DNA Evidence That Humans & Chimps Share A Common Ancestor: Endogenous Retroviruses

[@StatedClearly]

For all paper sources and an overview of the math, see this link here: docs.google.com/document/d/1gZWCMW7ZWhdlLPVJU4nDWkmyQbUqZG3wsS0FD2sKmn0/

[@BarryDesborough]

Super! Thank you!

[@awesomegamer31]

didn't scientists work out that the Mitochrondria was an ERV? or am I misremembering...

[@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095]

@@awesomegamer31 More of an endosymbiotic prokaryote. It might have an ERV in it, I don't know. {:-:-:}

[@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095]

If vanishingly small probablilities don't work for Creationism, should they be used for real science? Hmm... {:-:-:}

[@BarryDesborough]

@@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095, if two people draw exactly the same sequence of cards, for 200,000 cards, and claim that it was a coincidence, would you believe them?

[@rationalityrules]

Hey family : )

[@Tom-oi1xc]

Hey Steve :)

[@DakkaDownUnder]

Hello fellow ape

[@rishabwarrier2769]

Tysm for sharing this vid.

[@thedragonofechigo7878]

Fellow apes and primates

[@rishabwarrier2769]

I knew it was unlikely that us and Chimps were not evolutionarily related but that unlikely? Damn. Have a wonderful day my fellow apes.

[@Moleanimationchannel]

Apes also can’t make vitamin C because of a common mutation we both share at the exact location on one of our chromosomes. It’s pretty much impossible for this exact mutation to match. The reason why this negative mutation survived was for the fact that our ancestors ate mostly fruit so the ability to make it without ingesting it wasn’t Detrimental. Most people have no idea that other mammals can make vitamin C without actually ingesting it.

[@fallendown8828]

I hate the fact we can't make some vitamins. Why our mutated ancestor didn't die :( they passed us something really bad. I mean if you are mutated, just let the reproduction bussiness to healthy ones

[@azap12]

@@vesuvandoppelganger Hahaha give up. There is no reason, these are endogenous retrovirus these are just dead virus gene that mutated over time. Move on it's the 21st century

[@azap12]

@@vesuvandoppelganger Inspite of the evidence you just choose to deny it.

[@chrislefler3554]

@@vesuvandoppelganger thanks for showing off your willful rejection of the truth.

[@go64bit]

Fascinating.

[@ananyaimtiazhussain6816]

I am so glad my friend suggested this video. I finally understood the concepts. This was very clear. Thanks.

[@agustinfranco0]

you could say it was *puts on sunglasses* STATED CLEARLY

[@smutnamezatka]

Yet u didnt understand that this is all baloney

[@numbersix9477]

@@smutnamezatka Given that you have a GENUINE falsification of some aspect(s) of the theory of evolution, you need to immediately leave this thread, write your falsification up in the form of a scientific paper and get it published in a peer reviewed science journal. Then you can sit back and wait for the inevitable call from one or more members of the Nobel Prize committee. My friend, you are going to be famous!

[@kylerichardson1242]

@@smutnamezatkaCitation needed, you liar.

[@zidneya]

Oh trust me after seeing pictures of my mother's side of the family, I have no doubt that I have chimpanzees on the family.

[@kellydalstok8900]

Especially when people grow old and wrinkly, they resemble chimps more.

[@EastwoodDC]

OOK! :-)

[@lumbratile4174]

LMAO

[@raventaylor1757]

The middle east, asia and europe descended from the first humans. The rest probably came from apes.

[@harrywhite7639]

@@raventaylor1757 perhaps the rest are just a different ape specie

[@mohammadalsaidy8155]

Can we get an Arabic version of this video that would be added to the 'Stated clearly in Arabic' playlist? This was great!

[@olcankanicok9125]

a turkish too

[@Tekkerz]

no

[@SyrianApostate]

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!

[@davidaugustofc2574]

It would make some people upset

[@treeman12815]

no because that’ll make the muslim followers upset

[@AndyMcBlane]

Thanks for including the credits, I'd like to extend my thanks to the illustrator and animator for this video - really high quality work. Would also like to thank the script writer and the voice over guy.

[@StatedClearly]

Haha, thanks.

[@gbeaver57]

This channel is unbelievably clear and educational.

[@Sikosm]

It's all stated very clearly

[@bazoo513]

@@Sikosm Indeed.

[@raventaylor1757]

The only thing clear about this channel is that there are human idiots who believe this nonsense 🤣

[@gbeaver57]

@@raventaylor1757 as opposed to chimpanzee idiots, the human idiot’s closest living relative.

[@bazoo513]

@@raventaylor1757 Have you checked the genetic evidence, or is it what your idiot ayatolah tells you? And where do you find the hubris to prescribe to the Creator how to go about arranging the Creation?

[@GreatDanny]

The fact that there are so many people that watched this video not to learn from it but to disprove it with such nonsense claims is actually frightening

[@all2jesus]

How do we know it's 1 in 10 million (wasn't explained). And if we know that for certain viruses, how do we know it also applies to those 205 ones?

[@numbersix9477]

@@all2jesus How we know the moon isn't made of green cheese? Nobody's been there. Nobody's even tried to go there.. Granted, maybe the cheese isn't actually green. But it IS cheese and scientists are LYING when they say it isn't!

[@joshjones3733]

@@all2jesushe provides a link to the math both in the video and in the pinned comment

[@clovebeans713]

​@@all2jesus Because there are 10 million insertion spots ? So one matching will have chance of 1 in 10 mil

[@Joe-li2nk]

What r u frightened of?

[@sironnsk]

There are so many evidences of evolution that I can't even imagine how one can be a creationist

[@Hy-jg8ow]

That's just the icing on the bullshit-cake, we also have flat-earthers and believe it or not no-spacers (who deny that the interplanetary and interstellar space exists). And then you wonder why have no flying cars or a post-scarcity society yet? 21th century, and yet we have people that even more educated Romans from BCE 300 would scoff at!

[@NoobsDeSroobs]

much evidence*

[@sironnsk]

​@@NoobsDeSroobs yes, right. I was thinking about which is correct and did a mistake :(

[@MagicSecretsandMysteries]

Religious indoctrination of children right from birth should do the trick. When we're little, that's when we're the most moldable/receptive to the world around us; this is evolutions way of making sure that we get acclimated to the environment for survival purposes. During these times we're ment to learn the framework needed to survive in the world from our parents; hence why we can learn languages, math, complex problem solving skills... skills which goes onto act as a backbone to provide a framework of understanding for our futures. Religious indoctrination/upbringing hijacks this primary function since the parents "teach" the kids creation magic is what they should believe, (children knowing no better accepts this way of "thinking"), so a lot of them end up having inner conflicts when they encounter evidence that challenge their beliefs hence ✨cognitive dissonance✨

[@Aykoo]

@@MagicSecretsandMysteries and unfortunately it is really hard to overcome this cognitive dissonance, since you have to admit to yourself that you were wrong all this time.

[@MikkoRantalainen]

I hope that you do similar videos about all methods to reveal family relationships using the DNA evidence. This was absolutely the best educational video about markers caused by Endogenous Retroviruses and I'd love to see other videos with similar quality for other methods, too.

[@shrikanthpai6604]

For those using religion as an excuse to deny common ancestry I would say God Himself introduced these clues in our DNA so as to give us a peek into our ancestry

[@Subfightr]

Oh oh oh wonderful job. You GOTTA COVER the chromosome linkage, That evidence was less complicated for my creationist mind at the time to grasp, and oh my Darwin the sensation of the epiphany that I had received was literally life-changing.

[@baibai9009]

I’m speechless by how well this review is done, and I was even kind of moved by the facts and this great work.

[@travisbicklepopsicle]

@@evanroderick91 yeah, well.. you kind of need to be a geneticist, you know? Personal beliefs don't really cut it when it comes to science and reality. All data and evidence from genetics indicates all life is related. If you think this is not a fact, then you need to publish your work in a relevant science journal. Like I said, opinions don't count.

[@osamaqtaitat]

@@travisbicklepopsicle 👍

[@TheDarkPanther0]

@@evanroderick91 and you think otherwise because there are plenty of evidence into this subject like dude.... even if you don't believe in it trust the process of how far scientist came in figuring out this mystery.

[@ScienceisStupid-f3r]

@@travisbicklepopsicle "yeah, well.. you kind of need to be a geneticist, you know? Personal beliefs don't really cut it when it comes to science and reality. All data and evidence from genetics indicates all life is related. If you think this is not a fact, then you need to publish your work in a relevant science journal. Like I said, opinions don't count." Nothing but your opinion. "All data and evidence from genetics indicates all life is related" Could be the result of a common designer.

[@travisbicklepopsicle]

@@ScienceisStupid-f3r science is stupid? That's what you think, right? ..Wondering what you're doing on the internet and living in modern society.

[@harrywhite7639]

I have been watching Evolution debates for years. I have never seen the DNA evidence presented so clearly. thank you👍

[@harrywhite7639]

@Hisham Malik explain

[@ooloncoluphid1942]

@Hisham Malik Who is lying, and about what exactly?

[@harrywhite7639]

@Hisham Malik any facts, to back that up?

[@harrywhite7639]

@Hisham Malik lol. I'll pass

[@231rft]

@Hisham Malik you’ve been brainwashed since a young age. Please research unbiased sources. Preferably sources that don’t threaten you with going to hell if you don’t believe them.

[@benjaelee]

Why did i think he was going to say “we. are. monkey.” At the end xD

[@ntr10me]

Because you also just saw Godzilla vs. Kong? And 'monkey' is such a cool and cute word? ^_^

[@a7mdenoA7x]

lol I thought he was gonna say " we. are. related."

[@silverschmid4591]

Really? I was thinking the same thing!

[@arabshaggy6352]

U mean MONKE

[@monke8817]

This is indeed true

[@RandallWilks]

*SOME PEOPLE STILL ASK, "WHY ARE THERE STILL APES (OR MONKEYS)?"* It should be obvious that such people lack an understanding of what evolution is and how it works. Apparently someone told such people that humans evolved from apes, and from that, due to their lack of education, they assumed that all apes were supposed to evolve into humans. That is not how evolution works, but creationists have no interest in learning anything other than creation mythology. They might just as well have asked "If dogs are descended from wolves, why are there still wolves?" Or even "If Americans came from Europe, why are there still Europeans?" Just as dogs descended from a population of wolves, so too did humans evolve from one particular population of apes. What we know is that the first apes evolved in Africa about 25 million years ago from a population of Old World Monkeys. Whereas monkeys run on all four feet across the TOPS of branches, apes evolved the ability to swing, arm over arm, from branch to branch. Evolution works to make each species best suited to their environment. For apes, that environment was the forest and they are well suited for it. At one time there were about 30 different species of apes in those forests. Had environmental conditions remained the same, we would still see forests covering the whole African continent. However, conditions did not stay the same; the climate became drier. As a result, forested areas shrank in size and were replaced by grasslands, the African savanna, with just a few scattered trees. The shrinking forests put different ape species in competition with each other and many went extinct. Then, about 6 or 7 million years ago, one population of apes split, with some of them opting for life on that open savanna. All apes are capable of walking upright, they are just not comfortable doing so for long periods of time. Recent experiments with trained chimps on a treadmill have shown that for them, walking upright was more efficient in terms of energy expended than quadrupedal walking. Chimps and other apes though must shift their weight from side to side while walking bipedaly. That savanna environment favored skeletal changes that placed the knees directly under the center of gravity. by about 4 mya, our ancestral australopithecines had almost the same pelvis, femur, knees and feet as modern humans. That gave them a smooth stride that was efficient for long distance travel. They did however, retain long arms and curved fingers enabling them to climb a tree when danger threatened. The apes that remained in a forest environment were under little pressure to change. They became the ancestors of today's chimps and bonobos. Those living in the open were presented challenges not experienced by woodland apes, and that required greater intelligence and cooperation to overcome them. It set their descendants on a different evolutionary trajectory that culminated in us.

[@planetdog1641]

More like the theory of bestiality.

[@jamest4670]

Where is the fossil evidence of transition from apes to humans ? Apart from the fraudulent made up bits to suit the narrative

[@ThePlumAbides]

And family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten

[@peanutkaboom6004]

If only. Chimpanzees, other apes, primates, mammals, birds, and sentient creatures the world over are enslaved and abused for human benefit. Whether it’s under the guise of “research” or food production, literally *trillions* are forgotten and left behind every year.

[@moikechan]

Unless you are unable to produce a COVID vaccination "passport"...

[@justghostie4948]

@@moikechan Either get vaccinated or have proof of being medically exempt from vaccination, Ex: autoimmune diseases

[@hosoiarchives4858]

Lol what

[@atriox7221]

Could’ve just said until we develop agriculture and slaves/ abusing others for our own benefit became more practical, things kind of just escalated from then on

[@fatimafarishta4152]

I’ve always been a firm believer in evolution, but this has truly made my jaw drop. Especially hearing the probabilities, it truly seems undeniable. Fantastic work!

[@csadler]

I've always said ERVs are a slam dunk for common descent, but never saw it presented so well. Thanks!

[@csadler]

@Men Can't Change Their Gender First you need an education. Do you know what they are?

[@csadler]

@Men Can't Change Their Gender What a load of garbage. The clue is in the name 'Endogenous'. -> "How does ERVs get you a grandeous narrative of a billion years of evolution?" And YOU have the gall to spew and you don't even understand. I will put you our of your miserly and spell it out for you, but it's fun watching you spin. Hint: They comprise ~ 5% of human genome. Dude you are clueless.

[@csadler]

@Men Can't Change Their Gender -> "modified what is known as the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology. " Ya, you are one fucked up person. You will do nothing in life.

[@csadler]

@Men Can't Change Their Gender You're not fit to clean my jock strap boy. Retired at 56, my own company. Figured out what an ERV is yet or is stupid a thing you aspire too?

[@Schismxs]

@Men Can't Change Their Gender Billions? The human ape split was about 5 to 7 million years ago, so no one is talking billions right here. Most vertebrates do appear to have suffered from endogenous retroviruses and those first appeared around 450 million years ago. It's quite likely viruses have been around for billions of years based on what we know.

[@Fomites]

Australian here. I find it interesting that evolution needs to be debated in the US. It's not an issue here nor in educated countries (of course the US is highly educated too and this is what cteates the paradox).

[@emilybs02]

That’s because our country takes Christianity seriously. Hell, even our pledge says “one nation under God”. Evolution goes against what the Bible says about the beginning of life, which is why it’s so controversial.

[@MikkoRantalainen]

11:40 In fact, one could argue that evolution is better understood than the gravity! We understand the mechanism behind the evolution and the evidence is overwhelming. On the other hand, we have lots of evidence for gravity and we know how it seems to behave but we still don't understand the mechanism behind it (e.g. some argue that it's transferred by gravitrons moving at the speed of light, similar to photons; some other people argue that it's just a curvature of spacetime and doesn't actually manifest as particles and the gravitation waves are just waves in spacetime). The fact that a given creationist fails to understand evolution is not a proof against evolution but a proof against understanding of that individual.

[@ShannonQ]

This is epic 💗

[@dillydilly1595]

Shannon!

[@apetheory7152]

I love how some people will try to debunk this by saying “if we’re related to apes, why can’t we reproduce with them??” Like, they don’t understand that just because chimps and orangutans are in the same family apes that means they can interbreed. Just because certain species of animals are related doesn’t mean they can interbreed. By this logic a king and a rattlesnake aren’t related because they can’t interbreed.

[@justprimo2]

The humans that were different species we could've but they're gone now

[@taylorkay1826]

@@justprimo2 when I found this out I was really sad

[@YourBestNeighbor7]

They're more closely related to each other when compared to a lizard but compared to a mammal, the lizard is more closely related to the snakes than to the mammal. Its all about perspectives...

[@narrativeless404]

​@@justprimo2You mean Neanderthal humans Or even earlier human species?

[@narrativeless404]

​@@YourBestNeighbor7Yet, snakes eat lizards

[@danman6612]

The "We...are...family" outro after explaining the evidence was incredibly powerful and moving. Amazing presentation!

[@jawadasad2961]

The fact that Darwin discovered that this not only before the discovery of DNA but also before any ape human transitional fossil was found, is fascinating.

[@TheHairyHeathen]

What have you been smoking? Nobody said Darwin discovered ERVs.

[@jawadasad2961]

@TheHairyHeathen that darwin discovered humans have evolved from common ancestors with other living beings.

[@wallahhabibiiii]

​@@jawadasad2961 he theorized this.

[@bulbulitobayagbagan9633]

Wow, this is fascinating! Sad to say, a lot of people void this theory that is actually close to facts. People actually want's to live in lies.

[@PaulTheSkeptic]

A person wants. People want. But I agree.

[@PaulTheSkeptic]

@@Yuxim Well okay. I mean I see your point but it's not just stupidity or egotism. People are actually psychologically motivated to believe in their traditional beliefs. The beliefs their family and community believe. Neurologists often study something called cognitive bias. Here's 5, just so you see what I mean. Conformity bias is the tendency to accept what we hear the most from the most people. Authority bias is the tendency to accept what we're told by our authority figures. Agenticity is the tendency to assign agency behind random events. Self serving bias is the tendency to accept beliefs more likely to benefit us. Belief perseverance is the tendency to hang on to beliefs that we already believe, even in light of evidence to the contrary. Now we all have these biases. But notice how each one of them helps to support a person's traditional beliefs? Especially supernatural beliefs? And there are many more and many others are the same way in that they also help to support a person's traditional beliefs. No one is a perfect skeptic. We all fall prey to bad beliefs from time to time. But it is very interesting to me that these traditional beliefs seem specifically supported by so many of these cognitive biases.

[@bulbulitobayagbagan9633]

​@@PaulTheSkeptic In short, most people in this planet are just born to become egocentric human being base on their culture and religion. Because religion does not support that we came from nothing, that we are made by a super natural being, making Fnir Zeni point correct.

[@BlazeHart96]

i think its not literally nothing, its nothing because its unknown what happend before the bigbang..its a nothing until we discover it was a something ...

[@Orion225]

@@PaulTheSkeptic Ah, thanks for sharing this useful information mate. 👍

[@jmca_power]

if we lost every fossil, lost documentation for every observed case of speciation, and ignored all the structural homologies between species, ERVs alone would still prove evolution beyond any shadow of a doubt

[@elliot7205]

How?.. please explain

[@Evolcun]

@@elliot7205 Watch the video.

[@jangohemmes352]

​@Elliot These scars that are shared in both human and chimp DNA cannot possibly have come to be if we did not share a common ancestor. It's conclusive evidence in and of itself

[@bethalpha]

nope urstupid

[@michaelreichwein3970]

@@jangohemmes352 what that we all came from the one same ancestor?

[@sciencenerd7639]

I adore the science in this video and also the Jim Carey reference. Absolutely everybody needs to see this video. Amazing stuff.

[@CharlieReid60]

Very well explained, think i get it now. This video should be in every classroom, 12 mins and boom, argument over. Feel like i've just took, and understood, a biology course. Thank you.

[@bruceblaszczyk6042]

This video is kryptonite to Muslims, Christians and Jews.

[@riamus7258]

A request: can we get a video on atavism? It would be a fantastic way to show "evidence of evolution"

[@salamjihad3449]

WHO IS DENYING EVOLUTION? BECAUSE YOU DONT KNOW WHAT CREATION MEANS ! CREATION DOESNT DISPROVE EVOLUTION.. NO CREATIONIST DENIES EVOLUTION ! CREATIONIST BELIEVE MAN WAS CREATED ! LET ME ASK YOU THIS PLS. IF MAN WERE GENETICALLY CREATED FROM PRIMITIVE APES AND NEANDERTHAL THEN WOULDNT WE HAVE ALL THE CHROMOSOMES AND DNA MARKERS AS EVOLUTIONISTS ARE FINDING ? AND WOULD WE FIND THAT WE SHARE THE SAME COMMON ANCESTOR IN OUR DNA MAKEUP ?

[@poozer1986]

@@salamjihad3449 what point are you trying to make. Your shouted comment, didn't really say anything

[@dirandrous7682]

Oh hey long time no see. Or watch. I haven't watched your videos in months.

[@JesusChrist-qi8yo]

@@salamjihad3449 what are you trying to say lmao? That's literally answered in the video. Did you not watch it before commenting? Smh🤦🏻‍♂️

[@rickkwitkoski1976]

@@salamjihad3449 Umm... yeah... MANY creationists deny evolution. It seems like you are just saying that evolution, as accepted in Science, is real but that it was not a natural occurrence. Some creator got the ball rolling.

[@DavidFMayerPhD]

I had a gestalt experience relevant to the issue when I was a kid and visited the primate house of our local zoo. I looked at the eyes of chimpanzees and they are SO human (beyond any other primate) that I was instantly convinced that we are blood relatives.

[@boterlettersukkel]

Funny how that works.

[@roner61]

Is simple as that, i allways said religious persons should look more at animals eyes.

[@garrettdodgen3771]

Look up a gorillas hands, it is crazy how human they seem.

[@mattfarmer4621]

When I was younger I use to date a chimp - she drop me and I've had a broken chromosome every since....

[@philip1279]

@@mattfarmer4621 that’s pretty funny

[@thegoodlydragon7452]

Dude, your videos are amazing! Concepts that take a lot of professors so long to explain are so clearly explained here in such short time.

[@IxTHROWxTHINGS]

Hard to believe we share a lineage way down our ancestry with creationists! Turns out we're family?! 😵

[@johnishikawa2200]

This explanation of the lining up of the virus DNA in the exact same spots in human and chimp DNA , thus proving we evolved ( chimps/humans ) from a common ancestor I found very exiting ! Thank goodness for Watson , Crick , and Rosalind Franklin !!!

[@SamFey]

You willfully misunderstand the role of dna and genetics.

[@johnishikawa2200]

@SamFey: Did I really ? Well the next time I need advice from the " maga/ sky daddy / Christo fascist " goofball commission , I'll let u know .Same page ? 😆🤔😬

[@SamFey]

@@johnishikawa2200 Don't tell me.... You believe that unicellular algae within a colony remaining unicellular algae is evidence for evolution. You're all the same you lot.

[@69eddieD]

@@SamFey "You willfully misunderstand the role of dna and genetics." Judging from your comment on endogenous retrovirus it seems you're the one with a misunderstanding of DNA and genetics.

[@DocReasonable]

@@SamFey So U think giant otters, river otters and sea otters are all the same "kind". U are therefore admitting that evolution has occurred between these vastly different species.

[@mobamenace3591]

Man, I love this video. Very difficult to understand from the texts but the animation makes it easy to understand.

[@nicofonce]

It's sad that the people who are already understanding evolution are the only ones watching this type of content, and the ones who are stuck in a religious framework will reject the idea and not even consider watching it. PS: I learned something. Thanks!! Edit: looking at the replies clearly my initial statement turns out not to be correct and this type of content DOES help people seeing through religious believes. And in this case, I'm more than happy to be wrong!

[@grollgrimm5827]

On the bright side, that's not always true. It was RNA videos on youtube that saved my son from following his Mum into a fundamentalist high control group. He is now at university and has a girlfriend, all things he wouldn't have done if he became a Jehovah's Witness. He now has a bright future, and I'm very proud of him.

[@nicofonce]

@@grollgrimm5827 that's great news, glad to hear!

[@vestafreyja]

@groll grimm Rightly so glad to hear that you son has chosen a path with almost limitless possibilities. I was raised in an Anglican household so we accepted evolution, big bang and for that I am grateful. I had an uncle who was JW and any time he spouted JW nonsense about science I quickly shut him down and this was in the late 1960's to early 1970's; today it would be so much easier with the internet. My mom asked me to avoid doing so and I told her that if he is going to say stuff that is demonstratively wrong I will correct him. Needless to say that was a bone of contention, strangely enough I was not favorite of Uncle Jim's and he was not a favorite relative of mine.

[@junaid2266]

Um that's not true. I'm religious and I watch stuff like this.

[@jenuism8506]

I started watching stated clearly when I believed in a six day creation story 🤣 his videos really helped me to delve deeper and thank science I did! I was wayy off with my understanding!

[@decruzyserao6994]

Colt, thank you!! this was so beautifully & expertly produced 😊 (also thanks for the awesome links!)

[@coltcorrea3075]

StatedClearly deserves most of the credit. I was mostly a catalyst.

[@johndoe2006]

This is the most compelling evidence I've encountered for evolution. At this point, you have cornered the creationists. The only way they can maintain their position is by having to admit that god is playing a trick on us by planting evidence within his creation that defeats creationism. At that point, you can no longer have any reasonable argument with them.

[@somexp12]

I've had occasion to tell them about it. Their universal reaction has been that "ERVs are just interpretations of genetic material" and "have you ever actually *SEEN* an ERV developing?" So, yeah, they're cornered but totally refuse to acknowledge it. Frustrating. Anyhow (I haven't finished the video, so don't know if this is covered) ERV formation is so well established that medicine depends on us knowing this. Modern retroviruses are known to replicate by inserting their genome into host DNA. HIV is the big example of this. HIV treatment required the creation of whole new classes of antivirals designed to disrupt the retroviral mode of replication (the mode by which the virus converts its genone into DNA and integrates it into the host's DNA). We wouldn't have known what kind of drugs to make had we not *known* about this phenomenon. I know people whose lives depend on us knowing this stuff.

[@jamest4670]

Rubbish that’s your opinion

[@numbersix9477]

@@jamest4670 Have you shared any of your falsifications of the theory of evolution with the scientific community?

[@jamest4670]

@@numbersix9477That’s exactly what it is another theory that just keeps getting changed by new theories which one are you going to believe they all seem to be scientifically proven until the next one comes

[@numbersix9477]

Given that you obviously don't even know the definition of "scientific theory" (7th or 8th grade stuff), any sensible person has concluded that interfacing with you is a total waste of his time.

[@elcapitanian]

Thanks!

[@tħe0]

Fantastic!

[@amitkolhe4155]

Great video. Keep up the good work that you guys are doing !

[@sabriya7647]

Wonderful presentation

[@Tee468]

Pretty cool, loved the video! Came over from Professor Dave

[@RodMigz08]

Can you make a series on the other dna evidences?

[@PasseScience]

This video is definitelly a very good tool in the evolution tool box. I dont know any other so direct proof presented in 12 minutes.

[@PasseScience]

@@bernardlongwe7330 What is the first contradiction you see? only the first one.

[@SamSam-ir7ux]

@@bernardlongwe7330 bro he genes can spread through out population and what about genetic drift events.

[@PasseScience]

@@bernardlongwe7330 Suppose that I am infected by endogenous retrovirus ID 3462...996 at location 2867..355 of my DNA. If in 200 years you find individuals with the same retrovirus at the same DNA location, what does it tell you? If you understand the mechanism it basically tells you that you can be sure (99.999..%) that they have in their family tree a common great-great-great....grandparent (which in this example would be ME). Because if you neglect pure luck, they have to be a subset of my great- great...grandchildren to which I would have passed, generation after generation, my version of this virus. Of course each of them still have a father 2 grandfathers 4 great grand father etc... and among the x-iems there is me. So basically here it's the same with chimps and human, having 204 common insertions of retrovirus between a human selected at random and a chimp selected at random basically means that for each of the 204 insertions, they have in their family tree, a common great-great-great...grandparent that was the first to contract this specific virus at this specific location. ~204 (or a little less) great great great...grandparent in common. Does it solve the contradiction you see? If no what is your next question about this point? if yes what is the next point in which you saw a contradiction?

[@alwayslearningtech]

This is one of the best edutainment videos I've seen on the topic. I quite liked the way it was portrayed on Paulogia as well.

[@mrloop1530]

We also share a common ancestor with bananas.

[@BobtheGhost]

That is true of you go back far enough. It all started somewhere.

[@BobtheGhost]

Kinda like the big bang and the earth around the sun.

[@embryophytelove]

Incredible explanation and animation! So glad I stumbled into it. My students will benefit!

[@NealBrewer]

Sadly, the people who most need to see this are too blinded by their superstitious bull shit.

[@kylerichardson1242]

I've shared this video with multiple Christian family members who flat refuse to watch it. "Evolution is the Devil's work." Ugh.

[@rexxx777]

Your evolution religion is bs. How did dna form in the first place. You haven't even left first base yet.

[@Ale_ssandro]

This comment section makes me feel so smart: idiots talking about Jesus, the Bible, martians, fishes, sex with apes, HIV, sex with yo mama, Asians descending from dogs and Jews from cats... I'm having the time of my life reading comments from 5th grade dropouts, LOL. Great video man, keep it up.

[@danielmartinsson899]

That's what home schooling do to people.

[@patrickderp1044]

wait until you find out there are people that have no definition for the word "woman"

[@AgroAcro]

It makes me feel both smart and stupid. I would consider myself decently knowledgeable on evolution and I laugh at the people who deney it, but there are others writing full on scientific papers in the comments.

[@ronysmith1]

​@AgroAcro The researchers DON'T have the genetic sequences of retroviruses from 6 million years ago, so how do they claim that they found their genetic signatures in the ~3 billion base pairs of humans and chimps?? Didn't the retroviruses EVOLVE or mutate after 6+ millions of years? The fact that the researchers claim to have found MODERN retrovirus genetic codes in 200+ locations in chimps & human DNA is sus...🤔🤔 They claim this was from events that supposedly happened 6+ million years ago.... meanwhile apes and humans evolved and their DNA mutated much much slower (@ once per ~20 years - see Haldane's dilemma), yet the retrovirus multiplies exponentially on orders of magnitude faster...?? 🤔🤔🤔

[@stevee3]

@@danielmartinsson899 I home school and i don't feel dumb.

[@kotgc7987]

Thank you, this was so simple and clearly presented with beautiful graphics!

[@SjN7HETIK]

Nr ONE on yt, the graphics and the speech, super hyper extreme top level, couldn’t be better made, u guys are a gift to humanity, the way u spread knowledge is perfect. ❤

[@belgacem_mehdi]

Is there a possibility that i have the permission of translating the video to arabic .

[@BobtheGhost]

Yes we can talk about translation to Arabic. How can I contact you?

[@NickNardini]

Love your channel, I've learned a lot from it

[@reeseexplains8935]

I am really glad I saw this. This video is very informative and gave me information that I didn’t know about. Great video. 👍

[@nsadegcmlf2116]

I Think So Too 🤗

[@cskinner0129]

Thank you so much, and please don’t stop! This was the most compelling video yet, and I can’t wait to share it with my friends who are on the fence. We’re all in a very religious environment and it can be hard to untangle the knots involved. So, the work you do is crucial for so many of us. A couple questions: Do we find similar results in orangutans and gorillas?

[@StatedClearly]

Yes, we do find the same ERVs in orangutans and gorillas. You can read about this in the HERV-W paper. Note that chimps, however, are special in that they seem to have had a large deletion mutation that nocked out a few of their ERVs after the chimp/human split (If I remember right, it was 3 ERVs taken out by one large deletion). We suspect it was a knockout because the ERVs AND the flanking sequences are missing. If they simply never had those ERVs, the uninterrupted flanking sequences would be in the genome.

[@jenj1221]

How would this change their view? The Bible specifically states there was “ beastly things” and other creatures roaming around. Also, cane went off and married.. there was clearly more people around. I believe the Bible is the story of us advanced “Homo sapiens” . I believe God made us to live on this earth and gave us shared DNA. I don’t believe we evolved. This proves we have shared dna but we are made more intelligent. Because we have shared dna does not evolution occurred. Even if it was proved it wouldn’t change my faith that a creator made it and eventually formed us. In other words it would take more than this. 🤷🏽‍♀️

[@Aziz-wl1xf]

First, there is no way for different species to reliably interbreed. What sort of evidence would it take for you to be convinced about evolution?

[@jenj1221]

@@Aziz-wl1xf what? When did I mention interbreeding? It truly doesn’t matter. I’ve already expressed previously, if evolution is fact then “a creator made it”. It’s honestly not going to change my mind. I did study engineering and I’ve heard it all. I did learn plenty that made most students atheist. 🤷🏽‍♀️

[@Aziz-wl1xf]

@@jenj1221 you mentioned beastly creatures and Cain reportedly getting married. I took that as your explanation for shared DNA. I’m afraid you didn’t answer the question about the kind of evidence you would consider sufficient. Or did you mean to say that there is nothing that is ever going to change your mind?

[@TheHairyHeathen]

Why does *@JeshuSavesEndTimeMinistry21C* delete their comments every time they are asked a question? Do they KNOW they a talking a complete load of bollocks they cannot defend?

[@devilmonkey427]

Pretty much.

[@theshowupguy]

I love the part of genomics about haplogroups and the history of how people populated modern countries.

[@nuuwnhuus]

This was glorious, might seem redundant to do more in this series but I'd love it.

[@RandallWilks]

*MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION and **_ENDOGENOUS_** RETROVIRUSES (ERV's).* A retrovirus is a type of virus that inserts a copy of its RNA genome into the DNA of a host cell that it invades, thus changing the genome of that cell. As free living (active) viruses they are referred to as an _EXOGENOUS_ retrovirus. When such a virus invades a sperm or egg cell, they can become entrapped in the genomes of those cells and upon the union of such cells, passed from parent to offspring, generation after generation to the present day. They are the 'fossil' remnants of retroviruses that infected our ancestors. They are then referred to as _ENDOGENOUS_ RETROVIRUSES (ERV's). Those found within the human genome are designated as HERV's, despite the fact that most of those ERV's are not 'human specific'. There are 31 different families of HERV's comprising that 8% of the human genome. Each family is derived from a single infection in an ancestral population by an _EXOGENOUS_ retrovirus. When inserted into the inherited genome of the host organism it becomes an _ENDOGENOUS_ Retrovirus. Most were inserted in the genomes of our pre-human ancestors millions of years ago and passed from parent to offspring generation to generation up to the present day. One of those ERV's, named HERV-W, entered the genome of catarrhines (Old World Monkeys [OWM] and apes) over 23 million years ago. HERV-W comprises 1% of the human genome. As with other Retroviruses (ERV's), it contains 3 genes: GAG, POL and ENV flanked by Long Terminal Repeats (LTR's). The envelop gene (ENV) encodes the protein forming the viral envelope. The expression of the ENV gene enables retroviruses to target and attach to specific cell types, and to infiltrate the target cell membrane. Syncytin is a membrane protein derived from the envelope gene of an endogenous retrovirus. The gene appears to be almost exclusively expressed in placenta. The protein invades the wall of the uterus to establish nutrient circulation between the embryo and the mother. Eutherian (Placental) Mammals, which comprise the vast majority of today's mammals, rely on implantation of an embryonic placenta in the wall of the uterus. That placenta, part of the developing embryo, is a temporary organ that enables transfer of oxygen and nutrients from the mother to the embryo and carbon dioxide and waste products from that embryo to the mother's blood stream while preventing its rejection as foreign tissue. Implantation is made possible by Syncytin, a membrane protein derived from the envelope gene (Env) of an endogenous retrovirus (ERV). The first of those proteins to be discovered in humans was Syncytin-1 found active in the human placenta. Syncytin-1 is derived from the Envelope gene (Env) of HERV -W which is also found in the genomes of all of primate sub order Haplorhini, having entered the ancestral primate lineage more than 23 mya. The second such such protein discovered , Syncytin -2, also comes into play in the implantation of the placenta in humans. It too was derived from the envelop gene (ENV) of another retrovirus, HERV-FRD which was co-opted by an ancestral primate host more than 40 mya. Subsequent research has found other forms of syncytins active in other mammalian lineages, but had their origins in the envelope genes of different ERV's. (NOT the primate derived HERV's.) *IN EACH LINEAGE, THEY ARE EVIDENCE OF COMMON ANCESTRY:* Rodents (rats, mice, beaver, capybara et al) utilize syncytins A and B. Carnivores, cats, dogs, seals et al, all utilize the syncytin-CAR1. In Lagomorpha (rabbits, hares and pikas) it is syncytin-Ory. Other mammalian lineages utilized still other syncytins derived from the envelop (ENV) genes of other ERV's. Here we have viruses, specifically the fossil remnants of Endogenous Retroviruses (ERV's), that were critical in mammalian evolution and remain in their respective genomes, still providing essential benefit to the host. Endogenous Retroviruses (ERV's) were critical in mammalian evolution It is not merely the commonality of ERV's and Pseudogenes that are evidence of common ancestry, there are also those various forms of Syncytin. When multiple lines of evidence converge to the same conclusion, that is as close to absolute certainty as it gets in science.

[@keepingup2952]

Explain how the retrovirus insertion in the one gamete survived zygosis if it was not in the opposite sex's gamete to begin with. The video shows the insertions, then mitosis, then it just blindly states that "it gets passed on to the next generation." That process has to be fully described, not just passed by a lack of scrutiny.

[@godassasin8097]

no background in genetics or biology more than high-school but it was ridiculously easy to understand

[@chrispark2698]

It was also wrong 😂

[@godassasin8097]

@@chrispark2698 are you taking about technicalities or are you a creationist?

[@chrispark2698]

@@godassasin8097 My beliefs are irrelevant. It's technically wrong. ERV's are not evidence of common ancestry. There are major issues with this assumption. 90% of ERV sequences don’t even resemble full or true “endogenous retroviruses” because they lack standard viral genes. That, plus they have been found to provide integral function to embryonic development, regulating gene expression, immune response, among other things. I just posted a comment providing a lot more if you're sincerely interested.

[@godassasin8097]

​@@chrispark2698tbh i don't biology is probably my least favorite science if i could understand what you were saying I'd think about it but I don't really have time to do actual research in it sorry i did try to read your comment tho

[@chrispark2698]

@@godassasin8097 Fair enough! Thanks for being honest. I'm happy you at least read it and tried, many people just ignore any data that contradicts their favored beliefs. Suffice it to say, this video is wrong and misleading. Scientific research into ERVs contradicts Darwinian evolutionary theory and common ancestry. ERVs are not evidence to support evolution and common ancestry.

[@MisterItchy]

But mah holy book! This is what actual evidence looks like.

[@ooloncoluphid1942]

@Men Can't Change Their Gender Well, let’s see evidence to the contrary. I’m not talking about hand-wavy, airy-fairy sophistry which proves the author knows less actual science than a fourth-grade dropout. Show us the research. Otherwise you offer us no reason to take you seriously.

[@huzaifanihal7698]

This is the best video I’ve seen so far when it comes to presenting evidences for evolution…Simply mind Blowing well done man!😃

[@michaeljordan4665]

This video is beautiful I love it 👏 well done

[@fredodonnell3323]

Bloody excellent work !

[@starventure]

Oh no no no, the creationists are going to “go ape” over this. They don’t believe in fossils and genetics.

[@m0nke13]

😂

[@atakorkut5110]

Yeah, they can't believe in it if they admit that this is proof, this beyond any reasonable doubt that we all evolved just like we are all still evolving today their whole entire self falls apart anything and everything they ever have claimed. Anything that they question the morality of will be disregarded as an ancient and flawed thinking that it was just another tall tale that sounded great but in the end was just fiction great fiction maybe? necessary fiction maybe, but fiction none the less.

[@atakorkut5110]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@starventure]

@Tim Riches Believe me, I try the best I can to bring these morons back to reality but they are impossible to have a rational conversation with.

[@kellydalstok8900]

@Tim Riches It is impossible to change their fixed minds with rational points, because their belief is based on feelings. Like fear of hell, and wanting to feel special.

[@aaronspianoandkeyboard3624]

This is just awesome! Very simple and elegant explanation.

[@Full-stack1198]

Thank you for this beautiful content ❤ can you please tell me what tools have you used to create the video, I would be so grateful 🙏

[@Mefbuz]

Great explanation!

[@coltcorrea3075]

Great job!! Love to see this live.

[@DrReginaldFinleySr]

One of my favorite topics that I have written many times about over the years. I'm happy to see you also addressing this. The mathematical probabilities you provided were the icing on the cake. Thank you.

[@msamak3905]

Your best video in my opinion! Thank you for the great content, and keep it up.

[@braxen419]

Great video!!

[@Picasso_Picante92]

Simply the best explanation of our shared ancestry. Thank you.

[@Picasso_Picante92]

@Men Can't Change Their Gender I read quite a lot thank you. But if you have any recommendations I would be happy to look into them?.

[@berkaygazikara]

That was a very informative video as always, thank you very much preparing it. Can i ask how do we know which part of our DNA comes from retroviruses?

[@idahoflyfisher9051]

I would like to see a comparison of human ERVs to other kinds of animals to help put this in perspective, just to see how few ERVs are shared by distant relatives

[@RiseofTruthNow]

What a great video. I've been doing some research before I make my own and came across yours. Mine won't compare but it's a start. Thanks for putting all this together.

[@delusionsalyer]

Oma it's you yay 🥳, can't wait for the video.

[@RiseofTruthNow]

@@delusionsalyer Thanks! Working on it now!

[@krystal2423]

I just love these videos, I get excited every time a new one pops up in my notifications.

[@elliot7205]

Deluded then.

[@doyouknoworjustbelieve6694]

I don’t need ERVs to prove to me we and chimps evolved from common ancestors. I met and dealt with so many transitional species in my life, and I’m not a zoo keeper.

[@LeoStaley]

This is a wonderful channel. I'm an educational youtube junkie and don't know how I've never seen this.

[@haydenellis10]

Please consider doing a video on dating methods and the evidence for why they’re accurate.

[@deveshsawant3066]

Wonderful work.

[@jakehunter8341]

This really is a beautiful video. I had to come watch and comment again. So well done.

[@8698gil]

Why do so many people have so much difficulty accepting this? It makes perfect sense.

[@PD-ws4td]

It doesn’t matter, letting go of personal beliefs are hard. If you’ve been told that the earth is flat your entire life and people around you also believes it, then it is going to be hard to let go of those beliefs. But not accepting evidence is just ignorance.

[@davidpersson250]

Religion reasons only

[@hadessahf3549]

@@PD-ws4td For the ignorant, please elaborate on the evidence, so we can all have a chance to be enlightened.

[@tobleramone]

@@hadessahf3549 Have you actually watched ths video?

[@hadessahf3549]

@@tobleramone Yes. Why do you ask?

[@juliandeleon6107]

i've always backed up evolution but this is so insanely beautiful and great evidence for creationists or skeptics

[@klopcodez]

So prove that they existed where are they? Not claiming some old beings that use to be related to us existed…show me one example of them

[@numbersix9477]

@@klopcodez As a scientifically literate individual, you know that science doesn't deal in "proofs." You had an opportunity to use your scientific knowledge to make a credible point. Instead, you said, "So prove that they existed where are they? " Why did you shoot yourself in the foot with your very first post?

[@klopcodez]

@@numbersix9477 Nothing credible without evidence…You need proof for it to be a fact so your very wrong..if your going to claim we share some sort of ancestor you never met nor have any evidence of them ever being alive then your living under a false ideology and I do not subscribe to theories unless there a fact..essentially this is nothing more than a lie just as the huh bang lies told us all for years only later to be found as false..am tired of the lies

[@numbersix9477]

​@@klopcodez During the last four years or so, I've seen at least two dozen creationists confronted with the fact that they were demonstrating zero evidence that they knew even a smattering of basic science jargon. One would have thought that each of them would say to himself, "My ignorance of science jargon is hurting my credibility. I need to look up those terms and stop appearing to have absolutely no background in science." One would assume that each would search the internet, look up the definitions, memorize those definitions and stop looking quite so foolish. Guess how many of the two dozen or so confronted creationists did that! As best I can tell, the answer is ZERO!!! Not a one of that two dozen or so creationists spent the miniscule amount of time it would have taken to learn six to ten new word definitions. Based on my past experience, I'm pretty certain that YOU will not bump that number to one. Right now I have the most gobsmacked look on my face. (Gobsmacked is not a word that I typically use-it's British and Australian slang and I'm neither British nor Australian. But it fits perfectly here and it almost has a LOOK.) So, unless you return here and cite at least eight science jargon definitions, I'm done with you. I suspect everyone else here will be too. Church in the morning. Don't oversleep!

[@nathanielgreen5329]

Very informative video thank you

[@druharper]

Thank you so very much for these wonderful and informative videos. Some doubt and need solid explanations, I doubt this could be better explained. This is the way :D

[@WarmWeatherGuy]

I will definitely use this video instead of CDK007's nearly 13 year old video on the same subject: Evidence for Evolution, Part III. Whenever I get into a discussion about the evidence for evolution I mention ERVs. If that doesn't convince them I don't waste any more time with them. With this video more people will understand which appears to be needed because I rarely hear ERVs as evidence for evolution.

[@juleschenutInternational]

the problem is the waiting time for mutation, not ERV.

[@keepingup2952]

Except for the fact that the coding regions of humans and great apes are not aligned, and that only haploids have been used as models for the assumption of ancestry.

[@techguy1911]

Would love to see videos on the other evidence towards the end of the video. There's a huge demand in today's age of misinformation to see videos that clearly explain the truth.

[@Evolcun]

@Roma Victor I assume you didn't watch the video? Or your just denying it which is irrational.

[@LeftSoulz]

This is A M A Z I N G I'm just thinking about this method being used to see and confirm some other relatives beings, like plants, fungi, or other animals, just as a way to improve the relationship and filogeny systems we already have done so far. And as aways, great content coming from this channel, much love from Brazil

[@StatedClearly]

Obrigado!

[@ChrisPBacon-lu6wd]

I bet it's already used.

[@barm4584]

Wow. Amazing video.

[@Itsnotfogell]

Nice video!! Can you please put the links for the sources you used to make the video in the discription.

[@StatedClearly]

I added them to the document about the math (linked in video description)

[@Itsnotfogell]

@@StatedClearly Thank you

[@AI_CREATARD]

SCIENCE MAKES ME MAD BECAUSE IT DEALS WITH FACTS. AND MY BUYBULL FAIRY TALES DEAL WITH FAIRY TALES AND I PREFER MAGIC.

[@DocReasonable]

Magic is good because it 'just is' and doesn't need complicated science to explain it. No hard thinking, yay!

[@megalodon6926]

Who come here after professor Dave post

[@RyanGhezawi]

I already knew about endogenous retroviruses but I never understood the full scale of it, this is brilliant

[@mariasafar9359]

There is no enough informations about the evolution in Arabic. Could it be possible to make like these videos in Arabica

[@unkind6070]

Actually an arabic youtuber already did his name is Siraj hayani 😊

[@mariasafar9359]

@@unkind6070 I know him already. He is wonderful 👏 but I didn't find any thing about evolution in his vedios

[@Baqersaad-l5n]

The content of this video is mind blowing It just amazes me how far we have reached and it still just the tip of the iceberg. “We are family”

[@badgoat666]

Excellent presentation. New subscriber here 👌

[@goransvraka3171]

Muslims and Christians have left the chat....

[@maylingng4107]

@Throwingwater13 I guarantee that you are full of horse manure

[@Arham-pj8sb]

Seriously, I am amazed how this propaganda videos spread disinformation on such a large scale. Video claim Hundreds of Transitional fossils have been found. Biggest lie of the century. Kindly name any 10 in Hundersssssssssss of we found. These shameless people fool people with propaganda claim. While i share you the list of Fake fossils which was discovered and now we know it was forged to spread disinformation. Darwin Evolution is the man-made religion most people followed. Never try to question it, never try to research it. Fossil Record forgery is the scam of century but most don't even know about it. Fake Fossils List Piltdown Man Nebraska Man Archaeoraptor Cardiff Giant Alyoshenka Fake Fannia Fly Amphicoelias fragillimus Piluxy River Tracks Fiji Mermaid Go Guys and research it. How they are fooling you. Ask a Evolutionist biologist about Abiogenesis and they will start crying xD

[@mdferoz1329]

Absolutely not.. alhamdulillah!

[@Christian_Maoist.]

I'm just here for comments