Homo Heidelbergensis - Ancient Human

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[@MWB_FoolsParadisePictures]

One thing I really like about North 02 is how explicitly he differentiates between what is the scientific consensus, what are the scientific community's various speculations when there is not enough evidence for conclusiveness, and what are his own speculations based on the research. It's cool that he shares all three, and his specification of which is which is vital when doing scientific documentaries such as these.

[@maggie8324]

Yes

[@honey-po9ij]

semi recently chimps and bonobos have been shown to have the physical parts necessary to speak, but not the neurological ability to do so. basically all of the pieces of the puzzle were probably there, from the physical body to the social situations that result in language, so realistically you're right to at least an extent.

[@Startupsandsushi]

Better than my phD professors

[@anag5144]

But consensus isn't evidence

[@jackpot4244]

Imagine if the daily news was this analytical.

[@breakaleg10]

I am convinced that speech has been a part of us for at least a million years, developing to fit every culture. Starting with öess syllables and shorter words, with grammar suitable for the kind of life they had back then. I have no proof for this, but it doesn't make sense see the same kind of build in most skulls being dismissed by some scholars.

[@eudyptes5046]

I agree. The fact that the earliest H. sapiens remains we know were already perfectly adapted to speech makes only sense if it was already present in earlier species. The ability to speak is very important for a social species that hunts in groups, so traits that make speech possible, both in the hyoid bone and the brain, must have been a strong selective advantage.

[@Kurious_Kiwi]

I totally agree, there would have been very primitive sounds that meant things like danger, attack, run, hide, food etc and I absolutely count that as language

[@rhymeaholik2465]

Speech: maybe, language: definitely.

[@Soulintent95]

I know what you mean but regardless our line of ape has always had some form of "language" ive heard it theorized that even when we were still sort of grunting, the grunts were different than apes and worked as a means of language. Its also been theorized even before we developed language as we know it today, whistles were used. Whistle languages still exist today.

[@kalxek1462]

@@Soulintent95 there are also a number of African languages that are comprised of clicking noises

[@sylviusleonard5144]

HI, Australian Aboriginal here, Boomerang as a term refers to a wide variety of tools used for different purposes. The shared characteristic is the middle curve in the wood as seen in the classic throwing stick. However Boomerangs used for hunting large animals are much larger, heavier and differently shaped sticks that can weigh several kilos.

[@swyman10]

Peace to you Sylvius! ☮️

[@ElkinsEric]

Yet another killer episode on early humans/human ancestors. You’re doing a great thing here man. Keep it up.

[@jacobsockness571]

I wonder if those early humans knew how to make it feel super good.

[@davidgalloway266]

Another outstanding documentary . Really impressed by your thoughtful honest style.

[@ElkinsEric]

@@jacobsockness571 well yeah. That had all day to mess around….eat, sleep, and procreate.

[@OrvilleJenkins]

@@ElkinsEric They actually spent most of their day staying safe from predators, hunting, skinning, butchering, cooking preserving food. Survival took a high proportion of their time. Think how it would be if you had nothing, lived in the uncontrolled wild, and had to live off what you could scavenge or kill.

[@theshermantanker7043]

@@OrvilleJenkins That is unless you're Homo heidelbergensis at least, absolute units they were

[@dwightehowell8179]

The wooden bog spears have not been fossilized. They were preserved in water logged peat because the water was stagnant and didn't have oxygen to support decay. Fossilized wood has been mineralized. The wood may be replaced by minerals though at least some of the wood may simply be encased in minerals with some of the organic material still there.

[@Sybil_Detard]

Besides all of the information you provide and work that you do, I really appreciate your precise enunciation.

[@seanwhelan879]

You were right with the longer episode, the content was brilliant, great research, excellent narration and all in all a great piece of work well done I thoroughly enjoyed this. Thank you for your great work. Peace 🇮🇪

[@andrewosborne3213]

@@drippyboyfreshpharaoh6568 uhh what?

[@jonathanturek5846]

I agree. I look forward to new episodes and happy to hear 02 is expanding the hominid content in different directions. I am grateful for this and appreciate 02 dedication and hard work

[@jonathanturek5846]

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[@harrietharlow9929]

That's what I like about the hominid/human story. The mysteries will likely take decades to solve showing our history is more complex and richer than we ever imagined. Thank you for all your hard work!

[@ezzovonachalm9815]

what sort of " language" could H.heidelbergensis had articulated with his potent jaws ? I suppose nothing intelligible, only unarticulated sounds. What I do. not understand is why H heidelbergensis should be renamed H. bodoensis ? Why not Homo holywoodensis ?

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You are to paleo anthropology as John Michael Godier is to Astronomy. A well researched, highly educational KZbin channel with an ASMR quality. Keep it up, your channel will get huge.

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Hear hear! I totally agree.

[@theobserver9131]

ASMR. Will the ridiculous trends never stop? It's a grandiose title for a very simple basic thing. Back in the day, we just called it "relaxing sounds". I agree with the rest of your comment.

[@theobserver9131]

ASMR reminds me of another stupid recent "discovery". That walking on the earth barefoot is good for your health. No shit Sherlock. They called it "grounding". I called it common sense. Just another day.

[@theobserver9131]

Someday people will discover that sunshine is good for us. I guess some genius already discovered that air is good for us. Duh.

[@Bubba___]

@@theobserver9131 It’s honestly hilarious how worked up you got over someone saying “asmr.”

[@three-eyedbro]

Love the longer, documentary style episodes. The additional work you put is definitely a treat to the community.

[@deltadesign5697]

This channel is just getting better and better. Its really cool to have such interesting & well researched content narrated so well. North 02, you're amazed that we sit and watch your vids for an hour? It's because they are quite simply a fascinating & learning experience. I could personally watch for hours! Excellent work brother. We really appreciate all the work you are putting into these vids. 👍 from this NZ subscriber.

[@NORTH02]

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[@DanB1987]

Lol an hour.. If only you knew how much I have binge watched your content in the last few weeks North 😂.. I totally agree with Delta Design.. I really appreciate the time and effort you put into this channel North, please keep the videos coming 👍 Edit: Also a New Zealand subscriber 🇳🇿..

[@mikeharrison1868]

New Zealander living in the UK

[@duckmanjoel]

@@NORTH02 I wonder what Homo species first lost the gene that attaches the jaw muscles to the top of the head like we see attached in other primates? This allowed our brains to grow larger because the skull was no longer 'confined' by these muscles.

[@mzeewatk846]

@@duckmanjoel maybe 30 years from now.

[@jonhillman871]

dear north 02: please do a video on the homo sapien population bottleneck. thank you for this video and your body of work. this is really an unique resource. the other creators are usually professors giving lectures and fellows looking into the camera and discussing the topic. i prefer this format with a tight script accompanied by relevant photographs and illustrations.

[@DanB1987]

I totally agree, the relaxed way in which North delivers this content is great.. I learn much better when I enjoy what I'm listening too..

[@redriver6541]

Yes. Excellent idea. I totally agree. That would be great.

[@eddiewilliams5188]

I can't see him doing that. To close to what Graham Hancock says. And he don't like graham 🙄

[@PrivateSi]

I can't stand the liberal debasement of the terms 'species' and 'race' / '(local) variety' .. Species should include all varieties that can interbreed.. I don't like the term subspecies so much as it has connotations of subhuman (another word I'd don't like)... Liberals can't admit MANY RACES WENT EXTINCT due to being Greatly Replaced by a recent mass-migration out of Africa... Neanderthals, Denosovians, Heidelbergensis, probably other Homo Erectus offshoots could all breed with Homo Sapiens as they were all different races / varieties of THE SAME SPECIES... HUMANITY. -- If this truth was pushed the Liberal Globalist Narrative would fall apart as the current white European Right Wing know they are being deliberately, systematically Greatly Replaced in their own native lands - in this case by ruling Globalist traitors in 60 years of European and British mass immigration, not 10s or 100s of 1000s of years.. Olde Colonisation bad, Neo Colonisation good to these neo inter-nasties. They warp history all the time and apply mad modern Libby values and value judgements on them.. cringing to watch.

[@KLeo-ss1kn]

Don't do this North 02, it sounds like a set up to me. This dude is trying to you set you up North 02.

[@daniell1483]

This is so cool. I don't know why but this hit me in the feels. In my mind, there had been a definitive line in the sand where these early hominins went from being just another animal into true "people", but that is my misunderstanding. The long march to true "personhood" has so many tiny steps between these major milestones. It is amazing.

[@judsonwall8615]

I think Erectus bridges that gap. Before Erectus, we were much more primitive. No clothing or fire, more hair, more ape-like faces, smaller, very simplistic language if it all. By the end of Erectus getting into Hiedelberginsis, we had grown to modern proportions, our faces were more human than ape, we had clothes, language, one could even say civilization on a local scale. Late Erectus was human. By Hiedelbergensis/Neanderthal/Denisovan, they were practically archaic Homo Sapiens. They had just about every feature we had. Only the smallest of differences (like being more robust, which caused Neanderthals to have to eat more than us to do the same things as us, which led to them being slowly outcompeted) made us survive and them go extinct. By 1 million years ago or so, we had pretty much fully fledged humans walking around. As a side note, I used to always think of Neanderthals as so archaic, but having educated myself, it’s clear to me that they were every bit as human as our early ancestors were, just built slightly differently and slightly less efficiently. They were extremely modern hominins.

[@daylightbright7675]

We still ARE animals, we're not special

[@daniell1483]

@@daylightbright7675 I don't disagree with you. I was raised in a religious home, taught that God made humanity in his own image. Once I stopped being a Christian, I learned to check my own biases, and this is one of them.

[@rufusroher]

@@daylightbright7675 Really? The process of this, as provided by paleontologists, occurred over millions of years. They still haven't found the fossils that bridge the gap, & as more evidence is found, we learn that hominids have multiple species that didn't occur in a linear fashion, as Darwin theorized. At most, paleontologists might have some clues to when and where, but they certainly don't have the answers to how or why. How did these species learn to dominant its environment? Merely climate change? In million of years, how did they cross over to the understanding of language, philosophy & human nature? How did they come to figure out the concept of art? How did they come to see their selves differentiated from the world around them & developing advanced cognition? How did they figure out how to adapt all of earth's elements? How did they figure out the things were proper for agriculture & making agricultural products that can only be generated from man, and not in the wild? How did they figure out how to domesticate animals? Where are the other animals, after millions of years, that have established agriculture and/or domestication and/or art/language/philosophy? Any animal that has the exact intelligence comparable to man that has ever existed on this planet??? Is brain size the mere difference? Then why isn't the sperm whale dominating its environment like humans? Why did these changes occur? Why aren't we living next to the planet of the apes? Or the bears? Or the whales? Or whatever animal that is just as 'special' as humans? Why aren't there other species that learned to control, adapt, & manipulate all of earth's elements? Why aren't there more animals that can create synthetic elements-- things literally NOT NATURALLY occurring on earth? Why aren't there animals that have left this planet to explore others? Why did human's intelligence cross over to advance cognitive understanding? Can anthropologists tell us exactly who figured it out and why and how? How do they know that these species were even covered in hair or not? It's imagination or a guess based on their own biases or what they would say is their best GUESS/theory. There is no scientist that can explain exactly how or why these changes occurred and/or why we are the only species to do all these SPECIAL things. At best, they can can guess at the possibilities of what, where and when things took place, although even that is a huge argumentative debate--i.e east, west, Africa... and guess/theorize about the hows and whys of it... but there is no written record in the bones and artifacts provided that can explain the exact thought process that went into the knowledge that every human takes for grant...and like yourself...claim isn't all that 'special' and we're just 1 animal out of many... The fact that you can even think and write that CONCEPT is a testament to what prehistoric man did on your behalf that you take for granted... It's definitely NOT as easy as you make it out to be.

[@rufusroher]

@@daniell1483 I disagree with her extensively. As you pointed out, this is a process occurring over millions of years, YET, what other animal on earth has cognition/art/philosophy/science--adapting the elements, creating new elements/husbandry/agriculture/language and on and on. We humans now take for granted all the advances that MAN has made to transform to the modern era. All other animals on earth that have millions of years of recorded history have yet to develop one iota more than they were when they first existed to the point of even cognition. You'd even be hard pressed to find a species that would care for its old, sick, & injured to exhibit even slight compassion. If it ever does exist, it's the exception, not the rule...that's why it gets SO much attention. But they aren't communicating and understanding like you and I here on YT dialoguing over a computer created by man. ...and my only thing to say about 'biases' is that, I don't care if you're religious or not...Plato and Socrates could provide you more understanding than a chimpanzee. Not one anthropologist, paleontologist, or scientist can explain succinctly and definitively the full origins of man, since there is a gap in the fossils..even in the last 2 decades we've learned that our supposed "ancestors" didn't develop linearly like Darwin theorized but in separate species that co-existed. And the science isn't definitive as even this video explains, as things become discovered and we "learn" more. The only thing that scientists can do is guess as to why man developed cognition that lead to all the advancements of humankind. They are guesses. No one knows the whys of how these things came about. How they developed their intelligence to figure out all these advancements. It IS special. It IS unique...and what is the thing that put those thoughts into man??? One thing the scientists will admit is, the change over to man is when WE start BURYING or dead...suggestive of a spiritual understanding... why did man develop this cognition??? Can science explain that????

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[@6teezkid]

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Rupert Sheldrake on morphic fields. A theory on how humanoids developed simultaneously without ever meeting physically.. An interesting quantum theory in the evolution in advancement of different humanoid groups..

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Really enjoy these longer videos! Please keep them coming. I know they're a lot of work but they're sooo good! Thank you!!!!

[@zeldapinwheel7043]

What a fantastic episode! I love the more in depth approach. And you also explained the homo bodensis beautifully. A better explanation than the last 3 articles I've read about it. I think having longer and short videos are great, more options depending on how much time you have. I've actually viewed this video multiple times.

[@alexfromme5025]

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[@henrycottam3451]

Congratulations on a very educational video. I‘m actually living in Heidelberg & working as a tour guide. So, i‘m often telling my tourists about homo heidelbergensis and how they can see a replica of his jaw bone in our museum. Have i understood correctly that i can now add; - he lived to be 45yrs old (max) - he hunted & ate elephants - possibly knew how to use fire - kept alive handicapped children? All fascinating facts - thankyou. If anyone has anymore similar info that is interesting to inspire & educate Tourists pls do share …… Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Henry

[@judsonwall8615]

Hiedelbergensis definitely knew how to make and use fire. Even Erectus a million years before him had mastered fire. Hiedelbergensis was probably clothed, spoke languages, weren’t hairy like an animal, had skin and sweat glands like us, maybe made huts and temp houses, had faces much more like humans than apes. They were basically archaic Homo Sapiens imo. Like, where do you draw the line some 315,000 years ago between Hiedelbergensis and Homo Sapiens doing the same things in the same ways? Homo Sapiens were merely built a tad more efficiently, so they had to eat less to do the same tasks, this outcompeting Hiedelbergensis, Neanderthals, and Denisovans.

[@tylowren2005]

I found a hand axe dating to around the middle Pleistocene on my local beach. It was either made by heidelbergensis or erectus. The whereabouts I found it, was a narrow stretch of water called the Solent (between the British mainland and the Isle Of Wight). During the time the hand axe would have been knapped, the Solent (the closest costal part from Boxgrove) would have been land. It’s amazing to think how much the world changes, just from when our lost lineages once walked the earth. I really enjoyed the video, and I’m looking forward to another review on a prehistoric species of human.

[@tylowren2005]

@Eastern fence Lizard 😂

[@pureone8350]

How can you tell if it's an actual handaxe and not just a well shaped natural rock? I also found what looked like a hand axe in the local hills of Zimbabwe called the Matopos but I was not sure if it was one or just a coincidence.

[@tylowren2005]

@@pureone8350 the sides are completely symmetrical, it has striking marks, a pointed tip, and fits very comfortably in the hand. Nature could not have formed this piece of flint. Plus, I found it at a major Palaeolithic site. Which is known for hand axes.

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What an absolutely fantastic series this has been, I think everyone should watch these videos as they extremely interesting, informative, entertaining and have definitely opened my eyes to new info on our distant ancestors. I've enjoyed every single minute of every single film. Well done mate, you should be extremely proud of your work.

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I really appreciate this channel and your studies. Please keep going, it's great to know so much about our ancestors.

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I appreciate you part about change and how good it is. So many have trouble with change, and for many reasons. I really enjoyed this video! Thank you for sharing!!

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Excellent production! Thanks for the hard work that went into putting this together and especially thank you for including controversial new data, which often makes people somehow uncomfortable as it rattles their long-established concepts based on long-held scientific beliefs. This is what makes science and its presentation essential. Things change. We have to change to accept that.

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Hominids always fascinated me. As a kid I wanted an Australopithecus skull, but unfortunately the real fossils are prohibitively rare. Thank goodness for museum quality replicas though

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[@chraffis]

Nice! Thanks for this. In the past I've been surprised how hard it is to find info on KZbin regarding h. heidelbergensis

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I love this stuff. I was weaving while watching this one, so not just sitting around - multitasking. Keep it up because it's excellent.

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I've only watched a handful of your vids, but they're always excellent. I'm impressed with your ability to condense so much information into a rather short but meaningful lecture. A+ university quality. And even better, I'm now caught up on the latest heidelbergensis gossip.

[@HighFilms]

I remember when I saw the first bodensis article, I immediately thought of how much this video would change while you were working on it

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Mr.@NORTH 02 thank you for getting this video up ! ! Like always great work! ! ! Keep being a beautifully unique human being!

[@danilodesnica3821]

Why are you surprised that people can spend hours watching your videos? They're excellent, informative and very interesting. Thank you so much! I realise there's not much proof of it, but I suspect these early people were far more sophisticated than the crude "wild man" illustrations suggest. I expect they had hairstyles - e.g. the bobbles on Venus figurines could well be intricate platted hairstyles. They had the ingenuity to make bead necklaces, why not then beaded clothes, woven garments, even if the yarns were only strips of leather? I hate seeing them drawn as almost naked with a crude animal fur thrown on top - I suspect they could do a lot better than that. The chances are that they were either hirsute themselves, or they knew how to make practical clothes to protect them from the weather, bags too!

[@sksk-bd7yv]

Good point! I agree fully.

[@NORTH02]

Well, heidelbergensis in particular is not commonly associated with bead technology specifically but certainly clothing. You could imagine some would have adorned themselves perhaps with feathers and other perishable items.

[@TukozAki]

Right, a specie with a relatively huge brain and almost no fur at all lived north of the tropics for thousands of years through glacial ages? In my books they had clothes, period. To those who disagree, did they try having an Inuit (Yakut or other northern Sapiens) stay naked a single week by only 0 Celcius? Or better, try it themselves?

[@swyman10]

Just read a Jean M Auel novel! Peace ☮️

[@danilodesnica3821]

@@swyman10 Interesting tip! For what age group are her books intended?

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It's always a great day when you upload. Next we move on to Ardipithecus.

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I’m only here because I could not wait to see another of your human origins videos!!! And I finally have time to watch it, yay!

[@jbaccanalia]

Thoroughly enjoyable video! I've always seen heidelbergensis as the most important stage of our development, and finally somebody covered the subject.

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[@pureone8350]

Our genus* , not species

[@hyd3n376]

@@pureone8350 sorry professor didn't realize I was writing a peer-reviewed paper over here

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@@pureone8350 tbf, our species is also very diverse

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[@jeffinkhobar5711]

This one is an improvement over the last one I watched and commented on. One suggestion I have is to include labels on the screen when you drop new terms on us, such as Dinopithicus (?) and disease names. Even if we go to look them up, it can be difficult to guess the spelling. It’s good, however, to see illustrative maps with arrows when discussing geography. Great content in this one!

[@flintsky7706]

Get smarter Jeff. We can’t put a definition for every word you aren’t familiar with.

[@jeffinkhobar5711]

@@hopkinsamye a request for labels on-screen is not unreasonable by any standard. Your own grammatical errors reveal the bog standard from which your comment arises.

[@Davey-Boyd]

These video's are truly masterpieces, thank you so much!

[@Rayceemon]

Quality content. Very informative, engaging and well presented. Looking forward to your next projects.

[@MWB_FoolsParadisePictures]

Fantastically researched, as always. Narration and visual composition keep getting better and better. Looking forward to the addition of filmed original content.

[@gustavopraes1121]

Man, you have made an awesome job. I do love your work.

[@onijaanjonu3367]

Every time North uploads it's like Christmas comes early

[@NORTH02]

What species would you like to see me cover next? Also if you are wondering why there are demonitization signs on the nipples in this video it is because youtube has literally taken one of my videos down for showing uncensored images of hominin breasts. It is ridiculous but I have no choice.

[@lukeiamnotyourfatheranymore]

Try doing one of the australopithecine species

[@goatrex9195]

In terms of ancient animal, a pliosaur like liopleurodon, kronosaurus or predator x, and as for amazing animal, orca or jaguar

[@bushyrho1674]

North02 we need Ardipithecus I beg you. I have spammed this because it is greatly needed. Would love to see it on your channel.

[@That_Thicc_Cat]

Any kind of megafauna would be good

[@prehistoricpaddock9013]

P I K A I A

[@noelmorris5639]

Fantastic work,really enjoyed watching it and learning more about early humans. Keep up the great work.

[@ZAYAZOfficial]

Thank you so much!!!! I can’t wait to watch this after work. I love your channel bro 🙌

[@clowneymcclownface3362]

Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant! Precise and informative. Another excellent video.

[@TheSnoopoff]

Just wanted to say THANK YOU! Amazing videos man, keep it up!

[@boyinblue.]

I'm a little late but thank you for an amazing video North, I enjoyed it very much and can't wait to see more things like it.

[@hugodesrosiers-plaisance3156]

Your narration is just as clean and soothing as ever. Your voice is among the reasons I enjoy your videos so much. Cheers. [\bromance]

[@Traderjoe]

It seems to me that they would have kept the fires going for warmth purposes and cooking and tool making as a secondary function. I don’t have any information on these fires or their location, so I am speculating. I think that the more and longer people had contact and observation of fire, the more they would be able to piece together it’s mysteries.

[@AkHafiz]

Another brilliant piece of work. Thank you.

[@stevebaker341]

Beautiful video. I like the calm and articulate narrator. Some parts are moving and profound. Thank you.

[@overrooftops]

I hope you get a million subscribers someday. You deserve it. Never a dull moment and you really have done your homework on this topic. Bravo!

[@sksk-bd7yv]

Brilliant! As I've come to expect. Homo naledi would be very, very interesting. I'm looking forward to your new projects. Good luck!

[@trevorboss8969]

Wow love your work mate Sooo interesting and informative can’t wait till the next one

[@davepeters4955]

I've really enjoyed your Ancient Human videos. Great work!

[@guymanuel4260]

Oh God I love these videos of yours so much

[@Micksowagger]

Another amazing indepth video, great content!

[@fukemnukem1525]

It's also possible.....that they wanted the lions cave. Maybe they went for a stroll.....came home to an intruder.....and had to YEET that cat out of there. LoL.....might as well eat it after you dispatch it. Another fascinating video sir. Your channel is my absolute favorite among archaeological channels. You do an absolutely amazing job at this.

[@timparker33]

Absolutely excellent. Thank you for your extraordinary efforts.

[@ruththinkingoutside.707]

Yay!! So excited for this! Thank you!

[@janetcarbone4213]

I am in full agreement with the other comments concerning your well presented material and production of this video. Keep up your academic work as it is truly appreciated. As an aside the dry humor of the $’s is great!

[@jordanshepard2853]

Hands down the best narrations of any documentary I have watched on KZbin, keep doing you my guy and you will be successful!

[@dayglowjim]

I feel amazingly proud to be related to these people.

[@Where_is_Waldo]

I sincerely don't think that could have been done any better. Very thorough.

[@codyh6405]

I so wish you had longer videos, but understand the effort and time it takes.

[@MagnusPowerMaus]

Great content sir! Always enjoy your videos.

[@stellamaris5405]

☘️ *Wow! That was amazing* ! Disappointed when it ended but glad to hear you've done more & can't wait to check it out. *The artwork is some of the most beautiful iv ever seen* . And your voice is Baby Bear just right. 🐻 (Some US narrators speak like they're doing a trailer for some awful action film & can be hard to listen for too long) So compliments all round - great job!

[@alicecuriosityoftenleadsto6288]

Yes! Thank you SO much! I've had so many questions about this species, still do, and this answers many of them. Heidelbergensis is an important species in the chain of our evolution but we don't usually much besides that its in between Erectus and Neanderthal/Modern humans. I've always felt like its just kind of skipped over, which is so frustrating. Thank you!!

[@judsonwall8615]

From my research, I believe Heidelbergensis was the successor to Erectus, and the last common ancestor of Homo Sapiens, Neanderthals, and probably Denisovans. Later Heidelbergensis were essentially archaic Homo Sapiens. The difference between Hiedelbergensis and the earliest Homo Sapiens some 315,000 years ago is minuscule. They both had language, clothing, shelter, tools, were hairless. Humans were just built slightly more efficiently, so we could eat less to do the same activities, leading to us outcompeting them. That’s my take, anyways.

[@stiofanofirghil1916]

Going back to watch the other 4!! Great video.. Gladly Subbed!!

[@optimusprinceps9875]

Great Documentary, The artwork is nice to look while listening to the narration

[@harrietharlow9929]

Just re-watched this and the Neanderthal video and while I obviously cannot speak for others, I am willing to sit and spend almost 2.5 hours listening and watching because you have taught me a fair bit about our hominid past. Your videos are interesting and engaging and I can't wait to see what the next couple years will bring.

[@OleHopkinsBirdMilk]

Same here i can't stop coming back. And I did it again unknowingly but it's still interesting no matter how many times I watch. Also helps I'm forgetful so I get to learn it all again

[@harrietharlow9929]

@@OleHopkinsBirdMilk I'm on my third or fourth time watching this. My partner doesn't "get" how I can watch this thing numerous times. For me, it's simple: I review things I've forgotten and each time I watch, I learn something new. I consider North 02 one of the better evolution channels, though all of them are pretty decent.

[@brianhoward5888]

Awesome. Glad to have this to listen to today!

[@joeshmoe8345]

Great thanks for posting!

[@Lora_M_NY]

SOOOO much better without the constant interruptions through with ads! So happy I am binging

[@carbsncaffeine9254]

We just discussed Homo Heidelbergensis in my Bio Lab, this video is leaps and bounds more interesting. Well done, excellent channel.