Hearing Australopithecus prometheus was a happy moment for me. I took an Anthropology course this past semester and wrote a Site Report on Sterkfontein, in which I learned pretty heavily about "Australopithecus prometheus" and it was honestly so fascinating. The dating being concurrent with Australopithecus afarensis, dental ware (Via MicroCT) of Australopithecus anamensis, and being theorized to have been the species that Paranthropus came from. Honestly so cool to learn about.
Creationists really don't seem to get Dave. He's actually quite a respectful and excellent science communicator. They simply believe him to be a jerk because he doesn't like science deniers. Maybe if they watched more of these videos it would change their mind. (probably not, though).
Ironically, the creationists’ behavior is a result of evolution. The brain’s bias towards surviving is why they still cling to the hope of an afterlife even though their position is so weak and desperate. It’s an instinct of survival, they reject anything that threatens their feel good belief and only accepts things that appear to support it. I wonder if in the distant past this trait helped some apes pass on their genes…
When I was about 8 years old, one of my parents recorded a couple of PBS documentaries on a VHS tape that also had one of my favorite cartoon movies recorded on it. The documentaries came on after my cartoon. One was about Pompeii and the other was about Lucy and the Laetoli footprints. I still remember the feeling of watching those for the first time and being so fascinated and awestruck. I already loved science, even at that age, especially dinosaurs, but those were the first quality documentaries I ever saw and the first I'd heard of Vesuvius/Pompeii/Herculaneum and it also was my first introduction to the existence early hominids. I was absolutely hooked and my love and enthusiasm for science is still the same 40+ years later. I ended up watching those documentaries more than my cartoon and eventually wore out the tape. Also, I never tire of listening to the giddiness of scientists in documentaries discussing their fields of expertise. Their insatiable curiousity and wonderment are so infectious. I really have a hard time empathizing with people who simply have no genuine interest about the world we live in and would rather cling to the obviously fictional fables they were told as kids. It makes me sad for them.
Absolutely fascinating. I came to your channel via a debunking video, but stayed for the science education. It's been 30 years since I've had a biology class, but i try to keep up on the latest. Your videos are really filling me in on the discoveries and latest thinking. Thanks!
It's amusing - since we know Erika from Gutsick Gibbon wrote the script for this video - to just listen to the rythm of the sentence, the way their structure influences the inflexions on what is said, and watch how Prof. Dave's own patterns of speech get mixed in with patterns of speech we could as easily hear with GG's voice. :P
I love watching Erika's videos but sometimes she talks really fast. Her scripts combined with Dave's cadence would be a match made in heaven if heaven existed.
@@cerad7304 "Her scripts combined with Dave's cadence would be a match made in heaven " I'm not sure I understand this part. You know this video's script is Erika's, right?
As always, a good video. I have always been intrigued regarding the evolution of humanity. Though, I did not possess the chops to further my understanding of the subject. Regardless, I like these days where I can get an entry-level presentation to the more in-depth videos here on TH-cam to explain the morphology/society/etc of our ancestors. Most importantly (for me anyway), there are links for me to follow up on to get an acute picture of what I have just watched. I should note that I am an avid reader.
It's kinda crazy how tiny changes can make huge differences in evolution. I am not talking about mutations building up over time, I'm talking about how changing the shape of a body part can completely alter the future of the species. We lost the ability to climb efficiently because our arms got shorter, but because of that we GAINED the ability to throw spears hard enough to kill. No doubt this contributed significantly to where we are now.
Hey I’m a chemical engineer, so I know a lot of chemisty. I have seen wayyyy too much of this Terrence Howard on Joe Rogan spouting straight garbage and believing it, would be a great debunking video. Even tho there’s not much to “debunk”, would make for an entertaining video and educational one for those who are taking what he is saying as “finally your right we can’t trust the scientists!!!”
When I was a kid I saw orangutan in zoo park. At that time I was really surprised it was similar to human. But because of my religious belief I thought they were created by God. What I feel is many people before thought like darwin but were unwilling to do research in evolution because of the fear of persecution. We all know about the cruel things that happened to people like galileo.
Nothing really cruel happened to Galileo. He was just censored by the Catholic Church, like so many other thinkers in the wake of the Counter-Reformation. Moreover, Galileo's trial took place in the seventeenth century, which was an entirely different cultural setting than the nineteenth century when Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species. Tradition as an authoritative means of attaining knowledge was already being significantly challenged by many influential scholars throughout the early modern period and especially during the Enlightenment. The fundamentalist movement that we all know to frequently challenge evolution on an ill-informed basis didn't emerge until the early twentieth century, which is after Darwin had died, so he never had to deal with them. I have no doubt that the theological objections to Darwin's theory were significant at the time, but I don't think he really ran a risk of any legal persecution for his ideas. On the Origin of Species was never even placed on the Index of Prohibited Books, and Darwin's home of England wasn't heavily influenced by the Catholic Church anyway. His decisions surrounding his publication were more so governed by taking the time to gather sufficient evidence for his ideas from various naturalists around the world and his own collection, articulating and developing his viewpoints on various aspects of biology, and making his views more palatable to the religious public so that they would be more influential. All in all, Darwin had much more significant scientific objections from geologists and physicists of the time, who didn't believe that the Earth was old enough for evolution through natural selection to create all the biodiversity we see today. It is well-known that other evolutionary thinkers preceded and existed contemporaneously with Darwin. Darwin's theory probably received more backlash from theologians than ideas such as Lamarckism since natural selection and common ancestry did imply that humans weren't special, but even common ancestry and natural selection were proposed by Charles Darwin's grandfather before him. Darwin certainly wasn't a lone revolutionary, so you're certainly correct that others "thought like Darwin" before. However, the main reason for this emergence of evolutionary thought was discoveries and revelations in the field of paleontology, which pointed out our survivorship bias when it came to the study of biology and natural history, rather than any humanization of other animals or questioning of human exceptionalism, which still hasn't been fully abandoned, even in academia.
I saw something similar with the gorillas and the chimpanzees as my mind was opening. What changed your mind? I think for me it was learning that moose have variation in chromosome count, along with everything else.
Hopefully you made the right choice and abandoned your religion. The fact of evolution is pretty clear and substantiated by enormous amounts of evidence, and any religion that claims evolution is false is not about the truth.
I was reading my anthropology notes, And this is what i remember from my notes about astralopithecus (Ape man fossil) Raymond dart discovered a fossil of skull of 5-6 years old baby from (Pliocene rocks of Tuang region) South Africa and named it Tuang baby. 2 million years ago, Australopithecines probably lived in East African grassland. It is also considered as connecting link between apes and man. Ape like Character Less cranial capacity (600 cc), Thick growth of hair, U shaped Jaw (Prognathous face), larger and sharper teeth. Man like Character Complete erect posture and Bipedal locomotion (first man who stood up erect), Vertebral column with distinct lumber curve.
At 4:28, you say Australopithecus africanus appeared 2.2 mya, but the chart makes it look like it lasted from 3 to around 2.4 mya. Wikipedia gives an estimate of 3.3 to 2.1 mya. Are there wildly differing estimates here, or was this a mistake?
Wait, doesn't 'cc' stand for cranial capacity in this case? Wouldn't 550 cubic centimeters be enormous? Edit, just looked up the cube root of 550, and it's not as big as I thought!
Glad I came across your channel… thanks to Terrence Howard lol…when I come across a new channel that covers a wide range of subjects I just get so happy that I have the opportunity to learn new stuff…
Maths are pretty widely covered on TH-cam... for example if you haven't found 3Blue1Brown yet, they have some great explanations and animations for calculus concepts. I obviously don't know Dave's plans, but I imagine he wants to prioritize both unique content and existing professional relationships with other content creators. (like Erika in this case!)
I love Professor Dave. His love for science and the pursuit of knowledge are inspiring. I've learned so much from his videos, and his flat earth content is just devastating to the crazy conspiracy theorist community. Dave should be given a prize or an award for his integrity, dedication, and determination. He could easily be in a different career, making plenty of money, and instead chose to create free content for all of us instead. To me, that says a lot about his intentions. Dave seems to be a legitimate decent human being who loves education and teaching.
Its so interesting how much info you can get out of footprints. How did they even find those footprint fossils? Seems like a difficult process and I'm assuming scientists don't just dig random holes
Professor Dave! Thank you for the work that you do! Please consider a creating a reaction video to the Terrence Howard claims/theories from his interview with Joe Rogan and his speech at Oxford.
Hey, I grew up in a Christian fundamentalist Home, so i never learned a lot about Evolution. (Even in school since i was in a private Christian school) So i would Like to get an Update on the whole process of Evolution, from the very beginning to modern Humans. Can any of you Guys recommend maybe a documentary series or Something similar, that does that? :)
It is more episodic than a comprehensive narrative, but the PBS Eons channel might have some good bite sized stuff. I would start at the Playlists tab, maybe with the Geologic time video.
The Amoeba Sisters is a TH-cam channel meant for high school biology, but has solid info. They have a Classification and Evolution playlist that may be worth a look.
If you want deep dive, higher college level info on the step by step history and details of the fossils, the Paleontology, Benjamin Burger's TH-cam channel has it. Just know that it is upper college level, so not a first intro.
It is not exactly what you asked for, but I would be remiss not to mention Erika's channel, Gutsick Gibbon, which has detailed young earth creationist debunking material and also some detailed human evolution stuff. In fact, if you check the desciption for this Professor Dave video, you'll see she wrote the script (I'm guessing Professor Dave asked her to because this is her area of expertise.) I believe she grew up in a fundamentalist Christian environment that taught young earth creationism herself.
Do we know how many hominins existed contemporaneously with Homo sapiens at one time? Like, during our existence in pre-history, how many other species were living until they went extinct? I’ve been trying to find the answer but I keep getting conflicting or inconsistent search results. I think it’d be interesting to write a fictional story exploring contact, trade and communication between these groups as they navigated the land and lived their lives.
During the Pleistocene there were several species that coexisted with Homo sapiens, many of which we interacted with. These species include: Homo heidelbergensis, Homo naledi, Homo florisiensis, Homo erectus, Homo luzonensis, Homo neanderthalensis, Denisovans, and Homo longi with the other archaic human groups living in China.
@@ToumaitheMioceneApe Thanks! I kept seeing like 5 or 6, sometimes only 4 when I would look around online. It’s really weird how there is so much inconsistent and contradicting information online about this stuff. I appreciate the info.
@@MetastaticMaladies Yeah it’s hard to get solid consistent answers, and often times scientists don’t have solid answers. The time we’re talking about in human evolution is often called the “muddle in the middle” because it’s such a confusing time. There are many species that we aren’t sure on whether or not they’re the same species or not, so depending on who you ask, you’ll get different answers. Homo heidelbergensis is a great example of this, as that species’ validity is becoming increasingly more controversial. However, no matter what you call it, the fossils are still there, and they still belonged to a human species that lived alongside us.
@@ToumaitheMioceneApe Yeah, it’s all so extremely fascinating. I’ve been using channels like this and Gutsick Gibbon to get a feel for the different species at this time in history in addition to some online journals. I’m writing a story about Homo sapiens and other hominins that existed along side us and didn’t want to just make up a species or not have the correct ones, even though the story is fiction I want the subjects to be real.
@@MetastaticMaladies Gutsick Gibbon is a great resource and her content is very good. I’ve written a few articles covering the hominins from the Pleistocene, I recently published one on all the hominins known from Asia.
that some are disputed backs evolution because you'd expect some splits and some confudion putting them into the correct family, and the fact there are so many similar but different and a god would create them that way really doesn't make sense
Hey Dave, I hope you can find the time to make a video on Terrence Howard's 3 hours long fever dream on the Joe Rogan podcast. You'd think debunking this nonsense would be trivial for anyone who attended high school, but judging from the comments that's no longer the case.
Hey Dave! I enjoy your videos and I like trying to learn as much as I can from you. But I have a hard time understanding 6.00 onwards in comparison to your last video "let's all get past this confusion about trans". How do we know that the remains that were found are male and female? Was there any other gender on the spectrum found? And how do we know that it was a woman that was carrying a child "like a modern mother"? Isn't that just confirming stereotypical gender roles? If you could help with this Dave would be very grateful. Thanks! :)
This comment feels like a trap but when he refers to male and female in this context he means the sexes we know the second pair of footprints were female because of their size and he never said it was the child’s mother it just was similar but their relationship is ultimately unknown
@@rizzwan-42069 it might have been awnsered but this video contradicts his finding in the other video in question. I can't believe in both sides of the argument? So I'm genuinely looking for the facts so I know what to believe in.
@@The-first-and-only-bobfish but how do you now they were a woman's footprints? Could it have been a small male child? Yes but he compared the relationship to a "modern mother" who carries a child. That to me is confirming stereotypical gender roles in the 21st century.
@@TheDiveWithJackson he's the actor from Hustle & Flow and the actor that played War Machine in Iron Man part 1 and he's also the best scientists who ever lived JK the professor already did a video on them and it is amazing thank you professor Dave you can keep the soul lol I don't even play bass anymore
Can you summarize mr. Howard's "theory"? I don't think he's published anything, even in the open-access journals with the electric universe quackery...
Hi ! Thank you ! Please, Prof ! Make a video about the new JRE(joe rogan experience) avec terrence howard going crazy about vibration and molecular binance I guess ^^
That's your opinion, disagree, The show is definitely not about science don't get me wrong but it's a fun entertaining podcast, if your not critical and believe every thing someone say ,maybe that your pb dough
niche educational content that takes an academic approach doesn't always get a ton of views in the first few minutes, but it stays relevant so it accumulates views over time
@@backstreetfan2887 sorry I believe this was misunderstood. It's an in joke from the pyrocynical fandom where regardless of performance the viewer would post X views in Y minutes pyro fell off... However, I can see how out of context it would viewed as mocking rather than sarcasm
@@The-first-and-only-bobfish no it does matter, because if this guy calling himself a professor while he's not then it means he's a Liar, and I'm sure u wouldn't take informations from a Liar
Qur'an states about 'Adam's Istifā' or selection of Adam over all the people of the world, along with Noah, Āl-e-Imrān and Āl-e-Ibrāhim. The commentators have interpreted the 'Istifā' as 'God's selection'. If Adam is the first human to step into the world, what does God mean from 'his selection over all the people of the world'? The followers of the evolutionary reading of the text of the Qur'an use this verse and determine that 'Adam' is the chosen person amongst human beings in his time, but some commentators have criticised this to accept the other verses that say 'Adam is the father of all human beings', and they believe that Adam was created without parents. This study reviewed the collection of verses of human creation, based on three principles: the consistency of the Qur'an, near synonymy and the Qur'anic truth. The conclusions are: The Qur'anic concept of the 'Adam's Istifā' leads to his creation without the affiliation of the previous generations. Such interpretation is confirmed by the system of Qur'anic verses. Based on Qur'anic concepts of the Bashar, Insān and Rūh, Adam is an advanced Bashar which is named Insān, who is gifted the Rūh, and modern humans are all from his generation. For examination point of view, to get good grades it is okay otherwise it has no concern with reality
The Quran has no position inside reality. Stop trying to indoctrinate children into a deeply problematic religious world view. Accept our origins and ditch mythology.
well I hope you enjoy the hyper authoritarian regime you live in as much as you enjoy the hyper authoritarian book that's brought it about mate, those of us who don't wanna suffer that sort nor stay willingly ignorant our whole lives will pass
"Altogether, the laetoli footprints paint a familiar picture- a human one" that's beautiful
Hearing Australopithecus prometheus was a happy moment for me. I took an Anthropology course this past semester and wrote a Site Report on Sterkfontein, in which I learned pretty heavily about "Australopithecus prometheus" and it was honestly so fascinating. The dating being concurrent with Australopithecus afarensis, dental ware (Via MicroCT) of Australopithecus anamensis, and being theorized to have been the species that Paranthropus came from. Honestly so cool to learn about.
Creationists really don't seem to get Dave. He's actually quite a respectful and excellent science communicator. They simply believe him to be a jerk because he doesn't like science deniers. Maybe if they watched more of these videos it would change their mind. (probably not, though).
and the flat earthers?
Let's painful For them to believe all of paleo anthropology is an evil conspiracy to trick us.
The moment creationist see something they dont agree with they either go blind or lie. Its not easy to communicate with such people
It's crazy that we live in a world where we have to worry about what creationists think.
Ironically, the creationists’ behavior is a result of evolution. The brain’s bias towards surviving is why they still cling to the hope of an afterlife even though their position is so weak and desperate. It’s an instinct of survival, they reject anything that threatens their feel good belief and only accepts things that appear to support it. I wonder if in the distant past this trait helped some apes pass on their genes…
When I was about 8 years old, one of my parents recorded a couple of PBS documentaries on a VHS tape that also had one of my favorite cartoon movies recorded on it. The documentaries came on after my cartoon. One was about Pompeii and the other was about Lucy and the Laetoli footprints. I still remember the feeling of watching those for the first time and being so fascinated and awestruck. I already loved science, even at that age, especially dinosaurs, but those were the first quality documentaries I ever saw and the first I'd heard of Vesuvius/Pompeii/Herculaneum and it also was my first introduction to the existence early hominids. I was absolutely hooked and my love and enthusiasm for science is still the same 40+ years later.
I ended up watching those documentaries more than my cartoon and eventually wore out the tape. Also, I never tire of listening to the giddiness of scientists in documentaries discussing their fields of expertise. Their insatiable curiousity and wonderment are so infectious. I really have a hard time empathizing with people who simply have no genuine interest about the world we live in and would rather cling to the obviously fictional fables they were told as kids. It makes me sad for them.
Absolutely fascinating. I came to your channel via a debunking video, but stayed for the science education. It's been 30 years since I've had a biology class, but i try to keep up on the latest. Your videos are really filling me in on the discoveries and latest thinking. Thanks!
Great video, thank you Dave and Erika!
The footprints really paint a nice picture. Thx for the Vid Prof.
Yeah, the footprints where a big wow for me.
@@louistart1173 they did.
I've been enjoying this series a lot lately. I wish more people would watch your regular science content and not your debunkings
one of my favorite science communicator
It's amusing - since we know Erika from Gutsick Gibbon wrote the script for this video - to just listen to the rythm of the sentence, the way their structure influences the inflexions on what is said, and watch how Prof. Dave's own patterns of speech get mixed in with patterns of speech we could as easily hear with GG's voice. :P
I love watching Erika's videos but sometimes she talks really fast. Her scripts combined with Dave's cadence would be a match made in heaven if heaven existed.
@@cerad7304 "Her scripts combined with Dave's cadence would be a match made in heaven "
I'm not sure I understand this part. You know this video's script is Erika's, right?
Thank you from a first time viewer and new subscriber. An interesting lesson without sensationalism or dumbing down.
As always, a good video.
I have always been intrigued regarding the evolution of humanity.
Though, I did not possess the chops to further my understanding of the subject.
Regardless, I like these days where I can get an entry-level presentation to the more in-depth videos here on TH-cam to explain the morphology/society/etc of our ancestors.
Most importantly (for me anyway), there are links for me to follow up on to get an acute picture of what I have just watched.
I should note that I am an avid reader.
This dude got playlists on everything. Effing awesome
You are a treasure trove of knowledge... 💚 from Bangladesh
I wish we could see them today
my only thought this past week
It's kinda crazy how tiny changes can make huge differences in evolution. I am not talking about mutations building up over time, I'm talking about how changing the shape of a body part can completely alter the future of the species. We lost the ability to climb efficiently because our arms got shorter, but because of that we GAINED the ability to throw spears hard enough to kill. No doubt this contributed significantly to where we are now.
Hey I’m a chemical engineer, so I know a lot of chemisty. I have seen wayyyy too much of this Terrence Howard on Joe Rogan spouting straight garbage and believing it, would be a great debunking video. Even tho there’s not much to “debunk”, would make for an entertaining video and educational one for those who are taking what he is saying as “finally your right we can’t trust the scientists!!!”
I came onto here to say the exact same thing, but now I’ve walked away just knowing more about Australopithecus since you’ve already said it lol
Rapid debunk... he cites associativity and commutativity as the same thing, then confuses 1+(1*1) with 1+(1+1).
@@jercosyea I have seen his math rambling but his chemisty stuff is all such bs it hurts me
Yooo u made the video awesome hope u saw my comment man ur the goat got me thru Ochem 🤝
When I was a kid I saw orangutan in zoo park. At that time I was really surprised it was similar to human. But because of my religious belief I thought they were created by God. What I feel is many people before thought like darwin but were unwilling to do research in evolution because of the fear of persecution. We all know about the cruel things that happened to people like galileo.
Galileo was out on house arrest, he wasn’t tortured like some people claim about him
Nothing really cruel happened to Galileo. He was just censored by the Catholic Church, like so many other thinkers in the wake of the Counter-Reformation. Moreover, Galileo's trial took place in the seventeenth century, which was an entirely different cultural setting than the nineteenth century when Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species. Tradition as an authoritative means of attaining knowledge was already being significantly challenged by many influential scholars throughout the early modern period and especially during the Enlightenment. The fundamentalist movement that we all know to frequently challenge evolution on an ill-informed basis didn't emerge until the early twentieth century, which is after Darwin had died, so he never had to deal with them. I have no doubt that the theological objections to Darwin's theory were significant at the time, but I don't think he really ran a risk of any legal persecution for his ideas. On the Origin of Species was never even placed on the Index of Prohibited Books, and Darwin's home of England wasn't heavily influenced by the Catholic Church anyway. His decisions surrounding his publication were more so governed by taking the time to gather sufficient evidence for his ideas from various naturalists around the world and his own collection, articulating and developing his viewpoints on various aspects of biology, and making his views more palatable to the religious public so that they would be more influential. All in all, Darwin had much more significant scientific objections from geologists and physicists of the time, who didn't believe that the Earth was old enough for evolution through natural selection to create all the biodiversity we see today. It is well-known that other evolutionary thinkers preceded and existed contemporaneously with Darwin. Darwin's theory probably received more backlash from theologians than ideas such as Lamarckism since natural selection and common ancestry did imply that humans weren't special, but even common ancestry and natural selection were proposed by Charles Darwin's grandfather before him. Darwin certainly wasn't a lone revolutionary, so you're certainly correct that others "thought like Darwin" before. However, the main reason for this emergence of evolutionary thought was discoveries and revelations in the field of paleontology, which pointed out our survivorship bias when it came to the study of biology and natural history, rather than any humanization of other animals or questioning of human exceptionalism, which still hasn't been fully abandoned, even in academia.
I saw something similar with the gorillas and the chimpanzees as my mind was opening. What changed your mind? I think for me it was learning that moose have variation in chromosome count, along with everything else.
Hopefully you made the right choice and abandoned your religion. The fact of evolution is pretty clear and substantiated by enormous amounts of evidence, and any religion that claims evolution is false is not about the truth.
These religious people might have removed all our brothers when we coexist at a point
I’m loving this dive into anthropology :)
This video is fantastic! I never knew that footprints could fossilize! Thats amazing!
At 3:12, what is “Three arched feet” ??.
I was reading my anthropology notes,
And this is what i remember from my notes about astralopithecus
(Ape man fossil)
Raymond dart discovered a fossil of skull of 5-6 years old baby from (Pliocene rocks of Tuang region) South Africa and named it Tuang baby.
2 million years ago, Australopithecines probably lived in East African grassland.
It is also considered as connecting link between apes and man.
Ape like Character
Less cranial capacity (600 cc), Thick growth of hair, U shaped Jaw (Prognathous face), larger and sharper teeth.
Man like Character
Complete erect posture and Bipedal locomotion
(first man who stood up erect), Vertebral column with distinct lumber curve.
At 4:28, you say Australopithecus africanus appeared 2.2 mya, but the chart makes it look like it lasted from 3 to around 2.4 mya. Wikipedia gives an estimate of 3.3 to 2.1 mya. Are there wildly differing estimates here, or was this a mistake?
Wait, doesn't 'cc' stand for cranial capacity in this case? Wouldn't 550 cubic centimeters be enormous?
Edit, just looked up the cube root of 550, and it's not as big as I thought!
Cubic centimetres
Just got my degree in Human Evolutionary Biology. Great video!
Congrats!
Congratulations 👨🎓
@@stephanieyee9784thanks!
@@gabor6259thanks!
That's me!
Hi cousin! :3
Glad I came across your channel… thanks to Terrence Howard lol…when I come across a new channel that covers a wide range of subjects I just get so happy that I have the opportunity to learn new stuff…
aww yis new prof dave
Whoop whoop! I love this series. Thanks professor Dave!❤
Dave when some new videos on calculus or content on diferential equations?
Maths are pretty widely covered on TH-cam... for example if you haven't found 3Blue1Brown yet, they have some great explanations and animations for calculus concepts. I obviously don't know Dave's plans, but I imagine he wants to prioritize both unique content and existing professional relationships with other content creators. (like Erika in this case!)
It’s amazing This Harmon is very adaptable.
I love Professor Dave. His love for science and the pursuit of knowledge are inspiring. I've learned so much from his videos, and his flat earth content is just devastating to the crazy conspiracy theorist community. Dave should be given a prize or an award for his integrity, dedication, and determination. He could easily be in a different career, making plenty of money, and instead chose to create free content for all of us instead. To me, that says a lot about his intentions. Dave seems to be a legitimate decent human being who loves education and teaching.
Its so interesting how much info you can get out of footprints. How did they even find those footprint fossils? Seems like a difficult process and I'm assuming scientists don't just dig random holes
I heard of one group of prehistoric hominins called Zinjanthropus when i was younger. Are they australopithecine too?
Dave we need a Terrence Howard on JRE reaction/debunk!
Reject humanity. Return to monke.
Professor Dave! Thank you for the work that you do! Please consider a creating a reaction video to the Terrence Howard claims/theories from his interview with Joe Rogan and his speech at Oxford.
Hey, I grew up in a Christian fundamentalist Home, so i never learned a lot about Evolution. (Even in school since i was in a private Christian school) So i would Like to get an Update on the whole process of Evolution, from the very beginning to modern Humans. Can any of you Guys recommend maybe a documentary series or Something similar, that does that? :)
check my biology playlist
It is more episodic than a comprehensive narrative, but the PBS Eons channel might have some good bite sized stuff. I would start at the Playlists tab, maybe with the Geologic time video.
The Amoeba Sisters is a TH-cam channel meant for high school biology, but has solid info. They have a Classification and Evolution playlist that may be worth a look.
If you want deep dive, higher college level info on the step by step history and details of the fossils, the Paleontology, Benjamin Burger's TH-cam channel has it. Just know that it is upper college level, so not a first intro.
It is not exactly what you asked for, but I would be remiss not to mention Erika's channel, Gutsick Gibbon, which has detailed young earth creationist debunking material and also some detailed human evolution stuff. In fact, if you check the desciption for this Professor Dave video, you'll see she wrote the script (I'm guessing Professor Dave asked her to because this is her area of expertise.) I believe she grew up in a fundamentalist Christian environment that taught young earth creationism herself.
8:10 to 8:11 It's like the match cut from 2001 a space odyssey. : P
How are they able to extrapolate given such small sample size and bone fragments. Just seem incredible how that works.
It's not as small as it seems
Do we know how many hominins existed contemporaneously with Homo sapiens at one time? Like, during our existence in pre-history, how many other species were living until they went extinct? I’ve been trying to find the answer but I keep getting conflicting or inconsistent search results. I think it’d be interesting to write a fictional story exploring contact, trade and communication between these groups as they navigated the land and lived their lives.
During the Pleistocene there were several species that coexisted with Homo sapiens, many of which we interacted with. These species include:
Homo heidelbergensis, Homo naledi, Homo florisiensis, Homo erectus, Homo luzonensis, Homo neanderthalensis, Denisovans, and Homo longi with the other archaic human groups living in China.
@@ToumaitheMioceneApe Thanks! I kept seeing like 5 or 6, sometimes only 4 when I would look around online. It’s really weird how there is so much inconsistent and contradicting information online about this stuff. I appreciate the info.
@@MetastaticMaladies Yeah it’s hard to get solid consistent answers, and often times scientists don’t have solid answers. The time we’re talking about in human evolution is often called the “muddle in the middle” because it’s such a confusing time. There are many species that we aren’t sure on whether or not they’re the same species or not, so depending on who you ask, you’ll get different answers. Homo heidelbergensis is a great example of this, as that species’ validity is becoming increasingly more controversial. However, no matter what you call it, the fossils are still there, and they still belonged to a human species that lived alongside us.
@@ToumaitheMioceneApe Yeah, it’s all so extremely fascinating. I’ve been using channels like this and Gutsick Gibbon to get a feel for the different species at this time in history in addition to some online journals. I’m writing a story about Homo sapiens and other hominins that existed along side us and didn’t want to just make up a species or not have the correct ones, even though the story is fiction I want the subjects to be real.
@@MetastaticMaladies Gutsick Gibbon is a great resource and her content is very good. I’ve written a few articles covering the hominins from the Pleistocene, I recently published one on all the hominins known from Asia.
This would have been a great collaboration opportunity for you and Forrest Valkai
why did you not mention that Australopithecus is a paraphyletic genus?
Hey nice video keep it up
Great video!
that some are disputed backs evolution because you'd expect some splits and some confudion putting them into the correct family, and the fact there are so many similar but different and a god would create them that way really doesn't make sense
I love me a good evolution video 😊
Thanks
Man you would have an absolute FIELD DAY debunking David Peters if you knew who he was
Never knew i would be interested in anthropology😅
Good old times.
Good evening to all the college professors.
please professor Dave, can you please debunk Terrance Howard spewing garbage about physics on the Joe Rogan show around 5 days ago?
oh shit, this is recent as hell
all hail Genus Australopithecus jesus
I didn’t now Australopithecus had so many subspecies
MR FIORINNNAAA
HERE GO GO GO GO GO !
"Clearly this is just an ape!" -Someone at AiG, probably
When's that iamLucid debate?
(I'm sure he's...reluctant; you'll certainly have to pressure him a bit. Frame it as helping his channel? Idk.)
Hey Dave, I hope you can find the time to make a video on Terrence Howard's 3 hours long fever dream on the Joe Rogan podcast. You'd think debunking this nonsense would be trivial for anyone who attended high school, but judging from the comments that's no longer the case.
I don't know man, I heard from James Tour and Kent Hovind that...LMAO, Just kidding, I have a brain lmao.
Hey Dave! I enjoy your videos and I like trying to learn as much as I can from you. But I have a hard time understanding 6.00 onwards in comparison to your last video "let's all get past this confusion about trans". How do we know that the remains that were found are male and female? Was there any other gender on the spectrum found? And how do we know that it was a woman that was carrying a child "like a modern mother"? Isn't that just confirming stereotypical gender roles? If you could help with this Dave would be very grateful. Thanks! :)
This comment feels like a trap but when he refers to male and female in this context he means the sexes we know the second pair of footprints were female because of their size and he never said it was the child’s mother it just was similar but their relationship is ultimately unknown
Bro you fr this sounds more like a trap question. Like it was already addressed in that video why are you asking what's answered
@@rizzwan-42069 it might have been awnsered but this video contradicts his finding in the other video in question. I can't believe in both sides of the argument? So I'm genuinely looking for the facts so I know what to believe in.
@@The-first-and-only-bobfish but how do you now they were a woman's footprints? Could it have been a small male child?
Yes but he compared the relationship to a "modern mother" who carries a child. That to me is confirming stereotypical gender roles in the 21st century.
Taylor Swift's ancestors sang, too
So did yours! ; )
RELEASE THE CRAZYS
I keep reading this as genius australopithicus and it confuses me every time 😅
Or as Joe Rogan calls them, Australiapithicus.
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PLEASE DEBUNK THE TERRACE HOWERD JOE ROGAN VIDEO I'LL GIVE YOU MY SOUL! SEE POSTED HERE
(my soul)
Who is he? And what did he do?
@@TheDiveWithJacksonwent on joe rogans pod
@@TheDiveWithJackson he's the actor from Hustle & Flow and the actor that played War Machine in Iron Man part 1 and he's also the best scientists who ever lived JK the professor already did a video on them and it is amazing thank you professor Dave you can keep the soul lol I don't even play bass anymore
Please Professor Dave ponder this Terrance Howard problem!!
There's no problem. Terrance is an idiot.
why? if YOU are ignorant enough to believe anything Howard says, it won't help you to understand the actual science of why he is wrong.
@@thomasneal9291 my guy ponder to dunk on him..are YOU ok?
@@thomasneal9291 Did YOU! see the new video lol
Hey dave. Can you make a video on Terrence Howard's theory on electricity vs gravity?
Can you summarize mr. Howard's "theory"? I don't think he's published anything, even in the open-access journals with the electric universe quackery...
TH doesn't have a hypothesis, much less a theory.
PLEASE DEBUNK TERRENCE HOWARD PLEASE DEBUNK TERRENCE HOWARD
we never came from apps lol this channel is total bs ....
Yes because book said
We are apes, your ignorance is not a refutation.
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Cringe
Hi ! Thank you !
Please, Prof ! Make a video about the new JRE(joe rogan experience) avec terrence howard going crazy about vibration and molecular binance I guess ^^
if you care about something someone said on a Joe Rogan show, the problem is you watching Joe Rogan.
That's your opinion, disagree,
The show is definitely not about science don't get me wrong but it's a fun entertaining podcast, if your not critical and believe every thing someone say ,maybe that your pb dough
FROM A PIG TOOTH MY GUY
Ignorance. 🤭
Haha you're dumb
IAmLucid bullshit 😂😂😂
@@trhll5635 i'm glad someone got it LOL
First up, that was Nebraska Man, not Australopithecus.
Second, it wasn't a pig tooth, but a Pecari tooth.
Sorry, Dave... BS.
Prove it
I love how brainwashed morons think “nuh uh” is a valid refutation of an entire branch of science.
@@ProfessorDaveExplains Fiction, Dave.
@gheffz how did you come to that conclusion?
@@paulgarrett4474 His youth pastor told him so between buggerings.
19 views in 3 minutes wow prof dave fell off
You think he fell off the flat earth. Says all we need to know. 😎👌🏻
niche educational content that takes an academic approach doesn't always get a ton of views in the first few minutes, but it stays relevant so it accumulates views over time
@@backstreetfan2887 sorry I believe this was misunderstood. It's an in joke from the pyrocynical fandom where regardless of performance the viewer would post X views in Y minutes pyro fell off... However, I can see how out of context it would viewed as mocking rather than sarcasm
@@John_Bucksonah ok sorry. I have no idea what pyrocynical is.
@@backstreetfan2887 youtuber
Do a reaction to terrance howard on jre
For those who doesn't know: he's not a professor 👍
And his head is also not bigger than the rest of his body
That doesn't matter most professors in this field agree with everything he's saying
@@The-first-and-only-bobfish no it does matter, because if this guy calling himself a professor while he's not then it means he's a Liar, and I'm sure u wouldn't take informations from a Liar
@@l00_f00 he's not a liar he used to be a professor
@@l00_f00 and if you're only argument is his username then give up
Is he talking about Mars or Venus because the earth is less than 10,000 years old
There are civilizations older than that
I know, that is so weird isn't it?
@@stardust_memories2260 you replied to yourself bozo
Yeah it does that when I don't use the app, douche
@@stardust_memories2260well you’re reply doesn’t even disprove my claim
Qur'an states about 'Adam's Istifā' or selection of Adam over all the people of the world, along with Noah, Āl-e-Imrān and Āl-e-Ibrāhim. The commentators have interpreted the 'Istifā' as 'God's selection'. If Adam is the first human to step into the world, what does God mean from 'his selection over all the people of the world'? The followers of the evolutionary reading of the text of the Qur'an use this verse and determine that 'Adam' is the chosen person amongst human beings in his time, but some commentators have criticised this to accept the other verses that say 'Adam is the father of all human beings', and they believe that Adam was created without parents. This study reviewed the collection of verses of human creation, based on three principles: the consistency of the Qur'an, near synonymy and the Qur'anic truth. The conclusions are: The Qur'anic concept of the 'Adam's Istifā' leads to his creation without the affiliation of the previous generations. Such interpretation is confirmed by the system of Qur'anic verses. Based on Qur'anic concepts of the Bashar, Insān and Rūh, Adam is an advanced Bashar which is named Insān, who is gifted the Rūh, and modern humans are all from his generation.
For examination point of view, to get good grades it is okay otherwise it has no concern with reality
The Quran has no position inside reality. Stop trying to indoctrinate children into a deeply problematic religious world view. Accept our origins and ditch mythology.
well I hope you enjoy the hyper authoritarian regime you live in as much as you enjoy the hyper authoritarian book that's brought it about mate, those of us who don't wanna suffer that sort nor stay willingly ignorant our whole lives will pass
No one cares.
We're talking about science, not mythology.
Too bad that's wrong! Oh well
How does the comment relate to what was said in the video? Im a bit confused as to what you want to say.
hello sir...how can i contact you..like email..or a telegram account?..i have some queries reg. my NEET exam preparation
It’s in his description
Also at the end of the video
@@The-first-and-only-bobfish in which video.. Can u pls tell?
@@DharaniDharan-rj6ps this video
@@The-first-and-only-bobfish Thank you for you help buddy! Cheers!
Thanks