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I wish this long-haired man would narrate instead of appearing on the screen. At 4:50 I have had enough of him. Does he think we want to look at him? Very strange.

Polynesian DNA in Peru. Right, Siberian Islanders. Got it... huh?

"Almost certainly came from Siberia..." Um, when I was a little boy in the 1960s, yes, I was taught this story. Well, after multiple university degrees and teaching credentials, this story is just plain silly. Hey paleo kids... let's climb that Huge mountain and chase a mastodon, or do you wanna go to the beach and play in tidal pools or float around on driftwood? Beachin'!!!

I appreciate having actual narration instead of AI produced content with AI voice.

Life started in America.

what intrigues me is, when we split from that common ancestor, were we essentially brothers (same exact species) who then for some reason split up into new habitats which in turn, made us adapt differently and possibly breed with similar species that then lead to us and chimpanzees? I don't see how we can share the same distant grandparent without something like this happening.

If we see a fossil of a three-year old, it's pretty certain that this is not an ancestor of the human lineage. His brother or sister -- maybe -- but not _him_.

australopithecus was much closer to modern humans than our last common ancestor with chimps and it shows.

No such creature ever existed.

Thankyou sir I was in the same society of late father verhoeven. I went to lisng bua and mata menge I felt the chill of deep time I now work in flores as architect but I stay in Bandung west java I love to visit bandung geology museum and look at the replica of the hobbit of Flores. Thanks again

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We might be " brothers " , but that's in DNA only ! I mean , sure our closest LIVING relative , from a comparison of DNA , are those furry apes shorter than 4 ft . in height that are too powerful physically to control but which are just smart enough to be diabolical . If you haven't guessed , yes I'm terrified of chimpanzees . But when Svante Paabo managed to map the complete genome of the Neanderthal people , this was very gratifying because comparing the DNA we humans are much more closely related to our DECEASED relative , which we suspected all along , than to chimpanzees . Hence we are on the right track with discovering our origins . But with armies of dedicated scientists and their enthusiastic helpers , I have confidence that enough of the other puzzle pieces will be unearthed so that just maybe , we'll discover that remote and common ancestor linking humans and chimpanzees .

Actually the cave and Homo Florensiensis was first discovered by the University in Jakarta, and not by Australiens. They didn´t have the financing to escaveate and hence took contact to a University in Australia who kindly did the financing and the honor. Great storytelling though!

To me, Teuku Jacob comes off as...not on the right side of things here. The urge to try and prevent the imperialist horrors of the past from staining archaeological work today is noble, but Jacob wasn't just making sure the bones didn't end up in some far away first-world museum or whatnot. He hid them away from *everyone* on the team, most of them other Indonesians. And this was at the same time the Indonesian government closed access to the cave, so other new fossils that might provide the same information would be even harder to find if there were more. And when the fossils *were* returned, they came back pretty heavily damaged. To me it seems like his actions hurt the understanding of his own country's natural history much more than he might've helped it to nobody else's benefit.

As I stated in my books ‘Ice Age Extinctions, A New Theory’ and ‘The Gravity Theory Of Mass Extinction’ surface gravity around the globe has changed in the past. A surface gravity gradient with lower surface gravity on one east-west hemisphere along with a commensurate increase in surface gravity on the opposing hemisphere occurred during the Pleistocene. In effect, the net change in surface gravity on the planet was zero. Based on my theory Homo Floresiensis (HF) reduced in size not from insular dwarfism but increased surface gravity in the longitudinal region of Indonesia probably over a million years ago. The large feet with flat arch, wide leg bones, etc. can be explained with increased surface gravity. Pygmy populations today don’t have these characteristics. Surface gravity lowered during every glacial period and increased to near current level on every inter glacial period in specific, but varied, longitudinal regions. Apparently, HF did not increase in size during the multiple glacial periods after they reduced in size. However, during the interglacial period of about 60,000 to 50,000 years ago the increase in surface gravity in the Indonesian region was more intense than previous interglacial periods because the Australian marsupial megafauna, which reached their massive size in a prior glacial period became extinct as well as HF.

Since this video was published Lee Berger has discovered evidence of the controlled use of fire in the Rising Star cave system. He looked up in one of the chambers he could fit into and saw evidence of soot on the ceilings. Homo Naledi may have been more advanced than we thought.

“ the first people to come to the Americas almost definitely came from Siberia”, Bullshit.

Why would you believe a story like that?

So babies are actually almost too big to come out. Ideally they should have come out earlier.

Eugene Dubois is a true legend holy shit. His story would make an incredibly great biopic movie!

Why did soo many of these pre-human peoples use such hard places to get to.. have the caves caved in at all or build up like cholesterol in blood vessels? That really is intriguing..Great video - thanks. 8:15 Oh, you’re just talking about it! ⚫️

Thank you for this . I teach anthropology and human evolution at Wayne County Community College District in Michigan. I often think what does it matter that a specific fossil is our “direct “ ancestor ? It is almost certain that an animal of that general type is our “direct “ ancestor.

See punctuated equilibrium on rapid evolution in 200,000 years .

Knuckle-walking is anatomically in between bipedal and quadrupedal

Hominins used to be named hominid . Older textbooks use hominid for anatomically, habitually bipedal primates .

What about Sahelanthropus?

Homo naledi is not a human species !! Both lee berger and john hawks have said in all of their lectures that this is a NON HUMAN species ! Which is why its discovery in a burial chamber was so astonishing ! You need to get your info right before you go on and present these kind of videos to your viewers !

I have just discovered Primordial Dwarfs. The are perfect little people 3'4- 3'8. What would you say they might have a Homo Floresiensis gene? They are not stunted in any way, just a body that is proportional to their size.

9:17 PM. What is the most distant bipedal erects that modern humans can mate with and produce viable offspring, that can continue on creating offspring humans? That would be the most ancient human to me.

Did they though? Proof of Polynesian travelling the pacific to South America with lots of ancient tribes with the exact same DNA but their DNA is not found anywhere else in northern hemisphere?

why are you calling this a "cold case"? Dramatic?

Neanderthals also had bone flutes that they played music on.

Sahelantrhopus looks more human than the australopithecenes. Go figure!

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When a hairball millennial starts yapping about a Siberia land bridge before talking about the Solutrean culture....I shut this crap off 👎

Or bonobo.

The offshore mammoth find with an earlier stone point in it was carbon dated 22,000 years ago. Skull in a virginia museum.

Your presentation is excellent but why the music? Totally unnecessary when presenting information. Do professors play background music when they are giving their classes? I'm sure you will agree it would be needless distraction..

How valid is the following theory: One lineage was believed to have been the evolutionary descendants of Indonesian Homo erectus while the other lineage had evolved from Chinese Homo erectus. Modern Australian Aboriginal people are the result of the assimilation of these two genetic lineages.

Cool to see someone examining competing hypothesis and explicitly stating that neither can be ruled out. I personally think that the death trap hypothesis is more plausible than the deliberate burial hypothesis. I think we have a tendency to project our own behavior onto species who (despite being classified under genus homo) would have probably demonstrated completely different behavior, so I think a lot of people have a bias towards the burial hypothesis despite the simplest explanation being the death trap. Imagine the logistics of one situation vs the other. For the burial hypothesis, the group would have had to coordinate the behavior of multiple individuals to move a corpse of one of their group down into the cave, carried it through the PITCH BLACK tunnels for the express purpose of dropping the body down the vertical shaft into the pit, and all this begs the question, for what purpose? Well if you ask me the burial hypothesis gives US an emotionally satisfying explanation for why we find these individuals there. For the death trap hypothesis, one or two individuals would have had to wander into the cave every so often, a small bipedal hominin would have had access to exploring tight regions and perhaps their curiosity lead them to feeling their way further and further in despite it being pitch black, they crawl over an opening and plummet 12 METERS down into a pit and end up dying there, we find these remains because the pit preserves them well. Why would a mother bring their infant with them for this? Well, probably because they might very well have carried them everywhere they went. And just because we can't imagine a modern human doing this with their infant does not mean that an ancient small brained hominin would have operated with the same degree of caution or foresight.

HOW did life start on a barren planet.

As someone who has explored lots of caves, I have more than once found multiple dead animals deep in caves that fall in and can’t get out. They run in the dark until they die, especially at the bottom of deep pits. Could have been trapped and killed by humans also. I watched the Netflix documentary and found the “evidence for burial” very flimsy. Could they have been buried? Sure, but the way the scientists threw out the scientific method in favor of making headlines was very suspect.

your video is more detailed than the netflix special.... thank you

No many mysteries: naledi was not Homo, but Pan or Australopithecus naledi: new insights in ape+human evolution (2022 book), google - aquarboreal - GondwanaTalks Verhaegen English - David Attenborough Marc Verhaegen - not Homo but Australopithecus naledi

All life is not related. Its just a theory. Maybe your wrong

Our modern human arrogance clouds our judgement all too often.

Thanks, but totally outdated on ape & australopith & Homo evolution... 😞 Curiously, in Africa, the fossil-hunters find everywhere in Africa "*human* ancestors"... 😀 Didn't bonobos & common chimps & lowland & highland gorillas have ancestors?? For modern biological-comparative insights in ape+human evolution, google e.g. - aquarboreal - Verhaegen GondwanaTalks English

I think the last common ancestor to the chimpanzee is the British working class? Well they keep voting the Tories in.

Your uncle has hair a bit. No matter. We accept you as a human.

Chimpanses lost one pair from their 48 genes .