5 Human Species Who Lived Alongside Us 

I think that the Denisovan story, as science improves in the future, is going to be the most diverse, unexpected and interesting human story yet to be filled in and told

So we’re all Highlanders? “In the end, there can be only One”.

Theres something kinda cool about the image of early humans sitting round the fire with a few neanderthals dotted around. Like different races in DandD or something.

I think this is where we get our myths of goblins, tolls and fairies from

I love learning about other human species. It's fascinating.

Many thanks for this video! Very informative and interesting. 😊

It seems that homo sapiens main advantage over the other hominids was the ability to aggressively absorb or out compete near peer rivals. Homo sapiens appear, other species disappear within a few thousand years. We are historically very similar to how we view modern invasive species in the plant/animal kingdom

I love the anthropology videos. I'd like to see you break down more of what we know about each of the previous ancient humans

Extinction by snu snu?

Everything about ancient hominids I learned from ‘Quest for Fire’, ‘Clan of the Cave Bear’ and ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’.

Stefan Milo has a good channel for anyone who wants to learn more after this❤

It might sound a little cold to say, but it's probably a good thing that the other hominids went extinct. Imagine a separate species of humanoid surviving well into the Agricultural Age, perhaps even past the Bronze Age. A brief glimpse at human history shows how many groups of people would do horrific things to their fellow humans just because they were labeled as "the other". Consider how they would have treated a group whose humanity was a little more ambiguous.

It was a mistake coming down from the trees...

I think the main takeaway from this video is we will fuck damn near anything lol

History with Kayleigh has a ton of videos on this subject. She does a great job of researching every subject of her videos, presents everything in a clear and easy to understand manner, and is very good at pronouncing all the complicated names.

1:25 - Chapter 1 - Homo erectus 4:30 - Chapter 2 - Homo Naledi 7:30 - Chapter 3 - Flores man aka the hobbit 10:15 - Chapter 4 - Neanderthals 13:55 - Chapter 5 - Denisovans

Some water animal had a bright idea of coming out of the water and now I have to pay bills and am depressed…thanks.

Can you imagine the racism if all those species survived till this day. We hardly tolerate eachother.

Great insights on our prehistoric past! Looking forward to future discoveries 🎉

For the continual information that helps me expand my world view, I thank you. 😊

Great subject brilliantly narrated. Thanks

I find history and science pretty cool.

We still throw rocks & feces at each other. Now its just high-tech or metaphorical.

I love this video! I've watched it twice in a row I need to download this info

My dad took me to the naming ceremony for Homo Naledi but I was so young I really didn’t understand what an amazing and groundbreaking find it was

What honestly is fascinating to me, is if u look at maps where most hominini where found, basically all of them where found on the eastern side of Africa. Very few where found in the west, so i can't wait so see what we might still discover.

What oftens get attributed to seafaring could also be the fact that land bridges existed at the time, making it possible to cross to what are now islands.

Super awesome and fascinating. Thx

I think you forgot to mention that they found a needle with Denisovans.

I've always been so fascinated with learning more and more about are prehistoric ancestors since I was a small kid of 7 or 8, when my mom bought me some Time Life books on both our evolution as well as dinosaurs, you know those old large hardback books from the 60s and 70s? Now I am so grateful for the internet, especially sites and RU-vid channels devoted to such subjects. One of my favorite channels is Gutsick Gibbon, who's real name is Erika, who is actually a PhD student in Biological Anthropology, and has a Masters of Research degree in Primate Biology, Behavior and Conservation with a BSA in Pre-Professional Animal Science and minors in Anthropology and in Biology. And she describes things in a more simple way, so even if you don't understand all the scientific talk normally, you likely will have no trouble understanding her. She also has a way about her that makes her fun to watch and listen to. She also gets into debunking Young Earth Creationism and Flat Earthers, from time to time! I frankly think with some recent discoveries about our ancient ancestors or more importantly, finding that our primate ancestors may not have started out in Africa, well our very early ones that is, that maybe started evolving outside of Africa, but went back, if the primates really began in Africa that is, it's possible some didn't, meaning they may have started out just outside of Africa, then went to Africa and continued to evolved or they went out of Africa and started changing then, but then went back to finish, so to speak! There is so much new info coming out, we may get a big surprise someday. I also thing one day it will be found that there was a lot more human non modern human related homosapians then just the Neanderthals and Denisovans, meaning people who were as advanced physically like them and us at the time! I know we used to think that many of the more ape like looking ones were long since extinct by the time we and the Neanderthals popped up, but then we found proof that wasn't the case. There were probably a lot of slightly different versions of most of those we know of around at the same time as the ones we know. Like the Australopithecus line, it turns out there a lot more of them that were around, then the few we thought back when I was a kid, back when those books I mentioned were written! They now say there were something like 7 or 8 different species, but with other similar ones branching out of that even! I do hope I live long enough for us to discover most if not all, and I get to hear about it too that is, lol!

Thanks Simon and Co! This topic of study is fascinating to me. I'm thinking one day they'll say maybe we didn't evolve and migrate from one area, but from multiple areas.

Fascinating stuff

Reminds me of William Golding’s sad and haunting novel “The Inheritors” - the fear, wonder and incomprehension of a small band of Neanderthals watching the advance of technologically superior Homo sapiens into their territory. The twist in the tail is that it turns out that the “new people” were even more afraid of them.

Homo Naledi is so recent That in my anthropology class I took back in 2018 It wasn’t even mentioned or brought up. Crazy

Great talk. Thank you!!!

This my new favorite channel. Thank you

There's was 2 interbreeding events that changed the Neanderthals forever one involved Sapiens (modern humans) Mitacondrial DNA spreading through the population and another where our Y chromosome spread through. Macropods (kangaroo and family) also use bipedal movement, they hop instead of walk to move around at speeds.

I love the topic, but can we talk about the Choice Simon made for his Sideprojects set to have his supply closet door open in the background? Like, It works, framing-wise, but it's a bit weird to be looking in at his cleaning supplies. XD

Well researched and presented

I just stumbled on to this page. Now I have so many questions. I am going down the rabbit hole after this 😊 I am going to start with the cradle of life.

Most macropods, lemurs and bipedal rodents are also bipedal, although they move by hopping on two feet at once.

I still remember the teacher who had us skip the first chapter of our grade school history book because it was about the existence of cavemen. I looked anyway and found a cartoon of a guy wearing a Flintstones type garment and digging with a stick.😂

This is interesting. Thank you

This RU-vid channel is a legit recommended source for any academic paper write-up. Consistently credible research.

It’s sad to think that there was a time when we weren’t alone and we are the ones that made it that way

Bro do you make a new channel everyday? !?!? Holy crap man you got a lot a work in the game! Anyway this is one of your best videos and I am not usually into this subject. Thats how good it was. Gg wp

Simon, how the heck do you even sleep with all the uploads you do? It feels like I keep discovering new channels you have and it's TEN!!!!! I'm incredibly impressed. You HAVE to be an alien or maybe just plug yourself into a wall or something.

well narrated just brilliant

A wonderful introduction

Fascinating

I think it's interesting to note that right after (relatively speaking of course) we started interbreeding with these other human species is right around when we started becoming who we are today "our cultural and societal awakening"! Just to think that we may have inadvertently made ourselves a super species by hybridizing and it's even possible we get some of the things we think of as human from them, like art and religion! Either I believe it's pretty cool to know that they never truly died out, but live on today through us and that we may be a different people without them!

Interesting stuff, thanks.

I'd so love to hang out with other species of Humans.

I can't imagine the discrimination we would have against each other. 😢😢😢

I find this absolutely fascinating to think about

I love the new camera Simon!!

I’ve always found it horrifying people mock Neanderthals

If two organisms are able to breed and produce fertile offspring, are they *actually* a different species?

I feel like we aren’t the last human species we will evolve into other human species as well.. it is interesting that the others died out and we are left over. That doesn’t mean we are safe from extinction or won’t be replaced by other human species.. this video really opened my mind.

Love your videos

The fact there was lots of interbreeding unfortunately doesn't necessarily entail we were on good terms with them. It's generally thought we fought each other a lot and sometimes we were nice to each other too. But a lot of interbreeding likely was rape from raiding, capturing or opportunistic finds. I still reckon we did likely fight a lot and interact nicely but I'd imagine a lot of the interbreeding didn't occur during those non-aggressive cultural exchange get-togethers. There likely wouldn't have been any shame over it back then, it was merely an ordeal, an assault and if a female survived then she just survived, she had offspring and said offspring got raised by her and her group.

I was amused when I saw 2% neanderthal on my DNA test.

This is the most accurate video I've seen thus far, in another 100 years you may well understand our origin. Can't wait to see

Fascinating!

Ha! Erectus

Fascinating! I think it's pronounced duh-NEE-so-van, though.

It's very impressive that the 3 species separated long long time ago and later reunited. Technically they survived until now days as hybrids.

Good Topic!

Been watching a lot of videos on this subject lately, and today you popped up with one. I've come to the conclusion given what a violent species we have been over the centuries and even today, our ancestors unfortunately probably wiped them off the planet.

Please do a video on the first human hybrid, that would be fascinating

The thumbnail gives the impression that Simon is another unique species of human !

I'm so impressed by our ancestors. They were less superficial than we are now.

Greetings and Salutations from Temple, Texas, USA!

What about the Homo Longi, or "Dragon Man?"

I'm not sure if you mentioned it, but h. neledi may also have been making art, in that same cave. Scratches in the rock walls in a hatch pattern that has been seen in h. neanderthalis and early h. sapiens.

So a theory that's been bouncing around my head for a bit, is it a possibility that the feeling we get from the "uncanny valley" effect is due to our ancestors running into a human like hominid that was very likely similar to us but either highly aggressive/cannibalistic? It might be why we perceive anything with the uncanny valley with chills and a deep rooted feeling of uneasiness and fear.

Dangerously confident assumptions and countless mispronounciations aside, this is a good speedrun of the topic. I would still recommend the video to anyone wanting a general overview.

Granted they interbred with us. So, we’re not entirely the original Homo sapiens.

There was a time when I considered a degree in anthropology, before economic reality led me to decide upon a different profession. This episode brought back fond memories of my youth.

I find it interesting that a species has been fairly recently dissappeared from RU-vid offerings. Charming things too.

So... we're the baddies?

Pronounced: Nahledhee

oh my god, those ceramic cacti from ikea you have in the background? the exact same ones are sitting on a dresser just a few feet away from me while I'm watching this video...and I live in germany 💀 ikea knows now borders ig

If this video was instead four hours long I would be expecting Simon to say there were 210 variations of human ancestor species in the past. I'm all here for it. Not to mention the myriad of fossil record we never recovered or even became aware was under the sea/land/ocean.

In regards to extinction, especially with humans it helps to remember extinction doesn't need mean killed off. It only means something doesn't exist anymore.

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Simon managed to pronounce 2 hominids names correctly. Amazing!

TY 🙏

saying "Homo Erectus" as much as you did this episode without laughing "Uranus" off must he been quite difficult lol

From what I've read Neanderthals didn't appear to use ballistic weapons other than a close thrown spear. Against bow and arrows they wouldn't have a chance especially if the arrowheads were poisonous.

Big fan of the channel. While not a scientist but a lawyer, I am very interested in this topic. I am always amazed how Anthropologists can somehow ascertain things such as percentage of body hair and population densities from such a small amount of recovered material. Color me a skeptic. While I would not include the Naledi (sp?), I consider most of the "species" discussed to be as human as you and I. The ability not to fear and to control fire is a characteristic no animal has. It is only humans who can do this feat. Scientist seek to divide people into dna or morphological (spell checked that one) categories for whatever reason but I would wager you could teach everyone of them to drive a car. I also always enjoy hearing the theory that we became so smart because we ate cooked meat. While I am not so sure about this premise, it is always fun to note how the majority of the scientific community readily accepts this glaring exception to the theory of evolution. Thanks for the videos.

Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.

Educational videos like this really assist in debunking religious theories related to human evolution.

According to 23&me, my DNA is a few percent Neanderthal. Which is why I identify as Bi-Racial. Wait... Is that joke legal in Scotland? 😜

What is also interesting to know about the Neanderthals is that they seemed to have been more aggressive and less social than modern humans, making it considerably harder for them to pass down new skills and innovations, even if they were smarter and stronger than Homo sapiens, which presumably made their long term survival a lot harder too

For those criticizing SW's pronunciation, please note that he doesn't have an American accent. Britons often pronounce vowels differently (i.e., a "clark" helping in a store and the metal known as "a loom IN ee um) and this might extend to other vocalizations. It is possible he's not an ignoramous.

All I care to know is what species your beard is.

Is it possible that the Norse oral tradition might have kept alive stories of contact with Neanderthals, interpreted as Dwarves over the eons? As generations passed, what might have originally fact based stories evolved into legends and myth.

Yeah in the 70s i was taught fire use was only thousands of years old. While erectus is proven to use fire they cant be the first as they are already shaped by fire use so it was clearly used leading up to that point.

Do your glasses have lenses in them?