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Terrible speaker. It took her one hour to say the fossil ID

Good film

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Fantastic episode

Get his book on feet; it is even better then this excellent lecture. I am gland he didn't get into Vet school.

Brilliant thank you

A superb overview of the most exciting paleontological discovery - to date. I also love the way Berger et al threw their most extreme hypotheses into the fan and generated a lot of blowback. Nothing like a good science bunfight to advance the field. I follow the homo naledi picture with popcorn.

Gotta say... I'm not a fan of the way he talks about us as if we're not apes anymore.

I feel like this could be a 10 minute summary.

This should be the standard in all schools.

Is the interbreeding over tens of thousands of years when the two groups , Neanderthal and Homo sapien people , would occasionally meet , the main reason for the current appearance of European and Asian people ? The Magdalenian people of northern Europe emerged I think as the ultimate result of these types of mixing between Homo sapien new arrivals from Africa and the Neanderthals who had been in Europe for 400,000 years ?

We brought my 1 month old son to the Dr for a routine checkup and the Dr says watch this, he sits my son on the table and puts his thumbs in my sons palms, rubs them, then pulls his arms up quickly and my sons hanging, then the Dr swings hiss arms, my sons swining at one month old like he'd been practicing it, it was so natural, i was shocked, it was amazing.

This presentation was so much fun to watch: I just finished reading Johanson’s books Lucy and Lucy’s Child, and hearing more about the sites discussed in them gave me goosebumps. I’m such a fan girl…😉

I love her book. I have it in audio. And it’s enjoyable to listen to her weave all this info together

Music, visual art, math probably came from neanderthal genetic code. Homo sapiens are the savages. We prove it every day.

The Neanderthals may not be like us, but I think their lives were a lot more similar to the lives of our ancestors than our ancestors' lives are similar to ours.

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Excellent content! Thank you, Origin Stories and Rebecca Wragg Sykes!

When I was 5or 6 I went to vacation bible school, Was TOLD that jesus loves me . I didn't know who that was. Not knowing who this was I said, I don't believe you,you have the whole damn thing all wrong, Im not the kind you have to wind-up on sunday. Signed Jethro Tull

I can provide it in animation, perhaps we can reach more audience.

What's up with those front teeth ?

i love you guys!

To say that the specific short time recent creation theory, belief model has no scientific evidence is absolutely incorrect! There is a plethora of specific coherent data that solidly and logically backs up relatively recent fast family genre type creation on a relatively much older earth that includes a physical garden of Eden and a subsequent global deluge that coincides with biblical chronology.

This is all very interesting but the truth is they still don’t understand it.

Congrats from Brazil , Dr Nina!!!! SUPERB TALKING !!!!

Thank you!

Im in school now, to get my degree and earn the credentials to one day soon, be a member of the excavation team working for the Leakey Foundation in Africa.

Always been internettet in All keind of historie. Jette from Denmark

amerykańskie ble ble

I believe that man was unlucky for a long long time.

The skeleton of a kid who says Ryu is from Fortnite

Thank you for using the correct (scientifically) word... Hypo-thesis. Is the discipline of paleo archaeology even able to form a scientifically based thesis (meant to write Theories)? I hate when people studiying archaelogy throw around words like "my theory" when speaking of what has been found and studied. In my opion the only thing they do, is devaluing the work that has been done. We have "Theories" from the study of chemistry and other disciplines were those who study and look into what facts they have been able to confirm are able to form a theory... But other disciplines do not give those who study them the ability to form a proper theory. Everything that is "thrown about in those disciplines" is at most a hypo-thesis... not even a thesis. Should we as humans abandon those disciplines? No! they give us very important information about our environment and the physical responses of our bodies and minds.

Bonobos pink, Chimps dark, Gorillas black. All tropical forest dwellers. Why? Skin colour not dictated by UV so much as cultivated for it's aesthetic effect? Bonobos look a lot like juvenile chimps and are a lot more pacific than chimps. Gorillas hair colour denotes seniority socially in males. Suggests behavioural traits associated with skin/hair colour - aesthetics.

Attention: The real show, the discussion of the book, starts only at 7:00

After watching Prof. Lieberman as a guest of nearly 40 videos on RUclips, this is the first time he appears as a host. Wonderful conversation. I particularly liked Prof. Lieberman's comments, always bringing the topic back to its concrete context. I only wish that we could have gotten a glimpse at the list of the 50 most thrilling discoveries. Nobody has yet seemingly published anywhere the list of contents of this book. Amazingly, now, in May 2024, a good three years after the publication of this book, there's only one single comment about it on Amazon, and it's a two-line statement: "A very interesting, simple, easy to follow book. Whilst at the same time full of interesting information." How can anybody feel any urgent eagerness to get this book after reading this lonely bland evaluation? It'd be very revealing to know the volume of sales over those last three years. There are many reasons for this lack of reader enthusiasm. First, the book is on the very expensive side. Second the field is immensely crowded with books on every conceivable aspect and variation of the story and origins of the human lineage. And, in this huge competition, my own feeling is that the title of this book is too weak, not very catching. Repeating the word "discovery" twice is a misuse of valuable title space. What is the target segment of the reading population the book is aiming at? The book cover gives very little indication of what contents the general reader can expect to encounter. It seems that only a reader already deeply immersed in the subject might have the desire to add it to his/her shelves. The usual challenge - easy to say of course - was to find a way to thread the collection of those 50 stories into one single arresting overall theme of interest that is deployed through the book. "Discovering Us", as the main stated hook of the title, does not seem to do the trick here. Who's "Us", anyway? One can argue that this catch phrase is, in fact, deeply misleading. The book is not about discovering "Us", who we are, existentially, here and now in our physiology, anatomy and culture, nor about "what it means to be human" (a popular, profound-sounding, but meaningless cliche). It is, specifically, about discovering our unknown relations, our distant and mysterious kin. And how do we find our lost past links? We are discovering "Them", and do they look strange and unfamiliar! It is because we already know who we are, that we can use this present knowledge to go back and look for them. How do we recognize our relatives? That is a major issue in behavior biology. We are, per force, the basic model for identifying them. First of all, they must in some ways, look like us. This search is more in the spirit of an orphan given up for adoption, or abandoned in a vast forest, devoting time and efforts to locate and identify her parents, her family or relatives, or her tribe, and beyond. "Us" is already a given, the subject of our human existence. It is not a matter of "definition". What we are looking for is how, by whom, we got here, where we now are. In the best scientific approach now possible. "Discovering Our Ancestors" would have been a truer labeling. Another, more general and powerful, factor at work here, is the current environment itself: people are reading fewer and fewer books, including myself. Nonetheless, I still intend to buy this fascinating, high-quality, book, but only as a second-hand book and I hope at a much lower price (best one so far $46).

Plants, plants and more plants 😃

Being human Is evil,you evidence this

What is a bilateral wave?

Evolution = FACT Creationism = FAIRY TALE. GET OVER IT RELIGION POISONS EVERYTHING

The amazing Nina Jablonski. She is a true trailblazer and humanitarian in every sense.

Thanks for doing this, have you done episodes on the fact that humans have grandmothers and we have long childhood? I really love to learn about that aspect of being a human.

Camels have a similar hair texture which has excellent thermal protection

Nina is amazing but the interpretation of running from predators assumes we can outrun them. Assuming they weren’t also bipeds, they most certainly could outrun us.

I hate liberal democracy

Alright, I am willing to accept that a bunch of homo naledi has been deliberately buried in that cave! Someone must have brought them in there, arranged them in a fetal positions and covered them with soil. And someone must've marked the wall with that regular pattern. All other explanations are not compatible with Occam's Razor! However, can we be sure that these bodies have been buried by fellow homo naledi, and has the art work on the wall really been created by a homo naledi artist? If in the distant future archeologists - or aliens who want to learn more about homo sapiens - would start to dig in my garden, they would find the bodies of various cats and dogs. And they would conclude that these bodies have been deliberately buried there, and each animal had been wrapped in a valuable silk scarf. Someone must have cared for these animals and cherished them. But future archeologists would probably not conclude that these cats and dogs had been buried by other cats and dogs, and that these animals must've been cognitively far more advanced than previously thought. Isn't it possible that these homo naledi have been buried by other more advanced hominids who were definitely around at the time when these creatures have been buried? And these more advanced hominids could've created also the artwork. The fact that there were no traces of other beings in that cave doesn’t prove that only homo naledi were in that cave. And while grown up humans would've had a lot more trouble to squeeze themselves through these narrow entrances than the much smaller homo naledi, it’s not impossible. Humans have been in that cave many times by now! Maybe, these enigmatic homo species has buried their comrades in that cave. It’s not impossible, and they may have been cognitively far more advanced than their relatively small brains suggest. But there are nevertheless other possibilities. Whatever happened in that cave - it's absolutely exciting! To me it's on par with the discovery of homo floresiensis, who way another tiny hominid with a small brain.

Interesting, though I missed mention of Claude Levi-Strauss and his dichotomies raw-cooked, nature-culture, which I took to be the prime topic of the talk.

If they really walked like this, they wouldn't have survived for very long.

Just adding to the list of people commending the presenter's performance.