Denisovans: Decoding the Secrets of Our Mysterious Ancient Cousins | Prehistoric Humans Documentary

In today's video, we will be taking a look at some of our closest cousins, the Denisovans. We will look at the discoveries made by science so far, narrowing down the individuals that have been uncovered from caves across the world. We will examine their diets, lifestyle and culture, observing how these early people lived and survived in the harsh environments they called home. Sit back and relax as we take you on tour through time to meet the Denisovans - our most mysterious cousins.
00:00 Introduction
02:50 Discovering the Denisovans
08:01 What Exactly Were the Denisovans?
13:26 Known Denisovans
17:08 Denisovan Lifestyle and Culture
26:03 How Did the Denisovans Evolve?
28:47 Denisovan Interactions With Other Species of Human
33:09 The Denisovan Environment
39:15 The Extinction of the Denisovans
41:23 Outro
Music by CO.AG: / @co.agmusic
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[@crustyto3s992]

ive clicked on this video forgetting that ive clicked on it three other times and fallen asleep to it. not because its boring, im just very tired and this dude is relaxing

[@sabineb.5616]

Crusty, the same happened to me, and I always stopped watching because I couldn't really concentrate on the content. I thought that the voice is totally irritating. But I have now selected a higher speed, which improves the experience a little bit.

[@cattymajiv]

I did the same. It's much better at either 1.25 or 1.5. The normal speed is much too slow.

[@cachi-7878]

Hahahaha! I fall asleep on all of them, regardless of the voice but I also increased the speed to 1.25x, it was driving me nuts!

[@sabineb.5616]

Since I started to increase the speed of this specific video, I found out that many KZbin videos are too slow for my taste. Selecting 1,25 often improves the experience, and after a few minutes I stop noticing that I selected a higher speed.

[@2o1745]

This is an AI voice... and it's boring... normal you fall asleeeeeeep

[@fizzyizzy8261]

AI narrators sound like Hal from 2001.

[@Svensk7119]

Hal sounds better.

[@excalibur1812]

Still not as creepy as that horrifying music!

[@binkydonna]

Daisy, Daisy 🎼

[@PatBrownfield-TheRainmaker]

I’m sorry, Dave. I can’t do that.

[@marktwain622]

Hal was a real human voice.

[@NanaBren]

Thanks for the advice, I changed to 1.5 speed and it is much better. 😊

[@gregmonks]

The lack of Denis-ovian remains points to cannibalism. This leads to speculation that they were very tasty.

[@Jimbo867]

Interesting thought 👍

[@Svensk7119]

What do you mean, it only began to heat up in 2008? They weren't even postulated until that bone's genome was sequenced!

[@giacdeg]

Play at 1.25x for more normal delivery.

[@TheHorrorsPersistButSoDoI]

1.5

[@apoliticallevi]

Life saver

[@apoliticallevi]

@@TheHorrorsPersistButSoDoI😂😂😂

[@TheHorrorsPersistButSoDoI]

@@apoliticallevi 2.0 if it is late at night and you need your brain to work hard to follow it

[@TheHorrorsPersistButSoDoI]

@@apoliticallevi 3.0 for homo geniusmus

[@sabineb.5616]

The AI narrator is a bit more tolerable if you select a higher speed 😂 I use 1,5 which has the advantage that the video is much shorter 😊

[@Poondert]

1.25 is perfect!

[@sabineb.5616]

@@Poondert, great that you tried a different speed, which works for you 😀 It really improves the video! I have started to notice that many KZbin documentaries with narrators are too slow for my taste. I even started to wonder if some of them have been deliberately slowed down a bit for various reasons - it might be good for elderly viewers whose hearing isn't as good as it used to be. I often use 1.25 now and it sounds perfectly ok to me. After a minute or two i don't even notice anymore that I have selected a slightly higher speed. This doesn't work of course when music is an important part of the video, but for most documentaries it is just fine.

[@cattymajiv]

Yes. 1.25 is perfect.

[@rhyshagerty135]

When will someone design an AI voice with an Australian accent? It'll make things sound more interesting to me and few others, geographically speaking 😅

[@Stoney_AKA_James]

I will just be happy if the voice would talk abit faster...

[@EnigmaticEncounters420]

​@@Stoney_AKA_Jamesspeed the video up a lirt😢

[@cattymajiv]

Yes. Go into the settings at the screen's top right, with the tiny picture of a gear wheel, and increase the speed to 1.25 or 1.5.

[@cattymajiv]

@@EnigmaticEncounters420 Speed it up a lirt? Is that short for a long shirt?

[@briankleinschmidt3664]

We may be able to generate an image of someone based solely on their specific genome. The info is in there. We just need to extract it.

[@Svensk7119]

I think they have. That one drawing is always used with them. I believe it was inspired by a reconstruction.

[@luvsilly60]

There is a Russian army story of coming across a group of primitive people. They got attacked and shot some. This is from WWII.

[@Possumn1138]

Presently watching a Time Team archeology program from the BBC set on Green Island in Poole Harbor in Dorset, where similar stone bracelets are shown being made from shale. They mention bracelets made by Phoenicians from coal as well. Clearly the green stone bracelet was once a bracelet that was later broken and then converted Into a pendant by adding a hole to hang it from. But the technique of manufactor must differ.

[@rockerobertson4002]

Love that show.

[@jholt03]

I just discovered that if you increasing the play back speed to 125% the narrators voice sounds a lot closer to normal human speech, rather than someone who's been mixing booze, benzos, and quaaludes.

[@lesliedaubert1411]

How do I speed these videos up so I don't keep falling asleep.

[@Svensk7119]

Possess FEWER of the genes. Not LESS. Bad AI. Bad.

[@_Ben___]

32:00 anyone know of a source for this? The "tolian girl"?

[@standingbear998]

words are being changed at a faster rate than ever before. 'decoding' means making it up. nothing is "coded' about it

[@Thomas-pq2qz]

Has anyone seen the Neil Oliver excavation of some of the small cairns in the isles?Many skulls and all had signs of having had to endure pain from the practise of hitting another to perhaps get their attention. The initial artists impression of what they looked like,raised hackles. The old colonel blimps were incensed to have Archaeologists even suggest they were our forebears. Well, tough,accept that this is more likely to be the truth than anything else we try to make up.

[@istvanpesti5758]

Searching

[@unitor699industries]

Where is the next video

[@destob9586]

Aboriginal blood has been found in the people of the Yucatan in Mexico could that be a like to denisovans

[@Daily_Survivor]

A slight Irish accent would be great

[@donscheid97]

I read a couple years ago there were four species but there is so little they have about the other one, they're not sure if it was a different species or a sub-species of one of the others.

[@AustinMonson2000]

Homo capensis.. the eggheads .. their ancestors are the ones running this role in the shadows today

[@georgecyp.4581]

Hard to believe land and food were so little to share, that our ancestors who numbered only some thousand across the globe, drove everyone else to extinction. A Although some small scale Local conflict is probable,there must be some other reason these archaic tribes aren't around anymore

[@tjam6097]

You should have never let this into the public. This shows a lot about your quality standards, or the lack of.

[@plopdoo339]

Denisovans had blond hair and blue eyes. Dominant relative to modern humans and not the same blond and blue we see in modern europeans.

[@Teddy_Graham]

Nothing with recessive genes can be dominant to melanin.

[@dr1609]

There is no proof they did not look like us, that we interbred and they are in our genes.Having to change the definition of "?species" in order to explain our neanderthal genes-why deny there were different races of humans just like today. The political nonsense in palaeo-anthropology prevents it from being a serious science.

[@nervgear2254]

No. Based on their DNA they had black hair and black eyes and came in diff skin colours, brown and white.

[@plopdoo339]

@@nervgear2254 Nah bro, they did the comparisons a long time ago in people from Melanesian descent. They have blond hair and blue eyes that are dominant genes and do not come from modern humans but from denisovans.

[@Teddy_Graham]

@@plopdoo339 these aren’t even humans. The minute they find skeletons in a modern day European colony the reconstruction will always make the non human look more humanoid but when they find skeletons in Africa they give it an ape like appearance when all are not humans. They’re apes! Not humans. We didn’t evolve. We are the same species as always. Never heard of evolution leaving behind stragglers.

[@crystalsanders9294]

How the people died in the denisovan cave?😊 My scientific hypothesis is they were attacked by the Neanderthals who killed & at them. Because they were animalistic & barbaric. Ijs 😅😅

[@rolandjgutierrez7737]

What has alway had me think rember or have seen the comic strip Prince Valeiant think thats the name it came before or after belive it or not.The comic would have caveman looking caricatures on there sunday journal comic page..whats that all abaught the writer had some insight on something?????...RocknRollFlat5

[@joebidet2050]

My dna results yesterday Y dna I1a2 origen Scandinavian Mtdna u4 origen central asia Neanderthal 3% 900 variants Denisovan 2 to 4 % 😊

[@oogawa13kokomi]

Lmaoooo

[@EventHorizon3.14]

Had me until helped humans tough out covid 19 now that a lot of facts have came out.😂

[@LowerTheBoom]

Who would win in fight, a person or a denisovan? 🤔

[@visionentertainment8006]

A denisovan is a person

[@Lance_Lough]

Denisovans were persons, really..

[@plopdoo339]

Denisovans would crush a sapien with their bare hands. So would a Neanderthal.

[@rusty_shacklford]

A denisovan is a person. So assuming you’re asking about Homo sapien vs a denisovan. Both denisovan and Neanderthals where vastly stronger than Homo sapiens so hand to hand we’d lose. Really the only reason we became the dominant species on the planet is because we where able to figure out technology faster.

[@muhammadawais7109]

​@@plopdoo339What is fascinating for me is that early homo sapiens actually inbred with neanderthal

[@Steacy783NUTS]

Have keep crossing the room to stop commercials dam it :(

[@fatjeezussouthtexasoutdoor5244]

Play at 1.25 speed .... Trust me😉

[@LowerTheBoom]

They were very short.

[@Lance_Lough]

Neither Neanderthal nor Denisovans were short, their height was roughly equal or greater than sapiens, and their brains were slightly larger.

[@drbigmdftnu]

​@@Lance_LoughNeanderthals were shorter on average than sapiens. Bigger brains true. Denisovans - no one knows.

[@plopdoo339]

​@@drbigmdftnuonly western neanderthals were short...all the neanderthals found in Asia and East Asia have been estimated to be 5'10+...they even found a Neanderthal that was 6'0 in China.

[@dr1609]

​@@plopdoo339Europeans were very short until a few 100years ago-history, housing, beds for adults, clothing incl thst worn by knights 600years ago are for smaller people thsn we are

[@willb3513]

Wtf is wrong with the cadence on this ai narration 😂

[@scottgoldsberry2730]

The narrator needs to pick up the pace a little bit I can't watch this this is too slow

[@watcher_7_]

I am Nephilim

[@1984Phalanx]

You are the chosen one!

[@carilynfirestone3438]

"PromoSM" 🔥

[@user-xn2hf9re8r]

narrator so slow it's irritating

[@iasminion678]

Go to settings and speed up to 1.5. It goes better

[@alangknowles]

​@@iasminion678Not even at 2x. No substance.

[@cellgrrl]

It is not a human but AI creation that is doing the speaking. I can't watch it all the way through because that voice is so annoying. And the "music" doesn't help either. I am interested in the topic and want to hear it but they are pushing me away with their fake voice.

[@paulford9120]

@@cellgrrl Same here, I didn't watch the whole video, but there are other good sources of info on them.

[@watersrising8044]

Horrible narration voice. Hire a human.

[@alangknowles]

Don't waste your time. A lot of speculative guesses and no substance

[@jamesnincross]

Thats all we have on this species. Do you have more info?

[@savagedog130]

I can only listen to that voice at x1.25 speed. Normal speed is very irritating.

[@TommasoP-of5tx]

Pleas change the narrator (maybe use eleven labs)

[@mundo_de_lesly]

Love the info. Hate the voice. It's like watching paint dry 🙃

[@robertgolding]

This guy sound soporific, puts me to sleep.

[@cachi-7878]

One thing that bothers me about these documentaries is that they never explain why these early humans always had to protect themselves from the cold whereas other animals did not. If we all came from warm climates, why then did these species migrate to colder regions of the globe? Were they forced to do so? Other animals don’t displace themselves to areas in which they cannot live comfortably. You don’t find lions in the Northern Hemisphere. Why hominids subjected themselves to this unnatural event? If hominids displaced themselves to colder climates, why didn’t they evolve to cope with their new environment? Maybe because they didn’t have enough time to do so?

[@bripa3890]

I've always felt like it wasn't so much that early humans were forced to migrate to bad climates as they had the technology to do it so they did. I believe any organism will spread as far as it can, most species don't have the option to make clothes that allow them to overcome the environment so they have no choice but to live where they have evolved to be successful. Humans developing clothes and fire opened up ecological niches that were previously unavailable to them and I believe any animal would capitalize upon this

[@chriscarrol9373]

Ya this is unwatchable.

[@opinyinatedhomeydonpladat3212]

@12:57 Hello, my name is Rhonda. You will hear from me again in the recent future but I wanted to make it clear that I am the legendary Denisovan and my phenomal ElongatedSkull abilities are not being documented atm bcuz theyre too heavily disputed (as even existing let alone happening) to be recognized(by the elite). I am a real person with a very Dead ElongatedSkulled, Winter Solstice Son, Isaiah, so please keep this in mind. The populace has not one iota how severely they have been deceived. I do. And I am Yhe Last Survivor. Love, Peace & Happiness P.S. There i$ no death. And there will not be, Ever tf Again. My Son, Isaiah Andino, A Sagittarius, is on this and a paralell timeline(s), And He is my "Documentor" aka-Scribe. He enters this realm through his very own door🚪 that is a also a Blaq Hole🕳 As: Sagittarius ♐️ The "Hopp" hasbin Toppled⛲️ Disbelieve at your own peril, I am just warming up.

[@hellewellejus2895]

This voice destroys the entire experience

[@robensur3596]

I agree

[@Limhuangdi.3436]

Dafuk!!! This narrator makes me sleepy!!!

[@randallscott6]

Narrator is too annoying

[@newhop484]

Manusia purba & keturunan Adam, manusia & alien, manusia &jin, manusia & malaikat pengaruh lingkungan

[@DorasVideoLog]

omg can you talk any slower?

[@stephenleblanc4677]

Terrible terrible narration. If this is not a computer voice, it should be.

[@drdavidtee]

this is just wrong and misinformation

[@annewilson9276]

This one is very annoying 😊

[@sherrysmithrice1973]

It has been proven in the Bible that from Adam and Eve until now is about 6000 years. So these cannot be ancestors.

[@kellis1005]

Girl…

[@plopdoo339]

That's not true. Prove it by posting the exact line, page, and book in the Bible where it says that.

[@plopdoo339]

It's funny because we have proof humans were living over 10,000 years ago.

[@petraweber5746]

Are you serious about that? 😂😂😂

[@Chris-hx3om]

"Proven in the bible" Is that like military intelligence? Even the church accepts evolution, the Earth is 4.3 billion years old, the world isn't flat, and we aren't at the centre of the universe. And the number of things the bible has got SO wrong, don't even get me started!!

[@user-go3qg4zp7y]

cant tell if its an arm or leg but we know its a 13 yr old some how... good one , hahahahhaha