One thing I like about your videos, Erika, is they are *information-dense,* very dense, which means that when I go back and watch the video again, there is a lot to chew on. And I appreciate your great examples of remains and illustrations that _actually_ demonstrate what you are talking about. Keep up the great work!
I honestly admire her passion. I wish I had half that much passion... for anything. She's a walking talking perfect example of why some of us achieve greatness while so many of us languish in the morass of mediocrity.
@@deniss2623 it's so funny, in a sad sort of way, when stupid people call smart people stupid. Of course, since they are stupid, they don't even realize how stupid it truly is, and they never will 👍.. that's why it's also kind of sad :-(
This series is the most exhaustive description of primate evolution on YT and I'm here for all of it. Even if I have to listen at .75 speed! And rewind, and pause. Can't wait for the hominins story.
Your passion is infectious, and yet I never get sick of it. Your enthusiasm motivates me to look up terms so I can rewatch your videos - all to learn more about something outside of my field of study. It reminds me that science is more than a tool, it is a teacher. I look forward to future installments, and please take care of yourself while pursuing your doctorate.
Yeah. Good thoughts! Be well, Erika and good luck in your path. When I was doing my (unfinished) Biology degree, I had profs who stood out. One especially was memorable; he did the labs on microorganisms. When we came in, he almost always started with a B-grade horror movie segment depicting some giant terrifying killer monster - "That's what we're gonna look at today. They're in that bowl in front of you. You'll need to make a slide." 😂
I am amazed at how Ms Gibbon can pronounce all those species names, one after the other, without becoming tongue-tied. I get brain-tied just THINKING the names.
Professor Gibbon, I gotta say, you inspired me to take Physical Anthropology this year. You also inspired the title of my term paper, and I thought you should know that and hear the groanworthy title: "Ardis the Adaptations You Are Looking For: Bipedal Locomotion & Reduced Sexual Dimorphism in Early Hominins"
i love how informative this video is…i am personally not a fan of long, drawn out, documentary style videos….think the facts alone are interesting enough.
Thanks for releasing these so quickly right before finals. Writing term papers for Physical Anthropology is a lot easier with this sort of background information to get me curious
I've discovered you about a month ago, and have been binging your videos lately. Been learning a lot of stuff that was curiously omitted from my creationist biology textbooks.
This is a great, detailed video, which is also well organised! Especially when you're so busy with other things ATM. Many thanks, and I hope everything's going well! In addition, I love your species portraits- not many producers have that string in their bows.
Huzzah! I have been waiting for this episode, since I remember you saying it is your specialty. Also my cat just tried to fight the string of lights on your wall via the tv screen.
So munch information. Have to watch several times. Btw, thanks for the short format. I don't watch 1 and 2 hour videos. I don't have the time or patience. I watch a large variety of subjects on TH-cam. Thanks again for the short form video.
Ericka (my namesake) - THAKN YOU! My gosh I had no idea of the complex diversity of these apes. Thank you for being so very articulate and well-spoken on this topic. I spoke to you and Forest about “race” about a week ago. Now I think I’m in love! Seriously I’m a light[skinned 76 year old - so I’m well past my prime, but if I were younger … well I’ll just leave that to your (and my) imagination. I was a math-physics major and a former NASA employee. Keep up the good work!
Exceptional, Erika. Thank you. But, what is forgivery? not sure the spelling, but you used the term at 8:25, and the related(?) term at 3:59. Is it Forage/foragery?
I love your enthusiasm in this series! I'm really enjoying these 'pure science' educational episodes, and would love to even see deep dives on the various species and their reconstructed ecology, maybe someday when you have the time.
I was looking for your next rise of primates video and found your older human evolution series where you debuted your intro animation. Love the animation and the song has been stuck in my head. The lyrics weren't what I thought but the song 'The Mind Electric' by Myrical Musical is really a banger!
I invite you to imagine a big family reunion, only instead of members of your close family, it's just all the critters we talked about so far in the series. Everybody is shrieking, including you, the potato salad is everywhere...
@@jackstrawfromwichita9369 If you actually watch the videos in this instead of diving in to troll the comments, you might start to gain a better idea of how this all actually works. You can help yourself ask smarter questions, if nothing else.
@@fezparker2401 Evolution never happened. Where is it? Where's the evolution? This little tramp is a total fraud lol. "None exists in the literature claiming that one species has been shown to evolve into another. Bacteria, the simplest form of independent life, are ideal for this kind of study, with generation times of twenty to thirty minutes, and populations achieved after eighteen hours. But throughout 150 years of the science of bacteriology, there is no evidence that one species of bacteria has changed into another…Since there is no evidence for species changes between the simplest forms of unicellular life, it is not surprising that there is no evidence for evolution from prokaryotic [e.g., bacterial] to eukaryotic [e.g., plant and animal] cells, let alone throughout the whole array of higher multicellular organisms. - Alan Linton, phd bacteriologist
D*ng! I hear a baby ape (Homo sapiens) screaming in my stairwell. They are using to do that, but my Felis domesticus may become stressed. Just a moment ...
Where can I get that shirt? Also, I love the ease with which you rattle off the names of the various species and their distinctive morphological features. This is what it sounds like when _actual_ scientists talk about science...as opposed to politicians (and their constituents) whose education _ended_ upon graduation...if that.
Thank you for addressing the potential issues with the study. All I keep seeing is people getting really excited about a bigger T. rex etc and you’re the first I’ve seen address that alligators may not be a very good base of comparison for especially the large tyranosaurids given the differences in their growth patterns and tyrannosaur relation to birds.
A "more derived" species or feature means a species or feature that is changed more from its common ancestor when compared to another species with shared ancestry. It's relatively new terminology to replace the older, archaic vs modern, dichotomy with a newer, basal vs derived dichotomy, respectively, in an attempt to use less loaded language. So a living species that is most simmilar to its common ancestor would be the most basal extant relative, and a living species that is least similar to its common ancestors would be the most derived.
Been subscribed to your channel for a while now, and am really enjoying your informative videos. Thanks. Looking forward to many more. Only suggestion I have for you is from a much older person's perspective: Don't waste too much of your life on refuting creationists. Sure, put some basic stuff out there, for the record. That can be useful in the broader scheme of things. But, trust me, the one thing you won't be saying on your death bed is 'I wish I had done more of those videos'. If anything it is likely to be the opposite. Concentrate on the stuff you really want to do, and where you can make real progress. Cheers 🙂
If I was a young earth creationist watching this series I'd have a lot of questions for my Sunday school teacher or Priest! So, 2 birds with one stone.
Hey Erika, you mentioned at around 1:30 that humans are monomorphic but an adult male can be on average close to 20% larger depending on the region. There’s very few places where female humans are anywhere close to males on average. It confuses me because I thought sexual dimorphism meant that there was variation in the morphology between males and females. I’m not trying to start an argument or anything here i am actually genuinely curious and interested.
I think the classic examples of sexual dimorphism are animals where you might think males and females are different species at first glance. Many birds, for example, have extremely different feather coloration depending on sex - see the peacock, or the eclectus parrot. You can also check out male vs. female guppies - not only do females have dull colors compared to males, they're often two or three times the size of males, and only have similar body shape when juvenile. Contrasted with those kinds of examples, human males and female look so much more similar that we can classify our species as monomorphic.
Hi Gutsick Gibbon! I've been watching your channel for the past year or so and was THRILLED to see you over on Lindsay's channel. Your content is wonderful and I love listening to your elaborations on all this information. So hard to wrap your head around all of it, mind boggling. I know this is a year old video but I thought maybe there was a chance you'd see this. Keep making content! It's all so fun to watch. (Plus I love your videos dunking on the creationists lol! 🤣)
I'd love if you'd flash definitions of some of the terms you are using at the bottom of the video for the slower folks watching along. Some labels on the maps when you refer to areas would be useful, while I am pretty sure the Tethys Sea is a sorta early Mediterranean and that Anatolia is the peninsular modern turkey is on, some (particularly US) viewers may be lost. Also I'd heard that using the term "primitive" to refer to features on fossils which would develop in more modern examples was somewhat out of use? (Although you would know better if anyone) Really enjoying this series and the illustrations!
I have a request, something I have been having a hard time with on the interwebs. In searching for even a less-than-definitive family tree of all known apes of both fossil and extant (although the obvious emphasis would be on finding one that organizes the extinct), my labors have come up blistered and fruitless, as everything I see shows relationships on a tree of only living species. Would you have the time and the kindness, let alone the reference to loan a Family Tree of All Known Apes, Greater and Lesser? I understand you are a busy gibbon, but with my being an artist, maybe we could exchange services. It's really all I can offer, but I have a fair degree of talent, and you yourself seem an unrelentingly reliable source of knowledge in your own field. Hoping to hear from you at all, Jason
One thing I like about your videos, Erika, is they are *information-dense,* very dense, which means that when I go back and watch the video again, there is a lot to chew on. And I appreciate your great examples of remains and illustrations that _actually_ demonstrate what you are talking about. Keep up the great work!
I honestly admire her passion. I wish I had half that much passion... for anything. She's a walking talking perfect example of why some of us achieve greatness while so many of us languish in the morass of mediocrity.
Yes, Erika is certainly dense.
@Denis S
Reading comprehension not your strong point eh? Don't worry I'm sure your mommy loves you. But then again, she has to.
@@deniss2623 it's so funny, in a sad sort of way, when stupid people call smart people stupid. Of course, since they are stupid, they don't even realize how stupid it truly is, and they never will 👍.. that's why it's also kind of sad :-(
@@travisbicklepopsicle
So why are you calling me stupid? 🤔
She really knows how to condense her presentation. Many TH-camrs would have dragged this information out over several hours.
True, but also I would've watched that hypothetical video. You certainly could make a 3 hour video on the topic.
*banging fists on table* apes! apes! apes!
Great video, as always. So says this ape.
So say we all!
This series is the most exhaustive description of primate evolution on YT and I'm here for all of it. Even if I have to listen at .75 speed! And rewind, and pause. Can't wait for the hominins story.
Can you imagine seeing an ape three times the size of a gorilla? That's pretty amazing.
I would see it very briefly. Discretion being the better part of valour here. Just imagine if they swam!
Basically a Grizzly with hands
Your passion is infectious, and yet I never get sick of it. Your enthusiasm motivates me to look up terms so I can rewatch your videos - all to learn more about something outside of my field of study. It reminds me that science is more than a tool, it is a teacher. I look forward to future installments, and please take care of yourself while pursuing your doctorate.
Yeah. Good thoughts! Be well, Erika and good luck in your path. When I was doing my (unfinished) Biology degree, I had profs who stood out. One especially was memorable; he did the labs on microorganisms. When we came in, he almost always started with a B-grade horror movie segment depicting some giant terrifying killer monster - "That's what we're gonna look at today. They're in that bowl in front of you. You'll need to make a slide." 😂
Finally the in-depth content on Anglican archbishops I’ve been waiting for all this time!
I'll wait and See! 😄
Thank you. It's fascinating to hear about evolution of other apes. The stress is always on humans, our relatives are interesting too.
Great visuals! I love how you always draw Oreopithecis with a white belly.
They are just oreos k?
Excellent. The Miocene apes are indeed fascinating; I love how you compiled them all in one video with all their evolutionary adaptations. Great job!
I particularly appreciate your rendering of Oreopithecus duplicisaginati @19:07
OMG! I can't tell you how excited I am to get off work and find a new video from you! You've made this terrible Monday end on a high note for me!
I am amazed at how Ms Gibbon can pronounce all those species names, one after the other, without becoming tongue-tied. I get brain-tied just THINKING the names.
Professor Gibbon, I gotta say, you inspired me to take Physical Anthropology this year. You also inspired the title of my term paper, and I thought you should know that and hear the groanworthy title: "Ardis the Adaptations You Are Looking For:
Bipedal Locomotion & Reduced Sexual Dimorphism in Early Hominins"
This series is incredible.
Thanks for another great presentation. You threw me off balance of my above branch, palmograde, arboreal bipedalism. Whew, glad there was a net.
i love how informative this video is…i am personally not a fan of long, drawn out, documentary style videos….think the facts alone are interesting enough.
That Late Miocene map at 13min is rili helpful and informative, ta, diolch, thanks.
I love your vids that don't mention Creationism. Your info is top and few on TH-cam come close to your in depth explanations. Thanks!
Thanks for releasing these so quickly right before finals. Writing term papers for Physical Anthropology is a lot easier with this sort of background information to get me curious
I've discovered you about a month ago, and have been binging your videos lately. Been learning a lot of stuff that was curiously omitted from my creationist biology textbooks.
I wonder what those say.
I really liked the “very strange indeed” at the end.
This is a great, detailed video, which is also well organised! Especially when you're so busy with other things ATM. Many thanks, and I hope everything's going well!
In addition, I love your species portraits- not many producers have that string in their bows.
1:03 It always impresses me how the body proportions of the gibbons resemble humans much more than chimps do, except for their arms obviousy.
Another great episode! On the trail to becoming us.
Thanks Erika! I love these as much as your debunking 😊❤
Huzzah! I have been waiting for this episode, since I remember you saying it is your specialty. Also my cat just tried to fight the string of lights on your wall via the tv screen.
Heading back home, after a long day of work. A good video about apes is the best relaxation.
Yes! Coffee break time! Just the best. Thanks Erika.🎉
So munch information. Have to watch several times. Btw, thanks for the short format. I don't watch 1 and 2 hour videos. I don't have the time or patience. I watch a large variety of subjects on TH-cam. Thanks again for the short form video.
such an amazing series. i’m literally that keen to see the next episode already!
you keep outdoing yourself. wonderful imagery.
I really like the informational videos like this. Thanks for making them.
It's cool and sad to know that there were so many more apes oot and aboot than we see today.
best video ever by far
As always this was fascinating and very informative.
Fascinating and a bit overwhelming!
I never knew there were so many early apes in what is now Europe!
Consistently good stuff as always
An interesting and informative video. Thanks Erika.
Ericka (my namesake) - THAKN YOU! My gosh I had no idea of the complex diversity of these apes. Thank you for being so very articulate and well-spoken on this topic. I spoke to you and Forest about “race” about a week ago. Now I think I’m in love! Seriously I’m a light[skinned 76 year old - so I’m well past my prime, but if I were younger … well I’ll just leave that to your (and my) imagination. I was a math-physics major and a former NASA employee. Keep up the good work!
I love the spergy passion in your voice when talking about prinates
Although I don't always know all of the terms you use, I learn something new every video!
Awesome video!
Very informative, thanks❤
Awesome video!! Thanks for sharing!!! 🫀🖤🫀
But were you there?
Just kidding. Great video
Exceptional, Erika. Thank you.
But, what is forgivery? not sure the spelling, but you used the term at 8:25, and the related(?) term at 3:59. Is it Forage/foragery?
frugivory = eating fruit
I think you're hearing it wrong, I hear frugivore, ie fruit eater
@@JaniceinOR Ah, so _not_ about their being careful with their money.
Thanks, my fellow apes! I was thinking forage. Gotta get my hearing checked...
17:19 "Africa Base, we have a problem here. Send. MORE. Javelins!"
For what it's worth, I have thoroughly enjoyed your presentations.
Excellent delivery of masses of information. 😊
this was a really great video! quickly conveyed an absurd amount of information in an engaging way. i loved the drawings!
I love your enthusiasm in this series! I'm really enjoying these 'pure science' educational episodes, and would love to even see deep dives on the various species and their reconstructed ecology, maybe someday when you have the time.
But... but... How'd they all fit on the Arc?!
Great segment, Erika. 🍀
this is a fantastic video and i really like your artwork. thank you.
I'm a fan of the sound upgrade. 👍
Ah yis! My favorite series on the Tube!
I was looking for your next rise of primates video and found your older human evolution series where you debuted your intro animation. Love the animation and the song has been stuck in my head. The lyrics weren't what I thought but the song 'The Mind Electric' by Myrical Musical is really a banger!
This was truly fascinating. Thank you so much.
Nice cliffhanger! Can't wait to see what happens next!
Greatest teacher ever...thank you!
I'm getting addicted to this channel
Love your educational videos! Your voice soothes me :)
The blue “gutsick” gibbon is also a STEM ape
A very very interesting video with so much information I will need to watch it more than once !!!
Been waiting on this for a long time
Yeey! New Erika vid!
I invite you to imagine a big family reunion, only instead of members of your close family, it's just all the critters we talked about so far in the series. Everybody is shrieking, including you, the potato salad is everywhere...
to misquote douglas adams "humans are not proud of their ancestors and rarely invite them round for dinner"
@@fezparker2401
Cite anything other than a Human which gave birth to a Human
@@jackstrawfromwichita9369
If you actually watch the videos in this instead of diving in to troll the comments, you might start to gain a better idea of how this all actually works. You can help yourself ask smarter questions, if nothing else.
@@fezparker2401
Evolution never happened. Where is it? Where's the evolution? This little tramp is a total fraud lol.
"None exists in the literature claiming that one species has been shown to evolve into another. Bacteria, the simplest form of independent life, are ideal for this kind of study, with generation times of twenty to thirty minutes, and populations achieved after eighteen hours. But throughout 150 years of the science of bacteriology, there is no evidence that one species of bacteria has changed into another…Since there is no evidence for species changes between the simplest forms of unicellular life, it is not surprising that there is no evidence for evolution from prokaryotic [e.g., bacterial] to eukaryotic [e.g., plant and animal] cells, let alone throughout the whole array of higher multicellular organisms.
- Alan Linton, phd bacteriologist
Have you taken a hit to the head? Do you need a HIA?
i love the visuals, especially your depictions of dendropithecus and oreopithecus!
do you post your art anywhere else?
A high zygomatic arch, could that be for eye protection, either from fighting or possibly glare?
Have to leave another comment. I totally enjoyed your video.
Outstanding. Excellent research and presentation.
thanks for sharing.
very well presented.
Excellent video!!!!!
🐒🐒🐒 yay for science! :) Thanks for the informative video!
Thanks😊
Thank you for the episode. Where was Charleston Heston?
D*ng! I hear a baby ape (Homo sapiens) screaming in my stairwell. They are using to do that, but my Felis domesticus may become stressed. Just a moment ...
Where can I get that shirt? Also, I love the ease with which you rattle off the names of the various species and their distinctive morphological features.
This is what it sounds like when _actual_ scientists talk about science...as opposed to politicians (and their constituents) whose education _ended_ upon graduation...if that.
11:54 Don't make me cry over a 15mya hominoid 😭
Hoot! Hoot! Hoot! 👍💪
My brain is going to explode.
Thank you for addressing the potential issues with the study. All I keep seeing is people getting really excited about a bigger T. rex etc and you’re the first I’ve seen address that alligators may not be a very good base of comparison for especially the large tyranosaurids given the differences in their growth patterns and tyrannosaur relation to birds.
Where was this video when i was studying primate behaviour last semester
Watched all of it 21:20
Odd question: what do you mean by "more derived" at around 7:02? I googled it and didn't find an answer related to the topic at hand.
A "more derived" species or feature means a species or feature that is changed more from its common ancestor when compared to another species with shared ancestry. It's relatively new terminology to replace the older, archaic vs modern, dichotomy with a newer, basal vs derived dichotomy, respectively, in an attempt to use less loaded language. So a living species that is most simmilar to its common ancestor would be the most basal extant relative, and a living species that is least similar to its common ancestors would be the most derived.
More!
Been subscribed to your channel for a while now, and am really enjoying your informative videos. Thanks. Looking forward to many more.
Only suggestion I have for you is from a much older person's perspective: Don't waste too much of your life on refuting creationists.
Sure, put some basic stuff out there, for the record. That can be useful in the broader scheme of things.
But, trust me, the one thing you won't be saying on your death bed is 'I wish I had done more of those videos'. If anything it is likely to be the opposite.
Concentrate on the stuff you really want to do, and where you can make real progress.
Cheers 🙂
If I was a young earth creationist watching this series I'd have a lot of questions for my Sunday school teacher or Priest! So, 2 birds with one stone.
Hey Erika, you mentioned at around 1:30 that humans are monomorphic but an adult male can be on average close to 20% larger depending on the region. There’s very few places where female humans are anywhere close to males on average. It confuses me because I thought sexual dimorphism meant that there was variation in the morphology between males and females. I’m not trying to start an argument or anything here i am actually genuinely curious and interested.
I think the classic examples of sexual dimorphism are animals where you might think males and females are different species at first glance. Many birds, for example, have extremely different feather coloration depending on sex - see the peacock, or the eclectus parrot. You can also check out male vs. female guppies - not only do females have dull colors compared to males, they're often two or three times the size of males, and only have similar body shape when juvenile. Contrasted with those kinds of examples, human males and female look so much more similar that we can classify our species as monomorphic.
Hi Gutsick Gibbon! I've been watching your channel for the past year or so and was THRILLED to see you over on Lindsay's channel. Your content is wonderful and I love listening to your elaborations on all this information. So hard to wrap your head around all of it, mind boggling.
I know this is a year old video but I thought maybe there was a chance you'd see this. Keep making content! It's all so fun to watch. (Plus I love your videos dunking on the creationists lol! 🤣)
Incredible.
I'd love if you'd flash definitions of some of the terms you are using at the bottom of the video for the slower folks watching along. Some labels on the maps when you refer to areas would be useful, while I am pretty sure the Tethys Sea is a sorta early Mediterranean and that Anatolia is the peninsular modern turkey is on, some (particularly US) viewers may be lost. Also I'd heard that using the term "primitive" to refer to features on fossils which would develop in more modern examples was somewhat out of use? (Although you would know better if anyone) Really enjoying this series and the illustrations!
Very interesting.
Hello, I am an advanced tool making bi pedal homind . I very much enjoy your vacation video. 😁
I love Erika's drawings I started drawing some of the skulls form Sahelanthropus tchadensis through to Homo sapiens
Dang, that Miocene!
Hello fellow modern apes 🍌
I have a request, something I have been having a hard time with on the interwebs. In searching for even a less-than-definitive family tree of all known apes of both fossil and extant (although the obvious emphasis would be on finding one that organizes the extinct), my labors have come up blistered and fruitless, as everything I see shows relationships on a tree of only living species. Would you have the time and the kindness, let alone the reference to loan a Family Tree of All Known Apes, Greater and Lesser? I understand you are a busy gibbon, but with my being an artist, maybe we could exchange services. It's really all I can offer, but I have a fair degree of talent, and you yourself seem an unrelentingly reliable source of knowledge in your own field. Hoping to hear from you at all,
Jason
Can you give me more evidence for the out of Europe hypothesis, please thanks😊