The Neandertals That Taught Us About Humanity

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Throughout the first half of the 20th century, Neandertals were thought to have been…primitive. Unintelligent, hunched-over cavemen, for lack of a better word. But the discoveries made in that Iraqi cave provided some of the earliest clues that Neanderthals actually behaved -- and likely thought and felt -- a lot like we do.
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@muthanna9 4 года назад

I am from northern Iraq, and I have never heard of this discovery before. poor education system we have and evolution deniers will destroy generations of people here

@8393Robertrex 4 года назад

But. On the bright side, youtubes chock full of videos and channels like this so👌 You still get to have your pick of awesome stories and ideas

@K00Ldude98 4 года назад

@@robprop4575 Very Religious based societies already had a creation story before evolution. The US is only coming around because the society is gradually secularizing away from christian fundamentalism. Iraq and much of the middle east have yet to go through this process. Give it time. Once the region calms down and the people begin to rebuild and prosper again, they will want to learn more about the earth that wasn't taught from a holy book. Just dont go destroying ancient history that doesnt fit your narrative in the mean time! So many statues, tablets, ruins of ancient peoples... I lament their destruction...

@Spear_of_the_Raven_Ash 4 года назад

Sad to hear that. Repressive ultra-religious regimes keep the people in the dark to manipulate them.

@Thuhglegend27 4 года назад

@@robprop4575 maybe you should explain the american reason first. How can he know.

@mrroams5812 4 года назад

@@K00Ldude98 Once it calms down? So like... never?

@JR-sx3gl 4 года назад

Made me feel sorry for a guy who's been dead for thousands of years.

@strawberrymagpie 4 года назад

Yep

@Jason918114 4 года назад

It's all good. He was probably an eccentric artist, like my uncle.

@timfrey2358 4 года назад

yeah, and imagine not just having broken bones and stuff you understand resulted from your experiences, but then you have arthritis in other bones that weren't broken, and then your hearing gets bad and possibly your ears hurt but you don't know what any of it is because no one can go to a doctor, you have to basically guess what's wrong with you and live with it, possibly try to accommodate it and do something wrong and make it worse because no one knows yet how it all works. There may be one lead healer type person in the tribe but even they would be most making educated guesses based on personal experience. It must have been so frustrating, even today with medicine and doctors to walk most of us through health problems there are some things that become overwhelming, so we can imagine. Hopefully he was happy though, having friends and/or family to support him, maybe none of it mattered because he gained strength from his community and he never let it get him down. Honestly in some of the harshest times, support from your fellow people means more than anything else, even if they can't solve your problem, because doing it alone is the worst thing.

@Kowakian 4 года назад

J R He was surrounded by people who loved him and cared for him. Life wasn’t easy, but he managed. On the other hand, people today die alone and are dead for months, even years before someone notices they’re dead. And usually, that someone are the tax men, comming to see why bills werent paid.

@markusmitchell8585 4 года назад

Not me I'm not going to get sad over someone who has been gone for thousands of years

@rbitrary 4 года назад

My favorite thing about these discoveries is that they disprove the idea that humans are cruel and individualistic by nature, which is often used to justify unhealthy competition in businesses and is also, quite frankly, super depressing.

@user-bl4oq7fd8d 4 года назад

The fact that humans care about their relatives doesn't exclude that we can be cruel and individualistic to others. Yes, we care about our tribe but exactly that can lead to hatred or wars against other tribes.

@istvansipos9940 4 года назад

luckily, that idea is not only depressing, it is also false. even the most competitive business ventures need a capable team to prosper. an author, f.e., can be succeessful on her/his very own. but a handful of exceptions aside, you always need a team for success. humans are co-operative by nature. they had to become co-operative waaaay back in pre-human times.

@negativeindustrial 4 года назад

Depressing to people who can’t compete effectively.

@Pravinkumar-zv7ww 4 года назад

Also saying dogs show true love is a joke Humans captured and cared for their pets that's y they've evolved looking up to humans but still @night when they're in groups their wild instincts kick in.

@alyssemcginty5964 4 года назад

agreed! humans, homo sapiens and neanderthals alike, are empathetic and compassionate by nature, it’s not something that is learned but rather is an essential part of us due to thousands of years of evolution. we had to care for each other in order to survive. The fact that cruelty and selfishness is not only beneficial but encouraged under capitalism should be a huge red flag tbh. it goes against our very nature.

@sungillk12 4 года назад

If the Neaderthals were similar to us, the length of pregnancy and helplessness of the newborns would have made essential the need for community caring.

@chadwickmacarthur4760 4 года назад

It's amazing to think this man had a name and a family was a small child at one time and yet even after death he is showing us the true humanity we are capable of

@dschonsie 4 года назад

the neanderthal paintings by tom björklund are fascinating, they are worth a look ^

@ronjayrose9706 4 года назад

@@dschonsie same there exceptionally beautiful

@drmarikabouchon7361 4 года назад

And don't display very often

@festethephule7553 4 года назад

@@drmarikabouchon7361 I think we display it often enough. Most of us just tend to be focused on other things.

@lanadellhatestheclock3325 4 года назад

Lovely way to put it!

@aniksamiurrahman6365 4 года назад

I bet Shanidar-1 was a legend in his day, the type of man who lived through many dangerous adventures, hunts and wars alike and still lived to tell the tale to his descendants. The experienced elder who leads the tribe through difficulties or at least who's advice kept them alive through rainy days.

@zacka6226 3 года назад

Indeed. He may not have been physically useful after his injuries, but he might have tremendous value in experience. He could tell people where to camp, where to hunt, teach them about plants and animals and weather. Even today, so many of our leaders are basically geriatrics who are long past their physical prime, but their wisdom is what we value.

@deathmetal0073 Год назад

Probably had children with him

@judsonwall8615 Год назад

Beautiful comment. Made my day better.

@Jenacide Год назад

That's one of the major advantages to being a social animal, passing information down from generation to generation. That would definitely make older members valuable even if they are no longer physically able. Another advantage of empathy among social animals.

@mr.miyagi9584 Год назад

What i thought too.. respected elder

@rebazkhurshed392 4 года назад

The cave you refer to, Shanadar, is actually in my province and I’ve been there couple of times :) it’s massive inside¡

@nyar2352 4 года назад

Rebaz Khurshed I cannot begin to express how much I envy you! It must be wonderful to be so close to such wonders

@rebazkhurshed392 4 года назад

@@nyar2352 even the hike to the cave is breath taking. There is another prehistoric site in the region called Jarmo, believed to date back to 7090 BC. Really humbling!

@beback_ 4 года назад

Bezhi! 👍

@farajaraf 4 года назад

Thanks!

@rebazkhurshed392 4 года назад

Arya Pourtabatabaie hey glad to see a fellow Kurdish here :)

@brad1669 4 года назад

Neanderthal Grandson: HEY GRANDPA, HOW ARE YOU! Shanidar 1: My hip aches, I walk slow, I can't hear well, I have poor sight, I could go on but there's no use complaining, noone listens.

@warhawkjah 3 года назад

“I lost my arm in the great Sapien war of 50,000 BC.”

@ek7675 3 года назад

Neanderthal Grandpa would probably be no more than 30

@brad1669 3 года назад

@@ek7675 well I'm 33, my back aches and my eye sight is going so yeah haha

@lemurpie9381 3 года назад

@@brad1669 pretty good evidence then

@ChristmasLore 2 года назад

Wether they listened or not: he was alive: pretty well cared for. It's amazing and beautiful 🍃

@ianmacfarlane1241 4 года назад

This really shouldn't be that surprising - all Great Apes care for each other and many other animals do the same. There's no reason to imagine that Neanderthals didn't share the full gamut of human emotions including love, empathy and respect for each other. The Old Man of La Chappelle (Dave?) and Shanidar One presumably lived with their extended families, and particularly with the latter his injuries might have occurred during a hunt as a youth - either an interaction with a large animal or a fall from height, and in that case he'd have sacrificed his mobility for the group. When I see how similar we are to Chimps, Benobos, Gorillas and Orang Utan I can only imagine that Neanderthals were almost exactly like us in every regard.

@patrickmccurry1563 4 года назад

I see things from the other side. Many modern humans would ditch someone that much of an anchor to the group's survival. Many would probably try to stumble into the wild so as not to burden their family. The fact that the tribe could support someone not directly contributing to its survival says something about their "surplus" of resources and ingenuity.

@AverageAlien 4 года назад

Maybe even smarter than us. They had more advanced tools, rituals, and could even spark fire before humans.

@Glamosapien 4 года назад

Ian Macfarlane people don’t always think with reason unfortunately

@megavisser100 4 года назад

@@AverageAlien that was mainly because they left africa sooner i think, in europe there are less predators and the difficulty of surviving there comes more from the environment. more time to invent tools when youre not running away from huge predators and your biggest concern is having food for winter.

@ianmacfarlane1241 4 года назад

@@patrickmccurry1563 Many humans certainly would do that, and I understand exactly what you're saying and where you're coming from. However, many more would care for the disabled individual, as is borne out by the millions of selfless acts that we see every day. I suppose that the truth would be somewhere in the middle ground - it usually is. Take two entirely separate groups of modern humans, and in this hypothesis imagine that they are hunter/gatherers - one group might be led by a matriarch/patriarch who is all about the family unit, full of empathy and kindness for the 'weaker' members of the group, whereas the other group is led by a matriarch/patriarch who sees things from a different perspective, ready to cast off anyone who threatens to weaken the unit. Are both groups human, showing entirely human characteristics? Which group's actions would be seen as the correct way to proceed? We've also seen this in the Great Apes - I forget the exact name, but( it's easily found, I'll check after posting if necessary) I'm sure that you're aware of a chimpanzee war, (one of many I imagine, but Jane Goodall witnessed this) which was, by all accounts horrific - vindictive and calculated acts of brutality from our closest relatives - just like us. We're complex - at times warlike and brutal, but are capable of great kindness. Perhaps this Neanderthal was just lucky enough to belong to the right group. Maybe if he'd belonged to another group he'd have been left to die - or even helped along. Maybe he wasn't that much of a burden - perhaps he had another useful, but less physical skill - perhaps he was highly valued prior to his injuries - son of the group leader. Conjecture and supposition is all we've got.✌️

@tiacho2893 4 года назад

The qualities that make us “human” were and are found in our closely related “cousins”. That doesn’t make us less special. It means that our idea of human gets a bit more broad.

@patrickmccurry1563 4 года назад

In most groups, human is usually defined as a genus not a species anyway.

@tiacho2893 4 года назад

Patrick McCurry Not human in the Linnaean sense. The sense that the anthropocentric idea of humans as separate from nature and inherently superior becomes a quaint relic.

@Miketod3 4 года назад

Noo really

@patrickturner6878 4 года назад

@@tiacho2893 We've been separate from nature since the day we discovered how to reliably make a flame. That diverged us from all other life on Earth. Superior no, but definitely separate from nature.

@tiacho2893 4 года назад

hunter christensen That is the opposite of the point. Qualities previously assumed to be solely attributed to Homo sapiens are found in other hominids.

@bbinkovitz 4 года назад

One detail that I especially love: Shanidar I was buried with flowers. Neanderthals show that Kropotkin was right about mutual aid among the animals and people. Compassion is in our deepest nature as feeling beings.

@therockinboxer 4 года назад

love the note about the flowers. Some people believe that our ability to recognize beauty is what separates us from the beasts. Do you think magic mushrooms could have helped bridge that gap?

@diamondskull0739 2 года назад

Conquest of bread might be slightly overrated l, but Mutual aid: a factor of evolution holds up incredibly well considering the limited information someone in his them had to go off

@chickensalad3535 3 месяца назад

@@therockinboxerI don’t think that only humans can appreciate beauty.

@lillyess385 3 месяца назад

They were probably more gentle than we are. That's why we killed them off.

@jso6790 4 года назад

This is incredible. I remember when I first heard of evidence of Neanderthal burial rites, and how shocking that was, but as the evidence grows it seems shocking that we doubted.

@HarryG-man 4 года назад

Maybe the tribes of Neanderthals looking after these old boys thought that they had earned a more comfortable life. They had done so much and endured so much for the tribe that they wanted to look after them and keep them around, even crippled and old, because of the knowledge and experience they had.

@Deadsea_1993 3 года назад

Precisely why they were kept around. Knowledge was very important to the tribe and so was respect. Even elderly people can still offer help by communication

@kathleenann631 2 года назад

Like us today, they loved them.

@TheHothead101 Год назад

Maybe it wasn't so utilitarian. Maybe they just didn't want to lose these people from their lives.

@JubioHDX Год назад

@@TheHothead101 thats the same thing as what op said, except they just gave some subconscious reasoning as to why they wouldnt want to lose them from their lives. theres superficial reasons too, like maybe the guy was funny or caring himself, but having knowledge and experience is definitely another factor as to why we evolved to care about our elders so much

@isahellepain5002 4 года назад

Wasn't there a crow with a broken beak that was cared for by their mate for many years?

@MinorZero 4 года назад

Haven't heard about it, but wouldn't surprise, crows are very intelligent, there relative brain size is similar to humans, they can solve complex problems which equals those of seven year olds, so them having a sense of compassion isn't out of the question

@jaisanatanrashtra7035 4 года назад

You mean a broken leg Trex who was cared by other members of it's flock

@dr.rajasaurusandunclebonec6526 4 года назад

Don’t know if this was a joke, but birds do.. do stuff like that!

@julesmasseffectmusic 4 года назад

Try magpies, they recognise specific human faces and spread the word on arseholes. In Oz you can end up dodging those MFs for 60 years and they can cross bred with Ravens.

@jyvben1520 4 года назад

@@jaisanatanrashtra7035 birds are dinosaurs ... i seem to remember

@stevenbaumann8692 4 года назад

Whenever someone says we were perfectly designed. I say two words...human teeth.

@balthiersgirl2658 4 года назад

And lack of replacements there of

@reubencaldwell8494 4 года назад

Back problems

@leam89 4 года назад

Appendix

@stevenbaumann8692 4 года назад

balthiers girl yep!

@zero12304 4 года назад

I would say skin. We need clothes to basically survive. When naked it's only takes 10-20 degree Celsius to kill us.

@SoleaGalilei 4 года назад

Great video, both educational and beautiful! The people who took care of these men had no idea their kindness would be rediscovered and appreciated many thousands of years later.

@funkyflames7430 4 года назад

Everyday we stray closer to the understanding of our origins.

@scottywills124 4 года назад

Stray?

@Odrikah 4 года назад

@@scottywills124 It's a reference to a meme. Usually it says "Every day we stray further from God's light" and is usually in response to some cursed image. They tried to twist it to make ot positive, though, for this.

@Burn_Angel 4 года назад

"The more we know, the less we understand."

@scottywills124 4 года назад

@@Odrikah huh ya thats a strange twist in the meaning. thanks for the explanation.

@GoldenBoyDims 4 года назад

Neanderthal DNA is only in Eurasians so it's not my origin

@dayalasingh5853 4 года назад

These Neandrathal and other human videos are some of my favourites.

@Lishadra 4 года назад

Mine too, easily!!

@paulafigueroa1573 4 года назад

But the thing I’d they were not humans. They’re another species.

@khaias7822 4 года назад

Paula Figueroa nope, they’re humans

@nasirahmad4661 4 года назад

@@paulafigueroa1573 They are human , different breed not different species . Like how a Husky and a Pit bull are both dogs but different breed.

@HyTricksyy 3 года назад

mine too, but when he said "we are the only humans left" it kinda hit hard. Homo sapiens were just better and natural selection did its thing, but still...

@rainbowsandcrap 3 года назад

The description of the Old Man sounds a lot like one of the main characters of the first book from Jean Auel's Earth's Children series! It's definitely a graphic book series, but excellently written, and the author spent many years working hand in hand with archeologists and anthropologists to make much of the book based on actual archeological finds of early hominids!

@aquaticcatfey Год назад

Mog-ur Creb was based off of Shanidar 1, IIRC.

@avii3 4 года назад

Caring for our elders is super imperative across many cultures. I’m surmising that their groups respected them for their wisdom and work they put in at their prime since they have many battle scars it’s safe to assume that they did a lot to protect, feed, and further their group when they were young and healthy and are being repaid in their age with respect and care. I can imagine the wealth of wisdom they would have that would be crucial to pass on to the next generation. ❤️

@omelfilip 4 года назад

It’s videos like these that humble me, humans aren’t as special as we like to think, even today we’re learning so much about just how similar we are to other animals.

@alternateaccount2960 4 года назад

Well, its more of that we are similar to our cousins, the apes, and chimps. Which is to be expected since we all are part of the primate family. But to other animals, we are very different. It's just that we treat apes and chimps like other animals, but they are very much connected to us. We just forget that fact and believe we are special compared to the other primates when that isn't 100 percent true. We are unique in terms of our brain capabilities, but emotions and compassion is linked to other primates as well, along with a few other mammals.

@kushtaseti4336 4 года назад

Neanderthals are humans lol

@patrickturner6878 4 года назад

@@alternateaccount2960 All social animals are like us in many ways. A social animal must have ways of expressing desires and needs to the group. That requires a similar set of behaviors whether one is human or squirrel.

@nirbija 4 года назад

Not being complete human yourself, how could you know that humans ARE INDEED "special" class of creatures on the planet? lol

@GodCarnage 4 года назад

nirbija Only Africans who are not mixed with Eurasians Have 100% Human DNa everyone else has 1-15% Neanderthal DNA

@medan880 4 года назад

This makes me completely rethink the historic accuracy of The Croods. Very interesting

@ronjayrose9706 4 года назад

Oh speaking of Croods didn't you know their making a part 2???

@Ezullof 4 года назад

The Croods is about 0% accurate.

@jenobi7266 4 года назад

Ronjay Rose They aren’t. They cancelled production

@AskiatheGreat64 4 года назад

Quest for Fire is mostly the closest movie of depictions of accurate Neanderthals or Homo Helderbergensis.

@medan880 4 года назад

Ronjay Rose I did not! How exciting

@tlac4120 4 года назад

Picture these old men and women sitting at the fire, teaching the next generation about the ways of life and wonders of nature. Appreciated by them. And frequently asked by the children to tell the scary stories of their hunting wounds, again and again.

@peterszeug308 4 года назад

I'm so happy you've brought up that topic, there's way too many people who still think of neanderthals as very primitive !

@8393Robertrex 4 года назад

When you put all the evidence together, this dude must have been REALLY frustrated grumpy and angry all the time. Like in constant pain. Always trying to hold back from showing his aggravation, trying to be as nice as he can while literally suffering, and people forgiving him anyway when he couldnt take it anymore and snapped at them, everyone sortof saying "its okay, we get it, besides youre one of us, and we love you anyway." ..aand now im crying😭😭😭

@patrickmccurry1563 4 года назад

Probably got tired of, "Okay, cave-boomer".

@rayzorrayzor9000 4 года назад

You just described ME and my waning life . One is weak and in constant pain but you try your best to hide it so that you don’t become a further burden on loved ones, I’m so angry at myself inside and I’ve just realised I’ve gotta let that anger go otherwise I’m just gonna get more in more bitter, Thanks , you’ve just given this ol’ man another reason to enjoy actually being alive . Take Care . R .

@myceilauniverse9096 4 года назад

@@rayzorrayzor9000 try some kratom. Slightly more addictive then coffee and effects the MU opioid receptor which is the main anti pain opioid receptor so the high is very minimal less intoxicating then pharmaceutical opioids and far far less addictive which pharmaceuticals affects kappa, delta and Mu receptors... even less intoxicating then cannabis... that in combination with a tumeric extract(qunol is one of the best brands) will change your life. Turmeric extract alone will do you wonders for joint pain and overall inflammation levels which inflammation is the main cause of pain. Reds are great for pain while whites and green give more energy. Back in the day around the 60s they where using potent extracts to do surgery on patients without putting them under. Oregno, peppers, ect anything spicy essentially will affect the MU opioid receptors to varying degrees. Kraoma.com is a great tested American brand of kratom.

@mastercharlesdiltardino8058 4 года назад

@Rick Simpson you grew up alot faster in the old days. The torah says rebecca was like 5 or so but she carried water to a dozen thirsty camels from a well. That would tire me out.

@grubbybum3614 4 года назад

@@myceilauniverse9096 were thos ingredients native to the Neanderthal region?

@user-hh2is9kg9j 4 года назад

it seems that they had better health care than my hometown.

@amyreynolds7244 4 года назад

Ow ow ow ow ow why you do this to me.

@user-zj6hn4nb1m 3 года назад

Where you from? lol

@illnessshaw 3 года назад

Where are you from?

@justanothermortal1373 5 месяцев назад

And their community cared for each other

@aliciadonadio2597 4 года назад

If I remember correctly, there is a pack of (wild) wolves in Germany where one pack member lives with three legs. I think Ive also read that scientists found bones of wolves (not sure if it were graywolves or an extinct species) which appeared to have broken and healed again. So even wolves seem to care for injured pack members to an extant. It seems that mankind systematically underestimates the inner lives of every other living animals, from sparrow to chimp. Really says a lot about humans.

@JockMcBile 4 года назад

Thank you to everyone. Hope you ALL had a great Happy New Year. I REALLY appreciate these episodes.

@chelsey8737 4 года назад

My bio anthro class over the summer talked about this and these exact specimens in great detail!

@davidsi5376 4 года назад

Oh yea? Thats great! Anything other than what this video said?

@k.p.8955 4 года назад

Cool. This is so interesting.

@StephenRahrig 4 года назад

Chelsey Abbott So he watched this video then

@chelsey8737 4 года назад

@@StephenRahrig I'm sure she did actually and was thrilled

@amandastephanie8989 4 года назад

oP I y I’ll L lhg

@WickedWildlife 4 года назад

🐨 How about a video on the evolutionary history of koalas? 🐨 They are really struggling here with the fires and I think deserve an episode! I’m actually on my way to the fire front tomorow to film with some wildlife carers who have burnt koalas coming in left right & centre

@douglasgorde5823 4 года назад

I think an episode about kangaroos would be cool too!

@WickedWildlife 4 года назад

Douglas Gorde it would Most people don’t know there’s over 50 species of macropod in Australia and most people can only think of “kangaroos and wallabies”

@JamesTheFoxeArt 4 года назад

Yes

@AverageAlien 4 года назад

Koalas are some of the dumbest mammals actually. They have a smooth brains and eat their own crap. Also their lifestyles basically means that they are pretty slow and useless.

@WickedWildlife 4 года назад

Average Alien well actually they eat their mothers crap not their own, and while they have the smallest brain to body ratio of any mammal on earth that in itself is an interesting adaptation to their environment We use a huge amount of energy fueling a brains and in this day and age it seems many people still don’t use their brains, Who’s really the dumb animal 🤷🏽‍♂️😂

@biglil771 4 года назад

Please do a video on extinct African mega fauna like the Natodomeri lion, Palaeoloxodon Recki, Pelorovis Antiquus, Sivatherium Giganteum

@DouglasKYoung 4 года назад

The cave was more likely a graveyard or a convenient motel when following herds, than permanent habitation. The concept of "cave-man" is faulty. There are not enough caves to support a single hominid species across a broad geographic distribution for such a duration. One bad year and the species would disappear. They were most likely 'tent-men', and women, but tents don't persist in the archaeological record.

@jackd1582 4 года назад

There were never very many of them . Harsh habitat, lack of winter proof lodging ....and eating each other ... Across 350,000 yrs before we turned up and invaded their lands

@TheCreativeNick 4 года назад

Can you imagine if Neanderthals were still alive

@LuisAldamiz 4 года назад

In a sense they are. Unless you're pureblood African you carry for sure Neanderthal ancestry... at around 2.5% of your genome. Straight hair is probably Neanderthal inheritance.

@ionfalcom1 4 года назад

@@darealpoopster You seem fun.

@johnprotagonist7296 4 года назад

@@darealpoopster Yes but they mated with homo sapiens alot. That's why we carry some of their genes

@BrellK 4 года назад

Considering how we treat other HUMANS, the chance of them surviving US was very unlikely.

@parkb5320 4 года назад

If Neanderthals we’re still alive today we would have made them our slaves. If we can’t even get along with humans of different skin color, there is no way we would get along with another species. We’d treat them worse than animals.

@tomatoface12 4 года назад

It might be because Im high, but this video made me cry.

@manuelramirezaldrete 4 года назад

perfectlemonade I’m not and I did.

@WouldntULikeToKnow. 4 года назад

Completely sober and I teared up.

@josiannegagne6667 4 года назад

I cried too! And here I was thinking that something must be wrong with me for crying over a video on Neanderthals 😅 Glad I'm not the only one.

@aleka.. 4 года назад

@@josiannegagne6667 I came here from heartbreaking / heartwarming caring for coalas videos, one about sewing project for beds and pouches for rescued, and another which shows hospital &people helping animals ... under wich there are awful heartless comments about immigrants, with laugh emojis. So I'm a bag of mixed, highly conflicting emotions about our humanity. And I cried too, watching this.

@AskiatheGreat64 4 года назад

Watch "Quest for fire"

@Vorador666 4 года назад

Really really cool video, learnt a lot watching it so thank you for your stellar work on PBS Eons.

@monicasofiaperez8556 4 года назад

Everytime you host, I get all teary eyed and moved to my core.

@justincarnes1656 4 года назад

5:39 My grandfather used to say, "I'm blind in one ear and can't see out of the other."

@ronjayrose9706 4 года назад

You're grandfather must've been a wise man 😉

@MinorZero 4 года назад

He probably was deaf in his eyes too by the sound of it

@GillianMStarlight 4 года назад

That sounds Yogi Berra-esque.

@justincarnes1656 4 года назад

@@MinorZero He would say that one occasionally too.

@justincarnes1656 4 года назад

@@ronjayrose9706 He had gems like that.

@ryanmahon2956 4 года назад

Trey the Explainer has an excellent video about this topic called “Disabilities in Prehistory” would definitely recommend watching

@aleka.. 4 года назад

yeah, I saw that, it's great

@tastyanagram 3 года назад

I'm going to watch this now. Thank you for recommending!

@kaloianlazarov2282 4 года назад

Amazing channel!I really like your works!Hope more people begin to watch your videos!

@Jop_pop 4 года назад

I love watching these videos all the time and even use them to fall asleep! I think it'd also be a good idea to make playlists of the different hosts, so that I can easily pick which voice I want to listen to in a given evening. I imagine I'm not the only one who wants this?

@chelsey8737 4 года назад

Im glad these videos are getting longer. I like the 9+ videos more than the shorter 6min ones from earlier

@boreabalsam 4 года назад

Nobody does egocentrism like us 🤦‍♂️ compassion and care exist widely in the animal kingdom. Empathy probably arrived a long ways back in our family tree

@Ezullof 4 года назад

Ironic to say that on a video that shows that we are not, in fact, egocentric.

@boreabalsam 4 года назад

Napishtim the idea is that only we could show empathy and compassion. Humanity struggles deeply w bias and centrism. But, yes, ironic

@DarkMoonDroid 4 года назад

It seems to me that we inherited empathy from the animals. And are now busy breeding and "optimizing" it out.

@boreabalsam 4 года назад

Jennifer Grove ♥️

@SikWidiT390 4 года назад

Amazingly educational! Well done TEAM!

@SuperQatarGirl 4 года назад

The same sort of interpersonal care can be implied from observing one of the hominins excavated at Dmanisi, Georgia. One of the skulls (can't remember the name for the life of me right now) had no teeth associated with it. This, in and of itself, is no great surprise, as, depending on preservation, teeth can go flying in all sorts of directions post mortem, and can become lost during excavation, as well. The remarkable thing, is that this individual had lost all its teeth well before it died, as evidenced by the completely smoothed, and therefore healed, upper and lower jaw. Loss of teeth, as mentioned in this video, could have required that very specific sorts of food be prepared for the individual that currently found themselves without their dentures, and the fact that the individual survived many years after the loss of all their teeth would seem to imply that conspecific care was at work. That is, other members of the impaired individual's group helped to take care of them by preparing specific, soft foods for them. This sort of stuff is why I love studying archaeology and anthropology!

@Leftatalbuquerque 4 года назад

Yay, my favourite narrator/presenter is back.

@DougOfTheAntarctic 4 года назад

Yes... and he can say French words correctly! (What's he doing on PBS...) Possibly one of those crypto-Canadians?

@julesmasseffectmusic 4 года назад

@@DougOfTheAntarctic Does he pronounce niche correctly?

@julesmasseffectmusic 4 года назад

Second favourite, I like the woman's voice, I pity her kids though, i cannot imagine yelling at her (as your mum) and hearing her reasonable tone back is very cathartic.

@sargecad3t 4 года назад

Mutual aid: a factor in natural selection

@huckleberryharrison6248 4 года назад

What's interesting about that is, if true, compasion helps pass on genes.

@huckleberryharrison6248 4 года назад

@@macmcskullface1004 You're probably right.

@sargecad3t 4 года назад

@@joaonada42 Exactly the guy I was thinking of

@OhMyRoystone 4 года назад

@@macmcskullface1004 maybe not direct causal genes, but compassion and altruism is just in genes interest. It helps to survive and guarantees the higher chance of passing on. So basically altruism and compassion is probably an "invention" (direct or not) of egoistic genes. (I recommend reading "The Selfish Gene", it covers this topic in great detail.)

@mr.mercury4247 4 года назад

It's not necessarily compassion specifically, but the intelligence required to be capable of compassion.

@auroratripodi4808 4 года назад

I just love these video, they are so beautiful and well made! Can I ask you guys at PBS Eons about the evolution of spiders and their webs? Anyway, love your content, keep it up

@indiighoul 4 года назад

ngl i'm so glad u guys uploaded bc i had my operation yesterday and it's 4am and i can't sleep and this is the gud kush for me :)))

@nebulan 4 года назад

I can't help but wonder with they have the same dominant right-handedness ratio as we do. Either way his injury kinda ... forced his hand.

@dernudel1615 4 года назад

You forgot to put on your sunglasses.

@AverageAlien 4 года назад

Maybe it has something to do with our brains?

@patrickmccurry1563 4 года назад

I believe that such handedness has been shown to have existed in hominins since nearly the first such species. I believe most linguistically adept species show a dominant hand. I think it's generally the hand that connects to the hemisphere with the "linguistic module". For most humans, that's the left hemisphere and right hand. In parrots, I believe it's usually the right hemisphere and left claw.

@ariboehm115 4 года назад

Indeed they did. Here is an article on the study confirming right-hand dominance: www.nbcnews.com/id/48781052/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/most-neanderthals-were-right-handed-us-researchers-find/#.XiD_neuIaF1 And here is the scientific paper: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3425541/

@isihernandez9752 4 года назад

@@patrickmccurry1563 not exactly. Yes, most humans' dominant side is the right (so their "motor-dominant" hemisphere is the left), but the "lingustic module", as you call it, is on the left side of ALL humans, including left handed (it's call "Broca's area"). Not to mention when there is a crossed dominance (one side arm and opposite side leg, i.e.), or ambidexterity. As a physiotherapist I can give you an example. When there is an ictus (or brain stroke), or whatever brain injury, it's very common to get an hemiplegia (one side, right or left, paralized). A right side hemiplegia is caused by a left hemisphere injury, as you know. Well, in these cases it's very common to find a big trouble or even total inability in speaking, when this Broca's area is affected, called "Broca's aphasia". This never happens when the affected hemisphere is the right (so left paralysis), even with left handed people. Yes, there might be other speaking or communication troubles, but dued to motor issues of the muscles required for speaking (dysathria) or other cognitive functions issues, but it ain't the same.

@onionsnevercry4685 4 года назад

I wonder what future anthropologists will think of our species when they find the many groups burials of the civilians died in the recent wars

@ericwood3709 4 года назад

That's assuming we don't bring about our own extinction.

@pablolongobardi7240 4 года назад

@@ericwood3709 these future anthropologists need not be human as we understand it

@oonaallen9550 4 года назад

Surgeries and edited DNA

@ericwood3709 4 года назад

@@pablolongobardi7240 Chances are there won't be any other species of anthropologist on this planet. Even if humanity were wiped out while leaving the earth somehow able to sustain life of our kind in the aftermath (again, not at all likely), time is running out on the cosmic and evolutionary time scales before the sun gets too hot and makes this planet a hot hell anyway.

@alexbonilla2041 4 года назад

Eric Wood well that theoretically is billions of years away still, so I like to hope that if we end up destroying ourselves the earth will be able to repair itself and create a new species that will one day find our remains

@jmurph8111 4 года назад

Just gonna day this is like the best educational source of nerdy stuff like this, love you pbs eons, keep up the good work, please make more because I have no more to watch lol!

@vickilawrence7207 4 года назад

That was so interesting & inspiring! Thanks so much for ur info!

@davidbuschhorn6539 4 года назад

I read once, that Neanderthals tend to have similar bone fractures to modern bull-riders. _Lots_ of broken bones.

@borbie 4 года назад

ADORED this episode!!!! Absolutely wonderful. May I suggest an anomalocaris episode?? I would LOVE to hear anything about the first predators of the Earth

@jacklandismusic 4 года назад

This is a wonderful, wholesome, heartwarming video for sure. But also. I’ve never realized until now how big Blake’s hands are.

@JohnJohansen2 4 года назад

Thank's a lot! Great video! 👍

@Grand_History 4 года назад

This guy was the human version of Big Al

@good7bad138 4 года назад

Was looking for a comment like this. Man, inaccurate the Walking With series were but they were my childhood.

@captainvanhorn773 4 года назад

But Big Al is much better

@Grand_History 4 года назад

Captain Vanhorn that’s not even the comparison I’m making. They are two individuals who tell a lot of how their species lived through the many injuries present in their fossilized skeletons. I don’t care about them being “cool”

@Grand_History 4 года назад

@richardrenejohansen3191 4 года назад

I remember the Big Al VHS i got in my chrismas stocking when I was a kid. I think it's the first documentary I ever saw

@1800mexicano 4 года назад

You are for real my favourite host

@eons 4 года назад

Hey, thanks! (BdeP)

@trustmewhenisay6515 4 года назад

Excellent video to start the day . Cheers , job well done.

@annegellman5948 4 года назад

Just awesome. Really inspired. TNX a lot💯💯🔥

@zacharyhuffman1863 4 года назад

I hate it when people say ancient humans (15,000 to 100,000 years ago) were somehow lesser than us now. They were anatomically the same. So they probably had similar thoughts, dreams, and desires.

@dustyprater7884 4 года назад

Great video!! It makes me wonder what were the medical capabilities of early hominids? They probably would've known of medical plants, but could they have figured out basic first aid, like setting a bone? Anyway, keep up the good work!!😁

@elainemaguire2269 4 года назад

Your detailed description of Shanidar 1 bears a remarkable resemblance to Jean M. Auel's description of 'Creb', her shaman character in 'Clan of the Cave Bear'. Fascinating stuff!

@aquaticcatfey Год назад

He was based on Shanidar 1.

@nakenmil 4 года назад

Trey the Explainer has a great video on this, with several other examples from throughout human prehistory, where disabled or injured group members must've been cared for for extended periods of time.

@sidilicious11 4 года назад

Being a hominid can be rough. It’s amazing anyone wants to do it.

@moarsaur 4 года назад

Yet it's still less rough than being any of the other things (unless sheltered by hominids).

@beback_ 4 года назад

Nobody ever asked me if I'd rather be a sloth instead.

@aspiringscientificjournali1505 4 года назад

Idk maybe next play through ill be a kitty

@MikePhoenix007 4 года назад

The Pleistocene Neanderthal 2:03 had a pretty dope hairstyle actually. One of the best manbuns I've seen. Also, is he wearing aviators?!

@abhinav2715 4 года назад

Gives goosebumps just by knowing about the things we have gone through in our evolutionary process. Kind of gives hope that no matter what we will survive.

@MaryAnnNytowl 2 года назад

That last fella described sounds a lot like me, physically. Helps me understand what he had to have gone through. Very cool video, guys - not sure how I missed it, but glad I found it, now, even a year late!

@arno-luyendijk4798 4 года назад

Gosh. This story makes me emotional and humble.

@mitchellskene8176 4 года назад

Whenever I hear someone talk about Shanidar 1, I get happy that someone is talking about Creb.

@balthiersgirl2658 4 года назад

Utterly agree

@LizardBrainMinerals 4 года назад

I was hinting to see if someone else had seen the similarities. I love this. And it help me visualize the novels much better.

@mitchellskene8176 4 года назад

@@LizardBrainMinerals I thought it was common knowledge that Auel based Creb on Shanidar 1, even though she had conceived the idea of Creb before doing research. I guess I was wrong.

@silkymilky4909 4 года назад

I might go live in a cave and hunt for food so when I’m eventually found or my bones are found they will think cavemen still existed

@4o8.sebastian 3 года назад

SilkyMilky they can tell how old you were by the age of your bones. They would know “oh this is just a stupid homeless guy who died here”

@mikaoh4617 4 года назад

It's always heart warming to learn something like this that debunks myths of people (or animals) being heartless. Great video.

@Blue_Fire-Chibi 4 года назад

I definitely thought this was a important video to hear about

@Evolution1101 4 года назад

This one got me right in the feels.

@stephenkessel1990 4 года назад

Love this channel!!!

@rivercox8172 4 года назад

I would love to see more Precambrian stuff from you guys! I know there isnt all that much information about it but I'm sure you guys know more about it than I do. I'd also love a series that covers what caused each change in period, like what separates the Jurassic from the Cretaceous

@Twitchi 4 года назад

Still would like to know more about STEVE, is he actually an immortal ancestor? sharing his love of education and knowledge after watching the world change so much

@michaelrauch8629 4 года назад

This was beyond beautiful

@Hugs273 4 года назад

Excellent video. Keep up the good work 👍

@jgv1 2 года назад

What a great episode- you guys are great

@colpul2103 4 года назад

By Shanadar 1 you mean Creb, most powerful Mugur of the Clan!

@carriemooney7215 4 года назад

colpul2 oh ha I love that book

@AethelredTheReady 4 года назад

The old Mogur. He is Clan

@maryclendenen5406 4 года назад

I'm reading a whole bunch of books right now, I'm on book 3 Mammoth Hunters

@jandrews6254 4 года назад

Beat me to it

@gwenzilly_ 4 года назад

The holiest of the holy men?

@chelsey8737 4 года назад

Wooo I was just thinking about a new video

@Kudu300 4 года назад

I absolutely love your show. I cant wait for my boy to be old enough to enjoy this as after school tv rather than cartoons. You guys and girls do a good job.

@perneco123 3 года назад

Outstanding vid. Ty

@lexid6943 4 года назад

I think a video on the evolution of chameleons would be really interesting, especially because of how many different breeds (if thats what you want to call them) there are.

@noaholson9047 4 года назад

This puts a smile to my face knowing that all humans are capable of true love and kindness even throughout the darkest corners of time

@AaronDames 4 года назад

Have you guys every thought about making an "Eons app" that presents some of the Eons material in an accessible app form? Maybe it could be in the format of the geologic time scale and one could zoom-in and learn about the material you've presented in the episodes that correspond to that time period. Although I'm not sure how'd you fit-in larger concepts (continental drift for instance) that transcend multiple eons. Also, did you or are you still planing on making the episode on placentas that was mentioned in the 'When Giant Amphibians Reigned' episode (at least I think it was that one). I really enjoyed the episode on sponges, which may be as close as we'll get to seeing an episode on coral. It'd be cool to see an episode on what we know about microscopic ancient life and evolution - such as bacterium, pond life, phytoplankton, etc. Thanks for the great videos! If I ever have to home school my kids they'll be watching a lot of Eons.

@coryjenkins4179 4 года назад

Great video thanks for sharing.

@diegog1853 4 года назад

That neanderthal shows up as Creb in the famous book Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel, is the first book in a series about a fictional story in the time where Homosapiens and Neanderthals lived together, pretty good read. I'm sure some of the viewers would be interested

@MontgomeryWenis 4 года назад

How do we know he absolutely lost his right arm before he died? We've found incomplete sets of most of the fossils we've collected, and those aren't said to be missing limbs and teeth.

@emil-kirilov 4 года назад

great episode!!

@ashleyl.8447 4 года назад

This is very beautiful and interesting!!!

@markholton8555 4 года назад

No mention of the buried with flowers part?

@sorensouthard927 4 года назад

This really is a lesson in how modern medicine and society allows us to live free of death injury.

@MinorZero 4 года назад

It isn't complete yet, sadly for many, but we have come a long way. Just taking a light pain killer when you need it is a blessing already you should appreciate, let alone for the more serious stuff

@abogadojon 4 года назад

Sure, Soren, IF you have the thousands and thousands of dollars to buy such care . . . no problem !

@cavdude6id 4 года назад

Im a 30% disabled veteran, so tell me HOW im living injury free.

@CThyran 4 года назад

@@cavdude6id Are you dead? I'd assume not so you prove his point. To live free of deadly injury.

@nyar2352 4 года назад

*squeals* THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! I did several presentations on Shanidar Shkaft and the co-occurrence of homo sapiens neanderthalensis and homo sapiens sapiens in SW Asia for undergrads! It is really important to make people aware that their cartoonish ideas of prehistoric humans do not reflect actual reality. It is due to misinformation that people believe in ridiculous 'ancient aliens' ideas, closing their eyes to the amazing wonder that is the past. If you ever decide to do one of these again, may I suggest delving into the cohabitation of caves like Shanidar between different types of hominids? The stratigraphy really has a lot to offer in that regard. Similarly, the FOXP2 gene might be an interesting point of departure. Dr. Pääbo's work is groundbreaking and really useful for that. Again, thanks for this episode!Extremely happy now.

@phatghettorat 4 года назад

Love this channel

@fading_trails 4 года назад

I guess the irony of the title, that these "cave men" should teach us about humanity, is unintended. There's nothing more lacking in this world than compassion.

@CThyran 4 года назад

@G. S. X. That's not how any of that happened, the groups that came out of Africa interbred with Neanderthals which is why everyone but Africans has a bit of Neanderthal DNA.