The wound would heal. It would never be a ‘structure.’ Doctors used to perform the procedure you are thinking of with a spike and a hammer, like driving a nail into a coconut. My old mum had this done repeatedly in the 1920’s or ’30s. You have to keep reopening the hole.
Plot twist: God is the intelligent designer, but He is a programmer and instead of making humans from scratch, just imported the ape libraries and make a few tweaks. And at this point humans are so well integrated into the software ecosystem, it'd be a pain to shut everything down just for a few minor patches.
Just seen this now .... A clear case of ‘what you don’t know you don’t know.’ I am an ENT surgeon, and for years I wondered about the strange design of the maxillary sinuses and the flap called the uncinate process that closes tiny drainage hole. And then we learned about NO - nitrous oxide - a gas that why absorbed into the blood moves oxygen very quickly to the heart and muscles. Then we learnt that NO is produced in and quite possibly stored in the maxillary sinuses where it can be released into the lungs during heavy breathing while running. When you consider that humans are the fastest of the great apes in terms of sprinting and running, it suddenly makes sense. The maxillary sinuses are built the way they are as NO storage tanks for when we need to fight or flee.
When people bring up certain flawed designs such as, bad knees, ankles, and spine, it bugs me because these are often caused by our sedentary life and cushioning shoes. The back holds up fine when you are more active or are standing more, while knee and ankle problems are caused by improper running for. When you run, your heel in not meant to touch the ground, and the achilles is meant to be a spring, kindof like an ostrich or kangaroo. Landing heel first while running puts undue shock in the ankles and knees. When I did cross country, I trained myself to breath only through my noes, which resulted in less cramps and greater performance.
Does anyone else love the sensation of when one of your sinuses is full and it's blocking your ability to sniff through that nostril, and then you roll over to your other side so that gravity slowy drains that sinus and fills the other one?
Well, Evolution is more like a blind, deaf child with anosmia, knowing nothing about existing; unwillingly driven by the urge of surviving endlessly since it's birth. I would say it's very ok to give it a C.. :)
Oh so that's why treatments for the cold often include holding your head upside down above a bucket filled with steaming water. Mmm, might give it a try next time I get clogged sinuses.
Firefox is red, Explorer is blue. Google+ sucks and Chrome does too. Yea, but you know the feeling when you shift and you can feel the mucus moving? I don’t know if I would be able to get myself to actually go upside down over a bowl. It would feel nastyz
@@w花b well it's quite unethical, but pressure in this case would be preventing people to breed if their genes are deemed unfavorable. If that sounds dystopian to you, that's because it is. Eugenics are basically a play on this concept.
But that's only because the Intelligent Designer was poorly designed Himself. And in turn that must necessarily be because the Intelligent Designer of our Intelligent Designer was faulty Itself, and so on. Welcome to the Church of the Infinitely Faulty Design, our motto: "it's not your fault, it's His fault!"
Or maybe just screwing with us, alternatively just being very human. Lazy, that is. The spine that worked so well for quadrupeds will do, lower back pain be damned. Add to that our own stupidity. Sitting kills us. Sitting on poorly designer chairs--meaning 99.9% of them--kills us faster. Ergonomic chairs just look weird. They do look weird next to those other 99.9% stupid chairs, but only because we rarely see anything but stupid chairs.
@@grisflyt - Our stupidity is His stupidity: "at His image and likeness", remember! Remember: it's never our fault, it's always the Designer's fault, we humble algorithms shouldn't bear the shame or guilt of His errors.
I have heard that our flattened face is a result of neoteny in our evolution. Losing our snout was kind of “architectural” consequence of developing a bigger brain. The sense of smell getting weaker was rather a consequence than a cause of the change of shape of the face. Great video though, very interesting stuff. I am a relatively new subscriber and the channel never fails to deliver. Keep up the good work! 👍
@@TheZapan99 neoteny was still the most likely mechanism. Look at a baby chimp skull compare it with an adult chimp skull and an adult human skull. It's pretty clear what happened. A mutation allowed one of our ancestors to retain their juvenile skull form into adulthood, which markedly increased brain mass whilst sacrificing jaw strength. The emergence of modern human facial features would have been a consequence of that.
@Deserve Not Desire I suppose. Though I'd rather have a tail. Still, I'm not sure what purpose a tail would serve to a bipedal animal. It's not even all that clear to me what a tail does in general. I've heard a lot of suggestions, but few that sound conclusive...
@@KuraIthys tails are usually for keeping balance while climbing. Its the reason small monkeys have tails and apes dont. Monkeys need the balance to walk on thin branches, while apes dont because they mostly live on the ground. Orangutans are sort of an exception though. Their build is more suited for tree climbing than walking on the floor. They have curved fingers that serve as hooks. Humans would have to keep their grip to hang from a branch while orangutans require no effort for that.
Correction: A small mutation in our DNA *can* reconfigure our entire facial structure, but most of the mutations like that we know about lead to a decreased lifespan and increased difficulty doing human stuff. Getting a mutation in the DNA that codes for facial structure that results in a completely functional but radically different prototype is akin to getting a bug in a game that results in a completely functional new gamemode. It’s not impossible in theory, but it’d take one hell of a miracle in order to happen, and good luck recreating it over and over to ensure the gamemode gets passed along to new players.
Fun fact, unlike how many organisms have a laryngeal nerve that goes down towards the heart then back up, squids have an esophagus that goes "through" their brain; squid brains are donut shaped and the esophagus goes through the hole in the middle. So on one end, we have a nerve that takes an unnecessary detour, and the other, we have a throat that says screw it, and goes through the brain.
It's not stupid design though, it's blatantly nonsensical to the point where it would be much EASIER to make it better. At the same time there are parts so well optimized, that you'd need a supercomputer to come up with them.
The sinuses may not have been as useless as they seem: we have to remember that our species' particularity (being good at endurance in running, basically we are the best runners there are when it comes to persistence and resistance) therefore those big sinuses may have played a role and an advantage during the dusty, long, hot, dry, journeys we were exposed to when we had to hunt our preys. Had we lost nose humidity too fast (having such sinus' hole posited down as to easily drain) may not had helped in our endevour or could've lead to worse infections harm. Yes, we could provide ourselves of water in handy ways (thus we could also sweat profusely to lower our temperature while running, walking, hunting) but those sinuses may have given an extra help. Also it is claimed that is way more benefitial to breath by the nose than by the mouth for complex processes that happen inside the nose (you can google the sources) and it may be yet another adaptation to our particular advantage. The thing is: MOST OF US no longer hunt (in such a way) nor are on climates similar to those where our evolution occurred, thus our sinuses become more an apparent hurddle than an advantage.
I put this on while I prepped and used a neti pot to clear my clogged sinuses. I had no idea what it was going to be about and I burst out laughing when I realized what I had done. Great video btw
@@canadiankewldude But, it's youtube videos. That people can watch. Very accessible. Even this video is a remake of what scientists already knew by your logic.
More on that. 1-Wisdom teeth problems, 2-Inverted retina causing a blind spot. 3-Testicles developing indside abdomen and goes out before birth leaving 2 weak points that may lead to a hernia later. 4- un needed problomatic appendix 5-un needed problematic tonsillitis
Regarding our sinuses, there’s just no selective pressure to dramatically alter our sinus systems. It doesn’t kill us, nor is it something people really ever consider when selecting their mates… so as far as evolution is concerned… it must be a winning formula.
THANK YOU! I’ve always wondered why we get colds and other animals don’t. Also, yay AMNH! I just graduated from there with a Masters in Earth science education.
True, and the tightest argument against design is that one ends up with a much *more* mysterious situation than one started with: cosmic superintelligence!
Love science and believe in evolution but when you reach back in time to the creation of the universe to where we are now it's just friggin unbelievable to fathom. How space dust organized itself to evolve into beings who can ponder the process blows my mind! Keep up the good work and DON'T shave your neck hair, it completes you!!! I am recovering from a nasty cold so you've lent understanding to my miserable weekend!
Gravity organized it, mass is attracted to each other, this attraction is what we call gravity. Over time it organized into spheres, with s9 much gas thst the pressure inside separated the electrons and nuclei and started nuclear fusion, creating stars. Eventually these stars run out of fusion material and stop, either becoming black holes or exploding depending on the size. The ones thst explode are then called supernovas, which birth even more stars and these new stars can have new elements in them allowing them to fuse and make even heavier elements. These new stars eventually explode, sending the various elements into space to make rocks and planets and such which get pulled into orbit around stars, making solar systems.
@@naturegirl1999 and GatedRat, of coarse I know gravity is the force that organized the universe...I am not an idiot. What is this need for people to abuse total strangers online?
thinktonka I didn’t think it was abusing. I was just adding more details to the story of the universe. I didn’t mean to make it sound like I thought you were an idiot, I never thought thst. I just thought it would be cool to add more details as to the creation of the universe
I've always wished to be an Oranggatang! Great production quality with these drawings there. Nice to see you experementing with the production. Also, a video a week? Jesus, give me a break Stefan
As the recurrent nerve hooks around the subclavian artery or aorta, it gives off several cardiac filaments to the deep part of the cardiac plexus. As it ascends in the neck it gives off branches, more numerous on the left than on the right side, to the mucous membrane and muscular coat of the esophagus; branches to the mucous membrane and muscular fibers of the trachea; and some pharyngeal filaments to the Constrictor pharyngis inferior.So it seems that the RLN is innervating a lot more than just the larynx.
Don't be so hasty... We Humans quickly find out. That what we think we know is sometimes (many times) flawed. So changes made over such basis. Can and would be a very bad thing. Decisions based on the wrong premises. Is a recipe for disaster.
The larynx thing is actually quite sensible as it had a function of regulating our breathing and heart rate... Hence why it goes right past your heart.
I think I read somewhere also that bipedalism has a major effect also causing us to be dry nosed mammals as our nose sinuses cannot additionally relieve mucus gravitationally out of our nostrils causing that wet nose most mammals have that are quadrupeds
if you sleep in the right position (on your side) the maxillary sinus should be no problem to drain. it isnt a design flaw, it makes it so you accumulate muccus and dirt while you are awake and drain it during the night.
I've had part of my genome sequenced, and I have multiple genes just in that part of my genome linked to type 1 diabetes and multiple other autoimmune disorders, but especially type 1 diabetes. Higher than 30x times compared to general population - I do have type 1 diabetes. Many of these genes also are involved in temperature/anti-freeze regulation through slightly higher blood sugar in non-diabetics as well. Type 1 diabetes is extremely common in the Nordic countries, and their descendants, compared to the rest of the world, though still rare in general (
Aleksandra Volk There are many ways to get it done. You can either buy the service from a dedicated company specializing in just that, or you can go the cheaper route and get one of those “ancestry” tests, like 23andMe, My Heritage and others and request the raw genetic data as a text file for download, and then upload it to a service called Promethease(.com). Then the Promethease software reads the raw data text file and compares it to databases of genetic research and gives you a very large report you can explore, with the most important discoveries being at the top. Just bear in mind that the genetic heritage sites only test a very small part of your genome, so the report you get back from Promethease will of course be limited by that. 😊
"Our bodies are absolutely riddled with quirks and features" I'm sat here with tissue stuffed up my nostrils. Did TH-cam somehow know? Is that why it recommended this? Probably.
I got it, and I don't have a stuffy nose. I think it was just recommended to a large amount of people who search sciency stuff, and the chances of at least some of those people having a cold is quite high.
Evolution is like Horder....never throws anything out and the only reason something is gotten rid of is because it's rotted away in the corner after years of never being used.
So basically what you're saying is all we have to do to fix our infected sinuses is be upside down for a long time until the infection drains whenever we get a cold
I was sooooo sure this episode would be about human logic. The logic humans tend to use is definitely a design flaw. Most humans don't use their logic in an objective manner, they use it to defend their own beliefs (no matter how ridiculous they are).
@@StefanMilo It's easier in fact to fool someone than to show them they are wrong. I have seen a fortune teller's street level office in Manhattan, which is always empty. How do they pay the rent. They get someone who comes into the office for a say $5 reading and some of them spend tens or thousands of dollars on magic cures for curses or to be reunited with their dead ex girlfriend etcetera. Once you start paying money you give them credence and some people can not admit they were foolish.
perfect timing. Went for a run yesterday and somehow that has managed to trigger a cold. I'm sat here this morning wondering why i get colds so easily and up pops this video. Cheers Stefan.
And on the sixth day God said "Five to midnight...I know there's something I was going to do.....Damn! I haven't made any humans yet, let's see what bits I've got left...sod it, just bung something together..OK, that will have to do, I'll have another look at it after my day of"
Couldn’t intelligent design theorist just say they were made to give challenge idk the mental back flips people do to double down on there beliefs is a pretty bad evolutionary flaw
We don't have enough selective pressure for a significant part of the population to die and have the rest that have suitable mutations to reproduce enough to change the gene pool of the entire human population
what do you think on humans fixing their own genetic issues and basically bypassing evolution?. In my opinion this will backfire eventually since we will keep passing along defective genes by artificially postponing death and tricking reproduction.
I say go for it! Just do it! No balls, no blue chips! No guts, no glory! Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead! If it don't fit, use a bigger hammer! Go woke, go broke! Never lead a gift horse to water! He is NOT the father! Come with me if you want to live! Yippie kie aye mot*** ****er! Leave Britany alone!
Oxydino Tradition, obviously. But we might get a bit out of hand, and start adding stuff instead of just removing diseases. Life wouldn’t be as meaningful. Let’s say a doctor tells you ‘you got three years to live.’ You’d definitely try to do something valuable with yourself then. I don’t think genetic modification for us is the best, just choose the healthier people to have kids with.
@@itsyurmumm8458 That's a pretty big assumption that relies entirely on the individual. A person is just as likely to go into a deep depression knowing that they have so little time or commit horrible acts beacause they're gonna die anyway so consequences be damned. It's quite naive to assume that knowing your death is near will make you want to do something 'good'. I'm assuming that you mean extending our lives will make them less meaningful because they'll be longer, but that's nothing except your speculation. People live longer now than they ever have before, but I doubt all of those folks will happily say that their lives have less meaning because they are living longer. I could equally argue that living for an extra 200 years will make people's lives even more meaningful as they can accumulate far more experience and knowledge than ever before. We have no way to test any of this because nobody lives forever. In regards to choosing healthier people... I don't even know where to start on that. Where is the line between healthy and unhealthy and who decides? Sometimes unhealthy traits manifest later in life and are difficult to detect even with modern technology, what do we do when those people have kids? Selective breeding of people would require for all of us to give up an enormous amount of autonomy and freedom to a central power that can very easily be abused.
We're already on the edge of being able to genetically engineer harmful genes right out of our genomes, replacing natural selection with human selection and, supposing we don't wipe out humanity/civilization in the next century or so will likely be on our way to transhumanism relatively shortly. That's not even talking about how genetic problems are actually still being filtered out of the gene pool, except instead of by death, it's by people voluntarily choosing not to reproduce and going childless, adopting, or using surrogates. This really isn't a concern. The real concern is that once genetic modification becomes normalized (which it will, given enough time), we'll not be culturally advanced enough to appropriately value the range of human difference and will over-optimize for what our culture values at that time and all become way too similar and lead to huge cultural problems and blindspots, and a reduction in genetic diversity.
As someone born with bony defects of the sinuses, I empathise. The only issue I have with this is that cats can get colds. It's less frequent in cats that are kept inside, but cats that wander do catch viruses. In addition, they are one of the few animals that can catch a cold from us.
@@heretoday9379 - Because they are not gradually exposed to it at the latitudes they evolved to be most fit to survive. I live at an appropriate latitude (c. 42ºN) and I would need a very intensive sudden exposure to get even a slight sunburn, as I do tan well and fast. There must be some variation anyhow but white people have not evolved to live in the tropics, and the optimal configurantion to live at Mediterranean-like latitudes is the Mediterranean type, Nordic type is designed to live around Denmark, not in Florida.
Useful Charts breaking down our ENTIRE evolutionary tree: th-cam.com/video/HpXaiG8L28s/w-d-xo.html
Awesome collabing with ya!
Ditto, you fundamentally flawed hominin.
Design flaw? I don’t think we have properly considered the beauty that is my face.
@@_robustus_
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You poor humans, it's stuff like this that makes me glad have sensilla instead of your noses
Evolution works on a "that'll do" principle lol
Given the crudely colloquial meaning of the verb "to do", you are quite literally correct.
"good enough" principle ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Clockwork Kirlia wtf does that even mean
That'll do pig.
@@Psychospheres LOL :-)
So, we ended up evolving ourselves into the human equivalent of a pug sinus wise.
don't listen to this man ..... He has no clue what he is talking about ... EVOLUTION IS A LIE
@transylvanian What ? As in Boomer Esiason ??
@@chazzlucas6395 k
@@Preuen-zs1fz Oh your a Jesuit
@@chazzlucas6395 what suit?
Evolution: No, but this design sucks and doesn't work
Natural Selection: Ehhhh...but he's still alive?
"if he can bone before he dies, i dont give a damn"
-Natural Selection
@@literallyglados literally look at flys or moths some species live for only a couple days to reproduce
let face.. no smart being won't base our design like this...
Natural selection: "If it aint broke, don't fix it"
@@vexx12343 If I remember right there's a species of moth that literally doesn't have a mouth because it dies so quickly it doesn't need one
the devs seriously need to patch this. cant believe this nerf went out unnoticed
At this point, humans are so op we probably deserve this nerf
Serious Tech Debt
Needs a re-write, they’ve been shining the sh*t for too long.
The devs are trying to ban us
In 600 years or so we will be banned
@@bb-gb7jv If we're lucky some of us will migrate to another server. The devs won't get rid of us that easily.
Can I fix that drainage issue with my cordless drill and never get a cold again??
You can certainly try
The wound would heal. It would never be a ‘structure.’ Doctors used to perform the procedure you are thinking of with a spike and a hammer, like driving a nail into a coconut. My old mum had this done repeatedly in the 1920’s or ’30s. You have to keep reopening the hole.
@@dahemac Really? I mean... Really? You be pulling my leg, you scoundrel.
@@knaperstekt7953 Sounds good though!
@@dahemac Maybe you could put a little straw or something in there, to prevent it from healing.
I'm the annoying quirk of our evolution.
That's true
I'm not so great myself.
I fully expected you to be that Bigfoot with an internet connection
@@sarasmr4278 That's my younger brother Percival.
Long live the quirk.
"Why would someone designing us leave in all of these glitches?"
Programmers: lmao good enough
i always says to the users to chose: "you want this develop safe and easy to use, or you want it this week"
Plot twist: God is the intelligent designer, but He is a programmer and instead of making humans from scratch, just imported the ape libraries and make a few tweaks. And at this point humans are so well integrated into the software ecosystem, it'd be a pain to shut everything down just for a few minor patches.
@@chabri2000 now imagine if we had an evolutionary timescale :o
@@wolfieinu This is too meta bruh you gonna break the simulation
Let’s just restart bro maybe we can reroll our stats
That's a damn good suicide joke
Ace Combat Zero: Monke Edition
nah man what if i get a snail
restart is for noobs lol, I'm 3 lvls away from prestige
I think i accidentally pressed Random on character customization.
Just seen this now .... A clear case of ‘what you don’t know you don’t know.’ I am an ENT surgeon, and for years I wondered about the strange design of the maxillary sinuses and the flap called the uncinate process that closes tiny drainage hole. And then we learned about NO - nitrous oxide - a gas that why absorbed into the blood moves oxygen very quickly to the heart and muscles. Then we learnt that NO is produced in and quite possibly stored in the maxillary sinuses where it can be released into the lungs during heavy breathing while running. When you consider that humans are the fastest of the great apes in terms of sprinting and running, it suddenly makes sense. The maxillary sinuses are built the way they are as NO storage tanks for when we need to fight or flee.
I belive this comment deserves more attention
Definitely needs more attention
could you cite a source for that? I just know they are made and used in the blood vessels.
our noses are literally NOS tanks
When people bring up certain flawed designs such as, bad knees, ankles, and spine, it bugs me because these are often caused by our sedentary life and cushioning shoes. The back holds up fine when you are more active or are standing more, while knee and ankle problems are caused by improper running for. When you run, your heel in not meant to touch the ground, and the achilles is meant to be a spring, kindof like an ostrich or kangaroo. Landing heel first while running puts undue shock in the ankles and knees. When I did cross country, I trained myself to breath only through my noes, which resulted in less cramps and greater performance.
Aegyptopithecus might have been discovered in or around Egypt. I hope there's a prize involved.
I once saw a guy with an " I discovered Aegyptopithecus" T-shirt. So at least he got that.
@@bgurtek You mean they had tee shirts back then? Remarkable.
@@colinp2238 Well, it was actually a brain-tanned frock.
No it was in Wyoming, you lost.
The Fayam Depression to be exact
Does anyone else love the sensation of when one of your sinuses is full and it's blocking your ability to sniff through that nostril, and then you roll over to your other side so that gravity slowy drains that sinus and fills the other one?
This guy looks so happy talking about how we are literally the equivalent of a Jenga tower that I can't help laughing.
Evolution is like a third grader doing a presentation, doesn't really put effort into it but as long as it gets a C he's fine with it
exactly, it's essentially just duct taping
Lmao sounds closer to a junior or senior in high school
Well, Evolution is more like a blind, deaf child with anosmia, knowing nothing about existing; unwillingly driven by the urge of surviving endlessly since it's birth. I would say it's very ok to give it a C.. :)
Almost a college grad, I'm still the same.
That's... That's absolutely true.
Oh so that's why treatments for the cold often include holding your head upside down above a bucket filled with steaming water.
Mmm, might give it a try next time I get clogged sinuses.
Firefox is red, Explorer is blue. Google+ sucks and Chrome does too. Yea, but you know the feeling when you shift and you can feel the mucus moving? I don’t know if I would be able to get myself to actually go upside down over a bowl. It would feel nastyz
tldr - human sinuses are less than optimal and there isn't enough selection pressure for evolution to fix it.
Even if there was, there's still a high probability for it to not be "fixed".
@@w花b well it's quite unethical, but pressure in this case would be preventing people to breed if their genes are deemed unfavorable. If that sounds dystopian to you, that's because it is. Eugenics are basically a play on this concept.
But that's only because the Intelligent Designer was poorly designed Himself. And in turn that must necessarily be because the Intelligent Designer of our Intelligent Designer was faulty Itself, and so on. Welcome to the Church of the Infinitely Faulty Design, our motto: "it's not your fault, it's His fault!"
True story: On day 6 god created mankind. On day 7 god was arrested, for mankind creating war.
Or maybe just screwing with us, alternatively just being very human. Lazy, that is. The spine that worked so well for quadrupeds will do, lower back pain be damned. Add to that our own stupidity. Sitting kills us. Sitting on poorly designer chairs--meaning 99.9% of them--kills us faster. Ergonomic chairs just look weird. They do look weird next to those other 99.9% stupid chairs, but only because we rarely see anything but stupid chairs.
@@grisflyt - Our stupidity is His stupidity: "at His image and likeness", remember!
Remember: it's never our fault, it's always the Designer's fault, we humble algorithms shouldn't bear the shame or guilt of His errors.
yikes, that sounds like the defense skynet will ultimately use.
@@zitools - What exact meaning of Skynet are you referring to? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet
To quote programmers : "nothing more permanent than a quick fix"
Me: Deletes my whole project and starts over.
True story.
Beginner coding got me pissed.
I'd make a terrible god lmao.
humans are just the biological version of microsoft windows
evolution is essentially about duct taping things...
@@notareallin620 I see you did the “Noah, *GET THE BOAT!* “ approach
@@Abdega Oh... well I guess I ain't far off lol.
I have heard that our flattened face is a result of neoteny in our evolution. Losing our snout was kind of “architectural” consequence of developing a bigger brain. The sense of smell getting weaker was rather a consequence than a cause of the change of shape of the face.
Great video though, very interesting stuff. I am a relatively new subscriber and the channel never fails to deliver. Keep up the good work! 👍
Anybody that tried to walk with a plaque doctor mask on can tell you that snouts, stereoscopic vision, and bidedalism don't mix.
@@TheZapan99 neoteny was still the most likely mechanism. Look at a baby chimp skull compare it with an adult chimp skull and an adult human skull.
It's pretty clear what happened. A mutation allowed one of our ancestors to retain their juvenile skull form into adulthood, which markedly increased brain mass whilst sacrificing jaw strength.
The emergence of modern human facial features would have been a consequence of that.
@Deserve Not Desire I suppose.
Though I'd rather have a tail.
Still, I'm not sure what purpose a tail would serve to a bipedal animal.
It's not even all that clear to me what a tail does in general.
I've heard a lot of suggestions, but few that sound conclusive...
@@KuraIthys tails are usually for keeping balance while climbing. Its the reason small monkeys have tails and apes dont. Monkeys need the balance to walk on thin branches, while apes dont because they mostly live on the ground. Orangutans are sort of an exception though. Their build is more suited for tree climbing than walking on the floor. They have curved fingers that serve as hooks. Humans would have to keep their grip to hang from a branch while orangutans require no effort for that.
@@KuraIthys its kind of like how when we try to walk on a thin straight line we hold our arms out on the side of us in a T-pose to keep balance.
I'm so old, I remember the days when you couldn't wear that shirt on camera.
On TV and on digital cameras. Spatial aliasing in the form of a moiré pattern was never an issue on film cameras (e.g., in film movies).
Why not?
@@chathsandiv4886 On old tube tv's, tight lines or checkers caused a strobe effect.
@@UntoldRelic oh I see, thanks for letting me know :D
@clifton gaither no choice
Correction: A small mutation in our DNA *can* reconfigure our entire facial structure, but most of the mutations like that we know about lead to a decreased lifespan and increased difficulty doing human stuff. Getting a mutation in the DNA that codes for facial structure that results in a completely functional but radically different prototype is akin to getting a bug in a game that results in a completely functional new gamemode. It’s not impossible in theory, but it’d take one hell of a miracle in order to happen, and good luck recreating it over and over to ensure the gamemode gets passed along to new players.
Fun fact, unlike how many organisms have a laryngeal nerve that goes down towards the heart then back up, squids have an esophagus that goes "through" their brain; squid brains are donut shaped and the esophagus goes through the hole in the middle. So on one end, we have a nerve that takes an unnecessary detour, and the other, we have a throat that says screw it, and goes through the brain.
0:29 "... We were single celled organisms as well"
Last time I was a single celled organism my mum and dad were... you know...
Yah, evolution from a uterus.
You could call it a.... Single sell orgasm
@@TheZebinator
I haven't cringed at a pun so hard in a very long time. Well done. You earned your +1
@@TheZebinator the door is to your right, sir.
Pugs snort and sneeze all the time so at least we're not alone in having a bad nose design
Congratulations on 25.000 subs. Very well deserved!
Thanks man!
This one video alone debunks every creationist theory lol
To paraphrase Neil de Grasse Tyson: It's not intelligent design. It's stupid design.
And another wag might say, "it isn't stupid if it works"!
Damn, this comment is cringey
Either it’s not designed or god is a moron
It's not stupid design though, it's blatantly nonsensical to the point where it would be much EASIER to make it better.
At the same time there are parts so well optimized, that you'd need a supercomputer to come up with them.
The sinuses may not have been as useless as they seem: we have to remember that our species' particularity (being good at endurance in running, basically we are the best runners there are when it comes to persistence and resistance) therefore those big sinuses may have played a role and an advantage during the dusty, long, hot, dry, journeys we were exposed to when we had to hunt our preys. Had we lost nose humidity too fast (having such sinus' hole posited down as to easily drain) may not had helped in our endevour or could've lead to worse infections harm. Yes, we could provide ourselves of water in handy ways (thus we could also sweat profusely to lower our temperature while running, walking, hunting) but those sinuses may have given an extra help. Also it is claimed that is way more benefitial to breath by the nose than by the mouth for complex processes that happen inside the nose (you can google the sources) and it may be yet another adaptation to our particular advantage. The thing is: MOST OF US no longer hunt (in such a way) nor are on climates similar to those where our evolution occurred, thus our sinuses become more an apparent hurddle than an advantage.
Great subject! Do more videos on evolutionary quirks and flaws, man. That would be great fun to watch. Keep it up!
I put this on while I prepped and used a neti pot to clear my clogged sinuses. I had no idea what it was going to be about and I burst out laughing when I realized what I had done.
Great video btw
Spot on - the idea of there being intelligent design is just stupid because it's not intelligent at all! Cheers!
Stefan: When I say Aegyptopithecus, what comes to mind?
Jessie Pinkman: Ahhh.. Aegypt
that's why treatments for the cold often include holding your head upside down above a bucket filled with steaming water.
Aaron Ra's "Systematic Classification of Life" series is also a very good breakdown of our evolutionary history for anyone interested.
It's a nightmare for creationists.
I'll have to check it out
Just a remake of what Pythagoras learned from the Brahmin of India.
And it recently reached its 3 year conclusion!
@@canadiankewldude But, it's youtube videos. That people can watch. Very accessible. Even this video is a remake of what scientists already knew by your logic.
You’ve heard of movie critics, video game critics, tv show critics... now get ready for the evolution critic
More on that.
1-Wisdom teeth problems,
2-Inverted retina causing a blind spot.
3-Testicles developing indside abdomen and goes out before birth leaving 2 weak points that may lead to a hernia later.
4- un needed problomatic appendix
5-un needed problematic tonsillitis
So laying down to drain your sinuses is actually a real thing? Huh.
thank you! i've always wondered why illnesses in humans lead to runny/stuffy nose whereas it doesn't seem like other animals get that very often...
This makes me think if it's possible to surgically improve our sinuses and never suffer from colds ever again.
Regarding our sinuses, there’s just no selective pressure to dramatically alter our sinus systems. It doesn’t kill us, nor is it something people really ever consider when selecting their mates… so as far as evolution is concerned… it must be a winning formula.
These quirks and features give humanity a weekend score of 20 while having a daily score of 36, totalling a doug score of 56
No idea what this means but it made me laugh anyway!
I really enjoy your content and humor. Thank you!
The only person I got post notifications on for
Thanks!
And he is a smoker 😍
THANK YOU! I’ve always wondered why we get colds and other animals don’t. Also, yay AMNH! I just graduated from there with a Masters in Earth science education.
Nice! I absolutely loved it there. Great place
Stefan Milo it is a great place, though I still get lost.
You seriously don't know why they do not get colds?
True, and the tightest argument against design is that one ends up with a much *more* mysterious situation than one started with: cosmic superintelligence!
Love science and believe in evolution but when you reach back in time to the creation of the universe to where we are now it's just friggin unbelievable to fathom. How space dust organized itself to evolve into beings who can ponder the process blows my mind! Keep up the good work and DON'T shave your neck hair, it completes you!!! I am recovering from a nasty cold so you've lent understanding to my miserable weekend!
did it organize itself or did gravity organize it
Gravity organized it, mass is attracted to each other, this attraction is what we call gravity. Over time it organized into spheres, with s9 much gas thst the pressure inside separated the electrons and nuclei and started nuclear fusion, creating stars. Eventually these stars run out of fusion material and stop, either becoming black holes or exploding depending on the size. The ones thst explode are then called supernovas, which birth even more stars and these new stars can have new elements in them allowing them to fuse and make even heavier elements. These new stars eventually explode, sending the various elements into space to make rocks and planets and such which get pulled into orbit around stars, making solar systems.
@@naturegirl1999 and GatedRat, of coarse I know gravity is the force that organized the universe...I am not an idiot. What is this need for people to abuse total strangers online?
@@gatedrat6382 it organized itself through gravity. Is that better smartass?
thinktonka I didn’t think it was abusing. I was just adding more details to the story of the universe. I didn’t mean to make it sound like I thought you were an idiot, I never thought thst. I just thought it would be cool to add more details as to the creation of the universe
Damn this games been going on for 4 billion years and they can't fix simple glitches?
Towards the end of my first marathon, I hallucinated having a snout.
You ate the corn dog residue off that stick like a true champion.
we spent all our upgrade points on better vision and being smarter and now we get sick and cant smell that well.
“Crappy sinuses” - going to be laughing about that reveal for days
I've always wished to be an Oranggatang!
Great production quality with these drawings there. Nice to see you experementing with the production. Also, a video a week? Jesus, give me a break Stefan
Lol
I'm watchig this while sneezing, how "fortunate".
Also annoying is how underrated your channel is. Your videos are top notch, should have 10 times more subscribers.
As the recurrent nerve hooks around the subclavian artery or aorta, it gives off several cardiac filaments to the deep part of the cardiac plexus. As it ascends in the neck it gives off branches, more numerous on the left than on the right side, to the mucous membrane and muscular coat of the esophagus; branches to the mucous membrane and muscular fibers of the trachea; and some pharyngeal filaments to the Constrictor pharyngis inferior.So it seems that the RLN is innervating a lot more than just the larynx.
That’s a fantastic opening shot.
P.S - where’s the spoon?
I appreciate changing it up a bit. We’re humans. We innovate.
Can’t wait for us to get further into genetic and dna alteration research so we can CRISPR all these flaws and lazy design features away
Yeah. Imma become part 8😎 josuke
Don't be so hasty... We Humans quickly find out. That what we think we know is sometimes (many times) flawed. So changes made over such basis. Can and would be a very bad thing.
Decisions based on the wrong premises. Is a recipe for disaster.
The larynx thing is actually quite sensible as it had a function of regulating our breathing and heart rate... Hence why it goes right past your heart.
Wisdom teeth had a purpose when we did not eat processed foods, so there may be an alternative explanation for the bones in our feet.
I loved this video. Thanks for making content I care about.
I relate to this because my sinuses are shite
*phlegm intensifies*
I'm more a fan of Drunken Design theory.
I have had a cold for the past 5 years. Welcome to hell.
i have the same thing
I think I read somewhere also that bipedalism has a major effect also causing us to be dry nosed mammals as our nose sinuses cannot additionally relieve mucus gravitationally out of our nostrils causing that wet nose most mammals have that are quadrupeds
5:07 That a really cool speculation! Really enjoyed the video man, keep it up!
Dr. Zaius, Dr. Zaius!
Also bipedalism causes a bunch of annoyances, like hemorrhoids.
Also a fondness for boobs (since we can't smell each others butts anymore).
@@rsrt6910 Is that an annoyance?
and my ass hurt when i sit, and my back hurt too, everything hurt, help
Lol, “we” were single cells organisms too? I dig it.
The flaws were to nerf the human species. Their intelligence makes them literally invincible
Coronavirus says "hello"
@@tonyb9735
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new fan here from useful charts squad
if you sleep in the right position (on your side) the maxillary sinus should be no problem to drain.
it isnt a design flaw, it makes it so you accumulate muccus and dirt while you are awake and drain it during the night.
Yeah, its interesting for someone whom I assume has no medical training to comment on the design of sinuses like he does.
I've had part of my genome sequenced, and I have multiple genes just in that part of my genome linked to type 1 diabetes and multiple other autoimmune disorders, but especially type 1 diabetes. Higher than 30x times compared to general population - I do have type 1 diabetes. Many of these genes also are involved in temperature/anti-freeze regulation through slightly higher blood sugar in non-diabetics as well. Type 1 diabetes is extremely common in the Nordic countries, and their descendants, compared to the rest of the world, though still rare in general (
Impressive. Can anyone get their genome sequenced and how does that work? I genuinely don't know.
Aleksandra Volk
There are many ways to get it done.
You can either buy the service from a dedicated company specializing in just that, or you can go the cheaper route and get one of those “ancestry” tests, like 23andMe, My Heritage and others and request the raw genetic data as a text file for download, and then upload it to a service called Promethease(.com).
Then the Promethease software reads the raw data text file and compares it to databases of genetic research and gives you a very large report you can explore, with the most important discoveries being at the top.
Just bear in mind that the genetic heritage sites only test a very small part of your genome, so the report you get back from Promethease will of course be limited by that. 😊
@@Lemonz1989 Thank you for your kind answer.
Aleksandra Volk You’re welcome! 😃
"Our bodies are absolutely riddled with quirks and features"
I'm sat here with tissue stuffed up my nostrils. Did TH-cam somehow know? Is that why it recommended this? Probably.
I got it, and I don't have a stuffy nose. I think it was just recommended to a large amount of people who search sciency stuff, and the chances of at least some of those people having a cold is quite high.
Wow, you popped up in my feed, great info, good teacher. I subbed. 👏💖☮️🎃
Evolution is like Horder....never throws anything out and the only reason something is gotten rid of is because it's rotted away in the corner after years of never being used.
So basically what you're saying is all we have to do to fix our infected sinuses is be upside down for a long time until the infection drains whenever we get a cold
I was sooooo sure this episode would be about human logic. The logic humans tend to use is definitely a design flaw. Most humans don't use their logic in an objective manner, they use it to defend their own beliefs (no matter how ridiculous they are).
Good video for the future though. We are a very easily confused and tricked bunch
@@StefanMilo So true.
Indra Therion
Riding on the coattails of giants. There is more than a little blame on the schools.
@@StefanMilo It's easier in fact to fool someone than to show them they are wrong. I have seen a fortune teller's street level office in Manhattan, which is always empty. How do they pay the rent. They get someone who comes into the office
for a say $5 reading and some of them spend tens or thousands of dollars on magic cures for curses or to be reunited with their dead ex girlfriend etcetera.
Once you start paying money you give them credence and some people can not admit they were foolish.
Thank you for world building idea, what if human evolve in asia
with all this quirk and features, I'd like to give the human race a Doug score
based
perfect timing. Went for a run yesterday and somehow that has managed to trigger a cold. I'm sat here this morning wondering why i get colds so easily and up pops this video. Cheers Stefan.
Thanks, a very good and succinct video.
If evolution is a developer; the games would be more broken than fallout 76
At least, the physics engine works
@@MrHat. unfortunately
And on the sixth day God said "Five to midnight...I know there's something I was going to do.....Damn! I haven't made any humans yet, let's see what bits I've got left...sod it, just bung something together..OK, that will have to do, I'll have another look at it after my day of"
Couldn’t intelligent design theorist just say they were made to give challenge idk the mental back flips people do to double down on there beliefs is a pretty bad evolutionary flaw
This video made my nose and sinuses tingle a lot while watching it.
2:06 Ordis: "Disgusting, putrid infestation! Why would I be built with such a flaw?"
Humans : evolution please change this it's annoying
Evolution : meh
We don't have enough selective pressure for a significant part of the population to die and have the rest that have suitable mutations to reproduce enough to change the gene pool of the entire human population
what do you think on humans fixing their own genetic issues and basically bypassing evolution?. In my opinion this will backfire eventually since we will keep passing along defective genes by artificially postponing death and tricking reproduction.
I say go for it!
Just do it!
No balls, no blue chips!
No guts, no glory!
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!
If it don't fit, use a bigger hammer!
Go woke, go broke!
Never lead a gift horse to water!
He is NOT the father!
Come with me if you want to live!
Yippie kie aye mot*** ****er!
Leave Britany alone!
If we can fix any genetic issues humans have, why would we pass on defective/harmful genes?
Oxydino Tradition, obviously. But we might get a bit out of hand, and start adding stuff instead of just removing diseases. Life wouldn’t be as meaningful. Let’s say a doctor tells you ‘you got three years to live.’ You’d definitely try to do something valuable with yourself then. I don’t think genetic modification for us is the best, just choose the healthier people to have kids with.
@@itsyurmumm8458 That's a pretty big assumption that relies entirely on the individual. A person is just as likely to go into a deep depression knowing that they have so little time or commit horrible acts beacause they're gonna die anyway so consequences be damned. It's quite naive to assume that knowing your death is near will make you want to do something 'good'. I'm assuming that you mean extending our lives will make them less meaningful because they'll be longer, but that's nothing except your speculation. People live longer now than they ever have before, but I doubt all of those folks will happily say that their lives have less meaning because they are living longer. I could equally argue that living for an extra 200 years will make people's lives even more meaningful as they can accumulate far more experience and knowledge than ever before. We have no way to test any of this because nobody lives forever.
In regards to choosing healthier people... I don't even know where to start on that. Where is the line between healthy and unhealthy and who decides? Sometimes unhealthy traits manifest later in life and are difficult to detect even with modern technology, what do we do when those people have kids? Selective breeding of people would require for all of us to give up an enormous amount of autonomy and freedom to a central power that can very easily be abused.
We're already on the edge of being able to genetically engineer harmful genes right out of our genomes, replacing natural selection with human selection and, supposing we don't wipe out humanity/civilization in the next century or so will likely be on our way to transhumanism relatively shortly.
That's not even talking about how genetic problems are actually still being filtered out of the gene pool, except instead of by death, it's by people voluntarily choosing not to reproduce and going childless, adopting, or using surrogates.
This really isn't a concern.
The real concern is that once genetic modification becomes normalized (which it will, given enough time), we'll not be culturally advanced enough to appropriately value the range of human difference and will over-optimize for what our culture values at that time and all become way too similar and lead to huge cultural problems and blindspots, and a reduction in genetic diversity.
I don't agree with many, most of them seem like they have a fitting purpose, for their position in the body. The sinus one is so true
I can't get past the fact that he has a mini version of Terry Wogan's microphone from Blankety Blank.
As someone born with bony defects of the sinuses, I empathise. The only issue I have with this is that cats can get colds. It's less frequent in cats that are kept inside, but cats that wander do catch viruses. In addition, they are one of the few animals that can catch a cold from us.
Evolution makes more sense using a logarithmic time scale, at least to me. I did an amateur video about it.
Evolution doesn't care about your feelings!
AutoFirePad nice reference
In "designing" our bodies, god was not an engineer, was a comedian.
So youre saying regular handstands prevent colds ?
Oh no. We are the pugs of the ape world.
Have u seen 2019 rewind ?
No? Lucky you
Why is there no downvote in a video that advocates evolution.. What Is Happening!
Han Thomas They don't click as fast as others - 3 as of my viewing.
Evolution fixed that, very slowly. Now there are 9 downvotes.
Difficult to vote down ideas that make sense ;) :D
Han Thomas why do white people still get sunburned from the natural sun? These theories don't make sense.
@@heretoday9379 - Because they are not gradually exposed to it at the latitudes they evolved to be most fit to survive. I live at an appropriate latitude (c. 42ºN) and I would need a very intensive sudden exposure to get even a slight sunburn, as I do tan well and fast. There must be some variation anyhow but white people have not evolved to live in the tropics, and the optimal configurantion to live at Mediterranean-like latitudes is the Mediterranean type, Nordic type is designed to live around Denmark, not in Florida.
Careful Stefan talk about problems with creationism and you will find yourself with a very angry comment section on all your videos.
I don't know why I keep saving videos to watch later but end up watching them now anyways
Heheh loved your video!!! It’s great that you are friends with useful charts!