This Face TOTALLY Changes the Human Story

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Greetings, fellow Homo sapiens. Our species is the only remaining member of the genus of upright, walking apes known as Homo. Where did we come from? Our history just got a whole lot more complicated (in a good way) thanks to some incredible new fossils unearthed in South Africa over the past few years. I got to visit them, and the scientists who discovered them, to learn their story and ours. Meet your cousin: Homo naledi #homonaledi #humanorigins #evolution
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@kn0bhe4d 5 лет назад

I started getting nervous just looking at the diagram of the cave with its dimensions. And then they cut to them crawling to get through....yeah, no thanks. Huge props to them for braving that.

@Pickle_Candy 5 лет назад

Agreed, just watching them crawl through that small space gave me so much anxiety that I almost couldn’t get through it. I would not even remotely be able to handle myself if I had to do that myself for whatever reason; I have an enormous amount of respect for those people because of that.

@SoulDelSol 5 лет назад

Ahhhhh i cant either

@scarlettterry 5 лет назад

Did any of y'all catch the part at the very beginning when the ladies were telling you if you fell off the Dragon's Back the emergency responders would be sent down to you and you'd have to live in the cave until you were well enough to climb out of the cave yourself

@bluehairedemon 5 лет назад

I hate wide spaces, so for me it wasn't that bad

@megan2176 5 лет назад

Me too! My chest got tight, like I was crawling in the cave with them, through those tiny spaces (though I definitely wouldn't fit!!). Just thinking about it makes me anxious! Brave souls! Hope they get paid reeeeeally well!! :)

@TheClandestineDuck 3 года назад

imagine you're just eating mammoth meat with the bois and you see some taller and less hairy version of you

@nickvlogstv3170 3 года назад

B R U H

@arthas640 3 года назад

Sounds like a typical family gathering for me

@Victora-tb2ri 3 года назад

@@arthas640 xD

@thegoodlistenerslistenwell2646 3 года назад

I'm 5'2....and have hair on my back and feet....you trying to say something? Besides the hilariously obvious

@janusatthegate6201 3 года назад

Read Clan of The Cave Bear. The stupid movie is crap.

@danbrazier951 3 года назад

It seems logical to me that the earliest form of caring for the dead would be the simple act of preventing scavengers feeding on your relative's corpse by placing them in this cave and out of reach.

@Kayenne54 3 года назад

Wondering how easy the access used to be, though...

@carolevans5285 3 года назад

Ffs they would of eat there dead. Get real.

@rocketmanfossel1174 3 года назад

@@carolevans5285 there are cannibals in this world among us. doesn't mean entire human race is cannibalistic.

@MaryAnnNytowl 3 года назад

@@carolevans5285 then why was there no sign of cannibalism on the bones, themselves? Because it leaves traces on the bones which can clearly be seen, and there were none, on _any_ of these bones. Your conjecture is totally false.

@banana-uo3be 3 года назад

@@carolevans5285 your claim makes no sense

@SuperDipMonster 5 лет назад

"Underground astronaut", eh? How about "Terranaut"? (edit) or "Subterranaut".

@QuAntique 5 лет назад

2019 shill person needs to define what is already defined, disgusting

@deborahhanna6640 4 года назад

Someone already said, 'geonaut' but I like yours as qell.

@tonymeman9041 4 года назад

Subternaut

@kniqht5744 4 года назад

Geonaut?

@panayiotispanayiotou 4 года назад

hypogeonaut

@erinrising2799 5 лет назад

Brain the size of an orange? I think I work with some of his descendants

@You-pk6jh 5 лет назад

Politics isn't a personality

@winnifredforbes8712 4 года назад

Excellent!

@xyoungdipsetx 4 года назад

Erin Rising lol

@bitsaurus 4 года назад

@Hein van Nieuwenhuizen move. Russia would love to have you.

@Elsuper68 4 года назад

Democrats candidates have that size of brain , like orange

@keerthichandra376 4 года назад

To all the women and men who dare to get into those closeted caves. A big thank u for the lengths you guys go in the name of exploration 🙏

@MicahBuzanANIMATION 3 года назад

Those women are badass! I have felt sick watching them descend into the cave haha.

@brieannaladara4802 3 года назад

Hell yeah! No way would I ever crawl in there lol

@Clean-guy 3 года назад

I m also anthropologists and i have a dream to go in those cave in future and find something big that change homosapien history 😀

@Insect_Expert1489 3 года назад

I agree too bad that some people are not really that friendly to people who wanting to know where we come from.

@Insect_Expert1489 3 года назад

@@Clean-guy sounds like fun 🤩 hope that you find the first ape of humans and name it Adam and female one Eve aside from the Old testimony we need to give out human ancestors names like Lucy or Peter , James etc so that we can remember them because well they didn’t give each other’s names

@ОлегКозлов-ю9т 5 лет назад

"How did all these bones get in this cave?“ CSI: Neolith edition.

@andypmz07 5 лет назад

Looks like these bones arn't the only thing in the dark 😎

@greta8849 5 лет назад

it's okay to be gay...

@cjlooklin1914 5 лет назад

Zooms in on a picture if the South African landscape zoom all the way back to when these things walked the earth

@brendakrieger7000 5 лет назад

Lol

@melosbunjaku2743 5 лет назад

My guess is either they went in there avoiding a predator or danger (storm, earthquake) and were later burrowed alive. But do note that I know that I'm not taking into account the age of the fossils (considering they're young, it could take longer for the rocks to move if there hadn't been an earthquake)

@WhistlerTrainer 5 лет назад

I felt claustrophobic just watching this video.

@staberas 5 лет назад

those hominids weren't

@michaeldriggers7681 5 лет назад

I was gonna comment the same sentiment. I got nervous just watching them explain the cave's dimensions.

@BrotherAlpha 5 лет назад

I had trouble breathing watching that.

@LonelyCinderella123 5 лет назад

Imagine getting stuck when crawling through the narrowest part.

@robertbogardus7318 5 лет назад

No way in Hell i’m squeezing into that cave, Send in the Hobbits.

@jeronimomod156 3 года назад

I have personally moved a dead cat away from the road because the other cats were morning it so I placed it on the edge of the field so they could mourn it without getting hurt after some time I went back and buried the cat. It's quite touching to see animals display those deep kinds of emotions

@Nyctophora 3 года назад

Bless you, thank you for caring for the cats.

@hmziyan 3 года назад

i read "burned the cat" first lmao

@giantsquid2 2 года назад

Thank you. That was very kind.

@lalisajjang4563 4 года назад

"WE UNFORTUNATELY CAN'T ASK NEO" -PALEONTOLOGIST WITH GREAT SENSE OF HUMOR 2019

@jejeo4372 4 года назад

WHY ARE YOU SCREAMING

@baguette745 4 года назад

@@jejeo4372 Yeah

@She-Wolf_Witch 3 года назад

HELLO FELLOW BLINK. ;)

@rnedlo9909 3 года назад

Neo looks like my old Ag Studies teacher, I'll ask him.

@bellamckinnon8655 3 года назад

HE'S NOT TOO TALKATIVE

@francoislacombe9071 5 лет назад

The configuration of those caves must have changed a lot in 300000 years, because accessing those inner chambers in total darkness while dragging in a corpse would have been nigh impossible.

@icollectstories5702 5 лет назад

Perhaps it wasn't dark. And perhaps they had better night vision. And maybe there was a lot of yelling involved. This seems like an awfully important task.

@rdizzy1 5 лет назад

@@icollectstories5702 Also the people/hominids were much smaller, the average adult was 5ft tall and 100 lbs.

@rachelg9873 5 лет назад

@@icollectstories5702 "maybe there was a lot of yelling involved" that cracked me up. Lol

@Shadeem 5 лет назад

maybe they dropped them down that last bit?

@icollectstories5702 5 лет назад

@@rdizzy1 While I hold out hope it wasn't the kids laying the bodies out, I do wonder if this was a job for women, since they were also responsible for bringing life into the world.

@alexbowman7582 4 года назад

The human face has been at least partly formed by fire. Cooking food especially meat enabled the mouth and teeth to reduce in size and musculature.

@Yora21 3 года назад

Human faces are also particularly well suited to withstand getting punched in the face. We're much less in danger to have our nose broken than other apes. Humans are also the only apes that can really punch.

@drinkinslim 3 года назад

That's some good speculation right there. :)

@RJCHOICE 3 года назад

@@Yora21 That sounds like something you pulled out of your gluteus maximus. I'd venture to say you have much less a chance of breaking a gorilla's nose than he has of breaking yours. A gorilla has a much less exposed bridge that lies flat against its face, and the fact that it's exponentially more powerful than a human, a swat from its hand could shatter every facial bone in your skull.

@sebuhiqeribzade 3 года назад

@@RJCHOICE hahaha gluteus maximus lol dude XD

@emotionice7967 5 лет назад

"Only Humans have deliberate body disposal" Ants: hold my dead brother

@eunoia2453 5 лет назад

All ants worker is female

@jesuswasahermetic5871 5 лет назад

Rian Idryawan Something to strive towards.

@mangot589 5 лет назад

That’s funny. But aren’t they just really just cleaning out the nest?🤷‍♀️

@leighs.9463 4 года назад

*sister

@emilychb6621 4 года назад

Meh I dunno if that counts. Like humans don't typically just dumb bodies behind the fence in their backyard, like ants kinda do. They are just keeping their nest free of trash. They don't actually carry the bodies of their fellow dead to se specific graveside. They just treat them like any other trash to take out of their nest. Bees do the same. Even birds will kick out dead chicks from their nest.

@cacodaemonia 5 лет назад

"Following the landscape carved by natural selection" - fantastic line!

@peterlyall7488 3 года назад

That line "Flowering the landscape carved by natural selection!!" should be put on a T-Shirt...Pete from Australia..(: >{|)

@dougsteel7414 3 года назад

Sounds like people's incessant need for agency in order to understand things

@dougsteel7414 3 года назад

Sounds like people's incessant need for agency in order to understand things

@micahbirdlover8152 2 года назад

it's just thumb 🤷

@OmniGuy 4 года назад

Maybe they just kept going in trying to find the ones who went in before.

@claudiogomes7917 4 года назад

Sounds like the premise of the whole netflix series Dark😂

@khalilsb6934 4 года назад

@@claudiogomes7917 lmao who knows

@dheerajrao2179 4 года назад

I think there was a killer amidst them who took them for a walk at night and threw them inside, might've killed them before as well

@MGSLurmey 4 года назад

@@dheerajrao2179 There is 1 Impostor among us.

@Uvouvo05 3 года назад

This may actually be more plausible as the only entry would have been quite far away, with such tiny spaces that would be difficult to bring a body through, whereas these cave explorers obviously can bring themselves

@feriaseanyvan3759 5 лет назад

9:43 "Body disposals are the things that make us unique" Ants: Are we a joke to you?

@deathndestructionfdnd8178 4 года назад

MAGIC_KNIGHT KITTYPOWER! Same with Neanderthals

@rubenmendonca4530 4 года назад

MAGIC_KNIGHT KITTYPOWER! Lol

@davidthomas2402 4 года назад

Watch this videos on this playlist to understand both evolution and creation how all started and spread the link other people to understand ru-vid.com/group/PL13eE2x3qhPktufTQOHw0wsMOPdxFky-P

@rathenn7317 4 года назад

@@davidthomas2402 There is no creation, only evolution.

@Anklejbiter 4 года назад

@@rathenn7317 you hold a different belief than he does, you can't be certain until you die but at that point it's too late.

@NewMessage 5 лет назад

4:22 The worst part of every job is always the commute.

@TragoudistrosMPH 5 лет назад

I will complain about traffic a bit less...

@taniamanik2012 5 лет назад

Tragoudistros.MPH yeah but they get paid to specifically so that. We don't get paid to be stuck in traffic

@TragoudistrosMPH 5 лет назад

@@taniamanik2012 🤔 *prepares fresh set of complaints for next commute* lol

@taniamanik2012 5 лет назад

*do

@justsayno5176 5 лет назад

5 min walking distance from office, you can do it ;)

@MaziarYousefi 4 года назад

"We even haven't been tested yet" That sentence took a new meaning for many people after this pandemic.

@OleanderProducing 4 года назад

I have been looking for this comment - thought exactly the same haha

@tristanlj3409 3 года назад

Well if the waves of black death plaques don’t count as tests, neither does COVID-19. Funny joke though

@MaryAnnNytowl 3 года назад

@@tristanlj3409 did you mean *plagues?

@PythonPlusPlus 5 лет назад

Turns out the dragons back is actually the back of a real dragon. This is why there are so many human bones in the cave. The dragon ate them.

@donjones4719 4 года назад

Yup. Till the sorcerer froze him.

@beberivera7011 4 года назад

Imagine!?😧😯

@purplefire2834 4 года назад

munch munch crunchy bones

@smartman8699 4 года назад

yum yum burp those human bones out of my tum tum

@surfk9836 4 года назад

The used to be a ferocious bunny guarding the cave till Lee Berger used the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch. He threw it on the count of 5.....no 3!

@micheen6649 4 года назад

Just imagine asking our ancestor"hey!what species of human are you?"

@zikrim1227 4 года назад

Or making hybrid baby hahaa. Other species did that

@abhaysaurav7499 4 года назад

Ifkr and it's almost annoying some people don't believe in evolution

@elienajem5631 4 года назад

@@abhaysaurav7499 some *dumb* people

@anandsuralkar2947 4 года назад

@@elienajem5631 dumb people wiith tiny orange sized brain

@plusxz821 4 года назад

Probably my tribe good other tribes bad

@ettore_mazza 5 лет назад

I just want to credit the artist author of the 3D model recostruction you can see in the video: she's Elisabeth Daynes and her work is just gorgeous.

@danweaver4304 4 года назад

Ettore Mazza - But do we really know the fragments of bone fossils are all from the same type of creature? Why would it not be humans + cats + dogs + ??? Using my imagination, as these wonderful people have done, I could create an infinite number of different interpretations - using the same set of fossil fragments!

@xXCarolineFireLilyXx 4 года назад

@@danweaver4304 because that's not how reconstruction works. It's literally their job to know the difference between the bones of different species.

@danweaver4304 4 года назад

Caro Kitty - indeed, it IS their job to know the difference in bones between species. They are also supposed to refrain from “making things up”, if they wish to keep scientific credentials. Unfortunately, all we have from the fossil record are things “made up” from imagination and educated guessing. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.160342 www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project-ideas/Geo_p015/geology/fossil-reconstruction-with-owl-pellets www.sedl.org/scimath/compass/v03n01/usingmath.html

@carlosa.9533 3 года назад

Ettore Mazza, what a good surprice seeing you here. Love your art :D

@helsiclife 5 лет назад

So interesting, those women are really fearless!!

@zain4019 4 года назад

Helsic en China I loved this clip, it’s insightful and informative with a bit of adventure:)

@nancydeis7121 4 года назад

@@brendan8593 Can you imagine not being afraid of getting stuck in a small crack of the earth but being afraid of snakes and spiders. Oh the horror of that .....

@kman5475 4 года назад

I began squirming during the map of the came part. WAAY too small--and getting injured would be an absolute disaster! Definitely brave folk.

@dionnecollet4473 4 года назад

@@brendan8593 still makes them less fearless than the average

@davidcolby1456 4 года назад

Fearless and small. As much as I would love to join them unless they Dynamite all the small spots out I'll never be there.

@good_mourning 4 года назад

With how different races and nationalities treat one another, could you imagine if there were different species of humans alive today?

@Mangsaab1954 3 года назад

There are, pay atention to identity politics.

@FionaA17 3 года назад

BAHAHAHAHA

@Persun_McPersonson 3 года назад

@@Mangsaab1954 That's not quite the same, but is indeed a similar type of in-fighting.

@astranix0198 2 года назад

Genocides left and right

@Gob. 2 года назад

Imagine a new species of human on the same planet that has a more advanced brain that you physically cannot outsmart.

@jaredsquires3323 5 лет назад

I got clausterphobic just looking at the freaking video of the crack they had to crawl through... wow.

@rstevewarmorycom 4 года назад

claustrophobic (sp) Lee Berger spelled it wrong!

@koriw1701 3 года назад

Being disabled and in Washington state, (and during Covid) I am not afforded the luxury of travelling to see such extraordinary discoveries, but you, Joe, bring all these remarkable findings to US in our homes! Thank you for your always interesting, often delightful stories that keep me captivated and involved in the world of science (my favorite subject!) By the way Joe, I saw you walking up the steps of the museum from the back, and I must tell you, do NOT carry wallets, phones or other solid objects in your back pocket! This long time habit can damage your spinal nerves at the root of the sacrum and can cause some fairly wicked sciatica! Just a suggestion... Stay awesome!

@PjKneisel Год назад

As a fellow disabled Washingtonian I feel you and agree!

@user-lx1xl 4 года назад

I live in pretoria and have visited the cradle of humankind so many time now, it's so amazing. It's my favorite place on earth. I got see sister naledi's bones!

@EveloGrave 5 лет назад

Isn't there a species of ant that disposes of their dead and/or sick?

@stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369 5 лет назад

Evelo well yeah ants are awesome

@MsCherade9 5 лет назад

It's more than just disposing of the dead. It's having an awareness of our individual future mortality and having specific funerary practices that are used generation after generation. Elephants graveyards are a real thing, they go to die in one place and their herds/families go there to see their specific remains. But they don't have an individual awareness of their mortality, nor do they do any rituals as a group with the dead bodies.

@swedishfool91 5 лет назад

Not just ants, Neanderthals did that as well.

@MrNight-dg1ug 5 лет назад

Ants release a chemical that tells the others they're dead. They get removed to feed the colony and to remove cluster. So not entirely the same. Also, fun fact, there's a video demonstrating what happens if you pour a drop of said acid onto an ant, that's alive. something with zombie ant.

@EnchantedSmellyWolf 5 лет назад

Aren't bug autonomous creatures?

@theartassignment 5 лет назад

This was incredibly cool! Amazing episode!

@davidthomas2402 4 года назад

Watch this videos on this playlist to understand both evolution and creation how all started and spread the link other people to understand ru-vid.com/group/PL13eE2x3qhPktufTQOHw0wsMOPdxFky-P

@OHOE1 3 года назад

So new humans will be created

@stef__194 5 лет назад

sooo the human history is like a river as you said : "The species divide and sometimes reunite to create new ones

@MrTomtomtest 5 лет назад

Yes, nowadays we have genes inherited from different human species.

@smcic 5 лет назад

How are they different species then, if they interbred?

@pmm1767 5 лет назад

@@smcic the term species isn't meant to be used strictly. In biology, nothing is strictly confined to words we created. Everything is like a spectrum or gradient. When you look at the spectrum of colours, can you tell the exact point where red becomes orange? No, right? Similarly, when organisms aren't separated by a whole lot, they may practically be a different species, but technically, there is no clear line.

@cloudxiii3240 5 лет назад

@@smcic your question is pretty spot on. They are not fully distinguished species, but most of the time they are definitely different and environmentally isolated enough to not just call them different "races" anymore. (Race itself is a pretty unscientific kategory)

@Q_QQ_Q 5 лет назад

@CloudXIII race is a policy , not science .

@davidjuneja 5 лет назад

Horror : earthquake.

@vacantplanet 5 лет назад

Well anything unexpected would be horror in there

@jauxro 5 лет назад

@@vacantplanet honestly the bones are pretty spooky too

@caiohenrique1603 5 лет назад

EARFQUAKE

@Trathaal 5 лет назад

vacantplanet Imagine somehow there was a colony of those hominids that adapted to cave life... albino, blind, huge ears, sickly looking... you go in there to unearth fossils and instead get pounced on

@RickDarko 5 лет назад

Convenient... when something confirm their fake theories.. is ok... when something is not...owwww an earthquake put ir in there.... how convenient.

@ahuman3642 4 года назад

“ only humans have deliberate body disposal” Ants: Are we a joke to you (ps: we can eat you alive while you sleep)

@hatguy8225 4 года назад

Ant don't do like how we do it. They just do it as a job. They throw it in a area for it to dispose of..not bury

@slgwdhhsbsnjs 3 года назад

@@avw5kt why does there need to be a reason to point it out lol

@arthas640 3 года назад

They cant eat me alive while i sleep, with as much as i fart my mattress is like one of those circus tents they use when they fumigate a house. My dutch oven will kill them before they even get a chance to sink their mandibles in. If I've been eating thai food (which i do alot because thai food is awesome) my dog wont even sleep with me and i've seen her eat rotting compost and fresh chicken poop.

@arthas640 3 года назад

@Lurien the Watcher you're just jealous that while the ants are busy eating you alive that I'll be farting my way to freedom. Dont worry though, if you can bring your sleeping bag close enough to mine they'll leave you alone (whether it's worth breathing those fumes is up to you though)

@LazyLoonz 3 года назад

@@slgwdhhsbsnjs the main comment didn't need pointing out since right after that it said "we weren't"

@ulricaluo2442 4 года назад

People saw theirselves separate from nature.Thats so true,that’s what I argued with my friends all time. We are a part nature. Human is nature.

@violetine8917 4 года назад

"Everywhere you looked, You could just see flashes of bones" Ughhhhh, That's terrifying!

@jejeo4372 4 года назад

I don't think so, just some stone like objects that were in living creatures a long time ago

@Wellington...... 3 года назад

You mean exciting 😂

@louisejohnson6767 3 года назад

Violetine, I agree! It reminds me of that horror movie about the group of women who do a deep cave dive. Turns out that there be monsters in that there cave. I remember that the parts that were scariest were those in which the woman(e) could only get flashes of the monsters, illuminated by the thin beam of light provided by their headlamps. I thought about this movie as soon as they showed the real world team working their way through the cave. If you're not an archeologist, someone who is use to seeing the bodies of the dead, in multitudes, then it could be very unnerving. All in all, pretty damn scary!😳!

@corwin32 5 лет назад

So this new hominid’s name is “Star Man”?

@23.10-k1v 5 лет назад

yeah , that’s what the animal humanoids or animalistic humans are trying to say , it’s hate speech

@ashflint23 5 лет назад

@@23.10-k1v okay buddy

@23.10-k1v 5 лет назад

Gaeemz Guy ‘okey’ what (why)

@winlati 5 лет назад

Star-Lord

@edoardocastelnovi7154 5 лет назад

Rocket Man

@ColeLPeltier 3 года назад

Early Human #1: "Hey, look at these clowns with tiny little orange brains!" Early Human #2: "...wanna shove them all in this cave?"

@SlimeKing5788 3 года назад

Early human 1: glook yeah! Let’s do this! Early human 3: wait what?

@sarahleonard7309 4 года назад

WAIT! They used ESR to date the fossils? That's so freakin' cool! I've worked with ESR my entire adult life, studying protein interactions. I had no idea that it was being used to date fossils, too. My apologies. We nerds have a bad habit of getting tunnel vision when it comes to our own research.

@ByronTaaka 4 года назад

9:19 They were probably hiding from us. Think about it. Hiding in places where sapiens couldn't reach them.

@alandye6471 3 года назад

This was the first thought that I had too.

@elainevegan5386 3 года назад

That’s what I was thinking. And then just died there.

@ByronTaaka 3 года назад

@TheCyberShark Nice Analysis! However, Based on their Body Size vs that of Sapiens, it is safe to say that they were NOT Trapped. they could comfortably move in and out at will. - They have been discovered many decades later, with the aid of technology. Technology aside, I believe the population at that moment in time was very sparse, hence finding their hiding place would not be as easy for the sapiens. - Covid-19 hit us, and some countries went for a "LockDown". If huge (cannibal) Aliens were to invade Earth Today, We would probably go hiding in similar places; Places where, even if they discovered that we were in there, it would take them some good time and resources to extract us. - But then again, if all They were after, is our Entire land and resources, then embracing the hiding place (deep caves) as our new home would be an auto-response if we can't fight back. - And at wee Hours, we would emerge, to get food and water, then return to our caves.

@tristanlj3409 3 года назад

Why would they be hiding from us though? There is nothing to suggest that they would have bigger problems escaping us rather than any other species. It’s a rather sapiens-centric perspective while there is nothing to suggest that we were more successful at the time than other human species were

@scankhunt4206 3 года назад

@@caseyjude5472 there could have been a massive asteriod storm and they went there for protection

@CoreenMontagna 5 лет назад

Hey, the first all-female underground space walk, lol 😁

@WhyNot-vz4tr 4 года назад

Love it. ☺️

@jejeo4372 4 года назад

Meh, not worth a comment imo, lmao

@UpSky2 4 года назад

Actually, considering the cost of lofting mass/weight into orbit, it might be that the most favored astronauts of the future might be Philippine women, who are usually built quite compactly. (There are exceptions, yes....) And this dig proves some point along those lines. It's a joy to see this sort of thing come to be.

@CoreenMontagna 4 года назад

Yo, this was a joke, a reference to the much-hyped all-female spacewalk that took place in October 2019.

@sundalongpatpat 3 года назад

@@UpSky2 When you said Philippine women, it sounds like Filipinas are mere specimens lol.

@asdfqwertA 5 лет назад

We're extremely fortunate to have the opportunity to visit the Cradle of Mankind during our High School years in South Africa. Extremely fascinating stuff

@georgecampbell9305 4 года назад

Congratulations to all. Great work. under very challenging access conditions. 1. The Dinaledi Chamber is about 100 ft below the surface. Recreational scuba divers are allowed to descend below that depth. 2. The horizontal burial field may not be extensive. 3.Bore holes and core sampling could guide an archeologically benign shaft to a much shorter horizontal distance to the chamber. 4. Excavation could proceed on a more intense scale. Question to Lee Berger are you thinking along these lines ? Also geomorphologists and hydrogeologsts could with relative ease work back to the depth of the cave and likely entrances given the age of the fossils. Therein may lie the answer to 'how'

@MrMalformedllama 5 лет назад

Who in their right mind discovers these area in the first place... "Yeah here's a 7 inch wide fissure that goes straight down, let's explore it and see if we can make it back out"

@MrMalformedllama 4 года назад

@@avw5kt I'd like to think there's a difference between spelunking and then trying to force your way into a crevice that could pretty easily end you

@MGSLurmey 4 года назад

@@MrMalformedllama I imagine they lower some cameras or something down into these caves to see what's down there before diving in themselves. It's unfortunate that they can't just expand the tunnels little by little, because that would further bury and thus hide the fossils they're in there to find and potentially cause a collapse, which is even more dangerous than entering the cave already is.

@carolevans5285 3 года назад

Spot on , 💯 all bollocks for the people with brains the size of an 🍊

@L3GITME 5 лет назад

“It’s not what we don’t know that gets us into trouble, it’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so.” -Mark Twain

@Kinetic650 4 года назад

how does this comment even apply to this video?

@singingsam40 4 года назад

@@Kinetic650 Perhaps he/she's implying that to believe in the process of evolution through natural selection across millennia, rather than in a divine 'creation' over 7 days is presumptuous. I'm only surmising though, I could be totally wrong ...

@hahna77 4 года назад

Indeed.

@Mdebacle 3 года назад

The DNA of Neanderthal (and Denisovan) turned out to be 15-16ths human and 1-16th chimpanzee. The researchers never considered the possibility of the ape-men being the result of human-ape hybridization.

@alanmckinnon6791 3 года назад

I'm so happy YT recommended this video - I live about 30 miles from where Naledi was found. It's a lovely part of the work, rocky and hilly with amazing scenery. Great place for picnics too! It's close to the well-known Sterkfontein Caves where the bones Mrs Ples and Little Foot were found. Dr. Berger wrote a book about the 2 species he helped discover - Almost Human - and it is a very good read. Recommended!

@erictaylor5462 5 лет назад

4:00 The term would be "geonauts"

@erictaylor5462 5 лет назад

@krugzer True, but that would be "cave traveler" I'm thinking more "ground traveler." in the same way a pilot might be called an aeronaut.

@overkill2933 4 года назад

4:11

@jasonbuell7958 4 года назад

Thank you! I made a post about this same thing before I saw yours.

@oliviadietrich1404 5 лет назад

I am a proud South African right now and if I could I would send this video to our government. 😂😂😇😇❤❤❤😢

@davidthomas2402 4 года назад

Watch this videos on this playlist to understand both evolution and creation how all started and spread the link other people to understand ru-vid.com/group/PL13eE2x3qhPktufTQOHw0wsMOPdxFky-P

@wellthen4128 4 года назад

SA gangg

@delsi26 3 года назад

@@wellthen4128 change your name please

@mrpetersen5241 3 года назад

It's upsetting that it was taken away to another country. Proudly SA though lol

@allftw2677 3 года назад

@@delsi26 it dosent matter because he isn't really him . Don't get sensetive it really dosent matter.

@ulalaFrugilega 3 года назад

"We haven't really been tested yet." Autumn 2019…

@DneilB007 3 года назад

A little bit ominous, in retrospect.

@meissoun 3 года назад

@@Howtoplix it’s sad that you still have such a limited view on our heritage, even after watching this video. The reality is so much more fascinating than what some old books make it up to be.

@MaryAnnNytowl 3 года назад

Sorry to say, this pandemic, though a _bit_ of a test, was NOT a real TEST to our species. Now, when our planet gets so bad due to what we are doing to it that our descendants a few hundred years from now are attempting to scrape out their survival amid poisoned water, extremely drastic weather, and the loss of most of the planet's biodiversity, _that_ will be a real test. One which our species may not survive at all, thanks to what we are doing right now. It will, at minimum, be a severe bottleneck, like few of our progenitor species, except ones like the mitochondrial Eve found in our DNA, have ever seen. We may end up as extinct as the Neanderthal, Denisovan, etc... and then the planet's remaining species can hopefully recover from the damage we have done, all due to greed.

@goldenwarrior1186 3 года назад

@@MaryAnnNytowl What the commenter was referring to was COVID-19 testing

@user-gh1ef3ys5v 3 года назад

At my grandma’s house my dad found like a sea snake (like the one from movies) fossil or something

@vociferonheraldofthewinter2284 3 года назад

I don't buy that birds are 'morning their dead.' My mother had a farm and one of the turkeys died. Her husband tossed it on the burn pile for later disposal. The other turkeys came across it and were 'talking' it. They were dancing around it, nudging it, and cooing at it. My mother got all sappy and said, "Oh! They're sad for their dead friend!" She was close to tears. All of a sudden one of them leapt in and starting eating. The rest of the flock dove in right behind her. They were just testing the body to make sure it wouldn't fight back. Once they were sure it had no signs of life, they had no issue ripping into their 'friend.' These were very well-fed animals. All of their needs were met. And they still feasted on the carcass of their flock-mate with gusto.

@thegameranch5935 3 года назад

Not all birds Some birds

@s4turnnn649 4 года назад

So, one time I went caving and it was a really tight space. I had a badly sunburnt back at the time. I think you might be able to guess the sheer amount of pain I was in. EDIT: I was 5'2 and only about 100 lbs at the time so you may be able to guess how small it was.

@PhuongTran-bq2qy 3 года назад

I always wonder how they could film the actual climbing, like the footage at the beginning, if it was that hard and dangerous. Cameraman may actually be the one profession that could grant you immortality lol (that's a joke my friend and I often tell when watching horror movies and stuff 🤣)

@IAmLeeTV 5 лет назад

I live in Dallas and have a Perot Museum membership! Definitely taking my boys there. This is awesome! Thank you Joe and the team!!!

@beactivebehappy9894 4 года назад

Does anybody think that this channel is one of most underrated science channels ?? At least deserves a 7 M+ mark and 500m views!!

@arthas640 3 года назад

The creators are mildly famous writers and hosts, and they work with world famous groups on a semi regular basis such as PBS (who financially back some of their work) and the Smithsonian (who they work with sometimes).

@thisiserich 4 года назад

Only part of this I am really scratching my head on is how the bones got in the cave. That region had to be open at some point because there is no way they climbed that far into that cave with human remains and presumably no light source. The only thing that I think would be possible is that at one point in time that wasn't a cave, or it was, but it was easily accessible with a large opening. Then maybe the land shifted over the years and it all collapsed, forming what we have to explore today.

@prabathhemachandra 4 года назад

There is a rock blocking the cave from the rest of Africa, but that rock wasn't blocking the cave long time ago

@theresahemminger1587 5 лет назад

I don’t understand why so many interesting things like this have the addendum of taking us down a peg. We are still who we are and discoveries like this simply enlarge our sense of who we are; they don’t diminish it. The attitude of. “...and you thought you were something special” serves only to take away our delight in it...

@Q3ark 5 лет назад

I agree with you, however some people seem to believe humans are unique and special, removed from nature, if you will. These discoveries challenge that notion and it unsettles people.

@BackstabberDD 5 лет назад

@@Q3ark So sad to me :C I would think that discovering how we fit in with everything on our beautiful planet would be exhilarating and really just deepen our perspective and compassion for our natural surroundings and even ourselves. I cannot imagine /wanting/ to feel out of place, or superior to something so amazing. I am so happy to be a part of it all

@christine1479 2 года назад

I came back to this video because I was showing it to my son. After seeing this the first time I wanted to go see that exhibit. I lived in Arlington so we were very close to Dallas. I couldn't get time off or the money to go until March. I'd just bought the tickets for me, my son and my niece to go see the exhibit and then just a few days before our scheduled visit, we got an email that the museum was closing down due to covid. I was so disappointed. We got refunded but I may never get a chance to see those fossils ever again and man I was so close.

@amnesiagrunt2356 5 лет назад

but, to this day, there are humans who think we are still so much more special than every other organism that some god MUST have placed us here because we are "so special".

@steveletterman7121 5 лет назад

two words : indoctrination and ignorance. You'd be surprised how many years back those two together can set one's mind. Oh! and some stupidity, the magic ingredient😂😂

@ElTokeMaestro 5 лет назад

Lassa Fever who created god? Another god?

@cristianvillanueva8782 5 лет назад

@@ElTokeMaestro gasp

@rdizzy1 5 лет назад

I used to work with a catholic lady that believed that god simply placed the building blocks of life, or possibly the first initial lifeforms on earth and then believes in evolution from there.

@BenHerbivore 5 лет назад

@@ElTokeMaestro They will never have an answer to this. They do not have critical thinking skills and have always been taughy that God is "everything" and not to question. No point in trying to reason with unreasonable people. They're children.

@c.r.blankenship9040 3 года назад

Underground Astronauts would be a kickass band name

@christopheb9221 5 лет назад

Seeing how race really isn't a thing I wonder if we knew of or lived among different hominids and assumed anyone that looked different was. I think what is really interesting is legends of these like the nicknamed Hobbit in an Indonesian island and there is a foketale of the little jungle people. Same with mega fauna. Edit:We sure do a good job of trimming these branchs

@kidzvidz3262 4 года назад

I had a friend named Neo and I sent him a picture of this Neo. Also I had that as my profile pic for a while. He did payback by changing his profile pic to Arthur from the Arthur TV series

@JahMagne223 4 года назад

He took tha red pill didnt he?😂

@hasanathasan4651 5 лет назад

"hey smart people, Joe here" Me: "who's Joe?"

@iigoofylucyii8103 5 лет назад

Joe mama

@fluffymuffin_456 5 лет назад

Joseph Mother

@Mnv94 5 лет назад

Donald Trump's father

@salt-emoji 5 лет назад

Joe educator

@JamesSmith-rb5lv 5 лет назад

Yosef Maternal Entity

@SD_Marc 5 лет назад

I about had an anxiety attack looking at that cave system. Kudos to that team.

@ttoughtask7296 3 года назад

Somewhere a Creatard is asking "but why is there still monkeys"

@worfoz 3 года назад

Yeah, and why are there pigeons, now that we have whatsapp? useless, no one needs pigeons anymore

@spatrk6634 3 года назад

yea and why are there still europeans after they turned into americans

@dgodiex 5 лет назад

12:28 "we're at the end of one branch near the end. But we're not the only branch..". Neither are we "the end". ;)

@jdenmark1287 5 лет назад

we might be, only time will tell.

@fandomguy8025 5 лет назад

If we keep goin' the way we're goin we might be, lol.

@dgodiex 5 лет назад

@@fandomguy8025 True dat

@dgodiex 4 года назад

@Sam Bacon yes! Well said

@joaquinel 4 года назад

Yes we are. We invented medicine so we screwed evolution. Best bet now, genetic engineering and AI.

@theresebrandser 5 лет назад

“It trickles out, simply forward in time, following the landscape carved out by natural selection”... Brilliant descriptor :)

@horstp.7995 3 года назад

I got panicky just watching the diagram of the cave Fascinating non the less.

@mrbearbear83 4 года назад

I've been to SA caves where bones where found, but that was ten years or more ago and it wasn't here, but it made me feel so connected to our shared past, wondering if the veld I walked was similar to the landscape they walked, wondered what they thought of the stars (and SA has some great and vast star scapes) and how the same sun shone on them that shines on us.

@horseface31 5 лет назад

Even if i could fit, there is no way i would ever go down there. This is really cool.

@MrFleem 4 года назад

Pretty sure elephants do deliberate body disposal. They're not able to carry the body after it dies, but an elephant that knows she's dying will take herself to the graveyard.

@adolfodef 5 лет назад

This is the QUALITY CONTENT I subscribed for.

@toraxmalu 5 лет назад

„we’re are animals“ - Oh fuuu, that won’t sit very well with the creationists 😂

@henz1335 5 лет назад

Torax Malu why would that matter i’m a creationist and i agree with that. i also agree that evolution exists

@Theeslickness 5 лет назад

@@henz1335 Please elaborate, I'm curious. How could you agree with evolution when creationism defies it?

@cjbabalos7188 5 лет назад

Is that who this channel is for? I wouldn't b subscribed if I felt they were concerned about upsetting creationists lol.

@henz1335 5 лет назад

youtube channel called “let the quran speak” is a great wealth of knowledge if you want to know more

@henz1335 5 лет назад

Daniel Allen works well with us actually :)

@aeronreece4738 3 года назад

They wouldn't be "underground astronauts" (since that's a contradiction), they would be "geonauts". Which sounds cooler anyway.

@AmbiCahira 5 лет назад

I think body disposal somewhere started to not attract predators and somewhere along the way developed other meanings like not having the smell, not having to see the dead, and of course spiritual and religious meanings to relieve mourning to feel that they are in a better place if the body gets disposed of. I remember in school we had a glass walled compost and already at like 6 years old watching these worms compost fruit peels I felt at peace with one day being wormfood and at such a young age I felt like I needed to take care of worms because they will take care of me. If my young mind could draw conclusions of this nature surrounding death at such an early level of brain development it makes me super curious what other human species were capable of reasoning and believe and all that as adults. But most of all I'm curious if they had long thumbs and small frames to still climb trees well and what their adaptation was and if they died of outbreeding, illness, or outsourcing... or decrease in food mixed with predators so staying alive became too hard. Or what feels more likely; did another human species develop a better war style and conflicting territory happened (since primates are really prone to territorial aggression) and that is what killed them. I'm very curious.

@feykabah 4 года назад

Ha, i saw this documentary a few years back. Cool to revisit this story.

@rahuldhargalkar 5 лет назад

Thank you for this video! A very big thank you! We NEED to change the way we think about evolution and how it works! Big shoutout to Joe and the amazing archeologists!

@BenHerbivore 5 лет назад

Lol. A shoutout from some random in the comments to the people in the video. Right on I guess.

@juliapinzon9970 4 года назад

This video is my favorite. It has story, it has depth, it has BONES THAT CHANGE HISTORY

@frankmenchaca9993 4 года назад

This the 3rd time I've watched this video, and I am still watching it with amazement. I can hardly wait for another installment of our familie's journey.

@SuperManning11 4 года назад

I guess I have some degree of claustrophobia because those scenes in the narrow part of the cave FREAKED ME OUT!!! I’m a small guy that could probably fit through those spaces but I would never, ever get the nerve to go through a crevice like that.

@PREPFORIT 5 лет назад

Religious nuts are going to hate this. I, however, Love this.

@nicholaslewis8594 5 лет назад

When do religious nuts not get upset about learning 😂

@PREPFORIT 5 лет назад

@@nicholaslewis8594 LOL! when they have to learn about science and REALITY and Not from the book of fiction and fairy tales called the bible. that was written by men NOT god.

@Trathien- 4 года назад

scary thing is those people could have lived in the ecave and it collapsed, they all starved to death in there

@XWierdThingsHappenX 4 года назад

My thoughts are there was once a easier way out that collapsed. It boggles me how they would drag a dead body through that tight of a space. Or maybe the passage use to be wider.

@Trathien- 4 года назад

@@XWierdThingsHappenX it definitely used to be wider, we just dont know 100% why they were there

@Sovereignty3 4 года назад

Then again they were smaller than us, but imagine doing all this without mechanical torches. Shudders.

@hamstersniffer 4 года назад

Sooooo, how the hell did the ancient hoomans get way back in there, in the pitch dark and shimmying through a 7 inch squeeze?

@AverytheCubanAmerican 5 лет назад

Superman crawl, as long as there’s no kryptonite Superman should be fine

@Pyriphlegeton 5 лет назад

"We've hardly been tested yet." Wow.

@Pyriphlegeton 5 лет назад

12:13

@Laurelin70 4 года назад

I usually tell this to my students: think of 1000 years like 1 millimeter. That makes the whole of human History like less than 1 cm long. That makes 1 million years 1 m long, and the whole of Earth's story 4.5 KM LONG, and the Universe's story 14.5 KM LONG! 8000 years of History, with all of their dramas and wars and discoveries and inventions and romances and treason... like 8 mm against 14.5 km. OF COURSE we've hardly been tested yet.

@zeff8820 4 года назад

Coronavirus

@aaronseet2738 3 года назад

Since archaeologists think that was a gravesite, I'll ask the question again: Is there some cutover time-duration rule archaeology adheres to determine when it is perfectly fine to extract the dead from their graves and put them on museum display for everyone to see? I'm not asking specifically for the naledis, but for our fellow humans of past ancient cultures. What are the conditions that declare it is ok to not respect their burial practices anymore?

@boathousejoed9005 3 года назад

Who the heck would drag a body through that cave system?

@thegameranch5935 3 года назад

People who seen a weird creature and called him god.. maybe

@dziugast7454 3 года назад

Cave systems chage

@jamiehay1027 5 лет назад

I would hate to go down into caves like that hahaha

@Kroggnagch Год назад

1:17 seeing those teeth and jaw fragments just hit me differently tonight for some reason. It’s like, seeing them made me see “wow, that’s someone’s bones, not JUST bones, that was a being at some point with thoughts and hopes as complex as my own” and it just... wow... humans have lost much of where we came from and it’s a bit sad...

@Simonjose7258 5 лет назад

How anyone could crawl in there without the fear of getting stuck! It makes my skin crawl!🤯😳 Amazing work 👍🏼

@icollectstories5702 5 лет назад

Women in science -- more than just a good theory!

@35-muralikrishnar98 4 года назад

I think early human disposed the dead body as a safe measure as other carnivores shouldn't have a taste of human as if they liked it then they start to hunt them .

@rc3754 4 года назад

They cared for their loved ones.

@blooky102 Год назад

Not only humans dispose of their dead, some ant species take their dead away from the nest to not spread disease in the nest, so its not too unreasonable to think that a creature that is mostly human like us would do the same as it is a beneficial thing to do for survival.

@vari1535 4 года назад

Felt like a Curiosity Stream ad at the beginning

@laust6259 3 года назад

0:49 Don’t judge me, it’s the government telling me to stay inside!

@carolevans5285 3 года назад

Spot on. 👏

@evanmoskovoy6072 4 года назад

'We're just along for the ride', beautifully said

@jrw387 4 года назад

WOO HOO *TEXAS* i love the Perot museum, it's architecture is based on the crystaline shape of pyrite! (fools gold)

@faridagbepo2960 5 лет назад

Our school did something like that except we had more protection and the holes were bigger

@WalkingDday 2 года назад

I went caving in the Peak district UK eons ago. We were in a mix of mine and natural cave. Access was by squeezing feet first down a hole then way down in the bowels we crawled through a galery half full of water. The memory if it freaks me out now.

@Wordpirate 3 года назад

Surah Al-Baqara, Verse 30: وَإِذْ قَالَ رَبُّكَ لِلْمَلَائِكَةِ إِنِّي جَاعِلٌ فِي الْأَرْضِ خَلِيفَةً قَالُوا أَتَجْعَلُ فِيهَا مَن يُفْسِدُ فِيهَا وَيَسْفِكُ الدِّمَاءَ وَنَحْنُ نُسَبِّحُ بِحَمْدِكَ وَنُقَدِّسُ لَكَ قَالَ إِنِّي أَعْلَمُ مَا لَا تَعْلَمُونَ And when your Lord said to the angels, I am going to place in the earth a khalif, they said: What! wilt Thou place in it such as shall make mischief in it and shed blood, and we celebrate Thy praise and extol Thy holiness? He said: Surely I know what you do not know. (English - Shakir) via iQuran

@mickelodiansurname9578 3 года назад

What has this bollox to do with paleontology?

@andrewgust-anderson5612 4 года назад

"we thought we were the only ones who disposed of our dead"*laughs in ant*

@liesoaditlemo2474 4 года назад

was looking for this comment

@hatguy8225 4 года назад

Ant don't do like how we do it. They just do it as a job. They throw it in a area for it to dispose of..not bury

@omernavaid4712 2 года назад

This is why it's important not just to look at things with science and logic, to make reasoning not just with the scientific rules we create for some semblance of order but with our own morality and our human understanding of things

@lalisajjang4563 4 года назад

"We're not the only branch" Me: Yes because I have a teacher who seemed to be an alien rather than a human