Visiting the Taung Child at Wits University

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Palaeoanthropologist, Professor Lee Berger from the University of the Witwatersrand demonstrates the original Taung Child fossil, one of the many original fossils housed at Wits University.
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@user-of7td9oo7d 3 года назад

Mr Berger is an excellent lecturer and a great scientist! What a wonderful manner of telling the story.

@lucialove174 4 года назад

As an Anthropology Student and museum enthusiast, this is absolutely amazing! Thank you for making this available.

@rivajoffe22 3 года назад

I love this. As a young person I worked for Kenneth Oakley and met Louis Leakey and many other luminaries of palaeoanthropology. I went to South Africa in 1961 and volunteered at gré Bernard Price Institute preparing fossil groups from Makapngat. Even went there for a weekend with the staff. Unforgettable. Raymond Dart was a lovely man.

@JReed305 4 года назад

Paleo Forensics! The Taung Child has always been one of my favorite finds.

@maxfochtmann9576 2 года назад

Спасибо Вам большое, Проф. Бергер.

@BornAdventures 4 года назад

This was fascinating! It's great to see something else on my feed outside of the current news. Well done! Please do more of these!

@NickanM 4 года назад

*_Thank you!_* I'm starting to climb on my walls, and this is so interesting, joining you into that sacred vault helps me a lot. 😍👍

@leapingkitties 4 года назад

I find anthropology fascinating and appreciate this so much. Thank you for posting these.

@bidibibip 4 года назад

Fascinating! Thank you so much for making these lectures!

@tjwhite1963 4 года назад

Thank you Dr. Berger! Back in 1985, I actually visited Sterkfontein Cave!

@jurgenczwienk1960 3 года назад

Well presented Mr. Berger. Congrets

@m.s.769 3 года назад

Fascinating video. Thank you!

@predragradovic8051 4 года назад

Thank you Prof Berger! Watching from Kraljevo, Serbia! :)

@yosemitejam 3 года назад

As a causal evolutionary layman, I really appreciate these lectures. Thank you!

@imallears4 3 года назад

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

@ADDeeJay 4 года назад

I think it's a little scary that all of this is kept in one place. That fire in Brazil should've sent out an alarm about this kind of thing.

@jeanettewaverly2590 3 года назад

It was great to meet a celebrity of our species’s evolutionary past. Thank you so much!

@Philjamon 4 года назад

Completely wonderful I could listen to you talk about fossils all day long!

@jq4t49f3 Год назад

FWIW Philip Tobias was my external examiner in Medicine at UCT in 1969, which I happily survived! This direct line, however tenuous, to the Taungs child has buoyed me up no end. Thank you Lee Berger!

@kevinjoffe6500 4 года назад

Thanks. This was extremely interesting.

@shanakaliyanage6875 2 года назад

This is a fantastic lecture. Thanks!!

@toforgetisagem8145 Год назад

This is so interesting, not just because of the Taung child but because of the process of science and the attitudes of scientists. I find it interesting how to begin with they were so slap happy and easy going with the handling of things in the day. Then how they become more and more careful as they realised what they had. It's interesting too how they all begin with no it can't be , then immediately drop their own theory the moment they are wrong giving up their reputation immediately.

@grahammorgan2796 4 года назад

This is fascinating, thanks for sharing it. It's amazing to see so much knowledge gained from this specimen.

@ashtonhuntoon3077 4 года назад

Watching from Atlanta, can’t wait for more content!!

@FrogInPot 3 года назад

Love the series Lee, this is the perfect info pack for me to try educate my religious family members whom still believe that men were made from sand and women from a rib. BTW, thank you for being such a positive example leading the way for open, sharing science within your field. John and you are my hero's and I'm just an armchair scientist (layman, ha ha). I'm sure you've been the inspiration for generations of students to choose your field, which in turn will provide us decades additional finds. Thank you

@copperhorse4515 2 года назад

I don't know how many times I have watched this. It never gets old. Always fascinating.

@AndrewJohnClive 3 года назад

Thank you Sir! The world needs more people like you!

@mary9983 3 года назад

FANTASTIC presentation. Ty for sharing your knowledge. It astounds me how many things are found and figured out by chance mixed with knowledge.

@wjpike1 4 года назад

What a rare opportunity! Thank you so much!!

@kris2435 3 года назад

Thanks for sharing

@godwearsgucci4412 Год назад

Fantastic video. Well explained and what a treat to see the child put together. Thank you so much for the brain detail and predatory detail as well.

@mytwocents848 2 года назад

I'm not at all surprised that Lee Berger is the luckies paleoanthropologist in history. It's because he is such a nice guy!

@patricknoveski6409 3 года назад

Mind blowing teaching. Thank you sir.

@keikiokaaina1951 4 года назад

I'm so excited to see this!!!! Thank you!

@vanillasky3814 4 года назад

Thanks for these great videos. Enjoy them a lot. Have been following your work for a while. Great job.

@april5666 2 года назад

Thanks so much for this lecture, Prof Berger. I have been a huge fan of yours since your National Geographic release of your discovery of Homo Nalidi. Absolutely fascinating work - I especially admire your open-source sharing standards that have invited the world of both scientist and lay people to share in your discoveries from the start. Excellent presentation and wonderful details.

@CatalystD9 Год назад

Thank You 😊 🙏

@brij2far25346 4 года назад

You will be one of the all time greats of science.

@deneabuckingham1799 4 года назад

So well done! Great video, well-presented and fascinating information. Well-told story. Loved it and I can't wait for more!

@stevenjohnson2610 3 года назад

Fascinating discussion on the Tuang child fossil. Interesting hypothesis on the large bird of prey theory. Particularly intrigued by the discussion on the endocast and how Dart recognized the vertical spinal column positioning.

@matteonessuno1347 4 года назад

Wow! I loved it... Can't wait for the next one!

@claseshugomantillameluk3351 3 года назад

thank you professor great initiative, greetings from Colombia SA

@bettycummings6629 4 года назад

Loved this! Thank you!

@WayneBorean 4 года назад

Many thanks from London Canada!

@sarahferguson0 3 года назад

Fascinating. Thank you so much for doing this lecture series. I look forward to learning more. Just to be able to see such a thing on video is amazing. I can only imagine what it must be like to hold it. I also think you have a gift for explaining things in a way that even though i didn't understand all the scientific terms i still got the basic idea. Thank you for taking the time to do this for students of all ages and academic paths.

@primevalseeker3952 3 года назад

I can't help but cringe when I think about how many early human fossils have been vaporized by the dynamite. Its truly a miracle any serious intact fossils survived.

@ericjohnson5755 4 года назад

Very fascinating. Thanks for the excellent review.

@clintonnyathiC96N 4 года назад

Thanks Prof

@KatzArlene 4 года назад

Thank you!

@dennisclanton5342 9 месяцев назад

Thank you

@MartinHatchuel 4 года назад

Wonderful, thank you

@adrianpearson2263 4 года назад

This was fascinating. I have long been a fan of Raymond Dart, having studied Dart Proceduresthrough the Alexander Technique. I have his books Skill and Poise and Adventures with the Missing Link. Superb.

@keikiokaaina1951 4 года назад

SO interesting and exciting. Wow!!!

@paul6925 3 года назад

30kg! That’s how much I weighed when I was 11! If I lived there I could have been bird food

@markrussellpotter Год назад

Professor Berger thank you so much for this. Just the deep dive I'm looking for. Do you have a video on your collar bone studies?

@michaelcarley9866 3 года назад

Thank you for taking the time and showing the rare treasures CheeseBerger.

@somebody3399 4 года назад

Wow , what a great surprise to be with you sir in such grieving days, thank you

@briedcan 4 года назад

Excellent video. Kept me entertained while eating breakfast in Columbus, Ohio.

@ohyeayea6692 3 года назад

This video is very nicely done, an earlier career as a TV cameraman left its mark. Liked the easy conversational style very much, flowed along nicely. Prof Bergers background stories + little stories of his own experiences are a bonus. I've noticed that other fine lecturers & speakers also do this (eg Dr Robert Sapolsky, Richard Dawkins, John Hawks)

@ElfLooMom 3 года назад

This was a great help for my college evolution assignment (anthropology). So interesting and fun to watch. Thank you!

@sthomas6369 3 года назад

For Prof. Berger (if possible) - I'm trying to understand the wound described @ 30:36 in the video. If an eagle talon had punctured the skull, wouldn't the brain case cast have a positive impression of the puncture (meaning a feature rising above the surrounding surface) where the in-fill material would flow into the puncture?

@laika5757 2 года назад

Music to my ears... 🎼🎶🎸

@janusatthegate6201 Год назад

In all of the reports and talks, no one has spoken much about what may have led up to causing so much of them to die in that one cavern.

@SandraNelson063 2 года назад

We have this fossil because of angry birds!

4 года назад

Remarkable work, but please be more careful setting up the camera focus next time.

@laurawalker7947 Год назад

Original plastic bag? From the 30's?

@pascalguerandel8181 3 года назад

I love your work it's so interesting. By the way you are a very very handsome guy also. Your discoveries are just amazing.

@surfk9836 3 года назад

Damn, after a year of covid finally something worthwile.

@steverice7546 Год назад

The host is doing well, I see. $20k Rolex Sea Dweller on his wrist.

@jeffreyshannon6159 4 года назад

Better than Sherlock Holmes.

@tm43977 2 года назад

What kind of species of eagle Attack a Taung Child

@w4rsh1p 4 года назад

I've been studying the role of meat/hunting/scavenging/fat/digestion/brain/ketosis in human evolution. Could you design a lecture around that? I'm wondering whether a hypothesis that humans evolved away from other apes because they became facultative carnivores (and obligate carnivores) can be supported.

@maibanez 3 года назад

he has the box... on wrong channel

@rocketsurgeon1746 3 года назад

I would like to see less artist renditions and created models. Rather, I would like to see what is actually found.

@andreafalconiero9089 3 года назад

I'm not sure what video you watched, but most of this one was devoted to displaying original fossils of the Taung child -- that is, those things that were _actually found._

@rocketsurgeon1746 3 года назад

@@andreafalconiero9089 little tiny pieces that were assumed to be from new species. I'll wait for concrete evidence. I did watch the whole thing :) I have kept up with him for a while. His talk at google introduced me to him

@andreafalconiero9089 3 года назад

@@rocketsurgeon1746 I guess you must consider anything less than a complete skeleton clothed in living flesh to be _"little tiny pieces"._ What I saw was a brain endocast and an almost complete skull and mandible as well as various other bones in an excellent state of preservation. This talk of course was only about a single specimen, but is certainly not the full collection of fossils for _A. africanus_ which consists of remains from over 200 individuals. No amount of evidence will convince a creationist, though they'll happily believe in fanciful alternate theories that are based on no evidence at all. milnepublishing.geneseo.edu/the-history-of-our-tribe-hominini/chapter/australopithecus-africanus/

@rocketsurgeon1746 3 года назад

@@andreafalconiero9089 it is always funny how people that support evolution will use extremes. Just because I don't think his evidence is enough doesn't mean I need a full fossil with some tissues, etc. as he has stated numerous times, there is very little fossil proof for any kind of transitional species.

@paxanimi3896 3 года назад

@@andreafalconiero9089 . Well said.

@ricardodecamposbarreto6389 3 года назад

Hello single one

@sharonhearne5014 Год назад

Lovely lecture but the photography is horrible: some of the details pointed out are so pitifully photographed one has to use imagination because the photographic details he mentions are not apparent at all. That is a shame.