Lucy's Lasting Legacy | Full Documentary

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2 ай бұрын

Well done! I'm so happy to know that this research around Lucy still continues.

@HawthorneHillNaturePreserve 2 ай бұрын

What an amazing message at the end! 🙏

@lilashelton535 2 ай бұрын

I never get tired of hearing the stories of our evolution

@kokolanza7543 2 ай бұрын

Beautiful in many ways. Hearing the grad students talk about their work, Donald Johanson's profound words at the conclusion, the details of Lucy's anatomy that shows that she walked easily.The very idea of a species that was perhaps a forebear of ours, 3.2 million years ago. The remarkable level of consciousness that made it possible for present-day humans to ask questions about our origin, and the ongoing work to recognize our errors in doing so and learn better. And still, after such a long childhood, humans are extremely immature cognitively, in regard to our thinking, our emotions, self-knowledge, and wisdom. Extremely immature. I was reading a book by Donald Hoffman earlier today in which he (others as well) claims that human concepts (that is, the concepts of contemporary science) in regard to space, time, and matter are quite incorrect - or you could say crude.

@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 10 күн бұрын

Donald Hoffman is a computer scientist - try Basil J. Hiley for a real understanding of quantum physics nonlocality.

@nghiado9895 2 ай бұрын

Really loved the animation explaining the motion differences. Earned yourself a new sub. Thanks.

@ArizonaPBS Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it. Welcome!

@nickreeve9644 2 ай бұрын

Nice to see a video about my great great great great....... etc. etc. Grandma!

@HumanBeanbag 2 ай бұрын

I love Lucy

@kokolanza7543 2 ай бұрын

Good one.

@CivicPetunia 2 ай бұрын

Wonderful! Thank you!

@vielkadenerson2534 2 ай бұрын

Very amazing , love this about this kind for evolution 🤔

@Musselchee 2 ай бұрын

Lots of members of my particular culture are religious zealots. I am not. I've got a cousin who is. We're both now in our mid 60s. Somehow we got to a discussion on religion. It was not entirely unexpected because this cousin, and her siblings were indoctrinated into the faith from a very young age. Myself and people who get up on soapboxes, do not mix. I began to intervene with Dawin's scientific discoveries. With my cousin, I knew I might be tempting a backlash. I didn't expect what I received. I intentionally approached the conversion probably like Chamberlain did with that nazi dude prior to WWll. But, no matter how placating or gentle I tried to be, I'd opened up a Pandora's Box anyway. My cousin yelled back indignantly, "SO. YOU THINK WE COME FROM MONKEYS!" End of conversation, and me wanting to have anything more to do with that cousin. I hope the feeling is mutual. I am laughingly intrigued that Lucy's finder shares the same sounding surname as the actor Scarlett Johansson who travelled back in time to see a living and breathing Lucy in the movie Lucy.

@SoniaH-m4g 2 ай бұрын

@@Musselchee Some find it easier to believe that an imaginary being created everything (including us) out of thin air, I understand your decision. Fortunately I was raised in a country where the percentage of religious population was quite small yet we still have our fair share of non logical people, they just worship movie stars instead lol.

@ronvon3254 3 күн бұрын

I've heard that argument from religious people a bunch of times. But what is so bad about being descendent from... monkeys or having a common ancenstor? They are amazing creatures. But whatever. Discussions like this lead nowhere. My family are fundies as well, but we avoid these subjects at all cost xD

@darkencypher 2 ай бұрын

I remember learning about Lucy in 6th Grade -- it was a HUUGE deal.

@sabbyd1832 Ай бұрын

Very cool and I love the model

@rhaengelos3453 2 ай бұрын

awesome video!

@ArizonaPBS 2 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@james-faulkner Күн бұрын

I am a child of the Seventies and still recall hearing about this when I was very young. Without knowing about "beetles" for many, many years to come I always remembered "Lucy in the sky, with diamonds". Obviously I know who The Beetles are now, they are alright I mean they are no The Doors thankfully. Recently I was quizzing my friend that has a "double masters" (whatever that is) in maths while watching this video and right when it began I asked if she knew what song was attributed to Lucy and she had no clue! Of which I found remarkable with all that education she knew less than a non-educated person such as myself. That was the tease anyway.

@ArizonaPBS 15 сағат бұрын

There's always more to learn, right? Thanks for sharing this story!

@paillette2010 2 ай бұрын

4:13 As Laurie Anderson said on her Big Science album. ;)

@danielstromberg 2 ай бұрын

Very interesting video. I have a nit: I wish people would stop saying our closest living relative is the chimp, when bonobos are genetically equidistant from us and behaviorally more similar.

@james-faulkner Күн бұрын

A "nit" is a louse. Perhaps you mean to use the phrase "nit pick".

@ronvon3254 3 күн бұрын

This is so interesting, thank you for sharing. I wonder however, the depiction of Lucy with unpigmented skin around the mouth and eyes, is this a liberty the artist took on his own or is it paleonthologically accurate? I thought at that time and for many more millions of years humans and humanoids were mostly pigmented? Low pigment skin and eyes only developed once humanoids left the continent of Africa?

@owensmith8240 2 ай бұрын

I'm just wondering if there is any reasoning or archeological evidence behind the inclusion of a lot of hair distributed around the body of the recreated representation of Lucy? If her foot structure is so well adapted to walking long distances, and if hominids lost their fur to help regulate body temperature while walking long distances in warm climates, is it possible Lucy's species had much less hair than depicted in the recreation? Couldn't hair loss have accompanied such changes in foot structure that were adapted to walking long distances in warm climates? It may be that the archeological record is insufficient to depict skin and hair, but what about knowledge of the climate her species lived, and walked, in?

@WJAlexander-o6t 2 ай бұрын

Its all bla-bla.

@danelleevangelho8855 Ай бұрын

@@owensmith8240 fact check me but I believe the loss of hair is thought to have come with long distance running, not just bipedalism. Lucy was made to walk, but definitely wasn't built for long distance running.

@JohnShields-xx1yk Ай бұрын

I only wish I could've stood in front of Lucy and extend my hand in a kind, subtle gesture.

@stanwebb3480 2 ай бұрын

Was Lucy a mother??? Well if the Hip bones are spread like our women do once given birth!!! She looks very skinny!!! I thought she would be a little more robust?! Can we tell if the Climate was the same when she was alive???

@jamesraymond1158 2 ай бұрын

Great story. A plug for DEI at 22:00 seems out of place.

@bonafidehomicide5742 2 ай бұрын

@jamesraymond1158 Be careful, your IQ is showing 🤡

@nghiado9895 2 ай бұрын

"Gratuitous DEI!" LOL

@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 10 күн бұрын

Triggered! Thanks - I'm gonna self-censor this science now. j/k. Ironically we have 2 billion food insecure people on Earth with 730 million facing hunger - many in Africa - due to the "progress" of science. We'll all return to our "past of Lucy" soon.

@corazonjedi 25 күн бұрын

Is it just me, or does Johanson's voice sound like Carl Sagan?

@J_bird777 Ай бұрын

How do archaeologists know where to look?

@ArizonaPBS Ай бұрын

That's a great question. I'm not an expert, but here's my understanding: Some of it is luck, but a lot of it is taking what do know (like where previous finds have been made, or where the environment is especially good for preserving things) and making educated guesses. And the more data you have, the better your guesses are likely to be. Any experts want to chime in?

@J_bird777 Ай бұрын

@ thanks!

@lauraconzatti5830 2 ай бұрын

Was it not Louis Leakey that discovered Lucy?

@ArizonaPBS Ай бұрын

It was not. Louis and Mary Leakey made many important discoveries, including the species they named Homo habilis, but Lucy is not among their finds. Louis Leakey passed away in 1972, two years before Johanson and his team found the Lucy skeleton.

@lauraconzatti5830 Ай бұрын

@@ArizonaPBS Why then in Africa at Ol Duvai Gorge in the museum is a tribute to Louis & Mary Leaky with the skeletal remains of Lucy?

@ArizonaPBS Ай бұрын

Great question! Let us know if you find out the answer.

@DadsLloyd 2 ай бұрын

Not one word about the contributions of Louis, Mary, Richard or Maeve Leakey, nor Tim White nor many other researchers. Too much focus on Arizona State University and other American institutions. What about the contributions of the British and the French? This program strikes me as self-serving with an excessive focus on human evolution as revealed by Americans. This obsessive concentration on the "wonder" and responsibility of humans to save the planet completely ignores the problems brought by human overpopulation and the resultant degradation of Earth's natural ecosystems.

@paillette2010 2 ай бұрын

Agreed.

@zackdow361 2 ай бұрын

@@DadsLloyd not that I don’t agree, but what else would ya expect from a channel called “Arizona PBS?”

@saint6563 2 ай бұрын

Pay attention. As stated in the introduction it's about the Arizona Institution. Not the history of anthropology.

@paillette2010 2 ай бұрын

@@zackdow361 a lot more, frankly.

@paillette2010 2 ай бұрын

@@saint6563 this is no more than a survey course with a bit of emphasis on the institute, a broader piece of the history would take a handful of minutes.