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From the earliest known hominins to the ghost populations hiding in your DNA today, this is the complete story of human evolution as we know it. Every major chapter covered Sahelanthropus, Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, Paranthropus, the entire genus Homo, our sister species the Neanderthals and Denisovans, the origins of art, language, and religion, and the mysterious ghost populations only detectable through ancient DNA. Buckle up. Nature never gives it to you straight.
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Chapters
00:00 What is Human Evolution?
02:35 General Info & Primate Classification
06:15 Sahelanthropus Tchadensis (Toumaï)
13:19 “Dating 101” Radiometric & Biochronology
24:23 Orrorin Tugenensis (Millennium Man)
32:10 Ardipithecus Ramidus (Ardi)
36:36 Ardipithecus Kadabba (Bobby)
59:25 Australopithecus Introduction
1:01:13 The Taung Child Discovery
1:10:17 Littlefoot
1:13:08 Lucy Discovery
1:16:29 The Laetoli Footprints
1:30:34 Paranthropus Introduction
1:43:34 Paranthropus boisei (Nutcracker Man)
1:49:08 Herpes & Paranthropus
2:00:22 Welcome to Genus Homo
2:02:30 Homo habilis Discovery
2:16:47 Homo erectus Introduction
2:23:52 Fire & Cooking
2:26:26 Turkana Boy
2:36:47 “Neanderthals” Discovery & Anatomy
2:40:49 Neanderthal Intelligence & Culture
2:45:00 Humans & Neanderthals Interbreeding
2:48:07 Denisovans Discovered
2:52:32 Homo floresiensis (The Hobbits)
2:58:08 Why Did Other Humans Go Extinct?
3:01:30 Oldest Homo sapiens “Jebel Irhoud”
3:08:51 The Pan-African Model
3:20:52 The Human Revolution Debate
3:23:29 The Stoned Ape Hypothesis
3:27:07 The Origins of Art
3:29:16 “Cave Art” Indonesia & Europe
3:34:16 Early Religion & Therianthropes
3:40:27 Origins of Language
3:41:49 Ghost Populations Introduction
3:43:07 The Human Genome Project
3:49:29 Denisovans & DNA Discovery
3:51:37 West African Ghost DNA
3:54:03 Population Y & Native Americans
4:05:27 How Ghost DNA Affects Us Today
4h of human evolution to do your chores to | Lindsay Nikole
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Alternative title: 4 hours to piss of young earth creationists.
Love the video already and haven't even started it
14:57 im just sayin radioactive DEGAY was right there
Lindsey, I’m curious what hominid you think would most likely be spear from primal
gutsick gibbon collab in the future?
Gripper slipper? Pttt I hardly know her…
Homo Sapiens certainly did not loose their large canine teeth because males stopping fighting each other😂
god is most likely not an australopithecus, that we know of.
W video
I give you points for trying to pronounce Diepkloof the first time, but the second time, you had it!🎉(kind of lol)
I’d LOVE to see a (That We Know Of) for marsupials!! Virginia opossums are my favorite local fauna, and marsupials in general are weird as hell 😀
I think every person in the world should watch this video at least once
. – . the idea that the world can flip upside down without ppl noticing is insane 👀 26:18 i know not literally but still
Partially repainted my room to this, thank you for an amazing and informative video/poscast! Really engaging script even without all the helpful/fun pictures to occasionally glance over to.
I spent most of this video mounting spear head to a haft and shaping it by hand. Thank you Lindsay listening to this while doing this task was a vibe.
Love how much you research and have done with the channel. Keep it up 👍
So, thing I'm wondering is; if we got some of the ghost population DNA that changed how our brains work… Maybe that is where Neurodivergence stems from? We are sure its genetic by now, so what if it goes back that long?!
(Also im now just gonna say my allergies & chronic illness are because of having neanderthal/ghost population DNA 😂)
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Does watching this count as studying for my biological anthropology class
Can you make a video about stinkbugs?
dude this is perfect. I have an exam in bio about this and I could not understand it but you put it in a way that is easy to understand. Thank you❤️❤️
Thank you for posting this right when I started a biological anthropology class 🤌
47:49 for me to continue
Very good presentation- you killed it!
12:56 ……. six seveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeennnnnnnnnnnn
I would remember it like hominin sounds more like the word human
Mna this little boy is so smart
I finished sewing together the outfit I'm wearing to a party later this month while learning about our origins this fine Monday :]
So drunk just bought a hat f yeah my brotha
24:18 KERBAL SPACE PROGRAM MUSIC GOATED
Love this!
Am I a dork because I've watched this four times?
Co-braa
Thank You Lindsay!
Lindsay: 2:00
Your forehead looks fine. It is not absurdly large. I have friends from HS that have MUCH bigger foreheads
What if theyre not our missing links,but instead just abnormaly mutated individuals,due to incest,witch aparantly happend in those closed and tight tribal sociatys quite common🤔 or maybe those where the few unlucky ones to try touching rafiactive stuff because it glowed nice🤔🤷♂️ and mutated after that🤔 since itll still take humanity till marie curie to figure out that Rads are bad for your subscription to life😅🤣
So, before you are done…. Tell me a bit more about – Toumaï (Sahelanthropus tchadensis) – so fascinating.
I’m so curious as to why our ancestors could eat raw meat but we eat slightly warm shrimp and get super sick it’s something I have never seen anyone ever talk about which makes me wonder if we have ever even considered or looked into that aspect of human evolution I try I lived in ancient times there was no fire I just ate and nobody died or got sick so why do humans now get so ill when food is poorly cooked not even uncooked but just not cooked enough I am so confident nobody will ever answer this question 😢
2:46:18 recent update, female homosapiens were more likely to procreate with male neanderthals than the other way. We know this due to some of the genetic analysis done on neanderthal DNA and comparing it to humans. I read about this like 2 days ago
question: did you ever read the book "Kindred: Neanderthal Love, Life, Death, and Art" by Rebecca Wagg Sykes? I'm not sure if it would be to opop-science for you, but it rewrote my brain chemistry and made me cry multiple times! it discusses the world neanderthals lived in—from what they ate to the art they might have made, interspersed with these absolutely spellbinding poetry and prose introductions to each chapter that knocked me on my ass. would10/10 recommend, even if paleo-anthropology and near-human ancestors aren't usually your thing.
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zoo tycoon intensifies
Oi! Love it. However, I am now concerned if you are a good influence on my 7 year old or not.
Strangely the grave robber illustration during the explanation of robustus is from Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, third edition. (1:53:50)
2:43:40 sorry did you just
Say Neanderthals were autistic??
Did I watch each part of this video on their own as they came out? Yes. Am I gonna rewatch them all in one 4 hour video? Also yes.
What if the whole “species” rule had the qualification that the offspring also have to be able to reproduce? Like if the offspring is always a mule, they’re not the same species
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