Origin of Homo Sapiens

The origin of modern humans is one of the most fascinating questions in human prehistory. In this video we explore when and where our ancestors evolved from earlier hominines and when our early Homo sapien relatives became fully modern.
Discover how the fossils from Jebel Irhoud in Morocco, dating back 300,000 years, shed light on the early stages of human evolution, and learn about the split between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. We'll delve into the significant finds in East Africa, like the Omo Kibish and Herto skulls, which reveal transitional forms leading to modern humans.
Through the lens of mitochondrial DNA and advanced genetic studies, we uncover the complex history of human migration, including interbreeding events with Neanderthals and Denisovans. Explore how our ancestors adapted to the fluctuating climate conditions in Africa during the Ice Age, developing larger brains, flexible behavior, and sophisticated social structures.
We also examine the challenging climate variations in East Africa, particularly the megadroughts around 135,000 years ago, and how these influenced human evolution. Learn about the major population expansion around 60,000 years ago, likely driven by improved environmental conditions.
The video addresses the ongoing debate on when and how Homo sapiens left Africa, highlighting early explorations in Southwest Asia and the significant findings in Skhul and Qafzeh caves in Israel. These discoveries reveal the coexistence of modern humans and Neanderthals and showcase the advanced toolmaking skills of our ancestors.
Finally, we'll trace the migration of early modern humans back to Southwest Asia around 50,000 years ago and their adaptation to new environments, leading to the spread of innovative blade technology and the eventual appearance of Homo sapiens in continental Europe.

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Does the channel change script readers every episode? I like the content.

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We are experimenting, we will end up with just one

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Question:
Female vulva has basically 5 different shapes. Is it possible that those shapes are to some extend related to a specific human kind? Like one is Homo sapiens, another Neanderthal and another one is Denisovian…?
Or is there no scientific knowledge about that..?

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First I want to make a strong statement: scientists should/must stop drawing conclusions after every find. We Do Not Know! We can only puzzle, imagine, think, search, but never 'because of their thumb', and 'because they ate may sea-animals', or because they left the trees and started to roam the wide open grasslands, and because of the ice-age, or because of the drought. Not different hominins, but different conditions. Some were smart, some lazy, some greedy, some art-loving. Depending on how the group reacts and start using the new equipments, food(preparing), tools-designing, finding/building hidingplaces and shelters, is important for a groups progress, surviving, development. Then certain changes in the skeleton, muscles, brain, behaviour, body-length, facial appearance, start to show. Happens within three generations. I have witnessed that proces. In lifestock it works the same. Not different lifeforms, but different circumstances. I am dutch (frisian) and my husband was caribean, so from african decent. Our six children are very different from the outside. If they each had children and lived in different countries (which is quite normal these days), they might over decades form different species? No, just different looking humans, due to different dna and circumstances, but their genes remain the same, more or less.
My toolkit is very stone-age, but my children's toolkit is far more advanced, but the toolkit of my grandchildren seems alien to me. Only three generations.