Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans

[@psBluShark]

I wish we could see the slides. This was an amazing lecture!!!

[@trebledog]

Wish the slide show was viewable.

[@judeangione3732]

He's very out-of-date. Don't bother. Better to follow Svante Paabo. He and Denisova Cave changed everything!

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

@@judeangione3732 everything?

[@petermonro3809]

too bad the cameraman never showed the screen thus losing all the pictures and maps referred to

[@earthjustice01]

What a great lecturer. Really keeps the listener engaged. But, he keeps saying "Cro-magnon" when he actually means "Neanderthal" As when he says that "Cro-magnon" had injuries like a rodeo rider. He means Neanderthals had this type of injury. It's hilarious that the video format doesn't show any of the slides he's talking about, but his descriptions are so clear and dramatic that I can picture everything he is talking about in detail, in spite of not being able to see it in the video.

[@Thor-Orion]

That’s a huge blunder. They’re two totally different species. Cro Magnon was special. I saw a ridiculous clip on here the other day claiming there was nothing special about cro magnon and I damn near lost my entire mind. It’s such a braindead take that flies in the face of every shred and scrap of evidence ever found in association with our recent (recent in relation to the history of our genus) direct ancestors.

[@Thor-Orion]

So I’m about 15 minutes in and he’s been accidentally calling Neanderthals- cro magnon and vice versa a few times, but it’s not TOO hard to keep up with what one he actually means at any given time.

[@davidt8173]

@@Thor-Orion He did mention at the start that he hadn't given the lecture in three years. The crowd corrected him when he said 30 million instead of 30,000, but I think they all figured out what he was trying to say.

[@chr.orzschig926]

This lecture doesn't represent the actual state of knowledge bc. it's more than ten years old. There has been crucial new evidence , that has changed scientific hypotheses. The date of this lecture should be given at the beginning.

[@peterkerruish8136]

You lost me when you stated that the Netherlands couldn't think ahead - Well M8 how did rhey survive for 220,000 years without being able to think ahead...???

[@Tom_Quixote]

They survived in a coffeeshop

[@buntyhoven9163]

How do you think the rest of the animal kingdom has managed all these years?

[@peterkerruish8136]

@@buntyhoven9163 Just like the Neanderthals they are concious and can plan ahead - as in a bird building a nest... I rest my case.

[@buntyhoven9163]

@@peterkerruish8136 Yes but are they planning ahead or just working instinctively?

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

they leveraged derivatives

[@TheShamwari]

Why was the screen, to which he points continually, Not shown ?

[@250txc]

One thing that comes apparent to me is that all these humans back to day 1, were much smarter than most humans of today give them credit for ... John Hawks gives these the credit they deserve. Mr. Fagan gives a good idea of what was going on back in these days...

[@kp6215]

Agree 💯 the males have gotten worse but women have evolved better because we don't waste anything.

[@JMDinOKC]

I think it's universally accepted among scientists and educated laypeople that prehistoric anatomically modern humans were just as smart as we are today, because they WERE us, only back then. People who don't think that aren't biased, just ignorant.

[@akhil999in]

​@@JMDinOKCarchaic humans were not just equal but smarter. nature only maintains capabilities that are in use. the much more safe and comfortable life of today with all basic things taken for granted, might have caused us to loose the smartness of our far ancestors.

[@JMDinOKC]

@@akhil999in Human beings today have much more complicated lives than early humans. There's plenty to keep us smarter. Furthermore, when you have a human population of millions before and billions now, changes in gene frequency don't diffuse through an entire population. Evolution requires SMALL populations to work, so that genetic changes DO spread through an entire population. Finally, you're aware that humans have very little genetic diversity. There is more genetic diversity in a single troop of chimpanzees than in the entire human race. The modern human genome is the same as the ancient human genome.

[@debrarobinson57]

It's the knowledge we have lost. Not the basic intelligence. Although looking at how the young behave now, how ' offended' they are by basic biology, or ' hurty words', I see where you are coming from!

[@casteretpollux]

The Chauvet cave paintings are so sophisticated that they had to be part of a longer history of early art. The painter must have had many years experience. Multiple images are used to convey movement. This is not primitive work.

[@VixXZA]

One problem with these recordings is that the camera should also show the slides he seems to be putting up

[@geofflewis8599]

..would have helped if the person with the camera focused on the screen at the right times..

[@laurilee2323]

Seems odd to post a decade old lecture now, when current research has a much more researched appreciation of Neanderthals. It unfortunately makes this lecture feel unnecessarily very rude and denigrating of part of humanity’s ancestors. I was a bit gobsmacked before I realised how old the lecture was.

[@AnnaSibirskaja]

My thoughts exactly. It's a pity though, there's no video of the Hermann Schaaffhausen's 1857 lecture on the subject exists.

[@freedomoperator6502]

Shows us what we thought we knew. It has a purpose.

[@freedomoperator6502]

Wahhh!

[@edelgyn2699]

Well it depends how interested you are in the subject matter - you might want to see a lecture by a well-known author from over a decade ago because it reveals his insights at the time and how understanding has changed in that period.

[@monicaf.2608]

Very disappointing. I stopped half-way because of (a) the strong anti-Neanderthal bias, and (b) spiritual psychobabble, for which he has no evidence. It's simply a fairytale he likes to tell. Neanderthals had a far more advanced technology and art than this guy gives them credit for, although a lot of it was not known when he gave the lecture. But that's exactly the point. We have very little evidence on both sides, so we can't make broad assumptions. How much Cro-Magnon art is there? A few caves. But for a bit of luck, we might have had nothing. Who knows how artistic the Neanderthals might have been but they might not have had the luck of painting something that survived across the ages. The modern human technology was slightly more advanced, as best we know, but that's again luck, or timing. Another 50,000 years previously they would have been far behind Neanderthals. To survive in Ice Age Europe the Neanderthals had advanced means to make clothes and shoes, or else they would have died of frost bite. That's no small matter. They had art (necklaces made of shells) and body painting. They had glue to make spears. Their brain was bigger than that of modern humans. And the two species of humans made babies together, which means the modern humans didn't find Neanderthals so brutish and stupid.

[@Guitcad1]

Good thing the camera never leaves Prof. Fagan to focus on something silly like, I don't know, showing the images on the screen that he's talking about.

[@deeb4351]

I agree with Joaquin. Is there another video of this which shows the slides?

[@livioangel]

Omg totally. The cameraman is clueless 😅

[@jderoma4382]

The camera work on this is not good. Why does it focus on the speaker when he is showing and explaining something on the screen? You can’t see what he’s talking about.

[@SeaTurtle515]

Wish we could see the screen.

[@akhil999in]

camera does not show the screen

[@Foundingmother1]

Would have appreciated seeing the maps associated with the lecture .

[@Fern-334]

It would have made sence to put the date of this seminar somewhere up frontal - 2012. Obviously most people in the comments are not aware how outdated these hypothesises are.

[@chr.orzschig926]

You are so right

[@m.l.wilser7861]

ALAS! Poor video shows only the speaker but NOT HIS VISUALS! Earlier videos from Linda Hall show both. What happened???

[@dawnhemeon722]

Amazing how outdated this info is in just one decade

[@macsiah]

I was thinking that. The longitudinal nature of KZbin really shows off the evolution of what science tells us.

[@lisalovelylpa]

Yeah .. and he seems to know a lot more then a lot of scientist will let on knowing for sure today.

[@3Kiwiana]

It ain’t out dated, the cancel culture just don’t like modern humans coming out of Europe. According to them everyone had to come outa africa…no matter what. Our fossil record has become a political mockery.

[@Thor-Orion]

@@3Kiwianathe intercontinental genetic exchange model is infinitely more sensible than the constantly revised out of Africa. They keep trying to make the evidence fit this model and the genetic evidence keeps proving the model antiquated and politically motivated. They couldn’t even get the newest attempt at the model published before the geneticists proved it a farce. Africa (especially North Africa) is undoubtedly part of the story, it’s just not the entire story. The corridor that would develop into the Fertile Crescent is likely the first place modern Homo sapiens appeared on the scene, I call it the geographical swastika- Egypt-Canaan-Anatolia-Mesopotamia and then the Mediterranean coastal regions of Europe such as Greece (where we’ve found some very old pre-sapiens homo genus skeletons). These places are all important to the origin of H. sapiens. Anyone still trying to force the latest available information to fit Out of Africa as it is most commonly proposed and understood is trying to sell you a bill of goods. My money is on Anatolia-Mesopotamia. Anatolia has a lot of signs pointing to it as a place of refuge for our species to shelter from global cataclysms. We have no idea how old those underground towns/cities really are.

[@anthonyproffitt5341]

@@3KiwianaWhat does social media cancel culture have to do with scientists using the evidence at hand. DNA adds a lot to what we understand about the past.

[@yetanotherjohn]

Great lecture! Next time I hope the photographer shows the slides on the screen and not the back and side and front of the lecturer's head as he walks around.

[@tertlert]

The rough environment of Ice Age Europe is what led Western civilizations to be overall aggressive leading to their conquest of much of the world. Michael Bradley already studied and exposed Europeans and the ice age

[@ReddAethelwulf]

Really excellent lecture. I feel much more closely connected to our ancestors after this. I could listen to this guy all day.

[@briemills9209]

Walking back and forth in front of the slides is kind of pointless. Can't see the slides and the camera follows him around in the dark. This is a very amateurish presentation.

[@cecileroy557]

I had a feeling this was an older video because "Cro-Mangnon" is not often used anymore. "European Anatomically Modern Humans" is presently used.

[@jbone877]

I hadn't heard this updated terminology, yet. Thank you for mentioning it!

[@Thor-Orion]

I hate that term and I still use Cro Magnon. I still use Aryan. I still wear my mantra beads with swastikas on them (and I hate fascists). Just because some people don’t like common vernacular and endeavor to make our language more obtuse doesn’t mean we have to humor them. Oh, and how many people walking around today have 1,600 cubic centimeter intracranial capacity? They are the first on the scene with high domed skull shape, and our skulls are indeed shaped like theirs. But I’m 6’5” which puts me right in their height range (again, this is their average height. I’m the shortest man in my family, my family reunions look like the Euroleague draft, but whenever I’m out in public people gawk, so it’s pretty safe to assume that I’m considered out of the ordinary by anatomically modern human standards) and my skull size is still not what theirs was. It just seems like obfuscation and false equivocation to me. I do understand why it’s been done to differentiate cro magnon from previous members of our genus, but to be frank modern humans kind of pale in comparison to the statistical averages of cro magnon.

[@cjbailey31909]

Awesome speaker and enjoyable lecture. I learned so much. Thank you

[@Fern-334]

No you didn't. This lecture is from 2012 and more or less completely outdated today.

[@jeraldmatters2389]

Even when the presenter asks us to notice the information on the screen the cameraman fails to bring the online audience in. This failure is so great it materially reduces the pleasure of an otherwise fascinating presentation. The entire time I wanted to slap the boob on the camera.

[@dougg1075]

Would love to meet one. It’s their toughness that blows my mind.

[@oneginee]

That was a superb mass of a lecture where he helped us connect psychologically with our prehistoric ancestors.

[@sapphirestrm]

My impression is that he massively projected his own psyche onto the prehistoric ancestors. His comments were fantastical and unprovable (not scientific).

[@Fern-334]

No he didn't. This lecture is from 2012 and more or less completely outdated.

[@sapphirestrm]

@@Fern-334 no he didn't help us connect psychologically or no he didn't project his own fantasies onto prehistoric humans?

[@Fern-334]

​@@sapphirestrmno, he didn't help us connect with our ancesters because most of what he said is outdated and/or refuted.

[@seeingthings1]

I'mg grateful to whoever uploaded this but please demonstrate the pictures he's showing next time.

[@KenSoHappyClegg]

Here's a new idea. What if the earliest hominids (say 4, 5, maybe 10 million years ago) were all bipedal all along from Day 1? But we were so violent and deadly due to our bipedalness allowing for handheld weapons to be swung with greater force, we drove all the other primate groups of great apes' ancestry up into the trees for protection where they developed hands and feet for climbing. It's difficult to climb a tree and carry a rock at the same time and we're still working on improving the solutions to that problem to this day. Hominins didnt come down from the trees, we drove the hominids up into the trees.

[@bobaldo2339]

That would make a good BBC mini-series. I don't buy this lecturer's certainty concerning Neanderthals. It puts me off enough not to trust anything he says.

[@chuckleezodiac24]

no way, bro. the first hominids were aquatic.

[@xenspace5764]

@@bobaldo2339 Fully agree. Shame really; I studied Archaeology at University and one of this guy's books was essential reading. That was thirty years ago now - I don't think he's updated his views in the meantime, despite all the evidence we've gained since that points in the direction of Neanderthals being our cognitive equals.

[@DrDeuteron]

Reverse uno man

[@edelgyn2699]

@Ken Nope, that's just an ignorant and ludicrous proposition.

[@davidt8173]

I know some people criticize historical fiction, but historical fiction done well has so much accurate context that a lecture like this fills in blanks and corrects misguided notions.

[@capnsmashy5718]

made it 45 mins in and the only thing i got was "from someone else that can verify it" most of the verified are soooo out of date and wrong

[@shadowcat314]

Its interesting when you realize that there was no ice in sub saharan africa. So the people that never left that area didn't have these evolutionary stressors. Are they not really modern humans?

[@conniead5206]

@Twice is the Worst Girl Group Not necessarily so. Average IQ of some ethnicities outside of Africa are pretty low. Including in a region where there would have been the first early contact and mating. In the same region they have some with different cultures that do have average IQs over 95. Average IQ of America is a tad over 101. Average IQ in California is below 99 and it ranks only 48th now among the states. Cultures and early education make a difference over time. Plus geniuses are sprinkled randomly.

[@frankedgar6694]

Discussing the killing of a wolf ox finally crystallized for me. Imagine going against one of those rodeo bulls that like to go after cowboys and clowns in the arena. Maybe try to kill a Spanish fighting bull but on foot with a fire hardened spear. Now make that bull bigger and more dangerous.

[@DavidWratten]

Is it possible the hands were done over time, a few per visit ? how many participants donated their hand print ? so interesting .

[@Thor-Orion]

2:25 I’m not sure when this was filmed, but with this statement it could have been yesterday.

[@Thor-Orion]

Also I have a great joke; What do you call it when a cave bear eats an “European early modern human?” Filet Magnon!

[@Thor-Orion]

4:50 oh you mean the good old days?

[@judithmcdonald9001]

Who thinks humans settled in Europe? Europeans!! We had no ice age in the southern hemisphere and had humans there before Gobekle Tepe. More will be revealed as the Thwaite's Glacier continues to melt and the scientists studying that phenomenon will give us more information on the continent of Antarctica and who/what lived there besides penguins while Europe was under a wall of ice. We don't know what we don't know and that is why archaeology is so hypnotic.

[@conniead5206]

Any species of hominid that is classified as “Homo” is part of the “human” family. Unfortunately many researchers and scholarly default to saying “human” a lot. Even when talking about “human” sites that predate Homo Sapiens arrival into an area. Currently the oldest and most successful “humans” were Homo Erectus. They walked around for nearly 2 million years. Didn’t get past stone clubs. The “humans” most recently accepted into the family are Homo Naledi, and two found on island nations in Southeast Asia. One is nicknamed “the Hobbit” (Homo Florensia?), who were very short, and the other begins with an “L” and was found in the Philippines. Do I have to mention Homo Denisova? There are at least ten “human” species that used to walk around. One seems to have still been walking around about 18,000 years ago. Australian aborigines, Papua New Guineans, and Melanesians have very significant amounts of admixture from Homo Denisova or another species. There is some disagreement about the source because there is only an itty bitty bit of DNA gotten from a tiny bit of finger bone found in a cave in the Altai Mountains in Russia. Not far from its border with China. I gather they have been building the genome using the “ghost genes” they couldn’t attribute to either Homo Sapiens or Homo Neanderthal. Some argue that the genes may be from another species not yet found. So, yes, “humans” did inhabit much of Eurasia. Long before our species evolved. BTW, you confuse race or ethnicity with species. Our species is considered African, no matter what we look like now, because that is where it evolved. There is more than one “race” that makes up the peoples of Europe. At least five “races” in Africa. Svante Paabo and David Reich have presentations you can find on KZbin that would now be dated as 2 or 3 years old. The first Homo Sapiens into Northeastern Europe after things started warming were hunter gatherers who ALL had dark skin and blue eyes per genetic research. Second wave of migrants came a few thousand years later. They came from Anatolia (basically Turkey) and brought some agriculture. Sexing with the locals occurred. Third wave were peoples, possibly only men, who rode in on their horses from the Western Steppe. The male chromosomes for the previous two totally disappeared in the region. They may have killed all other males or chased them out. And seemingly wherever those guys went. They did Nate with the local ladies. Genomic researchers only recently discovered the DNA of the other two because of a skeleton found in a good sized tomb. Genomic researchers have accepted that our species and its “races” have been sexing with others wherever they roamed. And who lives in a region now may not be of the same “race” as who lived there a few thousand or even a few hundred years ago. Anybody born on a continent is of that continent. Especially if they have been there more than a couple of generations. My mom’s people left Europe many generations ago. My dad’s parents left before WW1. I am a mutt mix. If I had done more than just get the initial results, I gather I could trace back much farther than too years. I do know that currently many researchers believe all of us share heritage with the same “Mother” in Africa from about 150,000 years ago. Mitochondrial DNA. If we all went back to where we came from Africa couldn’t hold us. But then the rest of the planet could heal. Lots of critters and native plants everyplace else would multiply. Well, maybe not. Critters we have created who can not survive without human care, like brushing, milking, or shearing, won’t last long. But maybe long enough for predators to enjoy. Then there is the problem of Nuclear reactors and toxic crap left behind. We are such a great species, aren’t we!

[@edelgyn2699]

Do you mean 'settled' it's evident from archaeological finds that modern humans settled in Europe around 35k BCE. Did you mean originated??

[@judithmcdonald9001]

@@edelgyn2699 The patterns we have been able to find suggest several migrations out of Africa. There wre Neanderthal and Homo Sapiens in Europe.The new studies of show that Denosovan genes, found primarily in Asia and the South Pacific are also in South America. This changes perspectives of who was where when..

[@earFront]

Good lecture, very poor camera work. Never once showed any of the projected images from the lecture. . . . . . Lowered the quality below mheeeee!

[@TheRoon4660]

The person running the camera must be asleep. When the professor points things out on the screen he does not film it so we don't know what he's talking about.

[@LongFingeredEgalitarian]

Excellent lecture; however, as others have mentioned, it would've been nice to see the slides the good chap was pointing to.

[@JMDinOKC]

He's got that W-R substitution like Babwa Wawa and Lucy Worsley ("today we're visiting Wussia") but that was also an upper-class English affectation duwing Victowian times.

[@casteretpollux]

He's a little wusty. :-)

[@DrDeuteron]

It’s a cute accent

[@Lasselucidora]

All artifacts are ceremonial until someone find out what they were made for.

[@fattyfat-fat6639]

Terrible camera person!! They were more interested in the back of the speakers head than in the descriptive slideshow that the speaker had taken such pains to develope. Maybe it was a Neanderthal!!😊

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

The slide just showed a statute's reproductive organ.

[@MylesFCorcoran]

Excellent - thank you.

[@RubenMoil]

" we don't really know " that all I hear 😂😂😂

[@PeacefulRallyCar-pw3cs]

My guess is that fishing was a key factor in the great Leap forward. As a spear is dipped into water, it appears to bend. And, if you look at your reflection in water, it appears to distort. This creates a mental concept of unreality. Early man has no art, books, education. He only knows what he sees. The distortions of water sew the seeds of abstract thought. Furthermore, the fishermen working in deep water must visualize the bottom of the lake. This fosters the process of abstract thought. And, early man obviously knew the fundamental importance of water to life itself.

[@gunner5173]

Homo Sapiens were in central Australia at least 40.000 years ago, Mungo Man. European view hardly ever considers Antipodean history.

[@sevenstarsofthedipper1047]

Humans developed advanced civilizations in Africa at least 13,000 years ago. Modern humans populated Africa long before they left for Europe some 80,000 years ago. The oldest Neanderthal genetic types are found in Africa too.

[@edelgyn2699]

@@sevenstarsofthedipper1047 Well, we discover earlier migrations of modern human from Africa to the wider world. I think Gunner was trying to suggest there are few lectures on humans entering Australia. As for how we determine 'advanced civilizations' - civilization is usually defined by a society engaging in specific behaviours. I'm not sure any advanced civilization has yet been found anywhere in the world dating back to 13k BCE.

[@rggfishing5234]

The reluctance of the camera person to film the slides is appalling.

[@stevedrake6529]

Too bad that the camera person couldn’t bother to show the slides consistently

[@JamesMcDowell-x6c]

......I just finished looking at wall art by American aboriginals, and in the past, have seen videos of Australian aboriginal's artworks...... The artwork of the European caves, in comparison to all the others is awesomely advanced and makes the others look retarded or childish..........Only the blind would not see the high skill and brain power of the creators of the very ancient European art.....When I look at the European art, I can almost see it move, it is done with such an eye as to portray the living, breathing animals.....It IS truly some of the most beautiful art ever created and amazingly done with such simplicity and frugality of motion and use of materials.

[@susettesantiago5509]

Y’all still tryin hide those Neanderthals………but they just so related

[@DrDeuteron]

That this video comes with a UN climate change disclaimer shows our brains have not evolved since cromagnon man died in that cave

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

You've obviously never used Sci-Hub.

[@DrDeuteron]

@@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 no. It won't even let me search for my own papers, so it's worthless.

[@busterbiloxi3833]

We Neanderthals express total solidarity with our Cro-Magnon brothers! The United Cave Man Society is on the rise!

[@edelgyn2699]

The Excluded Cave Women might have something to say about your male view of our ancestors' lives....

[@MikeHunt-c5p]

Do ya have any roadies ?

[@katfrancis1230]

He's talking about some old fashioned science, the term "Cro-Magnon" has largely fallen out of use because they were fully modern Homo Sapiens virtually the same as us, Neanderthals weren't really intellectually very different from us, it's thought that they were just more culturally conservative and fewer in numbers than the "moderns", and he doesn't even mention the Denisovans. 🤷‍♀️

[@waldemar9999]

Very fine lecture!

[@davidhallett8783]

I really enjoyed not being able to see what he was talking about on the screen gilligan

[@lausanne67]

Very interesting

[@belomolnar2128]

S. O. is saying the First Y-Adam never met the First mtDNA Eve. O. K. But…how many generations back to history from know Y-Adam(x) met mtDNA-Eve(y) ? Do you know the amount of generations z=alpha, from now to the Meeting of both ? ❤…❤??? It could be possible to know the magical number of generations Z=alpha the Magical Event when Adam met Eve ? Isn ´t it ?

[@matthewdolan5831]

Great lecture - though we now know the Neander did indulge in art, some of it excellent, and had an integrated spiritual framework.

[@johnkochen7264]

If Neanderthalers were hunters, then they certainly could plan ahead.

[@thabomuso2575]

He is a great lecturer and dramaturgist, although he partially presents outdated research. Anyways, with about 30 000 Neanderthals from Western Europe to central Siberia, I find it hard to see strong competition and incessant warfare between humans and Neanderthals. it took about 10 000 years of a humanity with higher birthrates and far lower infant mortality rates, living in larger groups while interbreeding with Neanderthals to make theme gradually disappear. Throwing spears, bows and the use of hunting dogs bust have been technology which the Neanderthals could rarely even try to challenge in battle. Sure, there must have been lethal violence from time to time, but that should be rare. Also, if the Neanderthals kept getting outnumbered, it would make a lot more sense for them to simply retreat instead of standing and fighting. Also, the death of big game due to the Ice Age must have been far more detrimental for the Neanderthals than humans.

[@christianburke418]

Having the Eye Sockets of a Cro-Magnon, along with speed and strength. I would have gathered food to bait a trap to catch the prey.

[@TheChinniron]

Sorry, you lost me when you mentioned that the Esteemed Dr. Svante Pääbo was German. He is, in fact, from Sweden. How can I trust that your lecture is, in fact, when you cannot even get the heritage of such an esteemed researcher and geneticist correct?

[@marius1004]

James, you sound like Brian Blessing.

[@edelgyn2699]

LOL They both have a penchant for the dramatic and remind me of old school masters.

[@japhfo]

Very out of date. Analysis of markings, both simple and more sophisticated, in the Cueva de Doña Trinidad near Ardales, in Malaga province (Spain) has indicated they were made circa 60-70,000 years ago, a date that means they can only have been made by Neanderthalers. It's also been known for many year that Neanderthalers practised burial rites for their dead.

[@helenbichard8091]

These such lectures of earlyman seem to foeget the Australian scenario twice the years of age as mentioned in the lecture. I think Australian homo sapien history needs to be mentioned , as after all current evidence they are the oldest ,most continuous ancient civilazation ( with plenty of evidence of such) way beyond the European record.

[@tommygamba170]

His time line is off. I'm guessing it's based on out dated information.

[@tommykeenan4930]

Pity the camera work was no good for you tube watchers 🤪

[@LindaHallLibrary]

We weren't expecting him to walk around so much, especially walk off stage several times!

[@WaldemarMontalvo-mq3kw]

I give up on this lecture, see below comments.

[@Jeff-wz3xo]

Great Speaker Great talk

[@DorchesterMom]

I mean, two minutes in and it’s evident thathis accent IS rather cute😊

[@robinwolstenholme6377]

enke came up from the sea and genetically altered great apes with his own dna trying multiple times untill he created addam the prototype of the first cro magnon

[@lupusdeum3894]

We're way overdue for another volcano like Mt Toba. Well, at least then we can forget about global warming.

[@jrileycain6220]

What a performance. It's like he's a ham actor in a movie! All that was missing was a dramatic Hollywood sound track.

[@galanis38]

Almost too much so...

[@edelgyn2699]

You've got to remember that he was born in 1936, people in their eighties have a different way of speaking and communicating - if you've noticed they are often more descriptive and narrative when communicating verbally.

[@brianmorin5547]

Waste of my time watching. Nothing new here. Same thing you would have been taught in high school 20 yrs ago along with some unsubstantiated biases

[@christopherellis2663]

1:52 Nonsense!

[@revskull]

So the earliest anatomically modern human were from Europe

[@tubenhans6190]

NO symbolic life? NO Art? NO interest in afterlife? NO planning ahead? REALLY?

[@FeelingShred]

"thanks for the free content I guess??" I tolerate and endure the first few minutes of presentation where the guy thinks he is some kind of comedian in his sick head (wow) only to find that the entire video does not show the SLIDES being shown on the BIG screen... oh my lord

[@catherinepowell1049]

I love this!!!!!

[@y.g.1313]

Probably this video was prepared by Neanderthals. They failed to consider - it's important to show us the slides, while the lecturer is talking. So perhaps they are not all extinct, lol.

[@Cindy-by3ho]

Svante Paabo is Swedish not German.

[@saliksayyar9793]

Dr Fagan you qualify them by calling them archaic humans? Hominids, not humans. Near the equator in Africa, there are little differences in seasons. Horses? 31,000 years?

[@alittleofeverything4190]

We used to call them Co-Magnon.

[@whirledpeas3477]

.357 Magnum

[@250txc]

As usual, comments below are useless and add nothing to the subject matter ...

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

I get what your saying there. Very funny.

[@TheShamwari]

When was his many years ago ? looking AT HIM HE IS MAX AGE 70 say now 75 (do not know when the video was made).I am 87 and was born and grew up in Rhodesia. He would have had to be talking of the 1970 ties to find ,or stand a chance of finding black people who were not partially educated ?

[@lindawhite8272]

Boy are youwrong about Neanderthals!!! I hope you have updated your thinking.

[@whirledpeas3477]

@10:25 he swears to God 😅

[@fredrikpetersson6761]

Svante Paabo is not German, but Swedish.

[@Oracle4DeAtlantis]

Good stuff …

[@metaphysiiickz]

Wait how is cro magnon european, but it comes out of africa?

[@whirledpeas3477]

Don't wait!

[@whatszat5518]

caveman cameraman

[@tnekkc]

Modern humans did not spread out of africa...that is so 2012.

[@rogerwelsh2335]

This guy states things way too confidently and quite often he is mistaken.

[@MeHere-e2u]

How could anyone trust anything he says when he made HUGE mistakes the audience corrected him on.

[@tulfimbul2123]

I thingk you make up things as you go!

[@vairavike-freiberga1728]

what an idiotic decision to omit showing the slides on which all the arguments of the lecture were constructed!😊

[@KenSoHappyClegg]

This such a huge load of ill conceived ideas, I cant imagine how he walks straight

[@jeraldmatters2389]

Find your inner Neanderthal, roughly 4% DNA.