Home ergaster - "their legs were longer, and the shoulders also adapted for running..." 33:17. This is not the whole story. Using throwing tools for hunting, either rocks or early wooden spears, was an unprecedented advantage. No predator or prey is equipped with defences. The shoulders and the legs must have evolved in tandem to produce an ever more efficient physiology for throwing hard and accurate on the move.
@@Toxicpoolofreekingmascul-lj4yd We are doing it right now, what makes you think that would change in the near future? The only thing that changes in near future is that dictators are going to send Cyborgs and Terminators into war instead of squishy humans that can get offed by a single bullet
Me too. This vid presents a good case abut why we cooperate and build societies, but of course, we also have blood feuds, tribal feuds, national wars, and genocide. Wherefore comes the human drive to completely annihilate whole other groups of humans? Yes, it's a darker exploration, but telling the story of human cooperation is only one side of the coin.
The ''do we have ape brains'' video of this channel touches this subject quite well. It maps how and why great apes commit intraspecies violence and how this has translated to our direct ancestors and us.
Hi, can you guys leave a further reading or sources list? It does not need to be comprehensive, moreso for those who want a deeper look into the subject. Thank you!
Id be genuinely interested in Darwins pov today if it were possible. Evolutionary biology is one of the most successful and well proven theories to date. On par with cell theory. It has come a long way, especially with the ability to read the genome, and how quickly we can do it now. Massive strides have been made in the theory. The more I learn about Darwin and his perspective, the more it amazes me how accurate and on point much of what he theorized is.
Lucy is not the most complete Australopith ever found. She's not even in the top 5 anymore, the most complete is the Littlefoot specimen, which is 90% complete, basically all we're missing are some rib fragments and toe bones.
I love all of your channels. I can listen to you all day long. I love how you explain everything. It's not just a story, it's an amazing journey you take me on. All whilst teaching me amazing things about the world, space, & everything that is & was. You've become a much loved part of my life. Thank you, for everything
It's wild how some species that do very well all off of instinct, like Octopus, and all in just a few years if life. Others, like humans & Orangutans, need way longer than the whole life of some octopus to even be able to move around confidently.
Yet another fantastic, professional level production! Always a good day when one of your videos comes out. I'd LOVE to see one of these Humankind episodes focusing on the development of Neurodivergence and it's importance to the survival of Humans as a species. (There is no way so many of us are N.Divergent and it NOT having something to do with our survival and evolution as a species, I believe.) Either way, can't wait for the next one! Keep up the good work! (And I hope that some professional broadcaster picks you up. . . Or maybe not. Professional services would probably cramp your beautiful style.)
I'd be careful not to presume any given trait necessarily provides an evolutionary advantage, especially in humans and especially in humans living in sedentary, agricultural societies. Think about how many people need to wear glasses or otherwise correct their vision who would - in purely evolutionary terms - be 'less fit' than the people that don't. Even wild animals have at least some degree of resistance to natural selection in terms of being able to reproduce despite having some deficiency or another - the peacock's tail being a famous case - and human societies shrug off natural selection in a lot of ways. That said, different patterns of thinking lead to a diversification of behaviour that lends itself to niche partitioning - for example, one theory for why teenagers have such different sleep patterns from children and adults is that it means they'd stay up late at night to watch over the rest of the group while they sleep. Asexuality, homosexuality and other behaviours that [broadly] preclude having children produce adults that can perform the 'grandparent' role much earlier in life. I'm actually working on a full thesis discussing how these traits are selected for and induced by different environmental pressures, but it's still in its early stages.
@@ungulatemanalpha Interesting points! I still thing that as far as how brains are wired can play a huge part in our survival in a societal setting. The societies we, as humans (and other primates to an extent) create allow us to bypass some of our physical issues like bone deformities, vision impairment, etc, but I do think that brain wiring/Neurotypical vs Neurodivergent are two subsets that actually would have aided our species in surviving as we're both keyed in to very different stimuli and abilities and ways of thinking. I don't mean to say that only ND people have an advantage, but that each type of brain wiring has an advantage in their 'home field' as it were, if that makes sense?
Very important video. But family and over it society requires from us the time to build reliable connection but I think more important is our thoughts management for betterment rather than social connections because relationship development is not fully ensured for its rewards because of human competitions and manuervable nature but better thoughts management rewards us individually and society wise. Thoughts management for very high quality thinking requires isolation not social union. Our ancestors social mind makeup and their social connections were less complex than current people because of politics, religion and economics.
Can we stop for a moment and appreciate they resisted the urge and didn't put that loud monkey scream at 27:00? In the name of all sleepers, thank you! :D
This is an insanely well made documentary. Well done! Will definitely check out all of your other stuff. This topic is very central to my focus right now as I tried to explain to a religious friend that we evolved and are also apes, he didn't really get the memo
Brother, One of the best productions I have had the pleasure to enjoy in a long long time, Got my Sub i suggest everyone follow suit. Production is key and you hold it, keep it rollin'
Im a chicken farmer and I have experience with ducks and turkeys. What seems to happen the male is the leader and then he will have 3-9 females that are “his” and out of thoes 1-3 of them are the favorites, they get bred the most yet they are the ones who dont normally go broody, that is what the other females do, and thoes chicks that survive have stronger bonds to the hen that raised them
I often wonder if geography is short-shrifted by history. At 36:27, for example, we see an entrancing bird's-eye view of life in a temperate climate and gently rolling topography, which is typically endowed with seasonal rains and streams, supporting a local flora and secondarily producing fruiting bodies for food, and wood for fire, defense or shelter. Water bodies and floral resources will attract local fauna, which represent more sources of food and clothing. Some grasses and ruminants in such a terrain could serve as potential domesticates. So wherever wandering bands of human beings--our ancestral families--happened upon a place of gently varied gradients, with views of approach from the distance and moderate, dependable precipitation, they might easily have been gazing at the cradle of Babylon, Buenos Aires, Brazzaville, Beirut, Boston or Bordeaux.
Another great video, thank you! 😊👏 Yes, T. Hobbes was a madman (even real wolves are not "wolves to each other", of course), and American reliance on the mere "belief in the kindness of strangers" 🙃 is in vein... WHY should everyone be just a stranger to everyone else, all over again...? To make - mortgage brokers, "dating" apps/pornographers, and divorce lawyers happy? Or - rich... maybe..?🤔😎🧠🎵🎶🎵🎶
To know the meaning of family watch an unedited one minute close up clip of a bird mom and dad feeding their nestlings. Once you see it you cant unsee it.
Lost in the dead of winter a family grand-parent to newborn all stranded and forced on the road to a settlement for their salvation on by one serve as the shield from cold for the road is long, from the oldest to the youngest only the newborn lives thru it but is taken as kin by the stranger that has heard the short worded tale from the last sibling that has carried the little one to safety. This is family, nothing more than blood and will uniting now and in the future to form something grander even if the foundation is not remembered fully.
I was looking forward to this as I thoroughly enjoyed The History of the Earth which is one of the best channels on TH-cam. Unfortunately this is nothing like it. There are plenty of negative comments pointing out the more obvious flaws so I won't add many more to the list. Fewer but more relevant photos and videos would be a start, and few random factoids dropped into the narrative without explanation or discussion would be more likely to keep me engaged. Comes over as very superficial, I can't say I learned anything new. Try Stefan Milo's channel instead.
Evolutionary advantage of family... if a predator is chasing your group all the younger members can run faster than grandma so her sacrifice ensures survival of the group. She lived a good long life. The reproductive members can live out her legacy...
I like to think of ancient homo sapien families similarly to those of elephants. The females stick together and send away the males. The males are to wander and survive on their own, returning to the family to visit and hopefully get some.
Well you’d be very wrong. That’s not how humans work. From any evidence we have, we’ve been Hunter-gatherers living in mixed groups since the beginning.
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HI I AM FROM INDONESIA. I am usually not this loud but man you hit the spot at the right condition 😂 like a saint
Far easier to survive when everyone is watching everyone’s back.
Yes, far easier.
Human lore be crazy
90% of our history is banging our enemies out of existence lol
@@antony1397in many ways 😏
@@antony1397 Yeah
Including even those that weren't actually enemies but still went extinct on our hands
Human history is crazy.
@@antony1397And allies into existence.
Humans, together, strong.
Funnily enough, you could say "apes together strong" and it'll still work.
Apes together strong
Yessir
Yep.
Vin Diesel approves this video.
Nice one
Family.
He's part of the first family. Not very advanced or evolved.
lol 😂
Gay....lol
That honey bee story threw me off guard
I thought it was some goofed AI write up for a minute I couldn’t tell if I was hearing it right 🤣
The writer of that opening sequence is a creative genius. Fantastic introduction to a great video.
I thought he was talking about meerkats.
The bee story was like something off Alan Partridge
In what way did it throw it you off?
This channel is criminally under subbed.
I subbed.
He also does history of the universe and history of the earth.. two amazing channels.. I think history of the universe has close to a million subs
Severely
Would like to links to references in the blurb.
As usual, top notch quality
(But i need to add the usual lobbying for a next episode of History of the Earth)
Okay but that thumbnail is absolutely metal tho💀
Home ergaster - "their legs were longer, and the shoulders also adapted for running..." 33:17. This is not the whole story. Using throwing tools for hunting, either rocks or early wooden spears, was an unprecedented advantage. No predator or prey is equipped with defences. The shoulders and the legs must have evolved in tandem to produce an ever more efficient physiology for throwing hard and accurate on the move.
I hope there's a video explaining prehistoric human wars and violence in the near future.
@@Toxicpoolofreekingmascul-lj4yd We are doing it right now, what makes you think that would change in the near future?
The only thing that changes in near future is that dictators are going to send Cyborgs and Terminators into war instead of squishy humans that can get offed by a single bullet
@@Toxicpoolofreekingmascul-lj4yd But the guy actually meant that the video about prehistoric violence will come out in the near future, i think 😅
Me too. This vid presents a good case abut why we cooperate and build societies, but of course, we also have blood feuds, tribal feuds, national wars, and genocide. Wherefore comes the human drive to completely annihilate whole other groups of humans?
Yes, it's a darker exploration, but telling the story of human cooperation is only one side of the coin.
The ''do we have ape brains'' video of this channel touches this subject quite well. It maps how and why great apes commit intraspecies violence and how this has translated to our direct ancestors and us.
That’s one hard thumbnail if I’ve ever seen one
Happy alone at 56 with two young German Shepherd rascals and two black cats I approve of this title.
@@poonoi1968 father of two, husband of one, haven’t hit thirty yet.
@@keegandecker4080 Well, I would hope you're a husband of one xD
@@poonoi1968that IS your family though
Why on earth doesn't this video have millions of views? Keep up the incredible work
Vin Diesel woke up from his sleep because of this video
Hi, can you guys leave a further reading or sources list? It does not need to be comprehensive, moreso for those who want a deeper look into the subject. Thank you!
Yeah, sources would be nice
Why does the Hyena hierarchy sounds like the Kardashians?
Because the Kardashians evolved from Hyenas. /s
@@something1600 Devolved*
Haha, great observation or comparison!!
@@something1600 Reverse evolution is not a thing
😂😂😂 we finally got a term to explain whats going on with that family
Id be genuinely interested in Darwins pov today if it were possible. Evolutionary biology is one of the most successful and well proven theories to date. On par with cell theory. It has come a long way, especially with the ability to read the genome, and how quickly we can do it now. Massive strides have been made in the theory. The more I learn about Darwin and his perspective, the more it amazes me how accurate and on point much of what he theorized is.
I love this channel. It's so interesting to look at how humanity most likely evolved.
Lucy is not the most complete Australopith ever found. She's not even in the top 5 anymore, the most complete is the Littlefoot specimen, which is 90% complete, basically all we're missing are some rib fragments and toe bones.
Yeah, but it is an africanus, not an aferansis.
Lucy is nothing else than another fraud!
Your documentaries are amazing. Much better than the TV nowadays😻
This is information recited from the book ‘Sapiens’ which is no doubt a great book and this too is equally a great video
I think some of it is taken from 'the selfish gene'
I would have liked to have heard more about the mothers metabolism vs baby brain size
I love all of your channels. I can listen to you all day long. I love how you explain everything. It's not just a story, it's an amazing journey you take me on. All whilst teaching me amazing things about the world, space, & everything that is & was. You've become a much loved part of my life. Thank you, for everything
100% this for me too! I'm so happy I stumbled upon H.O.T.U. all those months ago lol
It's wild how some species that do very well all off of instinct, like Octopus, and all in just a few years if life.
Others, like humans & Orangutans, need way longer than the whole life of some octopus to even be able to move around confidently.
Damn that tarantula/spider jumpscare
At what timestamp??
@@sparkysparky999 at around the beginning, just watch. Dont have the guts to look for it haha
47:29
35:36 “WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY” [insert SpongeBob screaming meme here]
Wait
So the "we live in a society" meme came from SpongeBob?
So it wasn't just a nihilistic fart 😂
@@narrativeless404 no no no lmao. I’m pretty sure it’s from the “joker” movie, but SpongeBob screaming meme synergies very well with the phrase
@@rafaelcruzs2 Ah ok then
Yet another fantastic, professional level production! Always a good day when one of your videos comes out. I'd LOVE to see one of these Humankind episodes focusing on the development of Neurodivergence and it's importance to the survival of Humans as a species. (There is no way so many of us are N.Divergent and it NOT having something to do with our survival and evolution as a species, I believe.)
Either way, can't wait for the next one! Keep up the good work! (And I hope that some professional broadcaster picks you up. . . Or maybe not. Professional services would probably cramp your beautiful style.)
I'd be careful not to presume any given trait necessarily provides an evolutionary advantage, especially in humans and especially in humans living in sedentary, agricultural societies. Think about how many people need to wear glasses or otherwise correct their vision who would - in purely evolutionary terms - be 'less fit' than the people that don't. Even wild animals have at least some degree of resistance to natural selection in terms of being able to reproduce despite having some deficiency or another - the peacock's tail being a famous case - and human societies shrug off natural selection in a lot of ways.
That said, different patterns of thinking lead to a diversification of behaviour that lends itself to niche partitioning - for example, one theory for why teenagers have such different sleep patterns from children and adults is that it means they'd stay up late at night to watch over the rest of the group while they sleep. Asexuality, homosexuality and other behaviours that [broadly] preclude having children produce adults that can perform the 'grandparent' role much earlier in life. I'm actually working on a full thesis discussing how these traits are selected for and induced by different environmental pressures, but it's still in its early stages.
@@ungulatemanalpha Interesting points! I still thing that as far as how brains are wired can play a huge part in our survival in a societal setting. The societies we, as humans (and other primates to an extent) create allow us to bypass some of our physical issues like bone deformities, vision impairment, etc, but I do think that brain wiring/Neurotypical vs Neurodivergent are two subsets that actually would have aided our species in surviving as we're both keyed in to very different stimuli and abilities and ways of thinking. I don't mean to say that only ND people have an advantage, but that each type of brain wiring has an advantage in their 'home field' as it were, if that makes sense?
another excellent one. :) i love this series so much.
Wow! What a beginning.
HoM and HoU are incredible channels.
1:36 This segment of the video is for orphans who never got adopted
I’m a *SURVIVOR* of narcissistic family abuse. It’s going to take a week to finish this. 🥺
Sufferer, indurer sounds more fiting. It’s been a week did you finish this undertaking little muffin?
@@heraadrian7764 survivor fits best. I’m no longer a victim.
Haven’t seen a serving of it yet unfortunately but maybe today after an edible.
It's so interesting to me how the lives lived by our ancient prehistoric ancestors effect our social structures today.
Been waiting for this! 👏🏻
Absolutely magnificent video, once again!
You made my day thank you.
It takes a village to raise a child
Thank you for you scientific art ❤
Very important video. But family and over it society requires from us the time to build reliable connection but I think more important is our thoughts management for betterment rather than social connections because relationship development is not fully ensured for its rewards because of human competitions and manuervable nature but better thoughts management rewards us individually and society wise. Thoughts management for very high quality thinking requires isolation not social union. Our ancestors social mind makeup and their social connections were less complex than current people because of politics, religion and economics.
Can we stop for a moment and appreciate they resisted the urge and didn't put that loud monkey scream at 27:00? In the name of all sleepers, thank you! :D
I especially love the family bonds of painted wolves
Fascinating. Thanks.
Wow, after the latest astronomy Circus Show videos these ones are very refreshing. Fantastic stuff, thank you.
Because, nothing is stronger than *Family.*
Very well composed
I'm just at the 4 minute mark, but I already feel the need to hit the like button. Thank you for this masterpiece.
Been waiting for another upload of your guys quality content.
How fascinating. Thank you.
I'm a simple man, I see History of Humankind, I click
Bit of a stretch to say that humans are unique in family relationships. Many creatures maintain lifelong bonds with family members.
Thanks!
Such high quality content 💥👏🏾🙏🏾
We weren’t the only ones that did.
Best channel of the lot!
Oh thank gawd new stuff!!!
This is an insanely well made documentary. Well done! Will definitely check out all of your other stuff. This topic is very central to my focus right now as I tried to explain to a religious friend that we evolved and are also apes, he didn't really get the memo
good luck with that
Superb.
FAMILY !!
Dominic Toretto approves of this video
David Kelly is my favorite narrator!
U ask why did we involve family?
Bcoz family is special.
Love this guy
Love Love Love it so lets go out there and spread our gossip as we are evolved to do
Brother, One of the best productions I have had the pleasure to enjoy in a long long time, Got my Sub i suggest everyone follow suit. Production is key and you hold it, keep it rollin'
Nice video, really
Why did we evolve families ?
Because without families we can't have a Godfather.
Because without family we all would die
"Family"
Fast & the Furious: Continental Drift
Dum Treto & Brugnug Ug'Konan race their mammoths across the land-bridge a quarter mile at a time.
You blow me away every time!
Wow we really do live in a society!
Like Homer:
“I have brain?” points at heart
Masterpiece
Great video. Ty
Mutualism improves fitness. ✊
Im a chicken farmer and I have experience with ducks and turkeys. What seems to happen the male is the leader and then he will have 3-9 females that are “his” and out of thoes 1-3 of them are the favorites, they get bred the most yet they are the ones who dont normally go broody, that is what the other females do, and thoes chicks that survive have stronger bonds to the hen that raised them
thumbnail: big cat takes big steppy
39:12 idk man, that looked like a peaceful protest…nothing out of the norm there
13:35 " I know that bone!"
Polygamous families only work with one man and multiple women only when there aren't enough men.
Thanks for the tutorial. But you were like 9 million years late. Still helpful though.
I would love to see the citations for the brain science behind the seven basic emotional circuits in the brain
I often wonder if geography is short-shrifted by history.
At 36:27, for example, we see an entrancing bird's-eye view of life in a temperate climate and gently rolling topography, which is typically endowed with seasonal rains and streams, supporting a local flora and secondarily producing fruiting bodies for food, and wood for fire, defense or shelter. Water bodies and floral resources will attract local fauna, which represent more sources of food and clothing. Some grasses and ruminants in such a terrain could serve as potential domesticates.
So wherever wandering bands of human beings--our ancestral families--happened upon a place of gently varied gradients, with views of approach from the distance and moderate, dependable precipitation, they might easily have been gazing at the cradle of Babylon, Buenos Aires, Brazzaville, Beirut, Boston or Bordeaux.
Then one day Bob was walking the pastures and came across a psychedelic mushroom, Bob tripped his way through evolution 😅🍄
Stoned ape theory!
Another great video, thank you! 😊👏
Yes, T. Hobbes was a madman (even real wolves are not "wolves to each other", of course), and American reliance on the mere "belief in the kindness of strangers" 🙃 is in vein... WHY should everyone be
just a stranger to everyone else, all over again...? To make - mortgage brokers, "dating" apps/pornographers, and divorce lawyers happy? Or - rich... maybe..?🤔😎🧠🎵🎶🎵🎶
YES NEW VIDEO🎉🤘
Fast and Furious:The Origin
Waiting for Primer channel to simulate this in the next 10 years.
i must have DE-evoled cause i aint got no family
Awesome.
To know the meaning of family watch an unedited one minute close up clip of a bird mom and dad feeding their nestlings. Once you see it you cant unsee it.
Lost in the dead of winter a family grand-parent to newborn all stranded and forced on the road to a settlement for their salvation on by one serve as the shield from cold for the road is long, from the oldest to the youngest only the newborn lives thru it but is taken as kin by the stranger that has heard the short worded tale from the last sibling that has carried the little one to safety. This is family, nothing more than blood and will uniting now and in the future to form something grander even if the foundation is not remembered fully.
The tigers foot in the thumbnail
I love any time a video pops up on any of "these peoples" pages lol. thanks for all you do. another video well done!
I was looking forward to this as I thoroughly enjoyed The History of the Earth which is one of the best channels on TH-cam. Unfortunately this is nothing like it. There are plenty of negative comments pointing out the more obvious flaws so I won't add many more to the list. Fewer but more relevant photos and videos would be a start, and few random factoids dropped into the narrative without explanation or discussion would be more likely to keep me engaged. Comes over as very superficial, I can't say I learned anything new. Try Stefan Milo's channel instead.
Family. 😎
Vin Caveman: "Unga-bungah"
Evolutionary advantage of family... if a predator is chasing your group all the younger members can run faster than grandma so her sacrifice ensures survival of the group. She lived a good long life. The reproductive members can live out her legacy...
Hell yeah
1:11 Lmao. Of course it's a mixed 'family'. Mate I think you're forgetting about the blood ties when it comes to family, that's rather important.
40:30 No way bro Andrew used And we walk after from Trevor Kowalski song 😂
we live in a society
I like to think of ancient homo sapien families similarly to those of elephants. The females stick together and send away the males.
The males are to wander and survive on their own, returning to the family to visit and hopefully get some.
Well you’d be very wrong. That’s not how humans work. From any evidence we have, we’ve been Hunter-gatherers living in mixed groups since the beginning.
Nice!
That social experiment sounds like taxes under capitalism