In my many years on YT this is one of the easiest subs I ever saw. Your enthusiasm is obvious and endearing. Your information is well delivered and somehow you manage to keep it clear while running off the cuff. You put me in mind of the legendary Lindybeige. Please take that as the compliment it was meant to be. Cheers!!
Congrats on 50k! You've earned it! And my feelings are-- Welcome, cousin Paranthropus! Come on in, set your tools by the door, put your feet up, and relax. Enjoy the tool party!
"What are these fukkn aliens? And how dare they use our territory? Woman! Gimme my stone axe and my sharpest stick." - the feelings of my great*98459 great grandpa when he met another species of homo
@@naturegirl1999 A tool party would be all the tool using hominids sitting around a fire showing off their favorite stuff. Same thing guys do in garages today.
1776 bones were found? Can they find one more bone? I feel like there’s going to be conspiracy theories over this number 😭 Kidding aside, this is freaking insane, 2.5M-3M years old? Fat molar Paranthropus changing up things with possible tools? How interesting! Also, your explanation of people not being open to a tool maker outside of what they’re expecting and what’s been defined definitely reminds me of creationists.
That's it, time to steal the Declaration of Independence. Maybe a map on the back will lead me to the graves of Adam and Eve or something. Haha creationist National Treasure would be wild.
Dare I say it, _Paranthropus habilis._ I've also been thinking we need to update the time lines, before the paleolithic we now know that there was a "panlithic" ("The Chimpanzee stone age"). So many fascinating new discoveries. Thank you for sharing them with us. Love the work you do.
Yes! Much as I'm glad she is still on the front lines against creationist pseudo-science, it's such a relief sometimes to get the science without the exasperating nonsense.
@@Cat_Woods My thoughts exactly! FYI Having read this, I ended up noticing and catching one of the authors of this paper, Tom Plummer, doing a presentation on this discovery: th-cam.com/video/t36uYgPypGg/w-d-xo.html
I never doubted that Parathropus was at least as much a tool user as Chimps and likely somewhat better, but I never imagined that they would be linked to Oldowan stone tools.
I enjoy both your YEC vids and these vids, though for very different reasons. I look at the YEC vids and think, "Those folks lack so much understanding, and they'll never want to correct that!" I look at these videos and think, "I lack so much understanding! But, I'm grateful that there are folks like Gutsick on here to help me correct that." Thank you for all you do!
Agreed. Even as someone nominally religious, the YEC stuff, some of the more Fundamentalist/Evangelical stuff can get kinda off-putting sometimes, but, not really Progressive either, this often seems to go too far in the other direction. My actual views and identity are a little more ambiguous and prone to vary at times (and my ways of thinking about things don't mesh easily with traditional assumptions about belief versus non-belief; with me tending to live in a world where seemingly every possibility exists at the same time). But, yeah, as for scientific stuff, it is more a question of "what does the evidence say?", and from what I have seen, it doesn't exactly seem to support the YEC position (so, admittedly, I more agree with GG on these sorts of matters).
@@BCam-m4w Sometimes the YEC/Fundamentalist stuff is in conflict both with reality/evidence, and also with a sensible interpretation of the Bible itself. Like, zeal does not make an interpretation correct, and when both physical evidence, and/or the text itself, is at odds with ones' claims, there is an issue. I guess many have twisted the interpretation in circles enough, that it holds together (often via a lot of circular logic), but if one disregards circular logic and reads it for what it says; it is not exactly the same as what they claim it says. Well, and more so, it also seems fairly obvious that it is a collection of writings by people about stories and their experiences with the supernatural, rather than the text itself being written by supernatural means (and "merely made to look like a collection of writings by various individuals"...). Also defending ones' position by daisy-chaining a bunch of verses outside their original contexts, is not really valid as far as I see it. Well, and trying to gate keep Heaven by claiming people need to believe certain things in certain ways, or engage in specific ritual behaviors, etc, is also not valid (and more so... Apostle Paul warned against this sort of thing, ...). Well, and to some extent, things are less about the behaviors themselves, but more the intent behind the behaviors. But, also, as I see it, a rejection of their way of interpreting the Bible, is not a rejection of the Bible itself. The essence is still valid.
Great milestone 🐒 I've also noticed how hard the resistance has "always" been when it comes to trust pre-human ancestors to have more advanced capabilities than current-day other apes.
Very cool! I hope the idea of parathrancopus use of tools pans out-the more hominid tool users, the better. And congrats on reaching 50k users. Had to look up what “C4 foods” meant-more leaning!
I think I have a crush on Erika. Not in the normal sense of a crush because I'm wicked old. But more like a huge admiration. She's my hero. I'm a handy man, not a scientist by any means but I've been following several fields of science for forty years or so and I loved science when I was in school even if I hated everything else other than literature. I love thinking about deep time and the history of life on earth and I always have. I love to think about our ancestors and Erika's program is tailor made for enthusiasts like myself because her program is in depth enough to give a solid understanding of the topics involved without being so detailed as to be boring. Long may she and her husband run.
Excellent! Thanks. I agree that, in many ways , things started far earlier than we think, and are always more diverse and complicated than are assumptions allow. The problem, as always, is proving it. But as research moves along, this pattern seems to be indicated over and over, and in so many situations. "They were herbivores because of the heavy grinding teeth" sounds like something out of the 1940s, and is an assumption. As an aside, as a modern human who has lost much of her grinding capacity, the first thing I had trouble dealing with was meat! Until I learned how to braise the hell out of it to fork tender, and ross-cutting it.
I love this type of video, it’s so insanely interesting seeing the family tree and that other branches that didn’t lead to us, were also capable of humanlike things and probably similar potentials for intelligence. We’re just the only ones left, but that doesn’t mean our relatives were necessarily less capable of being/becoming intelligent. There definitely is a deep status quo of human exceptionalism, but what we are is just another animal living at the same time as the rest of the current animals
Hi Erika. I watch any and all content relating to archaeology on UK tv and I have to tell you that you are tailor made for presenting said tv programming. I can’t wait to see how your career progresses. 👏👏👏
Thank you for this fascinating video. Paranthropus was around when I was a kid in the '60's, in my house via the Time/Life "Early Man" book. I ate these books up! And I remember that their description of Paranthropus was a vegetarian who just couldn't cut it with the meat-eater Australopithicus. There was even a wonderfully rendered painting of a fight between them. The Australos had spears and the Parans threw rocks-- we knew who would win that one! So much of that Time/Life series has been happily debunked, but it gave me an appreciation of science that lasted me a lifetime, so hats off to Time/Life.
I broke out my kazoo in honor of your 50k milestone. Not sure my neighbors were super pleased. In all seriousness, fascinating topic and great overview.
When i was a kid in the 70s they were teaching we are only thousands of years from getting fire and looked like this before using fire running around naked with clubs and that never added up. Of course we are many adaptations into fire use and eating cooked food and im quite happy its becoming understood that the obvious is whats happening. Great news thanks!
Even if paranthropus was just as intelligent and handy as homo, it still took more resources to build that bigger body with accomplished dentition compared to homo. So an evolutionary dead end, as is most of life. Very interesting and informative video.
Paranthropus is one of my favorite hominids. Very cool to see a new potential behavior discovered. The idea of these little guys, who were previously always depicted as sluggish, lazy grass and tuber munchers, were able to make stone axes and take down hippos is just such an awesome concept, even if it turns out it's not true later
Erika! So happy for the channel milestone! Thank you for taking the time out of what I'm sure is a very busy schedule for you to make these videos. Usually I'm a dinosaur guy but I've become really interested the primatology side of things thanks to your content. I picked up a book called Fossil Men by Kermit Pattison recently so really hoping to enjoy that! Keep up the good work GG!
Many congratulations to you! Also, its been many years since I heard anyone talk about Zinj. or "Nutcracker Man"...and now I know why - they were synonyms. Thanks for clearing that up while you explained this great bit of news. PS: eating Paranthropuses? Wait, isn't that basically what Desmond Morris suggested?
Congrats on the 50K - and rising! You’ve done a masterful job of segueing from beating the creationist dead horse to contemporary anthropology, most fascinating.
I realize you like archaic things, but “Hip to the jive!” (1.56)?
Gutsick Gibbon, midear, I love your videos! Your enthusiasm, the depth of your knowledge, and your funky humour combine to very effectively inform and educate all us armchair paleoanthropologists! Thank you again for an entertaining lesson to open our eyes to the possibilities!
The whole time I was evil grinning "What if the paranthropus was being butchered too!!" I'm so glad you addressed it. That said, I'm not gate keeping that stone tool use.
I just found your channel and I just wanted to say I think the way you talk/teach is really engaging! I think if you were to ever become a professor you would be really good at it! You make learning fun! 😁
2D is my favorite of the Gorillaz... well, 2D or Noodle. Anyway, cool shirt and thanks for the interesting news on the subject of hominid evolution. Keep it coming! You always bring up the most interesting info on the subject and manage to explain it so even I can understand it. Thanks for once again making our ancestors and their cousins more understandable!
My hope there will more investigations, more digging in various areas, perhaps finding more stone tools, some fossil bones, etc. Seems more amazing discoveries below the surface & more questions posed. Great video.
I'm going to be honest, I was more surprised by the possibility that Paranthropus ate meat than by any suggestions of tool use. And said meat was potentially HIPPO CARCASSES. Paranthropus has always been advertised to me as a specialized herbivore like you mention in this video. But like you said, behavior can sometimes deviate from morphology. For example, the leopard seal's incisors and canines aren't really any special for a seal's, but it's the only regularly macrophagous pinniped alive today. A few Mesozoic marine reptiles with teeth and jaws that look like they're just for eating fish show evidence of preying on larger vertebrates. And Paranthropus has potential tool usage going for it over these guys.
Thank you, Gutsick. Many events in recent years have prompted me to wonder whether Earth would have been better off if one our evolutionary cousins had ascended instead of us. Learning new and surprising things about said cousins does little to dissuade me of that inkling, but it does somehow add both lightness and depth to it. And discovering your channel definitely reminds me that homo sapiens sapiens gets it right once in a while. Huge gratitude.
My only problem with Erika is that she explains so well I think I’m smarter than I am! Like I’ll pick up Science magazine off my neighbor’s coffee table while chatting and think I forgot how to read?!
Erika: This might be one of the reasons why humans were so successful at dominating our environment wherever we go. _We aren't too picky._ My body, not getting the memo: What's this? Healthy, nutritious food? Why, let me just vomit up most of it and calcify the rest into kidney stones! And, despite never living in an environment that drops below 80°F, I'll pass out the moment my face hits about 99°F. That sounds _smart and adaptive_ just like the rest of my genus and species!
Speaking of the question of if the paranthropus was doing the butchering or was the entree.....I would really be interested to hear your take on the Neanderthal Predation Theory of Danny Vendramini in the book, "Them and Us".
I'm pretty sure your audio quality took a big step up in quality recently, perhaps due to a repositioning of your mic. I appreciate that because it makes accessing your excellent content so much easier.
That's a very cool find. It suggests that toolmaking runs very, very deep in our nature. Back to the last common ancestor of humans and chimps? Even further back?
Congrats! I learn so much from your videos. Dr. Sharon Diehl, geochemist, geologist with a background in paleontology. Loved the videos you did with Forrest Valkai.
Very interesting video, thank you. And congrats for the 50K subscribers. With the graphic of @0:56 maybe you could make a video about where the different Hominin fossils have been found. And then show what is known about the Geology and Flora of East Africa of, say, 2.5 to 4.5 million years ago, especially with respect to the different habitats that could serve as a trigger for the separation of populations and thus for them taking a different evolutionary pathway. That would be really cool.
You need to sell a timeline, descendent chart and useful vocabulary. Would be easier for those of us not as astute as yourself. Love the way you and Forrest have such enthusiasm about science, I once was 35 years ago, then life got in the way.
You know, you just do the most screamingly excellent explainers on paleoanthropology EVAR. And now I'm all excited about Paranthropus, too. I'm sharing your channel with my anthropology email list. 😊 Thanks for the great vid!
Excellent video! I love that you show the paper as you read, as many of us don't have access. You open this up to interested amateurs in a way we can understand. I like your attitude and passion. Subscribed.
Congratulations! Hey, I'm with you, having observed scientist bias for touting human superiority all my 65-year life. You frequently see literature and media going on about how we're the hominin who survived because we are most fit. But as you pointed out, the jury's still out on that, since some others survived 5 or 10 times longer than we have so far. Evolution keeps marching forward, and it's really cool how you share your enthusiasm with us as we join our fellow animals in experiencing life on this tiny blue marble. So I'm one ape who's a big fan.
Knapping is really hard to manage with skill. But it’s pretty simple to get a good sharp edge of fresh flint. I broke a flake off when I was on the chalk downs in the UK and really lightly ran it across my thumb - it cut really deep. Probably ought to have gone to a doctor or A&E instead of using a dozen or so bandaids. It took ages to heal. That flake was better than some steak knives I’ve used.
Additionally, what if they were trading knowledge of tool making? As well as tools, techniques and culture? I find it absurd to believe that we were not intertwined with one another, we had the capability. I'm saddened that we may never know how or if we managed to coexist in any meaningful way
Same! It seems more likely we'd cooperate and intermingle than only ever compete. The fact that people have denisovan and neaderthal DNA shows we at least intermingled with other species within genus homo
Thanks for the presentation. I learned about your channel from your interview with Seth Andrews. Recently I have become more interested in deep human history. I have been a vegetarian for 30 years. Way back then an alternative diet was the meat centric Adkins ketosis diet. The latest rendition of Adkins is called the Carnivore diet. I was quite surprised at there "unique" view of human history. In short it is a desire to eat like a caveman (all meat). What you say here is interesting because it establishes meat eating back to almost three million years. A lot of the various carnivore channels say that we are anatomically carnivores. Your mentioning the "fallback" diet helps to explains a lot. Thanks again. 🌻
The resistance to the idea that paranthropus was using tools and eating meat reminds me of the resistance I've seen to the idea that Native Americans were here before the Clovis culture. It sounds like the same sort of thing. (Of course, we've got enough evidence now that Clovis First is disproved and pre-Clovis is generally accepted.) The more we learn, the more complicated the hominid (and related) tree gets - and the more interesting!
It's interesting to me how we keep having to adjust how we self define humanity, and our exceptionalism. It used to be that homo sapien was the tool maker, the user of fire, the meat eater, the ones with language, the capacity to plan for future events, symbolic thought, the ability to mourn, etc, but as we keep refining our data, those quintessential "human" qualities seem to be shared more and more with our other ape cousins and ancestors, and to some extent, with mammals and other vertebrates. I think some of the mentality behind the notion that 'archaic' hominids couldn't possibly be as advanced as us comes from the realization that if we have to expand our concept of sentience, it has lots of ethical implications for how we've mistreated the larger animal kingdom, and it forces us to reevaluate our place in the web of life. I feel like some people feel threatened by the idea that humans are just not that special, whether that threat is felt by creationists or narrow-minded academics, as you said.
In my many years on YT this is one of the easiest subs I ever saw. Your enthusiasm is obvious and endearing. Your information is well delivered and somehow you manage to keep it clear while running off the cuff. You put me in mind of the legendary Lindybeige. Please take that as the compliment it was meant to be. Cheers!!
I bet it would be fun if the two were ever to meet.
@@evanbarter7549 I am not sure us mere mortals could comprehend it though. 😅
100% agreed! Such an easy sub
Yeah she likes her stuff...all not enough to get me into monkeys, but her trip to the concrete ark was fun.
Right on. And I love Lindybeige. He's hilarious.
This is all so fascinating. However, why has nobody mentioned the most likely scenario:
The hippos used the tools to eat the Paranthropus!
yeah, they're real bastards them hippos!
godless Grebe, love the username lol
@@XcRunner1031why
@godlessgrebe : Of course!
Godless grebe as opposed to godless loon... 😂❤
Congrats on 50k! You've earned it!
And my feelings are-- Welcome, cousin Paranthropus! Come on in, set your tools by the door, put your feet up, and relax. Enjoy the tool party!
"What are these fukkn aliens? And how dare they use our territory? Woman! Gimme my stone axe and my sharpest stick."
- the feelings of my great*98459 great grandpa when he met another species of homo
Tool party 🤣. This made me laugh much harder than it should. Don't look at me like that. No... I am not high.
I'm wondering what a tool party would be
@@naturegirl1999 A tool party would be all the tool using hominids sitting around a fire showing off their favorite stuff. Same thing guys do in garages today.
@@jrrarglblarg9241 showing Australopithecus Afarensis my modern stainless steel serrated kitchen knife
1776 bones were found? Can they find one more bone? I feel like there’s going to be conspiracy theories over this number 😭 Kidding aside, this is freaking insane, 2.5M-3M years old? Fat molar Paranthropus changing up things with possible tools? How interesting! Also, your explanation of people not being open to a tool maker outside of what they’re expecting and what’s been defined definitely reminds me of creationists.
That's it, time to steal the Declaration of Independence. Maybe a map on the back will lead me to the graves of Adam and Eve or something. Haha creationist National Treasure would be wild.
same year the us was founded
Dare I say it, _Paranthropus habilis._
I've also been thinking we need to update the time lines, before the paleolithic we now know that there was a "panlithic" ("The Chimpanzee stone age").
So many fascinating new discoveries. Thank you for sharing them with us. Love the work you do.
I love these summaries/reviews of scientific papers. You explain them so well and point out exactly what's important and interesting about them.
Yes! Much as I'm glad she is still on the front lines against creationist pseudo-science, it's such a relief sometimes to get the science without the exasperating nonsense.
@@Cat_Woods My thoughts exactly!
FYI Having read this, I ended up noticing and catching one of the authors of this paper, Tom Plummer, doing a presentation on this discovery: th-cam.com/video/t36uYgPypGg/w-d-xo.html
I never doubted that Parathropus was at least as much a tool user as Chimps and likely somewhat better, but I never imagined that they would be linked to Oldowan stone tools.
I enjoy both your YEC vids and these vids, though for very different reasons. I look at the YEC vids and think, "Those folks lack so much understanding, and they'll never want to correct that!" I look at these videos and think, "I lack so much understanding! But, I'm grateful that there are folks like Gutsick on here to help me correct that." Thank you for all you do!
Agreed. Even as someone nominally religious, the YEC stuff, some of the more Fundamentalist/Evangelical stuff can get kinda off-putting sometimes, but, not really Progressive either, this often seems to go too far in the other direction. My actual views and identity are a little more ambiguous and prone to vary at times (and my ways of thinking about things don't mesh easily with traditional assumptions about belief versus non-belief; with me tending to live in a world where seemingly every possibility exists at the same time).
But, yeah, as for scientific stuff, it is more a question of "what does the evidence say?", and from what I have seen, it doesn't exactly seem to support the YEC position (so, admittedly, I more agree with GG on these sorts of matters).
Regarding Mammonist's, like YEC's, never attribute to ignorance what can better be attributed to malice.
@@BGBTechyou should sit and think about why you find the YEC videos off putting as a religious person.
@@BCam-m4w Sometimes the YEC/Fundamentalist stuff is in conflict both with reality/evidence, and also with a sensible interpretation of the Bible itself.
Like, zeal does not make an interpretation correct, and when both physical evidence, and/or the text itself, is at odds with ones' claims, there is an issue.
I guess many have twisted the interpretation in circles enough, that it holds together (often via a lot of circular logic), but if one disregards circular logic and reads it for what it says; it is not exactly the same as what they claim it says.
Well, and more so, it also seems fairly obvious that it is a collection of writings by people about stories and their experiences with the supernatural, rather than the text itself being written by supernatural means (and "merely made to look like a collection of writings by various individuals"...).
Also defending ones' position by daisy-chaining a bunch of verses outside their original contexts, is not really valid as far as I see it.
Well, and trying to gate keep Heaven by claiming people need to believe certain things in certain ways, or engage in specific ritual behaviors, etc, is also not valid (and more so... Apostle Paul warned against this sort of thing, ...). Well, and to some extent, things are less about the behaviors themselves, but more the intent behind the behaviors.
But, also, as I see it, a rejection of their way of interpreting the Bible, is not a rejection of the Bible itself. The essence is still valid.
Great milestone 🐒
I've also noticed how hard the resistance has "always" been when it comes to trust pre-human ancestors to have more advanced capabilities than current-day other apes.
Very cool! I hope the idea of parathrancopus use of tools pans out-the more hominid tool users, the better. And congrats on reaching 50k users. Had to look up what “C4 foods” meant-more leaning!
Yeah there’s whole papers on C3 vs C4 plants
Yes, and be sure to differentiate between "C4 foods" and just plain C4. The latter may impart more energy to your system than desirable.
Did you mean Paranthropus?
Congratulations on the subscribership! Couldn't happen
to a nicer primate and a true sapiens sapiens. Always
engaging, always informative. Thanks, GG!
I miss the opening. Oreopethicus being rained on, sneezing and coming down from the tree is my favorite part. Great video. Keep up the good work!!!!!!
I'm feeding the algorithm because these videos are some of my favorites. I love yec busts and library of errors, but this, this is your brand imo.
Nice video. Erika is going honestly my favourite creation disproving youtuber
I think I have a crush on Erika. Not in the normal sense of a crush because I'm wicked old. But more like a huge admiration. She's my hero. I'm a handy man, not a scientist by any means but I've been following several fields of science for forty years or so and I loved science when I was in school even if I hated everything else other than literature. I love thinking about deep time and the history of life on earth and I always have. I love to think about our ancestors and Erika's program is tailor made for enthusiasts like myself because her program is in depth enough to give a solid understanding of the topics involved without being so detailed as to be boring. Long may she and her husband run.
Very well said ❤❤
so you are a Homo habilis? Hehehe
Her wittiness and avid curiosity are very attractive qualities. She also has a good sense of humor.
Intelligence and passion are very attractive!
If someone said this about me I would be grossed out ngl.
Would love to see you do a colab with Minuteman Milo
Excellent! Thanks. I agree that, in many ways , things started far earlier than we think, and are always more diverse and complicated than are assumptions allow.
The problem, as always, is proving it.
But as research moves along, this pattern seems to be indicated over and over, and in so many situations.
"They were herbivores because of the heavy grinding teeth" sounds like something out of the 1940s, and is an assumption.
As an aside, as a modern human who has lost much of her grinding capacity, the first thing I had trouble dealing with was meat! Until I learned how to braise the hell out of it to fork tender, and ross-cutting it.
I love this type of video, it’s so insanely interesting seeing the family tree and that other branches that didn’t lead to us, were also capable of humanlike things and probably similar potentials for intelligence. We’re just the only ones left, but that doesn’t mean our relatives were necessarily less capable of being/becoming intelligent. There definitely is a deep status quo of human exceptionalism, but what we are is just another animal living at the same time as the rest of the current animals
Thanks for everything 💝
I'm going to assume that you won't get too tired of me commenting "You're such a great teacher!" Thank you for your work
Okay but a video on just Australopithecus and very early homo would SERVE SO HARD
Hi Erika. I watch any and all content relating to archaeology on UK tv and I have to tell you that you are tailor made for presenting said tv programming. I can’t wait to see how your career progresses. 👏👏👏
Waiting for, impatiently , regarding the recent reports about the most ancient tools
I play your video at .75 I find it easier to listen and digest. More comprehensible.
✌💖🖖🤙💪🔥🎶🎤💃
Fellow earthlings.
Thank you for this fascinating video. Paranthropus was around when I was a kid in the '60's, in my house via the Time/Life "Early Man" book. I ate these books up! And I remember that their description of Paranthropus was a vegetarian who just couldn't cut it with the meat-eater Australopithicus. There was even a wonderfully rendered painting of a fight between them. The Australos had spears and the Parans threw rocks-- we knew who would win that one! So much of that Time/Life series has been happily debunked, but it gave me an appreciation of science that lasted me a lifetime, so hats off to Time/Life.
I broke out my kazoo in honor of your 50k milestone. Not sure my neighbors were super pleased.
In all seriousness, fascinating topic and great overview.
I knap, I’ve been reading tons of material on it since starting, and I just read this so it was awesome to see you mention it.
It’s such a cool skill- my uncle used to do it
Congrats on 50K. We just call those things noisemakers. 🥳
Happy about the 50k.
Whistle blown, confetti thrown. 🎉
Thank you for your time and effort.
When i was a kid in the 70s they were teaching we are only thousands of years from getting fire and looked like this before using fire running around naked with clubs and that never added up. Of course we are many adaptations into fire use and eating cooked food and im quite happy its becoming understood that the obvious is whats happening. Great news thanks!
Paranthropus seems nice. 10/10 would hug and share fruit with
Hi Erika!! I'm always elated when you release a video!!
Even if paranthropus was just as intelligent and handy as homo, it still took more resources to build that bigger body with accomplished dentition compared to homo. So an evolutionary dead end, as is most of life. Very interesting and informative video.
This is very interesting! I love the discovery of tool use. Thanks Erika.
Paranthropus is one of my favorite hominids. Very cool to see a new potential behavior discovered. The idea of these little guys, who were previously always depicted as sluggish, lazy grass and tuber munchers, were able to make stone axes and take down hippos is just such an awesome concept, even if it turns out it's not true later
Erika! So happy for the channel milestone! Thank you for taking the time out of what I'm sure is a very busy schedule for you to make these videos. Usually I'm a dinosaur guy but I've become really interested the primatology side of things thanks to your content. I picked up a book called Fossil Men by Kermit Pattison recently so really hoping to enjoy that! Keep up the good work GG!
.....hello...my study is stone tools.....i am learning a lot from your channel....thank you
Congrats Gibbon! So cool to have seen your channel grow so much
I love this. Do more videos where you are reading and explaining research papers please.
Many congratulations to you!
Also, its been many years since I heard anyone talk about Zinj. or "Nutcracker Man"...and now I know why - they were synonyms. Thanks for clearing that up while you explained this great bit of news.
PS: eating Paranthropuses? Wait, isn't that basically what Desmond Morris suggested?
Yes! Congratulations, Erika. Well done. I look forward to your videos.
Congrats on the 50K - and rising! You’ve done a masterful job of segueing from beating the creationist dead horse to contemporary anthropology, most fascinating.
I realize you like archaic things, but “Hip to the jive!” (1.56)?
Gutsick Gibbon, midear, I love your videos! Your enthusiasm, the depth of your knowledge, and your funky humour combine to very effectively inform and educate all us armchair paleoanthropologists! Thank you again for an entertaining lesson to open our eyes to the possibilities!
Congratulations, you deserve all available adulation for all the amazing work you do.
Another impressive video. I truly enjoy them. Congrats on reaching 50K!
I was thinking the exact same thing as your friend about the Paranthropus being butchered by the homo habilis!
You Rock, This was excellent (Paranthropus is a very interesting aspect of hominin evolution).
Saw you at FreeFlo- Also excellent !
The whole time I was evil grinning "What if the paranthropus was being butchered too!!" I'm so glad you addressed it. That said, I'm not gate keeping that stone tool use.
I just found your channel and I just wanted to say I think the way you talk/teach is really engaging! I think if you were to ever become a professor you would be really good at it! You make learning fun! 😁
2D is my favorite of the Gorillaz... well, 2D or Noodle. Anyway, cool shirt and thanks for the interesting news on the subject of hominid evolution. Keep it coming! You always bring up the most interesting info on the subject and manage to explain it so even I can understand it. Thanks for once again making our ancestors and their cousins more understandable!
My hope there will more investigations, more digging in various areas, perhaps finding more stone tools, some fossil bones, etc. Seems more amazing discoveries below the surface & more questions posed. Great video.
I'm going to be honest, I was more surprised by the possibility that Paranthropus ate meat than by any suggestions of tool use. And said meat was potentially HIPPO CARCASSES. Paranthropus has always been advertised to me as a specialized herbivore like you mention in this video. But like you said, behavior can sometimes deviate from morphology. For example, the leopard seal's incisors and canines aren't really any special for a seal's, but it's the only regularly macrophagous pinniped alive today. A few Mesozoic marine reptiles with teeth and jaws that look like they're just for eating fish show evidence of preying on larger vertebrates. And Paranthropus has potential tool usage going for it over these guys.
Thanks Erica for another fascinating tour in anthropology. I came for the creationism, stayed for the amazing human origin story.
Thank you, Gutsick. Many events in recent years have prompted me to wonder whether Earth would have been better off if one our evolutionary cousins had ascended instead of us. Learning new and surprising things about said cousins does little to dissuade me of that inkling, but it does somehow add both lightness and depth to it. And discovering your channel definitely reminds me that homo sapiens sapiens gets it right once in a while. Huge gratitude.
My only problem with Erika is that she explains so well I think I’m smarter than I am! Like I’ll pick up Science magazine off my neighbor’s coffee table while chatting and think I forgot how to read?!
Love the show, especially the enthusiasm.
Erika: This might be one of the reasons why humans were so successful at dominating our environment wherever we go. _We aren't too picky._
My body, not getting the memo: What's this? Healthy, nutritious food? Why, let me just vomit up most of it and calcify the rest into kidney stones! And, despite never living in an environment that drops below 80°F, I'll pass out the moment my face hits about 99°F. That sounds _smart and adaptive_ just like the rest of my genus and species!
Congratulations on 50k subs. Love your stuff. You are teaching this old dog new stuff and I love it.
Speaking of the question of if the paranthropus was doing the butchering or was the entree.....I would really be interested to hear your take on the Neanderthal Predation Theory of Danny Vendramini in the book, "Them and Us".
This was incredible. I absolutely love how you explain academic papers. Thanks Gib ✌️💕🌻
What about the older lomekwian tools? Why are those never talked about when we hear about oldest tool usage?
I'm pretty sure your audio quality took a big step up in quality recently, perhaps due to a repositioning of your mic. I appreciate that because it makes accessing your excellent content so much easier.
That's a very cool find. It suggests that toolmaking runs very, very deep in our nature. Back to the last common ancestor of humans and chimps? Even further back?
Congrats Gutsick Gibbon on 50K subscribers. Love the work you do. Thanks for all the hard work you do. Keep it up :)
Congrats! I learn so much from your videos. Dr. Sharon Diehl, geochemist, geologist with a background in paleontology. Loved the videos you did with Forrest Valkai.
50k well deserved! Very informative as usual, GG.
Congrats on 50k! Love this channel and hope to see you on The Line lots more!!!💚
Congrats on the milestone. Lovely an informative video as always.
🎉🎉 way to go Erika, thank you for your dedication to teaching.
Very interesting video, thank you. And congrats for the 50K subscribers.
With the graphic of @0:56 maybe you could make a video about where the different Hominin fossils have been found. And then show what is known about the Geology and Flora of East Africa of, say, 2.5 to 4.5 million years ago, especially with respect to the different habitats that could serve as a trigger for the separation of populations and thus for them taking a different evolutionary pathway. That would be really cool.
You are so passionate and informative. I can't get enough of your content. 😍
Subscribing to this channel was well worth it
You need to sell a timeline, descendent chart and useful vocabulary. Would be easier for those of us not as astute as yourself. Love the way you and Forrest have such enthusiasm about science, I once was 35 years ago, then life got in the way.
Excellent presentation. Thank you
You know, you just do the most screamingly excellent explainers on paleoanthropology EVAR. And now I'm all excited about Paranthropus, too. I'm sharing your channel with my anthropology email list. 😊 Thanks for the great vid!
Nice job. Always find it interesting to see. learning everyday.
Excellent video! I love that you show the paper as you read, as many of us don't have access. You open this up to interested amateurs in a way we can understand. I like your attitude and passion. Subscribed.
Congratulations on the 50k (not at all for the algorithm)!
Congratulations!
Hey, I'm with you, having observed scientist bias for touting human superiority all my 65-year life. You frequently see literature and media going on about how we're the hominin who survived because we are most fit. But as you pointed out, the jury's still out on that, since some others survived 5 or 10 times longer than we have so far. Evolution keeps marching forward, and it's really cool how you share your enthusiasm with us as we join our fellow animals in experiencing life on this tiny blue marble.
So I'm one ape who's a big fan.
Grats on 50k! Well deserved :)
Knapping is really hard to manage with skill. But it’s pretty simple to get a good sharp edge of fresh flint. I broke a flake off when I was on the chalk downs in the UK and really lightly ran it across my thumb - it cut really deep. Probably ought to have gone to a doctor or A&E instead of using a dozen or so bandaids. It took ages to heal. That flake was better than some steak knives I’ve used.
Additionally, what if they were trading knowledge of tool making? As well as tools, techniques and culture?
I find it absurd to believe that we were not intertwined with one another, we had the capability. I'm saddened that we may never know how or if we managed to coexist in any meaningful way
Same! It seems more likely we'd cooperate and intermingle than only ever compete. The fact that people have denisovan and neaderthal DNA shows we at least intermingled with other species within genus homo
Love your vids. Keep up the good work. You're so young, you're going to just get cooler and more informative. Cheers!!
Thanks for the presentation. I learned about your channel from your interview with Seth Andrews. Recently I have become more interested in deep human history. I have been a vegetarian for 30 years. Way back then an alternative diet was the meat centric Adkins ketosis diet. The latest rendition of Adkins is called the Carnivore diet. I was quite surprised at there "unique" view of human history. In short it is a desire to eat like a caveman (all meat).
What you say here is interesting because it establishes meat eating back to almost three million years. A lot of the various carnivore channels say that we are anatomically carnivores. Your mentioning the "fallback" diet helps to explains a lot. Thanks again.
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Excellent video! Glad I found your channel!
Always so informative and clear to follow. Your enthusiasm is contagious!
Your vids are so well informed and engaging, please keep up the good work
aka ... SASQUATCH!!!! 😂
A refference to GG saying Paranthropus would be her top candidate the other day on the AE with Forrest and Jimmy
Thanks erica, improving my knowledge AND making me smile
Brilliant presentation. Very clear. 💚
CONGRATULATIONS YOU ARE THE BEST
Wait, can we please discuss the probable paraphyletic nature of Australopithecus?
The resistance to the idea that paranthropus was using tools and eating meat reminds me of the resistance I've seen to the idea that Native Americans were here before the Clovis culture. It sounds like the same sort of thing. (Of course, we've got enough evidence now that Clovis First is disproved and pre-Clovis is generally accepted.)
The more we learn, the more complicated the hominid (and related) tree gets - and the more interesting!
I am congratulating you for 50k and this comment is also for the algorithm. Forwards to 100k!
It's interesting to me how we keep having to adjust how we self define humanity, and our exceptionalism. It used to be that homo sapien was the tool maker, the user of fire, the meat eater, the ones with language, the capacity to plan for future events, symbolic thought, the ability to mourn, etc, but as we keep refining our data, those quintessential "human" qualities seem to be shared more and more with our other ape cousins and ancestors, and to some extent, with mammals and other vertebrates. I think some of the mentality behind the notion that 'archaic' hominids couldn't possibly be as advanced as us comes from the realization that if we have to expand our concept of sentience, it has lots of ethical implications for how we've mistreated the larger animal kingdom, and it forces us to reevaluate our place in the web of life. I feel like some people feel threatened by the idea that humans are just not that special, whether that threat is felt by creationists or narrow-minded academics, as you said.
Ultimately it shows that we don't know if everything, and probably never will.
Hey, this day is getting better and better. Thanks for the entertainment
Whoop, whoop. Congratulations on 50K!
Another great video! Congratulations on 50,000
Definitely for this reason and not for the algorithm 🎉🥂🔬
Well explained, absolutely loved your video