BU Dialogues in Biological Anthropology: The Mysterious Origins of the Genus Homo - Part 2

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New fossils have sparked new, revolutionary ideas about the origins of the genus Homo. Did the first truly human primates evolve in East Africa, as the textbooks would have it? Or was the human homeland in Asia or South Africa? On April 7th, 2011, the third BU Dialogues in Biological Anthropology confronted these questions, along with the long-simmering debate over who owns the fossils and who gets to see them.
In this panel discussion, Dr. Lee R. Berger (Reader in Human Evolution and the Public Understanding of Science, Institute for Human Evolution, School of GeoSciences, University of the Witwatersrand), Dr. Adam van Arsdale (Department of Anthropology, Wellesley College), and Matt Cartmill and Jeremy DeSilva from Boston University debate and discuss these issues with each other and with members of the BU audience.

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@Cimbolic 2 года назад

Excellent! Thank you.

@torkeysaleem6688 3 года назад

Thanks alot...

@reneeglover4819 2 года назад

I see what Lee berger is getting at...there is so much variation in each individual skeleton that you can't just classify it from one small piece of itself. You must have the whole to even try to understand where it fits in a species and genius

@stixnpoles2564 3 года назад

I'm glad the people who live in these lands aren't telling these guys what they really know. The youngest people on the planet, by far, trying to tell us where we came from.

@TheAussieRod 3 года назад

What do you mean?

@orlamcmanus9019 3 года назад

What lands and what do they really know?

@sarahbrome5564 3 года назад

You guys are not wearing masks?! WTF???

@bostonuniversity 3 года назад

Hi Sarah, thanks for your comment. Please note this is a recorded panel discussion from April, 2011.

@sarahbrome5564 3 года назад

@@bostonuniversity oh , well, that would explain...🤣🤣

@alec2726 2 года назад

Masks don't work.. Sarah you are firm proof that Evolution works (Ape to Sheep)!

@rickfucci4512 Год назад

Reading 2,000,000 year old tea leaves. It was nice to a bit of pushback

@danmaster9183 2 года назад

2 lizards evolved next to each other, one of them remained a leaf eater and the other is a carnivore, if evolution is adaptive wouldnt they eat the same thing, why would one stay in the tree when the evolutionary adaptive advantage was move to the ground, why havent we change since our appearance 300k yrs ago when our claim is evolution was moving at a rapid dramatical pace

@alexburke1899 2 года назад

The two lizards would be filling two niches and not competing for the same food, like we see with different birds filling different specific niches to find food. We have changed in last 300k years that’s what ethnic and racial traits represent. Like the husky style body is better adapted to the far north so you never see skinny and tall Eskimo’s they’d lose too much body heat. The hobbit fossil also shows how humans trapped on an island could change in less than 300k years probably closer to 50k.

@alec2726 2 года назад

Which two lizards are you talking about?

@ivanwigmore 2 года назад

Let alone living twice as long

@LanghamW1 Год назад

When you listen to the 'experts' you can't escape the feeling that with so many different opinions, there's no such thing as a unified understanding of the 'theory of evolution' and yet we are constantly told that the 'thory' is a fact, so let's just teach it as a fact and not dwell on the all the confusion. Hmm, so the plebs are just expected to believe in something which the 'experts' can't even agree on. A little honesty would be nice, like let's call a theory a theory instead of pretending that its a fact and that you actually know what you're talking about.

@hezarfen777 Год назад

That evolution of living beings happens, both by chance and because of selective pressures, is proven without a doubt. You can make it happen in a lab experimentally if you apply selective pressures, it has happened in predictable ways within the last hundred years (antibiotic resistance is one example). It is also proven without a doubt that it has happened continually in the geological past, as we have a fossil record that shows change as well as direct genetic evidence from ancient specimens. What is under debate are details of the historic development in particular lines (and also some molecular minutiae we don't as yet understand completely). Saying evolution (the changing of life forms on earth) is not fact because there is debate about some details is like saying we have no proof that ancient Rome existed because most of the written record was lost and we don't have remnants of each and every one of the buidings the Romans built and we don't know what designs they were painted with.