacks a KEY hominid, in that the Denisovan is not on it. This particular subspecies is primary in the genetic code of people of South Asia and Australia.
The denisovans were under 5 1/2 feet tall on average, which makes them ineligible to be called what scientists refer to as "true humans."
@NoOne-zm4rb That may be one of the dumbest things I've ever read. You can't be serious.
Interesting that H. erectus "disappeared" during the previous glacial warm interval, a time between glaciations much like our own Holocene. They persisted as themselves apparently only in refugia, like Indonesian islands. Also interesting that the appearance of "modern humans" occurred at the time of an earlier warm interval. My guess is that during warm intervals there would be some forced and some opportunistic migrations, bringing different branches of humanity into contact with one another.
There's a positive correlation between warm temps and violent behaviors in modern civilization. Maybe there were interspecies wars during these periods.
@@ThisPartIsAndrew I'm not sure why they think this way, but scientists apparently think there may have been as few as 800 individuals at a time in all of Europe in the Aurignacian period (42,000 - 33,000). If this low count also applied in the Mousterian (160,000 - 40,000) which covered all of Europe and east to the Altai Mountains, it's hard to imagine any violent encounters of scale occurring during these early periods, warm or not. Hard to imagine any encounters at all, frankly.
@@SG-js2qn my God that would be amazing hunting land, can you imagine the bounty of unperturbed fauna
@@ThisPartIsAndrew It's probably even more than you think, because they also say that in the past the density of animal populations was much higher than people tend to assume.
@@SG-js2qnThere are theories of some groups meeting and some individuals mixing which resulted in mixed babies.
Is it not a bit outdated to think that evolution was 'sudden'? The first human species to leave Africa have also been contributed to being Homo Habilis. Between Habilis and Erectus there is probably a lot of in-between variants.
The record shows sudden changes so accept it.
@@noticing33 our understanding, evolves all the time with new findings.
There probably are a lot of in-between variants. It takes several several several generations to evolve. I didn't think they were saying this happened suddenly. But these are the fossils we found and classified as these several species. The in-between variants just haven't been found or have fallen under these other species. There are a lot of gaps, always will be gaps.
@@fiona_6719 there's also the fact that in order to find the changes through evolution you would need the full evidence of a dig which would be the intact skeletal structure. Nevermind needing to be in the exact location the subject passed away at.
@@noticing33 no it doesnt you bot 😂
Absolutely love this channel! I learned so much from here! 👍
Did they die out or did they evolve?
Or do you consider dying out and evolving to be the same thing?
Words have specific meanings and definition. Did they die..out? Or are you still here?
Words have specific meanings and definition. Did they "die..out" or are you here for some other reason?
@changingoftheguard7256 they didn't die out when they're DNA is still in u.s....
@changingoftheguard7256 another one that doesn't realise they're DNA contains neanderthal
"pecking man"? A human-woodpecker hybrid?
Beijing is also spelled as Peking.
Although, when you think about it, are not all men pecking?
And the uncomfortable fact: "erect man", I mean... seriously!
@@LuisAldamiz"Homo" erectus no less!
"Like homo sapiens - us!"
"...Pecking Man."
Artificial intelligence not a member of homo sapiens.
It's hard to imagine what earth will be like 500 years from now, but 1 million years from now? Wow
Developed teamwork ❤ tysm for sharing with us ❤
@16:00 Fire is also capable of generating light.
Good point
Fire is also a weapon. IMHO Homo evolved, while Australopithecus and Paranthropus went extinct, because of the dialectics between lions, just arrived to Africa back then, and fire, just tamed in Africa around the same time. Previously we (australopithecines) survived big predators by climbing to trees, especially at night, as neither hyenas nor saber tooth cats could do that, but when lions (and their individualist cousins: the leopards) arrived from Asia, those who could not muster fire and some half decent weapons, were at great risk.
well done!!
4:23 - I love that we even know that this guy's name was Zdenek! 🤣
I think you would have to define speech! Homo erectus spread widely over the habitable planet. They lived in a wide range of environments which meant over time they had to adapt their physiology to live in those environments - body covering, footwear, fire, plant and tree awareness, directional awareness, and advanced planning skills, etc. They made tools, most probably some form of weapons and I've read they used water to transport. It's ridiculous to think they didn't have some kind of verbal communication skills to live successfully in their environment. I think those skills were probably more than squeals and grunts but whatever they used helped them be successful. They lived a long time and were probably taken out by advanced weapons and far more intelligent Homo sapiens.
Think again.
Erectus led to Heidelbergensus which led to the common ancestor of Neanderthals and us. We are several steps down the line, much too late to be responsible for their decline.
Always puzzled me as to how much early humans were predated on, given we/they reproduce relatively slowly.
A lot. Fair amount of fossil evidence. Murder of course has always been higher
Life's short span i.e. higher death rate due to the conditions certainly were the factors, this incl. lots of infants or newborn lost etc., men died often during the hunt or wars, women naturally exceeded them in numbers, and were also tolerated or in demand of other packs around, as it produced men - fighters, hunters protectors, so my guess the birth rate was very healthy, but the odds were not quite "pro" life in general.
Humans can have kids anytime, other species normally can't. Higher replacement rate. Only limitation is carrying 1 child only when migrating. I expect predation also led to faster development. Get smart or die.
Don't forget that until the last century child birth was the number one killer of women the world over!
@@indyawichofficial1346 interestingly there's very little evidence of human on human conflict during the stone age. Around the bronze age (or was it copper age?) Was when we start seeing a lot of conflict.
Fire was their television.
good video! thank you for such a big work!
I’m a bit confused about the diagram at 18:47 and the clothes analysis. From my understanding of the current knowledge of homo Erectus there are no artifacts that indicate clothes were worn. In the timeline diagram at 18:47 the artifacts shown between 2 Mya and 3 Mya were dated to about 2000-5000 BC. I like the theory of clothing being created and worn my homo Erectus and I think it is plausible but currently there is no evidence to support the theory due to the deterioration of clothing materials. If im missing any new articles or artifact reports that provide evidence to support this theory could someone link them?
Agree. And no housing 1.75 million years ago, those are temporary shelters. Housing is a year round space that only began about 10,000 years ago when Sapiens needed a place to store grains year round.
Excellent series. keep up the good work
~ Surprizingly, HomoErectus has an authentic Asian ancestry, whereas they were the first to develop the ability to look over the tall grasslands in order to see predators approaching by watching the grass patterns made as the predators traveled across.
If there were trees around & HomoErectus could see predators from afar, then they would give a warning signal, but if there were no trees around, then listening for predators traveling across the grasses & looking over by standing & watching for falling grass as the predators roamed, was the way to be aware of their presence approaching.
~ A great advantage for HomoErectus was bamboo, one of the first largest grasses, per as it first served as weapon then eventually used for refuge from predators because bamboo is very strong & sturdy.
~ DID YOU KNOW: Ancient humans eventually developed strong vocal cords to ward off predators when they were being attacked, by screaming at them in protest.
Wait one second, you're saying that primitive humans were able to scream and yell, just like most jungle monkeys do today?
And for that matter, most other animal species too!......
Well that is amazing, isn't it!
By the way, have you ever seen how a lion moves through very tall grass? Is like a freaking shark moving through the water!.... You sense it, but you really don't see it much..... It's freaking awesome!
Imagine the stories they could have told us. I grieve that we will never hear them.
What do you mean arrived on the scene? Did they float in on a scallop shell?
🤣🤣🤣
Scallop shells float?
In Greek mythology the do
Majic
Appearing in the fossil record.
Great channel! ❤
I don't mean to pick nits - but, isn't that probably an australopithecine or something that's mixed in at about 0:29?
Nit picker!
Really interesting thank you
dam quest for fire vindicated lol.
That was a great movie when you think about it.
"Yo grog! i hit these two rocks and it made the hot bright thing!"
Your video popped up in my suggestion box, and l already looove it. You got yourself a new subscriber 👏🙌♥️🙏✌️👽
Fun little game - have a giggle every time he says "Homo erectus"
I don't think there's any argument, Homo Erectus, apart from sounding like a gay porn movie, has to be the most successful human species in history. We think we're clever, but to invent the use of fire, construction, advanced tools where there none before shows a level of ingenuity up there with luminaries such as Newton, Einstein, and Hawking, and we've barely been around a fraction of the time they were.
Yeah, and then they died out because on their island were growing more trees? Nah, man, that sounds so stupid. Evtl, some kind of virus or other things combined drove them to extinction, but a simple klimate change? when they had developed seafahring, fire, tools? Sorry but no.
And we haven't got any further than their use of fire - imagine it had never been harnessed. Where would we be? What wouldn't we have? Our entire existence is the result of the expert use of fire.
We stand on the shoulders of giants
😂 thats an awesome beard on the guy around the 18:31 mark
You should do a video on the ancient human use of psychedelic mushrooms. It's a wacky theory for sure, but Terence and Dennis McKenna share the idea that there may have been a point in time when psychedelic mushrooms greatly impacted human society in ancient times. I won't get into their detailed ideas since that's a rabbit hole of its own, but if you are a reader or listener of their ideas, it's interesting to look into.
That's very interesting. Very interesting
Theres a story about magic mushrooms tied to Santa Claus, I think. Heard about it on the Stuff You Should Know podcast like 4 yrs ago.
I would be very surprised if they *didn't* impact human society. I find it very unlikely that word of magic mushrooms or psychoactive plants wouldn't have traveled far and wide, and we have historical analogues for "medicine men" going back for hundreds and hundreds of years: apothecary gardens were preceded by shamanic practice that almost certainly circulated through the oral tradition. I think the only real question is, how far back did human ancestors collectively make a choice to make these plants a central part of their lives and/or culture?
What I really find amusing to imagine is, what was the first moment a human ancestor *really* went on a trip profound enough to impact their perspective? Was it an accidental ingestion? Or like, were there hominids watching other animals accidentally trip who decided they wanted to get in on that?
"Grok, dude, look! Look at that horse! Dude, that horse is spacin' out! What did he EAT? Lolol, he's on another continent! Oh, wait - hey, it's those mushrooms that are making him wild out! Wowwwww...yo. Hey, hey hey Grok, hey man, you wanna try some?"
Maybe the engraving on ivory and shells were “maps” as Jean M. Auel portrays in The Mammoth Hunters. Highly recommend reading her series The Clan Of The Cave Bear. Simply marvelous storytelling!✌️
It takes such a perfect set of conditions for fossils to form that just because they disappear from the fossil records that in no way means that they were not around. Archaeologists are the biggest class snobs in all of Academia. I hate how they are always displayed in just a hide thrown over them because there's also been sewing needles found at these sites. I wish they would they would just be honest for once, and say that we got not a fucking clue. For someone to be buried with grave goods in the first place, there has to be such an abundance that those items are not detrimentally useful to the survival of the tribe.
Learning that our relationships with fire is 1 million + years old makes our innate attraction make more sense.
If we weren’t the first species of human to colonize the world, who’s to say we’ll be the first human species to colonize the stars 🤷🏻♂️
_"who’s to say we’ll be the first human species to colonize the stars"_
The evidence.
@@AlbertaGeek the evidence of what??💀💀 we haven’t gone anywhere yet
@@jeremycoffen4619_"evidence of what"_
The highest level of technology achieved by the other human species.
_"we haven’t gone anywhere yet"_
We've gone further than any other human species.
@@jeremycoffen4619 Modern humans have been around for at least 250,000 years.
@@AlbertaGeek that we are aware of.
"That animal can live in this cold weather, maybe if I wear it's skin..."
crazy
The most persistent human trait is arrogence.
Because it can’t be spelling…
Arrogence
@beingsentient there is a fine line between arrogance and confidence. Confidence is a healthy belief in your abilities, while arrogance is an excessive one.
Arrogance most likely comes from the sheboons. Real rh negative non-hybrid Adamics have a hard time assimilating many of the emotives the hybrids profess.
@beingsentientThe basic motivation (of any species) is to transmit genes. Arrogance (and many other character elements ie compassion, ingenuity,...) are tools to improve the individual's chances of transmitting her/his genes. Belief became a property of the species when it was realized that larger groups offered better survival rates than smaller groups. To maintain coherence in a group, religion turned out to be a good tool (also of control). "Belief" probably only became relevant after Homo x managed to strike a match and started exchanging instinct for intelligence.
Teamwork makes the dream work
0:05 homo is Latin for “same” ,in the like of homonym. Homo became the term to classify human ancestors based on they were similar or “same” to us.
I also paused 5 seconds in to this video to comment this.
You're confusing two different words from two different languages (Greek and Latin).
Cant believe you time that at 4:20
4:05 No, he is not _"now known as _*_pecking_*_ man."_
Is this channel voiced by an AI?
Boy, these videos are just so funny and I can’t stop laughing.
why be so shocked that H Erectus built shelters and huts? Our lcal Sasquatcyes do that sort of thing all the time
Thanks for the great video. I think you got the naming at the shoulder view diagram wrong, looks like the chimp is more modern looking than erectus @11:44
At 11:39 you show an illustration depicting chimpanzee, homo erectus, and homo sapiens.
I think it is mislabeled with the chimpanzee and homo erectus being switched.
One for sure mistake is the misspelling of homo sapiens as homo sapien, without the s.
Great content. Stay on the front line of new discoveries!
I highly disagree with treating them like they are entirely different species. These are also human beings but of races much more different than the differences of today. I don't believe these highly adaptive and intelligent people totally died out, but live on in modern people just as the Neanderthal people do. This treatment would be like finding the bones of Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli and concluding that Aragorn and Legolas closely related races of the same species, but stumpy broad Gimli was a primitive sub-human and perhaps could only grunt and groan about superior elves. The world once had much more diverse races as populations were small and spread out, but as they grew they blended together as is no longer disputed regarding Neanderthal. They were weird looking and differently built as some people are today, but I consider them human until proven otherwise.
In a way you’re right, the distinction of separate “species”was created by us and race is a social construct that doesn’t correlate to actual modern human variation. However, the distinctions between us and other extinct human species can be extrapolated through genetics. All Homo sapiens sapiens are very closely related albeit with many groups having small genetic admixtures with extinct species. But again H. Erectus for example was probably something like nearly 2 million years removed from our modern lineage so the distinction of them as separate species is definitely a fair distinction and both useful and important for taxonomy and categorization for the purposes of researching and understanding biological anthropology.
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Also all other species of humans did technically “die out” because they no longer exist as distinct lineages/populations. Gotta be careful with these types of assertions because these type conclusions are now being used to promote new types of dangerous pseudoscientific racism (I don’t believe this was your intention though). Finally, with all due respect, LOTR; which is a fantasy world is a terrible comparison. It is cool though, I also enjoy LOTR and other fantasy worlds. I think that a high fantasy that world that includes interaction with other human species and extinct fauna would be awesome! (I’m also literally working on this exact world building project, so I’m biased!)
Well said. I just made a similar comment. I think there's a political motive lurking in this "they weren't us" narrative. Soon "we" will be blamed for exterminating "them".
Also,these differences would have occurred slowly over many many generations.
It's not like some homo erects parents looked at their kids and said, " these kids dont look like us, they must be homo sapiens"
Their physical characteristics and dna are far too divergent to be considered the same species. These are very different beings.
@@samgoodwin89 Nonsense Sam. They are anatomically and genetically the same as us with almost negligible difference.
4:08. So, we have a new fossil man called "Pecking Man"! Thank you, AI !
'A walk in the park', I did not learn this expression in school. But I think I understand. We started learning foreign languages in primary school. In primary school we started with French. In secondary school we also learned English and German. I continued learning English but I prefer French. I prefer French over English. I also prefer German over English. Thanks for the video.
I wonder if lions turned into pact animals because of humans .most cats are not like this
Group hunting is probably the norm among most felines that predate on herds or large species. Although cats often specialise in solo ambush predation cheetahs are team predators, Lions still practice a small variation on the feline norm of females and young hunting in groups and the males being pretty parasitic on the rest of the group except when extra muscle is required.
yea but lions have their own pacts which isnt seen in other felines@@TheMudwatcher
@@wingedhussar1453 brother cheetahs stay together for years
@FarmerDrew once again thts only cats in Africa where humans migrated out of. Cats outside of Africa dint have groups .seems like lions evolved to b pact animals.suprised scientists didn't put those two facts together
ya that is interesting. perhaps a lot of animals in africa might bear defenses from homo cohabitations past
Outstanding Presentation!
Peculiarly pedantic point to pontificate, based as it is on a mispronounciation of the largely obsolete Wade-Giles transliteration for Beijing, but its "peeking" not "pecking".
I reckon the CG AI voice thingy has discovered, quite by chance, the Pecking man. A totally new subspecies of Homo Erectus. Shudder the thought. Wonder of its got a beak?
why can't history class be this entertaining
20:26 probably more successful than us
Maybe because they weren't arguing, fighting or killing each other over religion and/or politics.
The segway was spot on!
I hope we humans make at least another 1.7 million years.
Sorry to say that’s unlikely due to our warlike nature. We no longer have to fight for food, so we fight for land, water, beliefs and politics. We graduated from killing animals, to killing humans and now we have the capacity to destroy the planet efficiently. I’m not sure if we can survive another upgrade. ❤
Hell yeah! I hope we make it another 10 Million years at least!
I was raised in a hut next to a dumpster. Progress. I took a DNA test and found out that I am American.
Fire is ubiquitous thus hominid groups must have discovered how to create it many times, perhaps in many cases through tool making because some types of rock give-off sparks when struck.
At 22.28 there is a diagram suggesring that H. erectus got to New Zealand. They didn't. Love your work.
17:17 so, if I want to see those houses mentioned in the title, I have to watch the 17 minutes of everything everybody should already know about our ancestors?! Is this a novel way to attract more viewers?! Or shall we call it something else?
Click the gear, fast forward. It really IS that easy.
Tap the screen, drag the red button while watching the thumbnail. Even easier.
@@hollyingraham3980 of course. But you need to know where to skip. I believe majority of people knew this as it is a know topic. So... useless.
Great video!
You can fix the reading of your computer animated voice with misspellings. It is (Pee-King-Man) not (Peeking Man). Really?
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Sweating (thermoregulation by perspiration) was our first superpower and continues to serve us.
Lmao. Usually the technical term would be what you use, and the general term would be in brackets for clarification. But I guess you're just looking out for those autistic scientists out there, aren't you. xD
Absolutely true, though. It's practically a superpower. People take the human body way too much for granted. we are absolute marvels, really.
@@anomonyous I added the brackets as an afterthought because I was afraid some idiot might seek clarification for something not easily understood to be a uniquely empowering ability. Turns out a smart person noticed.😄
Great channel.