Why Are We The Only Humans Left?

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In part 2 of our special series on human ancestry, we ask why we are the only surviving branch on the human evolutionary tree. Just 50,000-100,000 years ago, Earth was home to three or four separate human species, including our most famous cousins: the Neanderthals. New research has shown that Neanderthals were not the brutish, unintelligent cavemen that cartoons make them out to be. They were creative, smart, social, and perhaps even had complex language. So why did they go extinct as soon as Homo sapiens moved into their territory? Does any trace of them live on today? Why don’t we have Neanderthal neighbors?
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REFERENCES:
Papagianni, Dimitra, and Michael A. Morse. The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science Is Rewriting Their Story. Thames & Hudson, 2015. amzn.to/2oov6GG (Library: www.worldcat.or...)
Stringer, Chris. “Lone survivors: How we came to be the only humans on earth.” Macmillan, 2012. amzn.to/2oIFg3q (Library: www.worldcat.or...)
Tattersall, Ian. “Masters of the planet: the search for our human origins.” Macmillan, 2012. amzn.to/2pOZrKS (Library: www.worldcat.or...)
Walter, Chip. “Last ape standing: the seven-million-year story of how and why we survived.” Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2013. amzn.to/2pP2liy (Library: www.worldcat.or...)
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[@besmart]

It's lonely being the only humans left. Don't you wish we still had some Neanderthal neighbors?

[@samf9314]

no they r ugli

[@playc.holder6432]

This video was private for almost an hour before we got to see it😭😭😭

[@thorgray2991]

Yes I want to learn more

[@jadduajones]

Voytek love it

[@fermat101]

Aliens wiped out other humans

[@hitsurapapel1978]

Fun fact: we view neandrethals as hunch backed because the first skeleton of a neandrethal we saw had kyphosis

[@ariadneschild8460]

Wow I didn't know that, how ironic.

[@raincandy1653]

Wow

[@Siennajs]

Interesting fact!

[@apophisxo4480]

But.....that would be kyphosis not scoliosis.

[@hitsurapapel1978]

@@apophisxo4480 enlighten me. what dat

[@dniam9859]

Neanderthals didn't disappear. I have one living in my house pretending to be my brother.

[@hddonutmanas8443]

dam son

[@DavyDave1313]

I got news for you - you damn Neanderthal.

[@milicazq3700]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@luckshyanayyar102]

r u 4 realzeis

[@bryanmartinez6600]

Talking about me again huh

[@Empressette]

In all honesty, it’s both fascinating and terrifying to think that we are the last of our ancestors...

[@Hi-eb3kk]

Musical Priss if you believe in evolution then aren't we all related to slugs?

[@losmike7238]

We are related to bananas

[@lordx4641]

Last of our ancestors what ya mean 7 billion is too many

[@flyingstonemon3564]

@@Hi-eb3kk no they are too far away to be related now but our latest common encestors was LUCAS

[@Ezm42069]

@@Hi-eb3kk you're a dummy

[@brianroberts783]

Kinda makes you wonder if some of the Others in various mythologies, Fomorians in Celtic Myths, Dwarves in Norse Mythology, etc., might be a sort of "cultural memory" of interactions with Neanderthals. A lot can change in a 50,000 year long game of Telephone.

[@Demon1csouls]

I like this idea

[@albino478gaming5]

Makes you wonder if genetic memory is real on some level. Like why are concepts like Dwarfs and Elves seem so old, like they existed since the dawn of time? What if they were real an untold amount of years ago, bred with us humans, and their genes live on within us today? After all, Dwarfs exist today. Some people have pointier ears than most, like elves. Dragons are also very widespread, with each culture putting their own twist on the subject. Like the eastern wingless dragons

[@thenoobprincev2529]

That's literally the concept behind the late Michael Chrichton's book, "the eaters of the dead". You might have seen the movie based of it, the 13 Warrior.

[@vogel2499]

Elves is Tolkien's invention.​@@albino478gaming5

[@baph0met]

That's what I always thought, and not about just this, things like giants and dragons, or the Kraken etc. All these legends and mythologies, I like to think there were these types of humans and animals living let's say 10,000 years ago and this all got carried through time. I also love to think about premordial civilization, like the civilizations BEFORE Sumerians, the premordial mythologies. Fascinating to think about.

[@timothycarlsson9082]

Mankind: theres no way we're the only ones right? Reality: you killed everyone else dummy

[@momojjspsesos1407]

Did u know humans were the some of the weakest animels now look at us literally we can watch stuff from all over the world and can kill every animel

[@momojjspsesos1407]

And we kill our own people lol we have war of some land xD

[@rantranger1527]

@@momojjspsesos1407 that's why brains > brawns

[@ethan82714]

"Everyone is dead Dave"

[@samara3172]

we killed so many other animals and their habitats, so yeah, this makes the most sense to me

[@jaymonaz]

We can't even handle different skin tones now I can imagine if neanderthals were still alive

[@diegoveloso3rd]

Well they arent, and that says something

[@GrillaStyle]

Even in modern humans, we can see examples in phenotype traits which portray those found in our ancient ancestors like denosavian, habilis, australiopethicus, florensis and neanderthal to name a few. The gene pool for hominids is much smaller now due to most of them dying off. But the modern human carry many of ancestors genomes. Accounting for different skin tone, height, muscle/bone density, cranium size and shape, blood-type, diet and all other ways of differentiating humans. I love learning about hominids and our genetics. Btw u look cute

[@CyanideOwl]

I never met someone who is racist. And I mean racist but making jokes. There is more people being racist towards white people than other colored people.

[@Starpentine]

Cyanide this is actually true and it’s being ignored

[@Theomardell-v1t]

@@CyanideOwl Just because you've never met someone who is racist it doesn't meant that there isn't racism- the world expands beyond your experience.

[@mcthrull7417]

Well the neanderthals made rockets already when we were just learning languages and now they live at the andromeda galaxy

[@thegreatballplayer1]

katy scott 😂

[@grevengriff8609]

Y’all used 50k years to shape a rock a bit differently 😂

[@janejanebobanebananafannaf2522]

Or they just got jealous and said *peace*

[@matsek5324]

😀😀😀😀😀

[@aeriss1725]

😅

[@runamuck840]

It would seem cool if multiple human species were living together in this day and age

[@MAGNUS1249K]

I don't know. We fight over skin color. Imagine what we would do if multiple human species lived to this day.

[@runamuck840]

@@MAGNUS1249K that could be a problem however we coexisted with Neanderthals for quite awhile and evidence suggests we got along well

[@ThisGirlIs4Free]

I wonder if that could cause a different world and history.

[@Everyoneisanartist776]

@@runamuck840 the “politics” (using the term cover a vast array of societal quirks) was vastly different back then, which we all know has a enormous influence over a group’s scene of decency and civility.

[@runamuck840]

@@Everyoneisanartist776 true

[@jp4431]

If we discriminate people of the same species and even put some of them in zoos back in the day, imagine what we would do to our Neanderthal cousins.

[@СтефанМихайлович-ж9с]

Considering most racists are obsessed with their Neanderthals genes they'd probably worship them as gods.

[@semolinalibra]

@@Idk-do1ui cause humans are always racist

[@semolinalibra]

@@Idk-do1ui people nowadays are still racist or just ignorant. Idk where you got 50 from, even 10 years ago racism was prominent.

[@madbymycommentumad9041]

@@Idk-do1ui lol I’m black and I’ve encountered a lot of racism ,I’m only 13 btw

[@madbymycommentumad9041]

@@Idk-do1ui yes.Specifically

[@DeTalented]

Being a human (very rare btw), I can confidently say that my species killed all of them

[@DeTalented]

@Vliffin This comment is meant to be a joke, and jokes don't need to be scientifically accurate. I have all rights to woosh you

[@dodoarks3186]

@Vliffin we only mated with Neanderthals

[@GGG-hh5jo]

Probably their women goes natural selected mode

[@Vexis_plays_games]

@@DeTalented I really wished I was here earlier to see the comment before it was deleted. Posting it to r/iamverysmart would have been fun And I would like your comment but I can't seeing as it's at the magic number

[@communistparty9540]

@@DeTalented what did he say?

[@Small_child_punter]

It’s so fascinating to know that there were creatures so similar to us. We study all these other animals with related species but to realize we had them too just blows my mind.

[@pterodactylbull]

Creatures tho? Geez people so out of touch. Do you consider yourself a creature….?

[@Small_child_punter]

@@pterodactylbull out of touch? They’re an extinct species. They’re no longer capable of being upset over words. Am I NOT a creature?

[@RM-lu1kx]

I thought every Living thing is related?

[@21LAZgoo]

denisovans were smartest, they invented high speed drills 40,000 years ago

[@jonathan_420]

@@pterodactylbull snowflake

[@bsheldon2000]

During the time the two groups lived together, there was a continuous migration of new modern humans into the shared region. This was due to the population explosion happening at the time in what was a very high quality habitat in the Sahara region. What is known as source sink dynamics is enough to explain why present day humans have a much lower percentage of genes from Neanderthals. It is like mixing 1 part red paint with 99 parts blue paint, both paints are still there, but all you can see is blue. I am not sure of the figures, but I believe that 25% of Neanderthal genes are still in existence in living humans, that 4% figure is just the highest amount that has been found in any one individual.

[@rubydragon3738]

Our brain named itself the brain

[@angrysocialjusticewarrior]

Mind blown!

[@Delinquent_]

the glob inside my head tells me that the english language named my glob the "brain", the chinese globs called it " 您同性戀 "

[@benjaminolsson2162]

Well the brain is the most important organ... According to the brain.

[@freyjarat5340]

doo doo doo doo doo doo

[@mcblazar1061]

@@freyjarat5340 wtf is that supposed to mean

[@Saleca]

i knew someone that looks like a neanderthal, all the physical features match, i always wished i had his dna tested. i fell like i ignored a living fossil.

[@matthewsmith2385]

Bruh

[@Spiritual_AJ01]

Lol

[@cockycookie1]

No need for that after this roast he's but a pile of ash

[@TheBahamutable]

@@eqqx1108 so you're adopted??

[@TheBahamutable]

@@eqqx1108 if your brother is a neanderthal, you both have the same parents. Bruh.

[@eurodraco]

Considering how you only graze over the fact that there were other types of humanoids other than Neanderthals, the title of this video should really be "What happened to the Neanderthals?"

[@charlesspeaksthetruth4334]

true

[@conorbuckman340]

Missed out on good old Homo Erectus

[@pjfett44]

homo erectus is my favorite kind of human.

[@epajarjestys9981]

#mEtOO

[@Suzzers]

Crazy to think that so many of us are the result of two very similar species going at it.

[@FBI-A16]

That man who had intercourse with a Neanderthal: A woman is a woman he...he...he 😏

[@ChobeVelyasha]

Yes i feel sad for neanthertalea..They had bigger brain,its ok everybody who live in europe aquire bigger brain.So they were destroyed by migrants with inferior intellect but who breed fast.Then last true europeans were assimilated by humans from middle east

[@brianlinville2313]

I did a presentation on this topic in college years ago, before KZbin was a thing. One of the main, though seemingly unlikely differences, is neanderthals didn't have protruding chins like modern humans have. Chins support muscle attachments for more complex speech. Spreading ideas and innovation through verbal communication is a big part of why humans progress technologically faster than any hominid species on Earth.

[@liss8481]

Me: wants to know about my ancestors 23 and me: okay but you have to pay Me: *sigh* they're dead anyways right

it actually have no relations with ur ancestors' death lol

[@evancain4906]

What?

[@gabrielangelorvalmores8212]

Oh *n o*

[@destinimarlow4470]

,😂😂

[@donatellocipriani2127]

'sup Ellie, names Johnny.

[@frownyclowny6955]

“And if they were so smart, then why did they disappear after they met us?” Laughs in American colonization of the 1400s

[@Spiritual_AJ01]

Lol

[@markbasayg1078]

they were smart enough to know the future and the future is so bad that they just kill themselves because they dont want to suffer in the future

[@changeeyecolor3891]

👍👌👍👌👍👌👍👌👍👌👍👌👍

[@mattbabb.]

How did America colonize 300 years before its inception?

[@anakinskywalker9848]

@@mattbabb. okay. The European nations colonized the Americas. There are two of them. NOT THE UNITED STATES. But America

[@leen8430]

''Prehistoric boybands'' sent me. Just discovered your channel and I already love it, your videos are so informative, funny and fascinating. Thank you!

[@Yapity111]

I think one of the most interesting things is how we apparently forgot about the other species we lived alongside, like Neanderthals. Maybe that's a sign that we just thought they were different looking humans

[@maligayavillalino1147]

It's ok to be smart: "Why are we the only humans left?" 2020: *Ahh, Good morning, today's a wonderful day today*

[@hxplixgaming6099]

Lmao

[@hxplixgaming6099]

Man sause nowadays lmao

[@maxxmabemwe4859]

If the only humans left are so smart why do they dedicate so much of their time, energy, and resources to finding ways to murder each other? The vast wealth spent on killing machines could be spent on developing clean energy, cleaning up the oceans, recycling, cooperating in space exploration, developing medicines to treat, and even cure diseases. The killer ape pats himself on the back while bragging about how smart he is, but his actions speak louder about how primitive he really is. The display of the capital riot would make so-called lower animals seem more advanced than that crowd.

[@hero303-gameplayindonesia8]

@@maxxmabemwe4859 most murderers do that for money, while psychopaths and sociopaths do that because they're brains are designed to murder someone, for satisfaction. did i somewhat answer your question?

[@chriswentz5197]

To all people in 7 of September,or the Night before September,which btw do you remember?we gotem

[@You-zo4zr]

"Its not the size, its how you use it.”😉

[@wmfife1]

Brains weren't the only body part made larger through, *ahem * "Natural Selection", unquote. And if you think I'm just talking about one gender, think again. Look a little higher. All humans make choices. *wink *

[@TheLestad88]

We are talking about brain

[@tal3270]

I have micro pp what do I do

[@AyeshSilva-e7e]

Well considering they are more robust built than us the part your talking might be bigger. After all Tall doesn't mean you'll always have a bigger wiener.

[@sayhowling]

cries in asian

[@stevenmagdefrau158]

Your lesson tells all. Alone is not good. Lots of friends is good. Being open to passion is good. Survival is a basket of abilities.

[@littlee5583]

Him: *I have more neanderthal DNA than 70% of people* Me: say unga bunga

[@tylerdurden3722]

To think, there is one person out there with the title of 100%🤔

[@juanpixelated3289]

Stop Tyler, stop making me want the child

[@scorpiovenator_4736]

@@tylerdurden3722 they Are still alive

[@Cybernaut551]

@Thomas Veysey You tell the meaning to stop talking.

[@thugsdoueihi3926]

He is trying to say he has big muscles

[@ghostdeep2542]

If Neanderthals don't still exist then explain that caveman from those geico commercials ...

[@jilliansmith7123]

I know, right? And the one likes mango chutney? Dang!

[@deante04]

Rome Dep it’s fake

[@justincrumpton7802]

Now we're asking the real questions.

[@PureTouchJohnson]

Rome Dep you’re right my boy

[@kickninjagaming4791]

Casey Neistat. 👌👌👌

[@victorluna1147]

Knowing how humans are, we probably killed most of em 😂

[@DreamVirus]

this video is actually a bit wrong because we did killed most of them. there is a book about the human history all of the species that were back then and what happend to this day. the book called Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind.

[@catatoblob8598]

@@DreamVirus actually, I would say that sapiens is a very sensationalist take on non-fiction, and if that's your sole source of information about human prehistory, you should probably supplement that with actual research.

[@backwardsbandit8094]

We killed them and/or fucked them and interbred! Love and hate are bound to be some of our oldest instincts.

[@ryareyna921]

Catato Blob tbh we probably did kill off most of them

[@Analheme]

It's unlikely that we did. Can you imagine purposely hunting a population to their death when you're only a handful of humans, far from being a civilisation yet, already fighting to survive in a harsh environment? I'm not saying we didn't fight, but studies shows that Neanderthals were already in the decline by the time we met then. I think our interactions were much more complex than that, we killed each other, yes, we compete for ressources, yes, but we exchanged too, and we mixed with each other. I'm convinced that your ancestors didn't even realize that they were a different specie.

[@cosmicolivia7674]

I did the 23andme kit and was sad to find out that I have fewer Neanderthal variants than most other users. Happy they can still live on in some of us though!

[@rebelbeammasterx8472]

So Humans are Elves, and Neanderthals are Dwarves, just less extreme.

[@samc.319]

And now we're Dwelves.

[@bajza6046]

Neanderthals are dwarves, and humans are humans

[@quackmcduck6646]

Vincent Van Gogh That'd make the next level of evolution Elves. Great

[@MrGollum1996]

RebelBeamMaster X84 neanderthals were dwemer (dwarfes in the elder scrolls: skyrim not really much smaller, their armour fits nords...) and humans are high elfes. They disappeared of misteryous reasons like dwemer.

[@willywanker6239]

we probably murdered an entire race to extinction. we are not Elves.

[@joijjjoijj8697]

"its not about the size, its how you use it".

[@ariel7024]

STOP

[@thatsalotofdamage7116]

*THATS WHAT SHE DIDNT SAY*

[@Kriscuit_Bonkin]

Read this as he said it lmao

[@Skynet_the_AI]

Jajajajajaja

[@centralohiorailfan]

“The jokes”

[@orionion-o7]

If they were still around, just imagine the whole other level of racism that would happen. I’d rather not have that happen.

[@sterloin]

You can’t be racist to a different species, only speciesist.

[@ls200076]

@HorizonGaming791 Bro, Humanity above everything bro. Purge the xenos.

[@broederharry2534]

They are a different species so you would probably be eating them.

[@AllAdaeze]

HorizonGaming791 they are humans dummy

[@m.damarsr9863]

humanity would probably be less racist to one another because they have one common enemy, neanderthals

[@MerinFR]

So when we kill each other, we literally make ourselves 1 person closer to human extinction

[@SlavJerry]

or minus death by birth of that day

[@treypettit5394]

"if brains were everything" should be if "brain size were everything." The Brain is everything that allows humans to be humans but it's thought to be neuron concentration/number instead of size which makes humans unique.

[@xowishuwereherex]

Also remember the two hemispheres of the brain have to have the correct amount of transmitters to allow the two halves to communicate to process the environment and knowledge around them. Stupid people don’t have the ability to calculate information as fast. The human species has a brain like a flesh version of a computer. The fastest ram and processor provide an advantage over the slowest ram and processor. So if we compare the same amount of mass and pathways between the two people have one watching nothing but reality tv for 18 years and have the second one exposed to all of the information known to mankind since the beginning the “educated” person will have most of the brain filled with the knowledge and be able to converse with you about it. The other person will gossip about the garbage tv and couldn’t wipe their ass properly. Which explains why our society is in such dire shape now.

[@dodoarks3186]

Chill nerds this isn't science class nobody knows wtf your saying

[@ysraelmelendez806]

-The modern human brain is more rounded than that of the first homosapies, which makes the contact of different brain areas more effective. -In the human brain, von Economo neurons (NvE) are more abundant than in other animals with large brains, such as primates, elephants, dolphins and killer whales. These neurons are longer and have a single dendrite. So it can connect areas further away from the brain and transmit information faster. That in theory allows for higher levels of abstraction.

[@ysraelmelendez806]

@@xowishuwereherex It is true. It is not only the capacity of the hardware, but also the quality of the software that is installed.

[@xowishuwereherex]

@@ysraelmelendez806 Heaven help the MAGA tRumpers they are an example of both defective hardware and software. The human species regression into the classical cave man of the 18TH century before the scientific method was used by archaeological studies and the other sciences in research of extinct species.

[@ladymarmalade9101]

Neanderman didn't die out, they weren't that populous so the few who were there bred with homosapiens and became a new blended ethnicity. Sort of like Louisiana creoles and Latin Americans. That's why you can still find their dna in modern man.

[@ziomalisty]

Exactly!

[@krissypremium1512]

You are stupid...

[@okay5573]

That sounds a bit over-dramatized, but what do I know. You might be correct

[@ladymarmalade9101]

king last best compliment I've heard in days. thanks

[@dannyboywhaa3146]

VO1D_Legend lol non sub-Saharan African humans and between 1-4% with some odd anomalies at 6%... also the Neanderthal genes have faded out of East Asians - though they did have them originally etc... Polynesians have Denisovan dna at 6-8% as well as the archaic Neanderthal dna that has faded out...

[@melanisticsoldier5816]

this guy is better than every science teacher ive ever had

[@captainpoppleton]

Teachers back then weren't allowed to say "... a more runnier existence..."

[@95TurboSol]

Neaderthals didn't go extinct, they all moved to Washington DC.

[@stevenmitchell1]

They are probably mostly located in the US Midwest and the American South, actually.

[@philsurtees]

@@stevenmitchell1 There's one in the White House right now... :-P Seriously though, it's funny when someone uses the term Neanderthal to imply that someone is stupid, because they had bigger brains that us.

[@mistersm]

95TurboSol 😳

[@somegirl4631]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@anthonyp3113]

Cringe

[@codyfabulousyt4920]

I would like to see a movie like jurrasic world but they brought back Neanderthals Life, finds a way

[@ArtofLunatik]

CodyfabulousYT theres a movie called "encino man".

[@thewatcher6821]

Watch the news The place is called "Florida"

[@Mirhaus]

I recommend Isaac Asimovs' short story "The ugly little boy" (or its novel expansion by Robert Silverberg), which is about a neandertal boy brought to modern times by timetravel. It's also amusing to read because you can see how people viewed prehistory and neanderthals a couple of decades ago.

[@twixxsticks2806]

Just watch the croods bruh

[@GrayGaming-uv9md]

Nah our ancestors were like: “Wanna 1v1?” Then we won.

[@gruntlegpeice6099]

Lol we didnt kill them off. They couldnt survive on earth so there numbers dwindled than they bred with humans. After breeding with humans they had half Neanderthal and half homosapiean babies. Than the half babies bred with a homosapien. Than there is only 25% Neanderthal. Than the cycle continues leaving less and less Neanderthal. Thats how we have 4% neanderthal in most of u.

[@charleswhitefullbusteruchi1972]

@@gruntlegpeice6099 they tell you that?

[@gruntlegpeice6099]

@@charleswhitefullbusteruchi1972 not in this vid but he said it in a other one

[@anaklusmosgreek3198]

wasnt there a psycho path in lore that said we ate them?

[@GrayGaming-uv9md]

Lol yeah i eat neanderthals for breakfast my dude

[@MysticMylesZ]

4:38 considering that happened to a tribe it's not that crazy to think we gave them a cold or similar contagious thing they couldn't fight.

[@mattprice4547]

I think this is highly likely

[@Idothinkysaurus]

Personally, I like to think we bred Neanderthals out of existence, as migration caused them to dwindle in number, and we just ended up getting funky with them at the same time. It'd be interesting if that were the case, but we may never know.

[@apeman2035]

More likely we killed them off with A virus they had no immunity against

[@technicalineptchic8413]

Technically that's part of the reason why they disappeared. The other factor is that modern humans were more adept at adapting to the ever-changing environment at that time.

[@user-lu4xp7iv8c]

APE MAN that’s really reasonable, considering things like that have happened hundred of years ago. Good thinking m8👍

[@MrAapasuo]

I steel your food cause I’m a Ravenclaw In natives case however it was due to europeans domestic animals that had given them immunity to many diseases, as those jumped from animals to humans. In Neanderthal times nothing like that existed. Probably we had cases where some Neanderthals were assimilated to humans and others where they were killed in tribal wars. Though we may never know.

[@uberlisk]

I personally think that what killed off the Neanderthals was in-breeding. Their good traits, the ones that they had evolved for, were being overshadowed by their flawed, recessive traits. As the creator speculated, they were simply doomed. However, there's an effect at play here that saved them, or at least the best parts of them: hybrid vigour. This is an effect where two or more different groups of breeding stock, highly specialized and inbred, as well as capable of producing fertile offspring, interbreed. Within just a few generations all of the recessive genes are bred out or buried under dominants, resulting in the very best of both breeding pools traits being expressed. This can best be evidence in dog breeding today; if you take two pedigree dogs and breed them together, you end up with a mutt that very often has the best qualities of both parents and very little or no predispositions to the problems that plagued their parent breeds. It's likely that the Neader-Sapien children were superior to both of their parents in many regards, and in time would have out-competed them as well.

[@tawon1984]

Could you imagine how buff a Neanderthal bodybuilder could get if they were still around today. They probably would dominate in most physical sports nowadays 💪

[@jilliansmith7123]

Have you given Arnold a good long look?

[@tawon1984]

Jillian Smith Arnold was big but nowhere as big as the pro's of today.

[@tawon1984]

sike notreally That would be crazy if a Gorilla was taught to lift weights. He would be massive. We then should pass him off as a linebacker, I bet he could bust right through the O-line with ease 💪🙈🙉🙊

[@sikenotreally1051]

acctualy the "modern human" was black and the neanderthals white but hey some acctualy believe neanderthals had a higher IQ

[@aohige]

Except any sports involving extensive running. The Neanderthal body is not made for fast running.

[@sludgeman2597]

I kind of look like a Neanderthal, so I guess I'm a survivor.

[@migorima5989]

dont be to hard on yourself :(((

[@trip_0106]

same. I have Those exact features of a neanderthal he mentioned in the video.

[@SableTdragon]

Good!👍you can easily survive in wilderness :D

[@cyanide2813]

i have the same head shape

[@ahsanrahib9958]

I'm attracted to them.

[@thirdlife911]

It’s interesting how his theory and the why files is quite a bit different

[@nickvargas4999]

I wanna go back in time and see how things were

[@WTF-yt9js]

Be careful! You will make a paradox.

[@honestman7087]

@@WTF-yt9js nah time can't be changed

[@MarioMarioBW]

@@honestman7087 That depends on a certain thread of nonsense. Time travel assumes that the time traveler is actually going somewhere 'new.' However, for nothing to change would mean that every "change" they make has already occurred historically, as in they had already been there 'before' the journey took place. The assumption that time woudn't change would hypothetically requires that Nick already experienced the adventure in the past his younger self wants, already having an influence on time back then, far before he even had the capability to go back in time in the future. There's no fear of a paradox since absolutely everything they do, no matter how meddlesome or malicious, is allowed and already part of unknown history relative to us in our present. This hinges on the possibility that the technology and such brought back returned to origin as soon as they got there, or they didn't possess anything that would cause any drastic change by the point in which they returned or died - like the time machine, tools, food, clothes, et cetera were miraculously melted by an active volcano. Not to mention the loose guarantee that they would perform the exact actions their supposed past self performed, becoming the person necessary to do so. This also requires that nothing they do would prevent them from being born and time travelling in the first place. All of which conflict with the previous statement that anything goes and nothing can change. Of course, I'm just spit-balling here.

[@fuseydunae397]

@@MarioMarioBW time is just an illusion,there is no going back in time.

[@MarioMarioBW]

@@fuseydunae397 Yeah, I was just being hypothetical like sci-fi, assuming that somehow isn't a fact just for the fun of it. Ya know, proposing an impossible scenario as if it could actually happen.

[@6raven]

Great video! I can't wait for more videos on this subject. Prehistory is such an interesting topic, I just love it !

[@PieterPatrick]

They did not only found pieces of DNA from the Neanderthal in "our" DNA, but also from the Denisovans and the Heidelbergenis. Maybe the next video. :-)

[@dampudulom3199]

This reminds me of an ecological Niche. Two species with similar traits can't have exactly the same niche, and if somehow that happens it will result in competition, either they will compromise and live together or they will compete till inferior one did not extinct.

[@MalenaLorente]

Good answer

[@marvinschmitz3442]

When my Dad passed away I had an opportunity to look at his head and it looked like an explanation of what archialogist say what the neanderthal looked like. And I have been told I look like him.

[@marinaamir7077]

0:50 is me when I erase the correct answer on an exam question to replace it with a wrong answer

[@prathyushsingh3991]

THE MOST UNDERRATED COMMENT

[@fredlee9362]

I was pissed when that happened

[@randomtootsiemonsterslides807]

Yes! 😫

[@misciatarlit]

so meee 😂💜

[@ElRincondeAle]

Would be good to investigate if smarter people have higher or lower percent of Nearndenthal DNA

[@chariecemayfield5243]

@@Joe-kb1sm You're incredibly dumb dude shut u lmao

[@You-pk6jh]

If that was true it doesn't explain the thousands of years of no progress.

[@unidentifiedbipedallifeform]

Im definitely curious about that too but humanity in general might be better off not knowing.

[@RobertLemonOfficial]

That would bring up racism

[@yansakuya1]

Considering mostly only those in the Eurasian Continent have Neanderthal DNA... probably.

[@OGrupxe]

"Why did Neanderthals dissappear?" Homosapiens: *a s s i m i l a t i o n.*

[@ZephriusOrcanius]

More like assassination

[@taddurrenberger3672]

"We are the BORG, you will be assimilated... Your biological and technilogical culture will adapt to service us ... Resistance is Futile...."

[@alessiomarin1218]

Regarding the burying of the dead and not knowing if they were spiritual or religious… yes, there is symbolism involved in burial, but on a more straight-forward level, it stops the smell.

[@NEKROLAVS451]

Is it only me that I think that all these creatures from mythology such as dwarfs giants etc can have some roots in extinct human species?

[@16Meily]

DAMNNNN.... That's deep

[@julienielsen3746]

There is and has been no other species of man, only different races.

[@lizzychrome7630]

Um, I thought that was kind of common knowledge.

[@harmonheater4377]

that is untrue. there is only one race. there may be multiple ethnical groups that most people incorrectlly refer to as different races. and wrong again, there usd to be subspecies of homo sapiens, homo floresensis is considered to possible be one of those subspecies

[@bogdanbogdanoff5164]

Lies unsupported by evidence. Check this out and explain since when "ethnical groups" change your bone structure. s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/49/34/76/4934762be89367066f114e37c7b837eb.jpg Also a reminder that ethnical group can refer to ex. germans and poles, despie the fact that they have little difference in morphology (or looks), so it's a cultural and linguistic difference.

[@laurenrico1569]

they didn’t disappear. my dads in the living room

[@kaiser4883]

You are so corky relatable and funny lmaoo emoji bout to watch my 55 vine compilation of the day

[@cameronmerriman981]

Doesn’t that make you one then stupid haha

[@JBomb517]

No I get it lol. Has me questioning how much neanderthal DNA I have in me. My dad was a hairy beast and I got it from him. There's also a reddish tint to my hair in certain lights. Great great grandfather had red hair lol... hairy too!!! Wondering also if hairy people in general have more of that DNA in them..

[@cameronmerriman981]

JBomb82 no but by your logic you definitely are bud haha 😂

[@Ahhdjx]

Lauren Rico Yeah and my mom is in the living room. 😠😑

[@madotsuki_mk1]

"But that's New York for you" says he, while showing footage of Moscow subway.

[@StayMadNobodycares]

It's mean to compare the Brazilians to Gypsies. and as for India, maybe their society would be better if it were not for the highest concentration of Gypsies in the world being located in Bangladesh.

[@imperialguardsmen8543]

Joshua Pierre What?

[@kayburcky7146]

Simple answer: because the concept of respect for other life forms (let alone each other among us) is pretty new for humanity

[@Backinblackbunny009]

No. Humans created civilization bc we were the best at working together in large groups with much less infighting. Scientists discovered the bones of a women, dead over 10k years, who had down syndrome and yet lived to be 22. She had a mouth full of cavities, an extreme rarity for humans with little access to sugar and it turned out someone had been traveling for miles to harvest dates especially for her. Modern day America routinely treats its disabled young adults with less compassion

[@RichConnerGMN]

among us??????

[@kayburcky7146]

@@Backinblackbunny009 that's some pretty messed up image of the world you've got there and you got 2 things mixed up that have nothing to do with each other. 1st. It is a fact that mankind as a whole did not show compassion towards other species. That's simply because for everyone that actually cared about another being there pretty sure was another one savage enough just to kill said being out of primitive fun. And it took some massive society to create structures to keep people from going savage... But that whole process was purely egocentric because we couldn't have sustained ourselves if we didn't which leads to point 2. Don't mix up "compassion with other forms of life" with "love towards your near social group or particularly your offspring." The second one is und must be a given by natural selection since we couldn't have this conversation right now if our parents just ate us f.e. whilst 1st one requires a lot of liberty in many parts of your daily life. 1st you have to have a food and other basic resources supply sustainable and robust enough not to be tempted to eat said other life Form or kill it for resources or resources of its habitat. 2nd you have to have enough free time to think about your deeds to even consider feeling guilty for being cruel to an individual that's not the same as you and as such not as straight forward to relate to for you, and 3rd, you've got to have enough people around you that share those liberties or someone will convince you it's nessesary for his survival to kill. Any more questions? Being able to show compassion to other forms of life is a huge previlege that we should not take for granted looking back on history, but looking forward it should definitely become a prime directive of human actions.

[@kayburcky7146]

@@RichConnerGMN that's sus

[@garrett6064]

Its irritating to hear commentators mention the small tribes and lack of progress in tool making among Neanderthals as way of saying we are smarter. First off they did manage to live in some of the harshest conditions on Earth for 300,000 years. And thos conditions necessitated small tribes. In those harsh conditions one can only walk so far in a single day, and will find very limited foodstuffs. Certainly not enough to feed a large tribe. Additionally, caves offered a permanent safe haven against animals and the weather. So the impulse to move around would be much weaker. Hence much less trade. At this time in Africa people could easily move around and build makeshift shelters as they went. It takes only one man to defend himself against a lion with a sharp stick for that tribe to recognize its importance and because of these of moving the discovery spreads quickly. Whereas with the non migrating Neanderthals each tribe would have had to make this discovery by itself slowing innovation down drastically.

[@larsswig912]

Underrated post.

[@Skynet_the_AI]

@@larsswig912 i second and third that!

[@Luzbel2912]

if they were so smart then why are they all dead

[@sofijeffrey9797]

This exact same concept is why Greece had city-states and not a unified nation for a while. (Not saying Greeks are neanderthals)

[@JBSCORNERL8]

Why does it matter?

[@mdaly724]

"suddenly" always bothers me in discussions about evolution. It doesn't mean the same thing as the average "suddenly" people are familiar with.

[@simplykiki9411]

All time is relative.

[@momenakhatoon5996]

I always assumed that interbreeding happened, and we are who we are because of the mix. I know because my boyfriend's neanderthal instinct acts up now and then.

[@LLL-zx6dw]

Momena Khatoon what 🤦‍♂️😂

[@TheUltimateNatural]

LOL

[@rededed2136]

Newageassassin how are you not dead?

[@grevengriff8609]

Asassynation y’all were poor and helpless, used 50k years to shape a rock a bit differently 🤣

[@rvnn4957]

@Newageassassin stop taking drugs

[@InnovationInsider1]

2024 and i still love coming back to watch this video!

[@bonniehoke-scedrov4906]

This is my first time enjoying your KZbin channel. Great content! Looking forward to hearing more from you! Your video was so informative. Thank you so much!

[@ugo9248]

4:18 we definitely killed them. We find it difficult living together with ourselves, imagine having another competition

[@ghostoflego3390]

Yeah but our dna results show that we inter bred with the neanderthals. How would this be possible if we inter bred.

[@Kaleido876]

@@ghostoflego3390 we're diverse species intellectually, obviously there were some oddballs that wanted to mate with other neaderthals.

[@WhoAreYou905]

⁠@@Kaleido876hehe some freaky oddballs I bet

[@nam430]

we have interracial couples making kids, we have furries, we have people who follow the way of rule 34. if we can kill something someone definitely will breed it

[@JokersNtheOddball]

But it doesnt. It shows they share a small percentage of our dna in similar patterns. That dna shows structural differences, it does not tell us if they come from US.​@ghostoflego3390

[@taidieu1]

If there are still unknown tribes out there that are protected from contact, how can we be sure that they aren't Neanderthals?

[@string9004]

It is simply impossible for them to be

[@CharDhue]

@CCw theres a posibility thry are smarter but living in peacefull and isolated way. But their fate come to an end becouse homosapien have better weapon and number

[@cookkies_]

I think neanderthals lived mostly in Europe, I don't it is possible for an unknown tribe to have lived in Europe for such a long time and never had any contact with us. However there are tribes in Africa that have "pure" human dna since they never got in contact with neanderthals

[@mutuma4195]

@CCw i mean they fought animals 6 times there size Would it be THAT hard for them to live

[@mutuma4195]

@@cookkies_ The first humans originated from Ethiopia ( i know this cuz i live in kenya right next to it )

[@jawaharnamburi4202]

# Anthropology is a very interesting subject..the more I study human evolution, I certainly feel like knowing more about the fascinating story of human evolution..!!

[@Chase4boy]

I find it fascinating that at one point there were other human species running around and we interacted with them. I wonder what would have changed if they didn’t go extinct or at least didn’t die off so early

[@sirnoname6943]

Short answer: we killed all the other human species

[@ls200076]

@HorizonGaming791 Well, knowing Humans, we do. Especially if you didn't know it was another species. Bet our ancestors didn't know it was another species. Just another tribe that looked like them and ate the same food. Hostile? Don't know. No reason for them to think they were a different species. Just another tribe.

[@rededed2136]

Bright chi 2 yes, monkeys are not our ancestors, we share a common ancestor

[@fazebooce8767]

Bright chi 2 bruh

[@Megalaglag]

elektron117 they probably killed themselves via, cross breading and being so far away

[@yYSilverFoxYy]

Or had sex with them. The neanderthals didn’t die out, we are neanderthals to some extent.

[@AbudBakri]

That's the thing...we aren't. I'm from Krypton....

[@Tylerthety]

Dude, I swear, you are in the comment section of almost every video I watch... Nerd.

[@austinle8572]

Tyler Mauldin Aren't you a nerd since your on every video he is on?

[@Tylerthety]

Yeah. That was the joke actually.

[@generalzod7959]

Uhh, I'm from krypton!

[@Smileyreal]

And i am from jupiter we have special technology where we can create a "human" disguise

[@iCazZiStronZi]

I never even thought until right now that there could have been different human species, I thought that different races was like our version of different species

[@samuelanderson9416]

They are in Geico commercials now

[@blackscreennoiseforrelaxat1517]

Sam Anderson lol omg that's good

[@Taratsamura]

I have a friend, and he is pretty small and has no nasal cartilage. That runs in his family. Short and no nasal cartilage. And i heard they found in Madagascar humanoid skelletons, and they were only about 1m high and had no nasal cartilage. So we probably mixed with more than only the Neandertals.

[@palebluedot7435]

Taratsamura skeletons dont tent to preserve cartilage But yea we also breed with denisovans and florensis

[@Taratsamura]

yeah i know that much, but the news said that they know that those humans never had a cartilage.

[@zhixci958]

cool_dude_98 98 if they werent we wouldnt exist

[@hongry-life]

They were the Nain I guess. Same as Pygmee?

[@JohnDoe-td7mu]

No.... just no....

[@benthomason3307]

I find it odd that people are still debating whether we were friends or enemies with neanderthals, as though everyone on boths sides would be unanimous in their opinions of eachother. It's most likely that different interactied with different cro magnon. tribes in different ways, such that the simplest way it could be described as a whole would be "foreign relations." Neandertal tribe A might like cro magnon tribe B, but hate cro magnon tribe C, for example.

[@varunv2584]

Well said!

[@RS-dm4yo]

We tend to think all or nothing. It could have been very complex. I tend to think they were absorbed into us and the others just naturally died out like the other hominids. We had more numbers and kept interbreeding with them making their numbers even smaller. I mean we could've liked each other, but naturally mated with own own kind mostly and with the other kind occasionally. And with us being more advanced, we just had what it takes to keep moving forward.

[@DwytAI]

dude i cant sleep thinking about this im having an existential crisis

[@Master_Therion]

It's a shame that we are "the only humans left." Because I think our extinct cousins must have been "all right."

[@ratboii7656]

I love you and I hate you

[@wedeldylan]

Lmfao racism is still a major issue today, imagine if there were actually different species of us

[@deathhawk7114]

People will make war over the smallest differences, so I imagine the racism would be a lot worse.

[@simonruszczak5563]

"all right" , maybe that's why none are left today.

[@pauljones3017]

We would have merged as one species by now. If not, our rivality would have condemned one of us to extinction.

[@criesandthrowsuponthefloor608]

Caveman watching us from heaven like: "you is mean" "İ miss Rock land* " What" "Why is you shakey shakey hand"

[@crimsonvirgo]

LOL

[@tranquil1021]

Lol

[@olivia-oz3qe]

*The answer you want to hear:* Because everyone died out.

[@ohsozouzi]

Or murdered because humans developed better weapons.

[@Zorutan]

That's *not* the answer I want to hear.

[@unevilGenius]

Mooshi Mooosh you are german, right? It's "go extinct", not "die out".

[@Zorutan]

+Repliar of Ancient Comments Damn, that was some hard reference

[@olivia-oz3qe]

LOL nowhere near German dumbass. I don’t really care of my grammar in the feed of comments of 5,267 others

[@Mantequillaa_]

Imagine racist people finding out they have neanderthal genes in them 💀

[@b4li7]

Plus our australophithecus ancestors is black

[@Marshal_Dunnik]

"Sir, some humans are hailing us." "Put them on screen." "WE ARE THE HUMANS. YOUR BIOLOGICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL DISTINCTIVENESS WILL BE ADDED TO OUR OWN. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE." "Red alert. Arm spears and rocks."

[@StraightShooter01]

I am a little uncomfortable with a company collection genetic data - does this bother anyone else?

[@eave01]

O my God, yes! Holy cow. This dna has been used to solve old crimes...but sometimes they have used this dna in error and wrongly convicted people with it. I think they have to give this dna to police? I don't know but I don't think it is private.

[@mrsmith9031]

I love it, I like the idea of knowing our origins,

[@ethanmonka1847]

Why would you spit in a tube, send it off to a company, and then say you're uncomfortable?

[@furryslayer8688]

Yes. Still who knows what we could do with it. We could theoretically farm other humans made by machines. That sound wired but it is ethical if it is not natural. At least in my opinion

[@thefroggy5240]

@@furryslayer8688 that's hardly ethical, just because you could doesn't mean you should

[@puppylove42]

"They live inside us"

[@Tony333Aye]

puppylove42 lol

[@gigsandbusking8959]

You are so right, DNA from all your past lives within you, it helps you not make the mistakes they made, animals and birds run from us because their DNA tells them humans are dangerous while on an uninhabited island they don't run from us because their DNA has no warnings about us, also maybe why we have phobia's, our ancestors passing on a warning, if you want to go deeper then remember all the things that stain your brain are bad events, never good ones but only bad ones, that is to make sure you can avoid the same thing in the future and this is also passed through DNA.!

[@richardwalton6993]

Gigsand Busking In the human condition, in the vast majority of individuals, "bad behavior" or "good behavior", isn't written in your DNA. Sadly, via the convenienced propaganda of some notable Latter-day political scoundrels, this notion is the quasi-anthropological dialectic of the dedicated, quasi-intellectual isolator. It's bad science, it creates still worse culture, and it also seems to be quite contagious.

[@who-ny5oe]

2:44 Blue whale: Like you want to know.

[@rogersledz6793]

Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!

[@kellythrash3154]

Same! Been binge watching this channel all weekend and sending shows to all my friends. Now nobody will talk to me, lol.

[@ayoxe]

Definitely going in my new book called “Humanity’s biggest bruh moments.”

[@zainabb.2792]

Hello. I've just met a big group of people claiming that the earth is "flat". Can you please make a video explaining why do they think so, and how they're wrong? Thank you.

[@zainabb.2792]

I got a headache just trying to understand their "theories".

[@hunterofhunters2831]

Don't even bother. They are creationists aswell and we have seen how smart they are

[@sikenotreally1051]

yeah stuff like ''gravity is a lie" like wtf? excuse me mr.iam just standing cus its flat ... without gravity you couldnt stand on flat surfaces

[@sikenotreally1051]

iam guessing by your username that you are trolling ... well i hope you are

[@OElliinos]

χρονης κ. Muslims believe that the earth is oval shaped. Stop being a moron?

[@cheeseboi9951]

I saw an article that said that around 17% of humans still have big parts of neandertaler genes

[@karna5998]

Homosapiens:- It's So easy a caveman can do it. Also homosapiens:- I need a lighter to lightup my ciggarate , help

[@jimmccarthy80]

...and spellcheck...

[@nadine2164-l]

I love your channel, helps me look at life more objectively. Thanks for sharing. ❤️

[@natsudragneel9619]

2:58 ok guys now we find the answer. Size doesn't matter, what matters is how you use it.

[@neilsmith8839]

This video made me feel like a kid in school again. I loved it 🥹

[@helenarosno]

1:06 there is no need for that kind of language

[@davidquezada50]

Agree

[@omarkhamis523]

Helena Rosno suck it up snowflake

[@whatarenames]

Omar619kamis Kamis it’s a joke, dimwit.

[@EternalFlameProductions]

snowflake aleeeeeeeeeert

[@imperialguardsmen8543]

man up r/woosh

[@itsme-rc1nn]

we're just some apes that got experimented by aliens

[@johnbroomhead1039]

Is that you

[@美咲-v6d]

@@johnbroomhead1039 yes its *me*

[@johnbroomhead1039]

@@美咲-v6d lol

[@nishanacharya7484]

Neanderthal spotted.

[@terricorbin3513]

Science has proven we were created.. Watch.. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZC4epd-oJyaa6s

[@epicfromepicgames8222]

*why do I look like a Neaderthal...* *well, guess I am one.*

[@classifiedclassified3209]

Can I get a free pills w pretty please...

[@warhoonn]

Binh bong ging gong

[@theacespace7569]

*how white are you*

[@wilsons2882]

is epic a videogame title

[@MrRennen]

Its like mixing Light and dark colors, the more stronger pigment means it will be more that color but still have a hint of another color

[@disgustedcharlie6679]

because we invented memes, we evolved.

[@RodChiefs]

you can see the cave art memes, glorious.

[@ravtail2781]

Noice.

[@Dead_Pool_Rising]

No memes are a cancer that is slowly leeching our intelligence.

[@cedrick25]

@@Dead_Pool_Rising This is what happens whrn you don't take your daily does of memes.

[@yambuhkeder6270]

What if the neanderthal is the reason why our ancestor afraid of "Orc, troll, ogres, etc" ?

[@HarshDude126]

That doesn't make sense. Those mythological creatures were conceived of tens of thousands of years after the extinction of the Neandethals. No one would have known about them when those myths were made.

[@beepbeep360]

@@HarshDude126 i saw a reply like dis earlier mostly everyone on earth has 2% of Neaderthals DNA so once Neaderthals become extinct... we become extinct

[@dangiscongrataway2365]

Fascinating idea

[@Ethan-jd3qt]

@@beepbeep360 not everyone. Everyone that is not 100 percent african

[@Dronestriketerrorists]

@Philip Thomas a nocturnal..human...hmmm yeah that's called the wrong answer when you think your smart there is literally not one type of ape spices or human species that was nocturnal

[@EpilepsySparksInsights]

Joe! You are hilarious! We need more people like yourself within the science community to communicate the “coolness” (did I make that word up?) And excitingness (again, made that one up) of science!!

[@royalfelineandtracygrant]

Okay, I have a crazy Minecraft theory… What if villagers were based off Neanderthals?

[@audiotron1003]

I use my small residual brow ridges to hold my glasses above my eyes when others place them on the top of the head. So, I suppose it's a useful tool.

[@norskinoff]

0:49 Imagine how many braincells that name took

[@vtgrokz]

I've my semester exam in 4.30 hours, but I couldn't resist clicking this video.

[@KillMeSeason]

vtgrokz good luck! :)

[@syedzaki007]

vtgrokz don't worry

[@eleonoramustafaeva1303]

How d it go

[@vtgrokz]

It went pretty good, guys :)

[@KillMeSeason]

Good, well done! :)

[@SomeoneRandom-t3z]

1:11 so you don’t have to watch the rest of the vid the only reason we beat them is because we could communicate with language Somthing they hadn’t yet evolved to do

[@SlayerEdits_0]

Ah okay 👀