The Humans That Lived Before Us

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As more and more fossil ancestors have been found, our genus has become more and more inclusive, incorporating more members that look less like us, Homo sapiens. By getting to know these other hominins--the ones who came before us--we can start to answer some big questions about what it essentially means to be human.

Thanks as always to Nobu Tamura for allowing us to use his wonderful paleoart: spinops.blogspot.com/

Thanks to Julio Lacerda and Studio 252mya for the hominin illustrations. You can find more of Julio's work here: 252mya.com/gallery/julio-lacerda

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コメント (21)
  • @theblakeslees7065
    I think the most uniquely human characteristic is the desire to categorize everything
  • @lewismassie
    "one of the most complete of Australopithecus Afarensis ever found" shows like 20 bones Honestly how on earth palaeontologists manage to figure anything out astounds me
  • @pmat4
    If we keep going and history keeps happening it’s going to take forever to teach history class
  • @joaomonteiro7063
    3+ Million years of evolution, stone tools and whatnot, so that in 3000 years we evolve out of proportions, and in 100 years we go from horse-riding to the moon.
  • @qus.9617
    Number of hominins isn't what blows my mind. That's normal. It's the fact that only we survived.
  • @crookedpaths6612
    Kids from the Pleistocene Epoch will relate to this: "I'm so misunderstood. I don't even know which group I belong. I don't feel I'm part of this hominin family anymore".
  • @sterno5119
    As a German native speaker I must confess that your annotators are the most understandable for a foreigner. It's always a gas to listen to. Unfortunately there had been nothing like this before in earlier decades. All these marvellous channels of pure information. I hope I'll stay young in mind many years to come from now. I'm 70 yo
  • @ashtonhuntoon3077
    Falling down the rabbit hole of hominid and other evolutionary videos seems to be a common habit of mine lately. And I’m just SO happy that Eons is here for it ❤️
  • @evanrigel954
    it always gives me chills looking at other hominids. they look so much like us, and yet they all went extinct thousands upon thousands of years ago. i wonder, if we saw them alive today, what they'd look like? after all, we only have fragmentary remains, and although that can tell us a lot, skeletons don't always look that mich like the living being they came from
  • @Alexaflohr
    Eons, can we talk about the tethitherians? The evolution of elephants and their close relatives, and how a diverse clade of mammals got reduced down to only elephants and manatees?
  • @semajyo9628
    The fact that we have figured out this much is crazy...and I’m sure it’s only the surface
  • @Skydog6301
    Today I learned that humanity is just one big Ship of Theseus
  • @WickedWildlife
    Could you do a video on the evolution of crocodilians? 🐊🐊🐊 I do educational videos on Australian wildlife (which obviously includes crocs) and so many people think they are dinosaurs and don’t realise how many crazy body plans crocodilmorphs had throughout history
  • @coryman125
    Every time I watch one of these videos, I think to myself "I'd like to have my skeleton fossilised so I can either enlighten or confuse any potential scientists in the future, whatever species they may be"
  • @crazycatlady39
    So we have more 'cousins' then 'siblings' in our family tree.
  • @MargoMB19
    For me this is one of the most interesting human-related Eons videos I've seen so far, I have a lot of memories of learning about all these different classifications in school and back then it sounded so simple, so cut-and-dried. This channel in general, and this video especially, makes me realize just how uncertain these classifications are and how little we really learned in school.
  • @lordundeadrat
    This is the inescapable issue you run in to when you try to put categories around things that change gradually. If we had an intact fossil from every human-like creature over the last five million years. The argument of where one lineage ends and another begins would never end.
  • @Ky-id1fr
    Imagine time travelling and going back to this time. It would be so scary walking around as the same time as them 😬