The Miocene Apes

Moving along from the anthropoids, we arrive at the Miocene apes. This is where our lineage branches off from monkeys. Important species from these time include Kamoyapithecus, Proconsul, and Ekembo. Where did these organisms live and what was their behavior? Let's take a look!
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[@squireoflink]

More ape content!? This gentle and of course very modern ape is always excited to hear more about our relatives!!

[@nektu5435]

2:59 ugh, I think oreopithecus probably survived on cookies, Dave. Sorry.

[@ahaggar]

Impossible, as a oreopithecus i can say it was cookies and milk, not just cookies. Know the difference

[@mjjoe76]

Gentle (and of course very modern) apes approve.

[@nancymilstone9382]

As another gentle, and of course, very modern ape, I appreciate this sentiment. :-) I actually came into the comments to check to see if guts given was the right one who wrote the script :-) I’m glad to see some of her other primate buddies also follow professor Dave :-)

[@wokeuptothesun]

kind of crazy people still deny evolution lol like it's literally the most consistent theory for our origins

[@njez7563]

Religious people are stupid asf that's why

[@Kangzflwrz]

I love learning about evolution!

[@kappascopezz5122]

Throughout the video, I couldn't stop imagining the script being read in the voice of Erika

[@lethargogpeterson4083]

What I wonder is how Erica, of all people, managed to limit a script on miocene apes to only a few minutes! (Unless she wrote it and then Dave abridged it.)

[@flatearthisahoax4030]

Im gonna be telling my kids that this was their great grandpa

[@boltzmannbrain6607]

It was

[@j.j7185]

@@boltzmannbrain6607perhaps a few generations more than great 😂

[@kapifromnevada4697]

Hope this doesn’t give creationists more ammo

[@adolfschicklgruber4858]

Based

[@jordansmith621]

Professor Dave or the Miocene apes? Lol

[@EpicGamingyt9648]

advance congrats for 3 million fam! dave

[@koi3824]

dave coming in clutch as soon as I start taking anthropology

[@js2sgamer951]

Dude how did you learn SO MUCH. You know so much about everysingle field its insane.

[@VegaPhil]

He does know a lot and sure he’s learnt much about this topic now but pretty sure he said he was working on this series with Gutsick Gibbon who is an anthropologist who has done a lot of the heavy lifting I think

[@lethargogpeterson4083]

If you look in the video description, an expert in this area wrote the script. Not saying Dave isn't smart, just that he apparently, and wisely, consults others in areas he might have less expertise himself.

[@antoniocollie865]

Hope you continue this swipes I absolutely love it

[@user-ej5gx7ph7q]

Really nicely done professor Dave

[@patrickpiazza5482]

It’s truly crazy how we are just a speck of time in the universe. Who knows what this universe is going to be like in a million years, let alone another 10 or 100 million years.

[@My_trashtalking_account]

I'm pretty sure I've left this exact comment, haha. It really is amazing to think about. We can't help but see things from our own perspective, but that's just a minute little representation of time, and space. And to think of all of the events that came before us. Before life. Before the earth formed. And the future? You got me all excited over here thinking about nature.

[@kadenmohlow4178]

Thanks i enjoy your videos

[@sciencenerd7639]

great video, thank you

[@tacocat9844]

why are all other videos in this playlist privated???

[@ProfessorDaveExplains]

They are released on a schedule

[@RasmusKarlJensen]

Would you ever do a video on large language models and machine learning?

[@Monedgar123]

Nice summary! Not easy to do I am sure. Thanks!

[@capt.bart.roberts4975]

I've always thought getting rid of the prehensile tale. I love the fact that the end has a tail print and looks like a tail finger.

[@Bob-the-1-and-only-blob-fish]

Aw there's only one creationist I'm bored

[@Uteliaisuus]

Interesting!

[@Actorvijayofficial_68]

Love you dave from India You changed my mind i was a hard core believer when i was a kid now I just don't care if god exist or not 😂

[@pramodsingh7569]

Thanks

[@ziggy4thefacts441]

And in the distance a faint nuh-uh is murmured by a creationist as he walks away.(with his valgus knee)

[@khushisansar]

Nice video sir ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@logenvestfold4143]

It should be noted that we have no fossil evidence for knuckle walking Miocene apes. The estimate for our split from gorillas is based on speculation of a “knuckle walking” ancestor in the late Miocene, which we have no evidence for. The genetic estimate for the split ranges at 8 million years ago at the earliest and 6 million years ago at the most recent, with potential hybridization continuing up to 3-4 million years ago. Our split with chimpanzees is stated at the earliest of 6 million years ago and most recent at 4 million years ago.

[@ungulatemanalpha]

Notably, it's plausible that facultative bipedality evolved while these apes were in the trees, since it's a useful means of locomotion when you're brachiating around. If this is the case, there likely wouldn't have been a step where the apes that became obligate bipeds ever had to knuckle-walk.

[@slipknottin]

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. We have virtually no fossil remains of apes in that ~8 million year range, apart from some fragments and teeth.

[@Ancipital_]

I'd love to learn more about how apes came to lose their tails and why. Maybe it'll be explained later. But are there intermediary species here? E.g. "proto-apes" with smaller tails?

[@My_trashtalking_account]

The lord told Abraham to cut them all off. Lmao. kidding. I think it has to do with leaving the trees or the trees leaving us, the rise of bipedalism, and all the anatomic particularities that go with it.

[@Ancipital_]

@@My_trashtalking_account And thus spoke the LORD: "sigh.. forget about that first born. Just get me them tails!"

[@Kangzflwrz]

NEVER BEEN SO EARLY HEREEE

[@Ratciclefan]

Wow

[@melancall5960]

“Over the last ten years I’ve built up an immunity to Miocene apes”

[@Bomber-dt6ej]

Completing side quests

[@TheDeathby2]

My grandpa.

[@janerkenbrack3373]

Glad you weren't monkeying around with this one.

[@RaVirrTheTrader]

....but what about male models?

[@capt.bart.roberts4975]

I know guys that can open bottles on their teeth.

[@jalapenoandbanana]

Monke: Origins

[@kallisto9166]

Did you just spend over five minutes discussing Miocene Hominoids without once using the phrase "Planet of the Apes"? Unacceptable!

[@Purpleturtlehurtler]

I can't believe I'm the only like on this comment. 😂

[@sandhyarai5519]

Hey make better thumbnails for more growth

[@ahaggar]

Saying this out of curiosity, what would be a better thumbnail?

[@kapifromnevada4697]

@@ahaggarprobably some big text relevant to the video

[@burner555]

​@@ahaggar a red circle

[@AetherNoble]

Bros got 3m subscribers so I think he’s fine

[@Pottatow]

Oh so these are what youtube commenters look like.

[@Masteralien186]

Cant wait to see all the triggered creationists

[@My_trashtalking_account]

Nice try professor but if bother to read your scripture, you'll learn that the great Lord Dildus created us in his image 69 years ago, and he wasn't a monkey. He was a penguin/ape hybrid from beyond the horsehead nebula.

[@jomaroble2779]

Monke

[@ahaggar]

Mmmm monke

[@analternatemultiverse2063]

Did you see JTs latest pathetic damage control attempt? This time he's throwing a tantrum on his community feed to the Jesus fanclub about all the stuff his colleagues said about him in your videos exposing him 😂 😂 😂 and also quoting bible verses to ease the pain!

[@BeyondBelief05]

first

[@hungryturtle3414]

lies

[@adryanclay]

"he...hell naw"

[@TuxBurrito]

You do know that just because the dna is similar doesn't really mean anything because dna is not the same entirely. Why do you guys assume that just because parts of the dna are the same they are related? If one piece of the dna is diifferent then that makes it different. You guys see the similarities in apes and humans but on the other side there is alot of differences. Also there is dna strands out there that when you break them down they eventually reach a point where you can't break them down anymore. Also stepping out side of dna why is it that humans are vastly different to other animals mentally. Like it's a massive gap. Almost as if we are meant to do something. Even if evolution was real it doesn't negate creationism because the evolution would have had to come from somewhere and the big bang theory has been debunked. Also even if the big bang theory was true that would also have to come from somewhere. From the universe down to our dna. Our constantly working cells that never sleep. The minerals in the earth. Volcanic eruption rapidly cooled by water and plants produceing oxigen. I would say that the complex design of everything is to conveniant to not be a creation. You can firgure out what it is or name it. You can figure how to use it. But you can never figure why it's there in the first place. LOL lion king "look beyond what you see".

[@ProfessorDaveExplains]

Learn literally anything about genetics, kiddo. Yes, evolution negates creationism. No, big bang cosmology has not been debunked. You're pathetic. Get an education.

[@altaruss2838]

genetic similarity between two species isn't just some meaningless percentage, that's very real traits encoded in there which did, do, or only sometimes get translated into actual properties visible on the organism... can you explain to me why exactly do humans have disabled genes for forming a proper monkey-like tail, a full on fur coat or canine teeth? these genes shouldn't be present if they weren't active and useful at some point, meanwhile nowadays if a child is (very rarely, thankfully) born with a mutation which activates them, it ends up being nothing but a huge disability that can only be resolved by a surgery

[@akmi1931]

@@ProfessorDaveExplainsin fairness, it only negates one form of creationism. The only fact we can know for certain is that, IF creationism is true, it includes evolution as a mechanism.

[@TheDarkSide11891]

Why do you guys just assume that because we do not yet know the precise cause of the big bang or the exact moment at which life formed, that it must mean your god did it? Once upon a time we thought there were droughts because some deity was angry and therefore we had to sacrifice humans to appease it. Now we understand climate science. The fact that something is not currently totally clear to science in no way suggests the existence of, nor necessitates the existence of intelligent design.

[@Bob-the-1-and-only-blob-fish]

@@akmi1931 but there would be evidence of subtle dna changes that wouldn't make any sense unless somethings trying to make humans Wich there isn't

[@fakepng1]

This is gonna go so hard when people dont want to believe in human evolution anymore 🗣🔥🔥🔥

[@mjjoe76]

Funny things about facts. They are true no matter how much people don’t want them to be true.

[@ousen9461]

cool imaginations! now explain how a protista became a whale and a pinetree.

[@Nxck2440]

Kent Hovind alert

[@ProfessorDaveExplains]

too on the nose

[@hughmongous5089]

The dunning-kruger is strong with this one

[@agustinfranco0]

it took hundreds of millions of years... thats how.

[@mjjoe76]

Your willful ignorance is a disgrace. Try learning about something before you attack it.

[@EsdrasOlivaresPcmasterrace]

How about you explain to us octonions and hopf fibration