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They're not exactly late, this channel may be new but they both have extensive media experience and Joss has been in youtube videos on Vox for over 8 years (judging by one on Stonehenge that popped up in my feed next to this!) and Adam for a similar amount of time as SkunkBear on NPR's website. If you like this a lot, NPR content has a similar vibe, not only Adam's old work but the Radiolab podcast is similar but in a deeper dive, longer format.
The natural analogy between aligning DNA subsequences and aligning the rock smoke "barcodes" is incredible. What an amazing, seemingly coincidental application of the same general method to two very different problems!
Immediately, I shed tears just thinking about how the smells were preserved. It's so human, it's so real. People we will never know but had lives similar to ours in finding shelter and sustenance. Really makes you feel so much closer to them.
@@HowtownThanks, this just conjured the phrase "Erotic Peer Review" into my head. I consider this your fault, and you will be hearing from my lawyer shortly. (Not really, I joke, I joke.)
The fact you can chart the occupation timeline of a cave by the build-up of layers of soot & calcium deposits is incredible in itself, that you can travel back in time & smell the BBQ they had for supper totally blows my mind.
@@PauloPereira-jj4jv yea that’s true, remember when we went and tested for ourselves? Nothing but burnt. Sadly we aren’t scientists, we’d probably spread nothing but the truth😮
nerd note: i love how you started with a linear scale on the common ancestor chart and then visually transformed it to logarithmic for us. that's craft!
Incredible. I studied anthropology in the 2000's, and I love learning about how much new information has been discovered. I think you did a great job of explaining this for a lay person.
@@audas Did you actually READ the comment - it was about the cave soot. I'll never understand people like you - people who have nothing better to do than leave annoying, negative comments... which have nothing to do with the original comment. "Go forth - and get A LIFE!"
This was very fun. I appreciate the video is a bit longer than the others. If a video becomes a bit too long, I may just pick it up later. So please make your videos as long as you like!
Your channel is the cosiest bit of scientific educational content I have seen in a long while. The atmosphere reminds me of BBC science documentaries for some reason. Also, Ludovic Slimak's workspace is awesome. It's like a tree house in the middle of a home.
Fascinating! I especially like how they determined (so far) that sapiens tended toward uniformity and efficiency and neanderthals tended toward uniqueness and creativity in the technology.
I found that fascinating too. I wonder if that creativity led to too many risks & their downfall. Did efficiency give the edge to H-sapiens to become the top dog & survive?
@@AniMerDol _ruthless_ efficiency might be a more accurate descriptor. 🙅♂ The kind of efficiency that we are seeing today that is destroying lives and the environment.
@@AniMerDol An argument that Ludovic's book makes is that learning about Neanderthals gives us a new point of comparison - we weren't always the only game in town, and there was this other population that had a different way of being human. Is the desire for conformity and efficiency part of who we are? Did it make us more successful in the past? Is it creating problems for our future? And can we change?
English is not native for me so I don't even understand half of your videos. But this is still very interesting to watch. Your professionalism and the level of production are keeping me watching
Why with subduction,plate tectonics does the density of heavy metal not mean that all of the denser metal that we use iron, gold osmium uranium etc. not end up in the core of the earth and not on the surface of the crust. What are the ratios like and why do veins of the ores form
How do they figure out what a particular sequence code for? I heard they used a rabbit's eye location genome sequence to put a fly eye on a fly's butt.
@@DrThalnosperhaps the multan core is more of a mineral slurry. The smaller bits can't coalesce due to heat and movement and thus don't sink to the core. Only once they've cooled and are subjected to different environmental factors they can converge to form veins. These are millions of years in the making though, not a time scale we're keen to fully grasp. That's what I understood from school anyways.😅
@@alexwixom4599this is actually a great question Alex. In one sense if you’re looking at the bit of the genome that codes for a protein then it’s really easy, we can translate nucleotide triplets (codons) into amino acids and the big string of amino acids is the protein. But that’s a cop out because the question then becomes well what does the protein do? Well for that you might need to work out what shape the protein folds itself into - a field know as structural biology - and that could help, but the reality is that very few features in humans or any species can be explained by a single protein. It’s about when, where, how many and in what combination these things are expressed that creates a huge amount of variety. And that variety is what natural selection has operated on to create all the different forms of life we have on the planet today. If you want to know more about this there is a fantastic book called Endless Forms Most Beautiful by Sean B Carol. it's written for the general reader too.
Absolutely love this channel! This channel showcases that the PROCESS of science is really interesting and fun! Learning about HOW these scientific findings are done make the actual findings so much more impactful.
I'm science channel kid (still am even tho im an adult now) and im happy a new generation of science channels is in! I'm so happy to add Howtown in my rotation together with be smart, much love and support to you guys! ❤
My reactions to your videos always fall into a consistent pattern: 1. 🤯🧐😱💛 Learning! New! Things! (And from a trusted source who are actually explaining everything!) 2. Joss's voice is so smooth. (And Adam's is beautiful too! It helps my viewing enjoyment that I like listening to you guys talk! 😂) 3. I would like to meet your pets, especially Adam's cat who always sleeps in the background of your office. She looks like the world's most satisfied boss. 😁 4. I need to share this with everyone! And then rewatch!
15:00 it is extremely funny to me that only our lineage of humans is like. "Oh my god we have to standardize this. Fuck yes it is measuring time, get that individuality out of here you neanderthals."
probably because neanderthals were less social than sapiens, they lived in small family groups and left to find mates, but sapiens live in colonies and information travels much faster. I don't know anything about the subject so I'm probably wrong.
ive had this shit figured out since i was 10 years old and i've felt like cassandra trying to tell the people around me that our genetic history has never been simple enough to be illustrated as A - B - C. I am so happy that future generations will grow up knowing that we are not entirely separated from the past or the living beings around us. To be alive on earth has always meant being part of something messy and beautiful!
Absolutely fantastic presentation. I'm so blown away about how clearly and concisely you condense such breath of knowledge into a 20 min video. the way you go about not only asking the question, but explaining why its an important question to ask. then going on to answer the question, and further explain how we know the answer is how all science communication should be done. I wish I could like the video twice.
i like how allways one of the hosts asumes the position of the viewer us which we ae ignorant and asks questions we would ask, most of the time i wouldnt even think these questions she is asking but then they are so interesting
And shouldn't sweat, missing clothes, and ragged breathing suggest a not to difficult to reach hypothesis as to the mutual presence in a bed? Of course, the only way to really approach certainty is to repeat the experiment and see if the same conclusion is come to.
How do you do make the perspective of still photos shift like at 04:56?? You guys fooled me into thinking I was watching a recording with that and the sound design! Amazing! I would love to see a tutorial tho haha
Gotta love how the researchers were "This is bullshit I'll disprove this with rigorous proof 😠" And a few months later they were like "Ok, we did the proving and now we are dissapointed to announce we didn't disprove shit 😔"
The question of how many differences in a genome defines a species has been rattling around in my head when it comes to plants... seeing that there is a general refusal to do so when it comes to humans is interesting.
The comedy in this channel is great. Often low key (except when the short is fully comedy like the hilarious song) like 0:30 “family portrait” type picture and then Craig at 6:38 😂
In an age when most videos present opinions as facts, often based on half-truths or other opinions, it's refreshing to see a discussion that questions its own conclusions and presents a nuanced story
Ancient anthropology is so much cooler than classical antiquity or later historical periods. I kind of like that we know so little about our ancestors, though at the same time I’m dying to know more
Thanks you so much for this video!!! Showing the references, and interviewing REAL researcher and scientists is paramount! And of course, the video is perfect for non specialists like me (despite my PhD in animal science)
The fatastic background music you used in your Ground News ad is the same piece Simone Giertz used in her build montages. Good choice. Just found your channel today and I'm having fun binging. I like the way you team up with other people to tell the story. Graphics are fantastic, too.
My very first video that I noticed of this TH-camr was how to calculate the speed of light with peeps and it was such a beautiful video and I’m glad that he’s continuing to make great content
Anyone here read _Human Kind_ by Rutger Bregmann? Homo sapiens is the most social animal we know of. Cooperation and friendliness made us, in countless highly functional social groups, able to endure an ice age, survive tens of thousands of years without war (until civilization that is) and ultimately become what we are now. Cooperation, communication, sharing, altruism. Of course back then we met Neanderthals and other Human branches with curiosity and... an open mind...
17:58 I don’t understand what is meant by “layer”. How can they identify down to a single year where one layer ends and another begins? How can they tell what is the last Neanderthal fire and the first Sapiens fire?
It would be nice if you guys acknowledged the people you interview with advanced degrees as Dr or “, PhD” in their name card when they first appear on screen. I know traditional media reserves “Dr” for medical doctors, but that convention is archaic and downplays the expertise of these individuals
At Howtown, the expertise comes from their work, not their title. There are too many people with titles these days, blasting unsupported claims and appealing to their authority. We think it's better to focus not on their credential but on the evidence behind their claims.
@@Howtown I agree that expertise comes from their work, not their title. But we, the audience, trust you to have found and interviewed the experts based on their research/work and not to give a megaphone to quacks spouting unsubstantiated claims, no matter their title. With that trust in you, I think listing their title only amplifies the idea that the interviewed people are those we can trust (in this specific topic) I hadn't noticed it in the covid video, but I think medical doctors should have their MD title in their name card too
The title made think that the video was about the host’s parents/grandparents who scientists that are oblivious about romance and how they got together. 😂😂😂
Most excellent video thanks. It is not all about conclusions but how you got there that is important. Teach a man to fish and you feed him and his family for a life time. Keep up the good work. DavidB
Great video. I would live to see the channel be a little more skeptical, not because I necessarily disagree with any of the conclusions, but because knowing the reasoning has undergone thorough testing is reassuring. Also would love more jumping off points for further reading sprinkled throughout, the archaeologists book was a great one.
I believe the the length part to it mentioned here 11:57 has to do with the fact that DNA recombination is easier between pieces of DNA that are farther from the centre of the chromosome.
Loved the incert "Welcome to Jurassic Park". I remember being a young girl and being fascinated with the diferent kind of prehistoric humans. This is very nicely done. I'll rewatchit because i'm going to be listening to it while doing some other chores (vacations sometimes means more work at home lol).
I, who am very difficult to please, am tickled really, with the presentation here. You have wisely allowed for many different occurrences in our pretty long past. What pleases me about your presentation, is that you don`t claim to have the whole story. You leave openings, like lace curtains, through which we might at any juncture suddenly see threads, which we had previously missed, to be woven into our window coverings of our past history. Pretty graceful of you really, and fluid, as it should be. I see good things in your future, because you honor the fluidity of reality.
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It's crazy how late you guys are into the science youtube game and yet the channel feels so unique and refreshing.
Man, i had the same feeling, this is both suprisingly wellnresearched and produced
i mean joss was with vox ever since the beginning of vox...
They're not exactly late, this channel may be new but they both have extensive media experience and Joss has been in youtube videos on Vox for over 8 years (judging by one on Stonehenge that popped up in my feed next to this!) and Adam for a similar amount of time as SkunkBear on NPR's website. If you like this a lot, NPR content has a similar vibe, not only Adam's old work but the Radiolab podcast is similar but in a deeper dive, longer format.
Vox Cuenca 2016 had a crazy talent pool. But the smart people like Johnny Harris left and went independent. Cause box is nothing with out the talent.
never too late to educate
I can't get over how cool the seasonal rings on the calcium rocks are!
Yes! What a clever way to get better time resolution. And the fact you can still smell what they were cooking ... !!!!
How long did humans use caves for? Google asst. Told me they were more of a communal space.
The natural analogy between aligning DNA subsequences and aligning the rock smoke "barcodes" is incredible. What an amazing, seemingly coincidental application of the same general method to two very different problems!
@@alexwixom4599 Yeah I think this rock shelter was less of a permanent home and more of a seasonal headquarters
Immediately, I shed tears just thinking about how the smells were preserved. It's so human, it's so real. People we will never know but had lives similar to ours in finding shelter and sustenance. Really makes you feel so much closer to them.
9:31 "thus the most obvious explanation is that they were - i n t e r b r e e d i n g" 🤖
🤣🤣
Took me a second to realise what had happened, but when I did, I cracked up 😂
@@elk45oh I didn't even catch that, did she originally say "f**king" or something similar?😅
@@friendsbrn Yeah, most likely
@@friendsbrnyes, you can hear her pronunce a faint f-sound at the beginning
Not obvious at all.
It took me waay too long to realize that you didn't mean that scientists just can't figure out how serious their relationship is..
a Nature paper just titled "Defining The Relationship"
That's what I thought too😂
@@HowtownThanks, this just conjured the phrase "Erotic Peer Review" into my head.
I consider this your fault, and you will be hearing from my lawyer shortly. (Not really, I joke, I joke.)
The fact you can chart the occupation timeline of a cave by the build-up of layers of soot & calcium deposits is incredible in itself, that you can travel back in time & smell the BBQ they had for supper totally blows my mind.
It’s incredible!!
I want to smell that
Much of it is controversial and speculative.
@@PauloPereira-jj4jv yea that’s true, remember when we went and tested for ourselves? Nothing but burnt. Sadly we aren’t scientists, we’d probably spread nothing but the truth😮
@@Howtown Can you imagine how amazed OG archeologists would be at all the technology available & now being able to smell the past.
nerd note: i love how you started with a linear scale on the common ancestor chart and then visually transformed it to logarithmic for us. that's craft!
Absolutely my favorite part!
Incredible. I studied anthropology in the 2000's, and I love learning about how much new information has been discovered. I think you did a great job of explaining this for a lay person.
Yes - such a great time to be alive!!! Sooo many "puzzle pieces" are coming to light!
I actually got goosebumps with the cave soot overlap reveal
They buried a baby. Not a big deal.
I found it could have been explained more clearly. The overlap on the graphic wasn't visible, for example.
@@audas Did you actually READ the comment - it was about the cave soot. I'll never understand people like you - people who have nothing better to do than leave annoying, negative comments... which have nothing to do with the original comment. "Go forth - and get A LIFE!"
@@audas why are you even watching this video if you have the inability to derive meaning from writing?
The story so good even the dog went to sleep.
She briefly perked up when I mentioned bones
@@Howtown Her animal instinct kicking in. 😅
And the cat!
This was very fun. I appreciate the video is a bit longer than the others. If a video becomes a bit too long, I may just pick it up later. So please make your videos as long as you like!
Your channel is the cosiest bit of scientific educational content I have seen in a long while. The atmosphere reminds me of BBC science documentaries for some reason.
Also, Ludovic Slimak's workspace is awesome. It's like a tree house in the middle of a home.
If is a rare treat - soo well done!!!! 🙂
“We saw you at the end of the bar and really dig your vibe.” Ahh thumbnail
"No originality." Ahh comment
Fascinating! I especially like how they determined (so far) that sapiens tended toward uniformity and efficiency and neanderthals tended toward uniqueness and creativity in the technology.
Slimak’s book explores this in a lot more detail - I recommend it!
@@Howtown , thank you! I'll look for it!
I found that fascinating too. I wonder if that creativity led to too many risks & their downfall. Did efficiency give the edge to H-sapiens to become the top dog & survive?
@@AniMerDol _ruthless_ efficiency might be a more accurate descriptor. 🙅♂ The kind of efficiency that we are seeing today that is destroying lives and the environment.
@@AniMerDol An argument that Ludovic's book makes is that learning about Neanderthals gives us a new point of comparison - we weren't always the only game in town, and there was this other population that had a different way of being human. Is the desire for conformity and efficiency part of who we are? Did it make us more successful in the past? Is it creating problems for our future? And can we change?
i wish your content reached to millions
best new channel on the platform
English is not native for me so I don't even understand half of your videos. But this is still very interesting to watch. Your professionalism and the level of production are keeping me watching
Watching content like this will help you improve your level 🙏🏾
What burning questions do you have about Neanderthals, ancient DNA and early humans?
Why was Gregory Rasputin still at the same level of development in the 20th century?
Why with subduction,plate tectonics does the density of heavy metal not mean that all of the denser metal that we use iron, gold osmium uranium etc. not end up in the core of the earth and not on the surface of the crust. What are the ratios like and why do veins of the ores form
How do they figure out what a particular sequence code for? I heard they used a rabbit's eye location genome sequence to put a fly eye on a fly's butt.
@@DrThalnosperhaps the multan core is more of a mineral slurry. The smaller bits can't coalesce due to heat and movement and thus don't sink to the core. Only once they've cooled and are subjected to different environmental factors they can converge to form veins. These are millions of years in the making though, not a time scale we're keen to fully grasp. That's what I understood from school anyways.😅
@@alexwixom4599this is actually a great question Alex. In one sense if you’re looking at the bit of the genome that codes for a protein then it’s really easy, we can translate nucleotide triplets (codons) into amino acids and the big string of amino acids is the protein. But that’s a cop out because the question then becomes well what does the protein do? Well for that you might need to work out what shape the protein folds itself into - a field know as structural biology - and that could help, but the reality is that very few features in humans or any species can be explained by a single protein. It’s about when, where, how many and in what combination these things are expressed that creates a huge amount of variety. And that variety is what natural selection has operated on to create all the different forms of life we have on the planet today. If you want to know more about this there is a fantastic book called Endless Forms Most Beautiful by Sean B Carol. it's written for the general reader too.
As someone who is doing a PhD, I am really happy to watch these kinds of videos
Absolutely love this channel! This channel showcases that the PROCESS of science is really interesting and fun! Learning about HOW these scientific findings are done make the actual findings so much more impactful.
Came to find you after your appearance on Unexplainable. I'm delighted to find your channel! I look forward to exploring all your content!
3:40 the voice change is so brilliant
I'm science channel kid (still am even tho im an adult now) and im happy a new generation of science channels is in! I'm so happy to add Howtown in my rotation together with be smart, much love and support to you guys! ❤
Loving this episode! I’m surprised you guys aren’t as big as I initially thought with all this production value
Tell your friends!
My reactions to your videos always fall into a consistent pattern:
1. 🤯🧐😱💛 Learning! New! Things! (And from a trusted source who are actually explaining everything!)
2. Joss's voice is so smooth. (And Adam's is beautiful too! It helps my viewing enjoyment that I like listening to you guys talk! 😂)
3. I would like to meet your pets, especially Adam's cat who always sleeps in the background of your office. She looks like the world's most satisfied boss. 😁
4. I need to share this with everyone! And then rewatch!
15:00 it is extremely funny to me that only our lineage of humans is like. "Oh my god we have to standardize this. Fuck yes it is measuring time, get that individuality out of here you neanderthals."
probably because neanderthals were less social than sapiens, they lived in small family groups and left to find mates, but sapiens live in colonies and information travels much faster. I don't know anything about the subject so I'm probably wrong.
ive had this shit figured out since i was 10 years old and i've felt like cassandra trying to tell the people around me that our genetic history has never been simple enough to be illustrated as A - B - C. I am so happy that future generations will grow up knowing that we are not entirely separated from the past or the living beings around us. To be alive on earth has always meant being part of something messy and beautiful!
Wow, thoroughly enjoyed the video, I'm commenting for engagement and algorithm - well done everyone, you deserve more attention!
Thanks!
Absolutely fantastic presentation. I'm so blown away about how clearly and concisely you condense such breath of knowledge into a 20 min video. the way you go about not only asking the question, but explaining why its an important question to ask. then going on to answer the question, and further explain how we know the answer is how all science communication should be done. I wish I could like the video twice.
6:38 is that Craig Venter, the guy who developed the "shotgun" sequencing technique and first human to have his DNA fully sequenced?
You got it
@@Howtown Nice
I was surprised by the astounding quality of this video. Good job!
Love this channel so much. Great video guys. Really enjoyed every second.
i love your passionate eyes of children playing and discovering new thrilling things❤
thank you ✨
I love how Adam often has a sleeping animal in his background. He must have a super cozy home :)
i like how allways one of the hosts asumes the position of the viewer us which we ae ignorant and asks questions we would ask, most of the time i wouldnt even think these questions she is asking but then they are so interesting
12:45 This brother single handedly committed to showing our links to neanderthls.
Pretty solid English accent 👏
cheers mate
…said in a British accent?
"How do scientists know they hooked up?"
I dunno.
Isn't that what "Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It" about?
And shouldn't sweat, missing clothes, and ragged breathing suggest a not to difficult to reach hypothesis as to the mutual presence in a bed?
Of course, the only way to really approach certainty is to repeat the experiment and see if the same conclusion is come to.
We should clone one and see if we can reproduce with it. 😉
That thumbnail had me LOLing
I now wanna know what that campfire smelled like
Holy shit this video was absolutely fascinating! Glad to have yall making content for TH-cam as well on yall's own!
This channel is the best, most informative and fun channel to have ever been created in the history of youtube ever
The science behind these discoveries are truly remarkable. And the production quality here is impeccable. Thank you.
Really love the channel! I was just curious, what is the serif font that appears at time stamp 1:05?
It's called Le Monde Journal :)
@@Howtown thank you!
How do you do make the perspective of still photos shift like at 04:56?? You guys fooled me into thinking I was watching a recording with that and the sound design! Amazing! I would love to see a tutorial tho haha
Maybe I'll make a tutorial - but put simply, it's using the Displacement Map feature in After Effects -Adam
I love the use of archival images in this channel!
Incredible! I love your channel❤
Gotta love how the researchers were "This is bullshit I'll disprove this with rigorous proof 😠"
And a few months later they were like "Ok, we did the proving and now we are dissapointed to announce we didn't disprove shit 😔"
The thing about them being in the same cave only a year apart literally made me cry omg
First of your videos that I’ve watched and I wanted to say your production value is very well done.
The question of how many differences in a genome defines a species has been rattling around in my head when it comes to plants... seeing that there is a general refusal to do so when it comes to humans is interesting.
The comedy in this channel is great. Often low key (except when the short is fully comedy like the hilarious song) like 0:30 “family portrait” type picture and then Craig at 6:38 😂
In an age when most videos present opinions as facts, often based on half-truths or other opinions, it's refreshing to see a discussion that questions its own conclusions and presents a nuanced story
the dog chilling by the window is the best!
Well researched, I love how many experts you interviewed and kept a natural conversation with a co-host for discussing the interviews... new sub !!
Ancient anthropology is so much cooler than classical antiquity or later historical periods. I kind of like that we know so little about our ancestors, though at the same time I’m dying to know more
I feel exactly the same!
Brilliant production quality. You know music is the thing! Brilliant.
Thanks you so much for this video!!! Showing the references, and interviewing REAL researcher and scientists is paramount! And of course, the video is perfect for non specialists like me (despite my PhD in animal science)
3 months and already 218k subscribers. Congrats 🎉guys slowly and steadily growing ❤
So, I thought that dog was not real but then I saw it breading at 4:05 now I can continue.
Love this stuff. You are able to explain things in such a clean and clear way very few people can. Thank you very much.
this channel is painfully underrated
Watched it before it was announced on discord :P
What a great video! Got me excited about science for the first time since I've been a kid.
So… game is game, is a long standing tradition
The visuals on this episode are fantastic!
The thumbnail got me. Great video by the way. It's very comprehensive.
The fatastic background music you used in your Ground News ad is the same piece Simone Giertz used in her build montages. Good choice.
Just found your channel today and I'm having fun binging. I like the way you team up with other people to tell the story. Graphics are fantastic, too.
Love this channel. So authentic and always interesting
@Howtown what song is playing during the Ground News segment? It's so good! Thanks for the wonderful content.
That's The Westerlies! Love them! I had the honor of seeing their Tiny Desk Concert back in 2016: th-cam.com/video/69QYjqkAIwI/w-d-xo.html -Adam
The Denisovans were a fascinating group too.
Phenomenal videos howtown, thank you!
This was such a cool watch!
My very first video that I noticed of this TH-camr was how to calculate the speed of light with peeps and it was such a beautiful video and I’m glad that he’s continuing to make great content
Anyone here read _Human Kind_ by Rutger Bregmann? Homo sapiens is the most social animal we know of. Cooperation and friendliness made us, in countless highly functional social groups, able to endure an ice age, survive tens of thousands of years without war (until civilization that is) and ultimately become what we are now. Cooperation, communication, sharing, altruism. Of course back then we met Neanderthals and other Human branches with curiosity and... an open mind...
Carrazzee babee! Now we have a really,really great reason to time travel back in time to quantify and qualify all these hypothesis we now have!
17:58 I don’t understand what is meant by “layer”. How can they identify down to a single year where one layer ends and another begins? How can they tell what is the last Neanderthal fire and the first Sapiens fire?
It would be nice if you guys acknowledged the people you interview with advanced degrees as Dr or “, PhD” in their name card when they first appear on screen. I know traditional media reserves “Dr” for medical doctors, but that convention is archaic and downplays the expertise of these individuals
At Howtown, the expertise comes from their work, not their title. There are too many people with titles these days, blasting unsupported claims and appealing to their authority. We think it's better to focus not on their credential but on the evidence behind their claims.
@@Howtown I agree that expertise comes from their work, not their title. But we, the audience, trust you to have found and interviewed the experts based on their research/work and not to give a megaphone to quacks spouting unsubstantiated claims, no matter their title. With that trust in you, I think listing their title only amplifies the idea that the interviewed people are those we can trust (in this specific topic)
I hadn't noticed it in the covid video, but I think medical doctors should have their MD title in their name card too
The title made think that the video was about the host’s parents/grandparents who scientists that are oblivious about romance and how they got together. 😂😂😂
Ooo this is what I learned about in my summer Earth History class. Probably my favorite class I’ve taken so far in college.
Most excellent video thanks. It is not all about conclusions but how you got there that is important. Teach a man to fish and you feed him and his family for a life time.
Keep up the good work.
DavidB
Well, the family photos say it all! Case closed 👏😅
Great video. I would live to see the channel be a little more skeptical, not because I necessarily disagree with any of the conclusions, but because knowing the reasoning has undergone thorough testing is reassuring. Also would love more jumping off points for further reading sprinkled throughout, the archaeologists book was a great one.
Boston Marathon to Baked Bean ratio is the most British comparison I have ever heard
I believe the the length part to it mentioned here 11:57 has to do with the fact that DNA recombination is easier between pieces of DNA that are farther from the centre of the chromosome.
"Craig" and "interbreeding" had me laughing
Loved the incert "Welcome to Jurassic Park". I remember being a young girl and being fascinated with the diferent kind of prehistoric humans. This is very nicely done. I'll rewatchit because i'm going to be listening to it while doing some other chores (vacations sometimes means more work at home lol).
I love how this feels like PBS
That thumbnail is incredibly well done lmao
I, who am very difficult to please, am tickled really, with the presentation here. You have wisely allowed for many different occurrences in our pretty long past. What pleases me about your presentation, is that you don`t claim to have the whole story. You leave openings, like lace curtains, through which we might at any juncture suddenly see threads, which we had previously missed, to be woven into our window coverings of our past history. Pretty graceful of you really, and fluid, as it should be. I see good things in your future, because you honor the fluidity of reality.
I dont think I am alone when I say you ought to do more of these long for videos
very good content, makes it entertaining and easy to watch!
I always thought I am more than 50% neanderthal, as I am so hairy.
Finally a new science channel I love it
Is "fucking" not part of the official Howtown style?
Best channel i have seen after veritasium❤
this is a great project! Love the concept behind the channel, explaining the HOW we know its so fucking cool.
Love this channel!
Excellent channel, similar to PBS Eons and SciShow.
Amazing work ❤