A Matter of Time 

What an incredibly dynamic discipline this is.

These lecture never get old. There are so many more discoveries to be made. Dr. Berger shares his wealth of knowledge and discoveries in such a wonderful way. If only we could go back in time to meet all our relatives! I would love to gaze upon their faces!

Dr Berger is the best. Unlike a lot of his contemporaries, he rigorously applies the scientific method and doesn't present speculation as fact, nor does he engage in technically unsupported anthropomorphism. He unabashedly lays out the shortcomings of the fossil record and the difficulties in arriving at any hard and fast conclusions, while presenting the possibilities for what they are: possibilities. Too many of these guys are more intent on making the next news cycle with totally unsubstantiated, nearly hysterical claims (e.g., "Naledi buried their dead!") than taking a cold-eyed look at the scant evidence. Of course, that's how they try to scare up grants, as well as by creating false controversies with others in their field who benefit as well (the veritable self-licking ice cream cone). Keep the science coming Dr. Berger!

Very interesting and thought provoking about there not being a definitive progress of evolution in time 🤔

wow, video and sound editing also by prof.berger...

Wonderful animations! Really helped me understand better. Thanks for this series.

Another awesome video. I loved the analogy and then the fossils filled out in the chart.

Thank you - I really enjoy these

Awesome presentation. Thank you Dr. Berger.

I think dating is critical to trace geneolgies, but doesn’t define them. What species or subspecies or hybridization isn’t explained by the date. But to know they existed at that time is to me very advantageous to addressing morphology. Our acceptance that multiple variants carried on with considerably less developed traits is only indicative because it is dated. Now the critical aspects of studying morphology is not linear. That was wrong. It was branching and both isolating as well as overlapping. Widely varying traits among them and far greater diversity. I totally agree that erectus has been largely misclassified. By current standards we would differentiate considerably. Dating caused the inclusive perceptions of one distinct species in linear theories we used to accept more widely, but were wrong. Thanks to people like you who research morphology and refer to those dates, we move forward with far better understanding. Dating by itself reveals nothing. Examination does. Dates are something critical to examine, but no more important than physiology, location, artifacts and strata. A new glory hog in genetic research replaces carbon dating. Both in what we can extract and extrapolate from increasing older samples as well as the genomes of sapiens and Neanderthal etc. homo erectus is on that bucket list to extract dna and they did exist into the timelines we have extracted. Could even be enough to complete a genome for them. The hitches. It’s amalgamated and fairly recent comparatively. Example is Neanderthal genome. Its just a model. It’s as theoretical as morphology as multiple samples from multiple places and times piece together what is in truth a sort of generalized chimera of the species. It does though indicate admixtures and common ancestries. Not the uncommon ones. Nonetheless I think very promising to add to examinations. Erectus will probably be divided in that process and reveal anomalies that are not erectus but someone else.

more of this kind of videos, love it

we should keep in mind there was always introgression between these various species, muddying the waters even further.

Excellent content.

Lee uses the word "species" so much in this talk a listener might assume we knew what a species was. The truth is it's blurry to define even in extant forms, let alone from tiny fragments of skeletal remains from millions of years ago. Perhaps a little scepticism on the well-known vanity-driven classification of fossils rather then the relatively precise dating of them might be in order.

I've found a fossil in my yard......what's really cool about it is it has a tooth mark deep into it.....which is why it took me a while to figure yo it was an end of a bone a little distorted but a bone...... It looks real familiar but I don't have a great deal of experience with human bones......how can I go about determining human or other?

It would seem that if paleogenetics is ever able to find DNA in any of these ancient fossils, it might be a relevant indicator of progression. Just a thought. It seems that the linear evolution theories of the past are just not applicable. Especially considering there are so few fossils and no way to determine the time line of their existences. Also, because we are realizing, now, that there were so many species occupying the same time periods and hybridization very likely may have occurred. Fascinating and mind boggling!

Or S and H could both be ancestral to X.

I don’t think the Chinese have any difficulty believing they share the planet with several primitive subspecies of humanoid.

Carbon dating is only accurate in our atmosphere. Before the universal worldwide flood. We had a different atmosphere, we had more oxygen levels.

What is al666?

The offspring of , Satan , and the , falling angels. , the giants ,and the Nephillim ,in genesis ,and the book of Enoch

Ardi, Ardi...are you there, lol.

...if that was the case, there would be no apes now.

Called the Nephillim

What's funny is I can collect rocks line them up and say this rock is releated to this rock and this one is releated to this one and so forth, in reality they are made the same but a rock that looks similar or the same can be completely different just have the same characteristics and not be related so what you are saying and doing is putting things into categories that are similar but not the same all completely different just similar in appearance with no way to prove they are changing into modern day humans. Lol lol lol.

This guy is on team Satan. Satans definition is adversary, against God. Jesus is Lord.

God made man and woman period. that's where we all came from is God !!! Not apes or anything else

No Proof Grow up

What a bunch of hogwash .