History of Biological Anthropology (Up to Genetics)

Biological anthropology is all about studying human biology in an evolutionary framework. How did Homo sapiens come to be? Perhaps more importantly, how did this field come to be, and how has it developed over time? Let's take a look at the history of this field now!
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[@michaelramon2411]

0:43 "Behold, a man!" No one did trolling quite like Classical Athenian philosophers.

[@wasteman3717]

diogenes was the original troll.

[@MossyMozart]

@@wasteman3717 - Maybe the first RECORDED troll, but I suspect that trolls are much more ancient! .^_^.

[@jbirdmax]

Creationists are going to have another derpy field day with this one.

[@KamikazethecatII]

@deepmalyachakraborty9878they are brutes, or irrational animals, and we are rational. Plato was right about the scale of nature. We are in the middle position, between higher creatures like spirits and divinities and irrational animals, vegetables, and inanimate creatures. There is no difference between man and the lower animals in a mechanistic world. The difference is in our unifying initiative activity, our act of being directed towards the end of being a man, which is that of a rational animal. It is not a difference in intensity, but in kind. Brutes are not capable of discursive reasoning, they can not set proposition after proposition and demonstrate true results, nor do they receive the intellectual intuition which secure the possibility of certainty in a demonstrative scientific system.

[@uncleanunicorn4571]

​@deepmalyachakraborty9878 but... but... If humans are really apes, then you have no reason to not gun down everyone around you! 😢

[@bosunbones.8815]

​@deepmalyachakraborty9878yeah. Apes are probably more honest than humans are. :p

[@Bestroyer348]

@deepmalyachakraborty9878I’ll bet a $150 they’ll say some dumb shit like “we’re capable of reason!” (While they ignore the fact that many other animals are capable of that too.)

[@DM-zq8qy]

@@Bestroyer348those who can’t understand this video ARE “incapable of reason.”😢

[@ExoticNibbles2]

Shoutout erika from gutsick gibbon for the script on this one! You deserve a million more subs

[@uncleanunicorn4571]

I've often thought our biology would be more advanced if darwin could have gotten a hold of the works of gregor mendel.

[@azserds]

The book was in Charles Darwin study room.. If only he could've seen it 😔

[@thearbiterofnoodles]

​@azserds unfortunately Darwin couldn't read German so it wouldn't make difference

[@exhumus]

Subsequent biologists had access to both works. Why do you think Darwin would've done more with it than the number of minds that started working on it in the 20th century?

[@nycbearff]

@@azserdsYes, he had Mendel's work - but the pages were uncut, no one had read that copy.

[@nycbearff]

@@exhumus Darwin was seriously puzzled by heritability, and not satisfied with his own speculations. His tentative conclusions about heritability were wrong, and would have been different and much more accurate if he'd read Mendel. He wouldn't have done more with it than 20th century scientists, it just would have been done earlier. Darwin's theory would have been more readily accepted, and Mendel's work would have sparked more study much earlier, because Darwin's work would have brought it to prominence. And we might be ahead of where we are now.

[@lizacabatuan8439]

I miss your discussion in AnaPhy-Prof Dave. Thank you so much. I passed this sem

[@jamiegallier2106]

Excellent presentation, as always.

[@meridianheights6255]

OMG I LOVE THIS SERIES!!! Why didn't the almighty algorithmo bless me with this sooner???

[@sciencenerd7639]

Thank you Dave and Erika!

[@tateranus4365]

slight correction, its HMS Beagle not the HMS beagle, that is basically saying the her majesty's ship beagle, not her majesty's ship beagle, yes it is correct for US ships but not British (or most other navies for that matter) ships.

[@azserds]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ I love human evolution videos... Thank you Dave.

[@zacharylehocki]

This is a very interesting topic and its nice to hear it explained so well in under seven minutes! Thanks Professor Dave!

[@noobyeeter]

Thanks

[@RyanGhezawi]

Yo, professor Dave I’d just like to ask when did you discover your passion for science?

[@yosho5436]

Very nice topic

[@kerberossi]

just in time for my course!

[@SantiYounger]

Excellent video those insights into Darwin are crazy, it makes me want to dig deeper into his theories!

[@steveaustin4118]

Sad that Carl Linnaeus couldn't put what he really found through fear of upseting the church

[@user-qd2zk8zs1f]

Professor Dave, you are one of the greatest people the world has to offer, and I am incredibly grateful for your deep ambition for making the world more scientifically literate. I am absolutely elated that I live in a time where I can listen to your outstanding videos and learn intricate and astonishing science. I cannot stop telling people about your channel, and I truly think that your videos will make a significant impact if everyone is exposed to your channel. You are so articulate and all of your lessons are so circumstantial. You are perhaps the best teacher I ever had, and I wish this world had more teachers like you. Thank you for teaching me science, thank you for exposing the liars and charlatans at Discovery Institute, and thank you for existing. Keep making the world smart and sagacious, and keep on exterminating the crap pseudoscience has to offer. #Science is life #Nerds rule

[@wdgnwas]

5:03 There was no Czech Republic in the year 1866

[@SNDN_LN]

Thank you for the knowledge Dave.

[@theonlylunarmage]

Prepare for the creationist assault in the comments

[@DD-gi6kx]

they got nothing so not really a concern

[@jbirdmax]

Yea gawd made us. 😂

[@Mihajlo-vr8ih]

you are my favorite source of information when it comes to science you know how to explain something complex simply so anybody can understand and learn

[@freeman4871]

Explain abiogenisis and where it's found in nature.

[@Mihajlo-vr8ih]

@@freeman4871 i am not trying to debate you or anything like that

[@freeman4871]

@@Mihajlo-vr8ih Because you can't.

[@Mihajlo-vr8ih]

@@freeman4871 i am not here to debate anyone about anything i am here to post a comment of appreciation for the content this creator is making

[@bennettstegall2889]

I can’t swim

[@louiselouise421]

See the crazy folks in the DI are claiming Jim won the debate with Lee 😂.

[@user-rp7yf8xu8h]

Don't forget Alfred Russel Wallace who also developed evolutionary theory simultaneously with Darwin. They actually spoke about it.

[@muhammadhassanaliiqbal1117]

Hello Dave! I was wondering if you could make a video or series on NDEs (near death experiences), and OBEs (out of body experiences) There seem to be actual genuine doctors who support the idea that there's something spirit soul shenanigans going on when a person goes through this experience and I'd love for you to make a video on it, and, hopefully, debunking it. Thank you, Dave!

[@jamiegallier2106]

That would be pretty cool. Always disappointing seeing theist interpretations/explanations coming from the medical professionals.

[@luxgame246]

something like this can't be totally debunked. I.e : it's impossible to say that all NDE's are just a product of the mind.

[@davidwatson2399]

​@@luxgame246 Dream on.

[@luxgame246]

@@davidwatson2399 I mean...am I unequivocally wrong? Sure it's possible that all NDE's are made up/hallucinations, but it's impossible to say for sure.

[@rheiagreenland4714]

@@luxgame246 there is no scientific basis to believe it is explainable by anything other than the goings in inside the brain

[@livingcodex9878]

おはようございます

[@ladtm]

Bing chilling

[@Lolno-ob7cs]

Wassup

[@waelfadlallah8939]

​@@ladtmHAhahahahaha😅

[@sfmmmo7599]

Interesting 😎

[@janerkenbrack3373]

Yeah, but did either Plato or Diogenes explain why the chicken crossed the road?

[@eblake626]

I'm an evolved ape and proud of it.

[@marysuegromek5609]

Good afternoon Dave can u do a video on solar flares and earthquakes?

[@exhumus]

About how solar flares don't cause earthquakes?

[@MossyMozart]

@@exhumus - As are eclipses _innocent_ of Earthquakes, as so many claimed during the last one.

[@RealNoelleofc]

I wish you didn't turn off the comments on the trans video, I didn't understand the part where you explain what determines the person's gender and why is it the brain :c

[@Lilithotw]

because its technically a feeling and feelings are in the brain

[@Garrettmoron]

@@Lilithotw But it’s not disorderd thinking. It’s just another way of being human.

[@k.m.sparks1190]

I'm sure he didn't Want too, bigots are simply relentless at making everyone miserable

[@MossyMozart]

@@Lilithotw - fMRIs show that that there are actual brain differences in persons who feel that transgender imperative - they are likely to have structures that match the gender they are pulled towards. (Males and females can have identifiable differences in the size of some areas within their brains.) So, it is physical imperative, not a mere "feeling". ---------- Also, long term studies with children who have transgender yearnings show that do not live it as a fad, but as a permanent state of their being over years. ----------- Biology and humanity are dazzling in the their glorious diversities!

[@Lilithotw]

@@Garrettmoron I am aware; I never said it was

[@MR-ub6sq]

5:39 Who is this stylish looking young man at the end of this video? Is he some kind of vacationer for this unkempt professor? Can his words be trusted?

[@mehrshadgafarzadeh2944]

The idea that we are not uinqe is a revoloution by itself

[@patrickj8581]

Amazing 👏🏻 what do you think about stone ape theory? Do you think it's possible that psilocybin had an influence on the evolution of consciousness?

[@BITPLAKIS]

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[@briankane6547]

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[@jmike2039]

I first read biblical anthropology and was thinking this was gonna be another DI destruction. 😅

[@kennylex]

I need to correct you even my lack of education, but in the beginning, you say that humans are a "highly intelligent bipedal ape, where in the whole world did you get "highly intelligent from, any source? When I did my own research on Internet it looks like humans at most is kind of intelligent" and somewhat semi bipedal in America where they are "carpedal".

[@ProfessorDaveExplains]

We are the most intelligent species on earth.

[@kerberossi]

@@ProfessorDaveExplains But dave, you're a statistical outlier and should not have been counted!

[@LGpi314]

Is this a sarcasm?

[@joshuakazarian9906]

​@@ProfessorDaveExplains Or is that what the whales want you to think 🧐

[@kennylex]

@@ProfessorDaveExplains Tell that too the whales, oh you can't yet, it just the thumb make humans handy, not Highly Intelligent 🤓 I hope all understand a bit of sarkasm and humor.

[@belinhobeli9569]

Why does he have so few views?

[@ProfessorDaveExplains]

Not everybody needs to watch an anthropology tutorial right when it's released.