The complex evolution of homo sapiens - 1,000,000 to 30,000 years ago

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Imagine you're walking through the forest and suddenly, there is a guy holding a spoon talking to himself with a row of human skulls besides him... 😀

"Everyone coming into my house always asks about the skulls." That's a hell of a sentence.

"everyone who comes into my house asks about the skulls" is a pretty funny statement. I'd be worried if someone came into your house and didn't ask about "the skulls"

I can’t express how much I appreciate your videos. I was raised in a religious family, went to a private religious school and was never taught a realistic version of evolution and especially human evolution. Thank you for helping me expand my understanding of the reality and complexity of our ancestors. Thank the gods for YouTube and the internet to help people like me access this information. The evidence of evolution makes it a fact in my world view. And it’s so amazing to me. Thank you again for being one of many creators to help me understand my gaps in knowledge of these topics.

This man is living the dream. Sitting around the woods on a nice day in his hoodie hat and boxers just enjoying the day talking into a spoon about ancient history. ...thats the life.

This might sound weird, but one time i had to have a magnetic scan of my entire skull in preparation for an eye muscle surgery. And it was so strange that for a brief moment, i could see my own skull on a screen. Every memory in life and who i am as a person, contained within a fragile calcium shell.

Stefan, I was stuck in a religion that caused me to deny evolution for 35 years. I escaped and am a free thinker today. I appreciate that YOU are creating this easily digestible and informative content to educate people like me providing evidence based thinking that challenges young earth creationism.

This mash-up of various hominid species reminds me of cichlid evolution. These fish are the largest family of vertebrates on earth with approximately 2500 species. The Rift Valley lakes in Africa contain most species (about 1500-1800), all of which evolved from a single lineage. In Lake Victoria alone, it's thought that the 500+ species have all evolved within the last 10,000-15,000 years, and the spectacular differences in size, color, behavior and specialized physical traits are stunning to say the least. Evolution is so amazing.

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As an artist, I am quite globby. The highest development of human consciousness manifests itself as a plastic spoon.

I can’t get enough of your videos, what a find! I love your sense of humor too, you don’t take yourself too seriously. I’m learning so much, thank you, thank you!!! -Beth

In the past 160 years, NO creationist has made the slightest dent in the Theory of Evolution. No creationist has shown testable evidence that this Theory is wrong. No creationist has challenged, with documentation, the Theory of Evolution in peer reviewed journals because "god did it" is the antithesis of Science.

Literally the first time ever I've seen such a good ad placement on YouTube.

I love how he stay true to his origins and even with the gear upgrade, remains loyal to the SPOON.

The visual that has made the most sense to me (as a couch sitting lay person) is similar to a time-lapse of a tide pattern or hydrology pattern. Growth, collapse, a different random growth, collapse, growth, collapse, EXPLOSION of growth. The visuals of how Papua New Guinea populations could have 2% carry over DNA from ancient populations makes sense when you think about how not every collapse HAD to be a total collapse. Small pockets perhaps continued to exists making your job and job of all future researchers infinitely more complex! Thank you so much for these videos. Truly the most entertaining and though provoking content that I enjoy.

My gosh you make the best content! Congratulations on your level of lecture mastery. Loved every second of it!!

I can't begin to properly capture the joy I feel when I get a notification that you've got a new video up. Cheers!

I think most people imagine a long continuous trek when we talk about hominid migrations. But the average speed of movement to go 5000 kilometers in, say, 10,000 years is very slow. If each day, when they woke up, they moved their campfire over a meter or two, that would do it. I suspect long term migrations are more a once a generation relocation of the next generation to a fresh spot, ten or twenty kilometers away. Perhaps punctuated with longer journeys lasting a few days.

Amazing video !! just hooked to this channel since I discovered it for the passion that Stefan has for human evolution and the amount of research efforts and attention to detail that goes into making these videos !!!