Paranthropus and Kenyanthropus

[@jamiegallier2106]

Excellent presentation! Erika/Gutsick Gibbon is brilliantly gifted at making a complicated subject approachable, a perfect addition to the channel.

[@autodidacticartisan]

Has Erika been helping him out with all of these Ape/hominid ancestor videos he's been making lately? I have noticed a lot of gutsick gibbon-esque content coming out of the professor Dave channel.

[@MossyMozart]

@@autodidacticartisan - She is the writer of the series. He's her just mouthpiece and spokesmodel (and series designer and director and graphics designer and animator and editor and uploader, etc).

[@autodidacticartisan]

@MossyMozart gotcha! They should have been more clear about thebcollaboration. I feel like Erika has a very strong fanbase for her size and it could have given Dave a lot of extra views even though he's a substantially bigger channel. I'd love to see the 2 of them paired up on skeptalk one day.

[@XMathiasxX]

I can watch these types of videos all day long!

[@MrMarcusIndia]

​​@@louistart1173 Go back to Sunday school and enjoy your fairytales, simpleton.

[@neildegrassetysonwithaknife]

​@@louistart1173human paleobiology is actually quite interesting to some people, not sure why you found a problem with someone else's interest in the subject. Then again, it could also be a case of the common English grammar concept known as "hyperbole".

[@seaurchin4437]

Paranthropus: 🗿

[@nostur4984]

that's funny

[@robinbeers6689]

The San Diego Zoo has orangutans and gibbons on display in an enclosure together. The young female orangutan often "babysat" the gibbons' new youngster, carrying it around on her back and cuddling it. The mother and father gibbon seemed to be fine with this.

[@jamiegallier2106]

Aww🥹

[@janefrost1856]

This series is so interesting, I'm completely fascinated by it

[@Evolved_Skeptic]

It seems like Paranthropus were morphologically beginning to develop traits (such as both evolving a sagittal crest & enlarged, robust mandible) similar to modern Gorillas. Perhaps this was due to parallels in their primarily vegetarian diet.

[@MossyMozart]

"Form follows function" applies in _both_ architecture AND paleontology.

[@private2954]

I was watching the geological videos on this channel. When these videos popped up, I got curious. I’m having so much fun!

[@beamedbyguy]

I love that even when you get millions of views de bunking fraudulent "scientist" you still stick with actual scientific videos to educate people and I thank you👍

[@REHANKHAN-en5zn]

Nice that they could go for a walk anytime.

[@paparomee]

Love from 🇩🇪

[@IKEejmin]

I love prof. Dave from SEA!

[@OmniversalInsect]

Here before the creationists.

[@uncleanunicorn4571]

Silly science believer, Satan put all these hominids in the ground to test your faith, And you failed...

[@paulboulanger5]

​@uncleanunicorn4571 All those relationship tests make your god pretty toxic

[@freddan6fly]

@@paulboulanger5 And the unicorn comments as well as account are gone.

[@siriusleigh24]

Were you made on the day before them?

[@ShearNobles]

Great job

[@kaiseomar8064]

We need pharmacology tutorials ❤

[@glennpearson9348]

I think he has an entire series on that subject already posted to his channel. The first in a long series of Pharmacology videos is here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qGqYeYisfcZnjK8

[@robertwood9572]

3:10 hey there prof. Dave! I’ve got a question about the differences between the 3 species (I’m not a biologist, I think it’s species). Looking at how long Homo Sapiens has been around, and how long Neanderthal was around- it seems like 200,000 years isn’t a long enough time for speciation. Was there a large natural pressure on these apes to adapt so quickly? What was happening during the period? Was it competition for food from different primates? Or, do I not have a good understanding about the subject? Great video. I’m enjoying the series

[@kelliepatrick519]

Neanderthal were specialists. Sapiens were generalist. Specialists always go extinct when the environment changes. Then the generalists fill those vacant niches and become specialists, themselves. Thus putting a highly successful species at risk of extinction.

[@JubioHDX]

200,000 is plenty long enough to start considering them a new species, but its at the same time little enough that it wouldnt be surprising if they could still mate with eachother (think of how neanderthals evolved 130k-230k years before homo sapiens yet we still bred with them, or how dogs were selectively bred to be a distinct species from wolves starting only 20k-30k years ago yet dogs and wolves can still have viable offspring aswell)

[@MossyMozart]

@robertwood9572 - Look at the mosquitos trapped in London's Underground. They have become a new species just since the Underground came into being. They have a greater generational turnover than Hominins, true, but that was pretty fast.

[@trillianwaters4917]

In regards to being a Grass Eater, have Primates gained and lost the ability to subsist on grasses over time or is it a "steady" decline or do I not understand what defines grasses?

[@The-first-and-only-bobfish]

It sounds like it was unique to that ape

[@MossyMozart]

@trillianwaters4917 - Quite a few of the Gazans have been reduced to eating grass and are starving. Without adequate hydration, it must really due a number on their guts. It's a deplorable situation over there.

[@The-first-and-only-bobfish]

@@MossyMozart ok....

[@pramodsingh7569]

Thanks

[@charliedoyle7824]

Well I'll be a monkey's nephew, this family tree of ours is getting quite complicated!

[@shaokhan2845]

Professor David

[@RivBank-o3j]

@@flateric2k109😂

[@Lvestfold4143]

In my honors thesis I suggested that Paranthropus likely was the result of a hybridization between human ancestors and gorilla ancestors. My conclusion derives from the fact that human pubic lice shares a common ancestor with gorilla lice 3 MYA, and Paranthropus appeared in the fossil record 2.9 MYA showcasing a mosaic of traits found in humans and gorillas. Also, humans and gorillas do have shared genes not found in chimpanzees/bonobos. Likely caused by a hybrid species they assimilated into other populations. Adding further support for grouping Homo-Pan-Gorilla and our fossil ancestors from up to 5 MYA into a single genus. That aside, I find it bizarre paleoanthropologists are doubtful of tool use in Paranthropus. All modern hominid species make and use tools. It’s not a stretch to deduce that all fossil hominid species made and used tools going back as far as 10-12 million years ago. Stone tools are common among humans, chimpanzees, and bonobos. So stone tools should be common for all fossil hominids to at least 5-6 MYA. The semi-cannibalism seems like a stretch in my opinion. Chimpanzees and humans don’t commonly eat other great apes. It occasionally happens, but quite rare. Humans mainly trophy hunt other great apes. And cannibalism is quite rare as well. When primates eat other primates it’s mostly a more distantly related species. Humans often eat non-ape old world monkeys such as macaques. Chimpanzees typically eat vervet monkeys and macaques if deer are not present. Chimpanzees sometimes kill gorilla infants and humans in territorial disputes but rarely eat them. And baboons sometimes eat human infants. There’s definitely a taboo to eating your next of kin.

[@211aonscratch4]

Even if Paranthropus used tools, the idea of it being a hybridization between Australopiths and Gorillas seems nearly impossible, since they would've diverged millions of years before this point. It would be like us today interbreeding with a Chimp. There may be DNA we share with gorillas, but remember, Chimps/Bonobos represent THEIR OWN branch which diverged from each other after every other ape diverged from every other ape. Therefore, they probably LOST the shared DNA after they diverged.

[@MossyMozart]

@logenvestfold4143 - Isn't the consumption of wild Apes in Africa ("bush meat") thought to be the origin of HIV and Ebola in Sapiens? Or has the science changed on that?

[@unrecognizedtalent3432]

Why are all their names so cool!? 😁😉

[@khushisansar]

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[@The-first-and-only-bobfish]

Here before the creationists

[@TheGreatMoonFrog]

Justice for the cow humans!

[@DM-qj7eh]

got here before the creationists

[@bennettstegall2889]

I can’t swim

[@RivBank-o3j]

Same

[@lushianconfusion1102]

3rd

[@HELL_Media]

What step in AA are you on?

[@ProfessorDaveExplains]

Huh?

[@HELL_Media]

@@ProfessorDaveExplains Alcoholics Anonymous smart guy

[@ProfessorDaveExplains]

You’re in AA? That’s good for you, but what does that have to do with anthropology.

[@ChrisHinton1967]

@@ProfessorDaveExplains Anthropology Anonymous?

[@HELL_Media]

@@ProfessorDaveExplains Dave go home you’re drunk

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[@rizzwan-42069]

Seventeenth

[@alexravencroft2807]

First

[@an.d.m.a]

Not quite

[@ShoniPlays]

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[@justcruisin81]

Sooo why did Rosan Barr get canceled for racism when she called a woman an ape if we all evolved from primates??? Just curious.

[@The-first-and-only-bobfish]

This is a dumb comment

[@Tiktaalik59]

because when she said it she wasn't giving a lecture about primates, but was clearly expressing her patent racism.

[@CirrowProductions]

You're just regurgitating what's been taught to you by authorities above you. You don't know that almost all of this is true whatsoever.

[@211aonscratch4]

Like wut about this isn't true?

[@ProfessorDaveExplains]

Care to refute anything in this video you're too afraid to watch, sweetie?

[@charliedoyle7824]

@CirrowProductions Not only is your point stupid, you can hardly write a clear sentence. You're an idiot.

[@woffe8094]

​@@ProfessorDaveExplainsHigh chance this guy didn't even graduate from highschool.

[@neildegrassetysonwithaknife]

Do you know that gravity exists or are you just regurgitating what authorities taught you?

[@TheDiasporaMedia]

Monke

[@yousillygoose__]

Wrong

[@fruitylerlups530]

ape is monke​@@yousillygoose__

[@neildegrassetysonwithaknife]

​@@yousillygoose__Well, if you want to be technical... Ape

[@MossyMozart]

@@neildegrassetysonwithaknife - Maybe that's meant as a quote from the animated film, _"Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2"_ wherein boss Chester keeps calling his assistant, Barb the Orangutan, a "monkey". Steve the monkey then starts saying "Monkee" referring to himself, I think, and hijinks ensue. Cute film, more creative that _"CWACM 1",_ I think.

[@creeperkinght1144]

@@neildegrassetysonwithaknife Then......Apes together?