Thinking About Human Evolution

Jack Adams' channel: / pebblestudio
CORRECTION
As user 'P' pointed out in a comment, I mistakenly typed 'stepmother' in the slide where the chimpanzee was cleaning the teeth of a dead relative. I should have written 'adoptive mother' (which I luckily think I said in the voice-over). Here is a link to a paper discussing adoption of orphaned individuals within chimpanzee communities: journals.plos.org/plosone/art...
Other Further Reading
A 2005 article about one of the rare occasions that fossil chimpanzees have been discovered: www.nature.com/articles/natur...
A 2015 article about primates producing tools for future use: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/f...
An overview of of the subject of empathy in non-human apes: www.wellbeingintlstudiesrepos...
A 2006 paper on the late survival of Neanderthals in Gibraltar: www.nature.com/articles/natur...
Tom Björklund: / tombjorklundart , @tombjorklundart .
Homo naledi: elifesciences.org/articles/09560

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  • @zebragoboom
    @zebragoboom3 жыл бұрын

    Title reads like Simon can consciously resume evolution as a human and is only considering doing so

  • @helenahandkart1857

    @helenahandkart1857

    3 жыл бұрын

    😂

  • @sidarthurgortimer355

    @sidarthurgortimer355

    3 жыл бұрын

    And his facial hair makes it look like he's decided to evolutionarily regress a bit instead.

  • @johngavin1175

    @johngavin1175

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@sidarthurgortimer355 Not a bad thing,wish I could regress myself at times.

  • @marcasdebarun6879

    @marcasdebarun6879

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@johngavin1175 Im sure we all wish we could return to monky every now and again

  • @kolaloka9573

    @kolaloka9573

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@johngavin1175 return to monke

  • @PebbleStudio
    @PebbleStudio3 жыл бұрын

    Such a truly important point to make at 3.26: evolution is about adaptation to existing environmental conditions. Love it Simon.

  • @simonroper9218

    @simonroper9218

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Jack - I'll try to reply to your email tomorrow, and we'll discuss it further soon! I'm sure you've got a lot of wisdom to share.

  • @yerdasellsavon9232

    @yerdasellsavon9232

    3 жыл бұрын

    This reads like you're talking about a Bible verse from a book about evolution

  • @subplantant

    @subplantant

    3 жыл бұрын

    I tend to conceptualise evolution by analogy to water taking the shape of its container.

  • @keithoutsidethebox6707

    @keithoutsidethebox6707

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@simonroper9218 Simon, I've been watching some of your videos in recent months. Excellent presentations. To date, my favourite Theory, in regards to Behavioural Modern H.sapien sapien evolution is the Vendramini’s Neanderthal Predation Theory. Many people are shocked/thrown off by the Theory, but the more I read it, the more I agreed with it. I think the negativity behind it, is that we can't have the opportunity to anthomorphise H. neanderthalensis, or any species/subspecies of the Homo genus, which ourselves love to do.

  • @cam-gv2gf

    @cam-gv2gf

    3 жыл бұрын

    thanks captain obvious

  • @rvail136
    @rvail1363 жыл бұрын

    the dot matrix tree is an excellent example on how to show spciation. Well done sir

  • @misterfox5475
    @misterfox5475 Жыл бұрын

    One of my favourites so far. …'behaviour can't be fossilised'... - my mind went off in so many directions. Great work. Your delivery is ASMR like and the language so very accessible.

  • @That-Google-Guy
    @That-Google-Guy3 жыл бұрын

    Dude. I’m 38 years old. I’ve been obsessed with anthropology and paleoanthropology, modern humans and evolution my whole life, and this video just taught me so much. Thanks for taking the time to do this!

  • @arta.xshaca

    @arta.xshaca

    Жыл бұрын

    You're obsessed with "modern humans", huh.

  • @Lausanamo

    @Lausanamo

    6 ай бұрын

    ​@@arta.xshaca Maybe he is an alien?

  • @GotPotatoes24
    @GotPotatoes243 жыл бұрын

    is no one going to talk about the picture of his pal toby

  • @lionhartd138

    @lionhartd138

    3 жыл бұрын

    Oh yeah, he's cancelled now for sure. Sheer audacity I tell you...

  • @bryanr1868

    @bryanr1868

    3 жыл бұрын

    Paused the video and went to the comments straightaway. Cheers to Toby

  • @animavideography1379
    @animavideography13793 жыл бұрын

    A subject I've found endlessly fascinating since I was a spotty 70's teenager. I was already subscribed to your channel for your Enlish language medieval content. You're knowledge base is even more impressive than I had realised this video is thought provoking & very fresh in it's approach to such a wonderfully evocative subject. More content like this in future please!

  • @simonroper9218

    @simonroper9218

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you - I've similarly been fascinated since I was a spotty (10's) teenager! It's just a constantly-changing field, and it would be great to do more on it - it's good to see somebody else as interested in it as I am :)

  • @animavideography1379

    @animavideography1379

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@simonroper9218 I can never understand why most people are NOT fascinated by this subject Simon, I mean how could one NOT be very curious about whete we literally come from in deep time?! And agreed yes it's currently the golden age of discovery both in the field & lab with genetic research into our origins...I eagerly await the next breakthrough in a succession of recent ones as no doubt you do too Simon!

  • @multi-purposebiped7419

    @multi-purposebiped7419

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@simonroper9218 I've been contemplating evolution a lot recently. Thanks for this new insight, which has certainly expanded my conception.

  • @Desdinova721
    @Desdinova7213 жыл бұрын

    Dibs on "The Human Chimpanzee Divergence" as a band name

  • @tomrogue13

    @tomrogue13

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'll play bass

  • @garethparsons3902

    @garethparsons3902

    3 жыл бұрын

    You will need a crazy drummer

  • @c4call

    @c4call

    3 жыл бұрын

    Not sure this is the platform upon which to claim dibs on a band name 🤔

  • @akpeterson21
    @akpeterson213 жыл бұрын

    11:41 you painted that- you’re an artist Simon?

  • @Rockypf2

    @Rockypf2

    3 жыл бұрын

    He's posted art a couple of times in the past kzread.info/dash/bejne/o2pt1sSYeJyakdI.html

  • @Rockypf2

    @Rockypf2

    3 жыл бұрын

    kzread.info/dash/bejne/i4Jq2MeOYMmvaaQ.html

  • @buttercxpdraws8101
    @buttercxpdraws81013 жыл бұрын

    That last painting! Extraordinary. I felt like the eyes were looking into my soul.

  • @bioniclegoblin6495

    @bioniclegoblin6495

    3 жыл бұрын

    She seems so alive... and normal, in her own way. I feel there's less distance compared to some other depictions of palaeolithic humans.

  • @d.2605
    @d.26053 жыл бұрын

    I always try to be conscious of conformation bias, but today I learned about preservation bias...

  • @Kurzes_Spiel
    @Kurzes_Spiel3 жыл бұрын

    Simon's beginning to look like a pirate.

  • @RealUlrichLeland

    @RealUlrichLeland

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@jamesalfredburchiii4052 Lol we were all thinking it

  • @CatastrophicalPencil

    @CatastrophicalPencil

    3 жыл бұрын

    How else did you think he got the name Roper?

  • @billythedog-309

    @billythedog-309

    3 жыл бұрын

    Darwin would be envious of that beard.

  • @SoxExcalibur

    @SoxExcalibur

    3 жыл бұрын

    i mean he is british

  • @seyeruoynepotsuj
    @seyeruoynepotsuj3 жыл бұрын

    I've been needing another Simon Roper video. Great stuff!!!!

  • @ingwiafraujaz3126
    @ingwiafraujaz31263 жыл бұрын

    I love how you're going down the same rabbit hole as I did. From language to archaic language to the origins of language to human evolution.

  • @simonroper9218

    @simonroper9218

    3 жыл бұрын

    I actually went the other way round! I think evolution partly led on to the interest in language. I'm glad other people have also found these interests through their connections to each other! :)

  • @thinking-ape6483

    @thinking-ape6483

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@simonroper9218 What do you think of Dan Everett's challenge to traditional Chomskyian assumptions about language?

  • @tenns
    @tenns3 жыл бұрын

    I really like the title of the video, it seems like an invitation, but also clearly says what the video is, and is about.

  • @alexbriner8845
    @alexbriner88453 жыл бұрын

    Can you do a video on how laughing developed as an important way to communicate (and crying, by the same token)? Loved this video btw.

  • @clappedoutmotor

    @clappedoutmotor

    3 жыл бұрын

    Isn't laughing an evolutionary throwback to chimpanzees showing their teeth to another chimpanzee, thusly showing that they don't consider the other chimp a threat? I remember reading that once.

  • @FeedsNoSliesMusic

    @FeedsNoSliesMusic

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@clappedoutmotor How does showing your teeth show that you're not a threat? That sounds like it's patching up a couple of holes, as it were.

  • @adehl4805

    @adehl4805

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@clappedoutmotor chimpanzees & other great apes do have laugh like vocalizations during play in captivity & in the wild iirc

  • @clappedoutmotor

    @clappedoutmotor

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@FeedsNoSliesMusic You are probably right. The act of baring teeth is definitely an aggressive move. Maybe its the vocalizations I was thinking of.

  • @jeromecarney

    @jeromecarney

    3 жыл бұрын

    A book I read many years ago on comedy writing, that dissected the interplay between laughter and tension, led me firmly to the hypothesis that laughter evolved in mammals from the sigh of relief. A hearty guffaw permits the rapid release of stored oxygen, heightened energy and the bath of hormones that humans summon whenever faced with a fight or flight trigger, real or perceived. Once the threat has passed, it is in our strategic biological interest to return our bodies to stasis as quickly as possible, rather than waste precious resources unnecessarily. Laughter not only relieves the tense situation at hand, but can also help release previously stored tension that has yet to be expelled. In other words - the saying is old because the saying is true - laughter often is the best medicine.

  • @vortimulticompte7177
    @vortimulticompte71773 жыл бұрын

    really, you calmness makes your videos very likable, even more so when presenting a well presented topic

  • @johannageisel5390
    @johannageisel53903 жыл бұрын

    "Any animal can think something that's not true in our opinion." ... That reminds me of Billi the "talking" cat - and also other housecats - who seem to assume that humans can control the weather. If they want to go outside and it rains, they complain to their human and seem to demand the human makes the rain go away.

  • @erink476

    @erink476

    3 жыл бұрын

    or there was one video on Instagram where it appeared that Bunny, a dog who has word buttons, wanted her human to stop the waves under their beach house. Or maybe she was just complaining that the noise was bothering her. But it's not entirely unreasonable for cats and dogs to think these things, after all, we can make the shower and the kitchen sink stop and go, and turn the lights on and off, and make food appear out of hard round things, why can't we control the weather?

  • @johannageisel5390

    @johannageisel5390

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@erink476 I don't know exactly about the waves video - as far as I can remember Bunny only mentioned the waves. But there was another one, when they lost power and some contractors came and fixed the power line and Bunny was like: "Make them go away, I want to sleep!" (At least, that's our interpretation.)

  • @apehole6248
    @apehole62483 жыл бұрын

    My favorite subject to learn about and you do it in such a concise and engaging way, thank you!

  • @ianreynolds8552
    @ianreynolds85523 жыл бұрын

    Great vid Simon ! Straight forward and easy to understand

  • @fukuokainternationaldemocr1974
    @fukuokainternationaldemocr19743 жыл бұрын

    What an absolutely outstanding video. Well done! More of this please!

  • @valinhorn42
    @valinhorn423 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the heads-up about the syntax video at the end, I absolutely would have missed that and it would have been a shame! Very interesting video as always, and I really like your style of presentation!

  • @njujuznem6554
    @njujuznem65543 жыл бұрын

    I'd love to watch more videos on stuff like this as well as the linguistics videos. This is really interesting!

  • @PerksJ
    @PerksJ3 жыл бұрын

    Can’t wait for the hunter gatherer video!

  • @paulh2832
    @paulh28323 жыл бұрын

    Excellent, thoughtful video Simon, thanks.

  • @flerpfloop9019
    @flerpfloop90193 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely love your content!

  • @carolinewithers1647
    @carolinewithers16473 жыл бұрын

    I wish I had had your presentation to use with my Senior IB biology students. You make many great points.

  • @trudiebrown4284
    @trudiebrown42843 жыл бұрын

    This is so interesting, thank you for creating this content

  • @omarghulam6106
    @omarghulam61063 жыл бұрын

    superb talk. Absolutely wonderful, informative and paradigm expanding. Thank you very much, from a very impressed writer in sunny Manchester :)

  • @eduardoeller183
    @eduardoeller1833 жыл бұрын

    Love your style, looking forward to the next one

  • @Davida-sv7ir
    @Davida-sv7ir3 жыл бұрын

    Simon Roper, keep going mate. Love your videos Fascinating incite to the past.

  • @trapd00rspider
    @trapd00rspider3 жыл бұрын

    Great video. Evolution is so commonly misunderstood. This treatment was thoughtful and really interesting too.

  • @alisonjane7068
    @alisonjane70683 жыл бұрын

    i loved this, and i look forward to more of your thoughts on this, and related, topics.

  • @wasteyelo1
    @wasteyelo13 жыл бұрын

    Yet another fascinating video Simon.

  • @kx6146
    @kx61463 жыл бұрын

    another great video, thank you Simon

  • @niqpal
    @niqpal3 жыл бұрын

    thank you simon. love these videos

  • @ameeeeeeela
    @ameeeeeeela3 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting video, thank you for this Simon

  • @herrfister1477
    @herrfister14773 жыл бұрын

    I enjoyed this tremendously, thank you.

  • @shuddupeyaface
    @shuddupeyaface3 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful stuff. Enjoyed watching thanks!

  • @mistyminnie5922
    @mistyminnie59223 жыл бұрын

    Super interesting :) love your content and your interests

  • @baronesselsavonfreytag-lor1134
    @baronesselsavonfreytag-lor11343 жыл бұрын

    Love this departure from the usual fare!

  • @AlexSalikan
    @AlexSalikan3 жыл бұрын

    I'm just about to finish my MPhil in human evolution at Cambridge, and I did my undergrad dissertation on the origins of language and symbolic thinking at UCL. Feel free to message me if you need any more material, I've got loads of interesting references.

  • @odinfredrikrustad7450

    @odinfredrikrustad7450

    3 жыл бұрын

    link to any introductory content on your work? gl on your efforts

  • @AlexSalikan

    @AlexSalikan

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@odinfredrikrustad7450 Do you mean content that I've written, or just introductory reading to get you started on the subject?

  • @kuningas1101

    @kuningas1101

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@AlexSalikan I would be interested in either one!

  • @AlexSalikan

    @AlexSalikan

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@kuningas1101 No problem. It sounds stupid, but I always start with Wikipedia. The Wikipedia page for Timeline of Human Evolution is a really good place to start, in my opinion, and so is the Wikipedia page for List of Human Evolution Fossils. Those pages will link to all the relevant species, and there you can see what man-made objects are associated with what species. That should give you a really good idea of the big picture, and from there you'll probably start forming your own initial opinions about just how smart each species was, and what they were able to imagine in their mind's eye. It's also important to remember how smart our closest living relatives are. Chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans have all been successfully taught to communicate with humans using basic hand signs. Is that proof that they're capable of symbolic thinking? If so, could our common ancestors have been capable of symbolic thinking too? You decide. Let me know if that's a bit too introductory, or if there's anything in particular you'd like to know about. Edit: I also recommend watching Sarah Hrdy's presentation called "The Origin of Emotionally Modern Humans" on KZread. That will get you started on why we're so different from other apes.

  • @kuningas1101

    @kuningas1101

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@AlexSalikan Alright, will do. I've had a decent amount of encounters with 20th century French anthropology (Lévi-Strauss, Leroi-Gourhan, Durand, etc.), but it might actually be good to go back and try to figure out the basics, since I can't lie and act like I know all too much about evolution. Thank you for your response!

  • @petespensive6578
    @petespensive65783 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic video, Simon. Some lovely art presented here, I'd be fascinated to hear your thoughts on the quandaries of artistic reconstructions of the subjects of anthropological and archaeological study, be they illustrations, sculptures or dioramas. I agree with you that making some kind of effort to create images and impressions of these things helps hugely to expand the ways we think about them, yet I'm always left wondering in which ways the artist may have missed the mark, and how much it matters if they did. I then think that there seems to be little way of knowing for sure, at least until new evidence comes along.

  • @CharlieRabbit87
    @CharlieRabbit873 жыл бұрын

    Really enjoy your videos, Simon

  • @jamesnoyes6316
    @jamesnoyes63163 жыл бұрын

    Excellent video once again Simon!

  • @craighughes536
    @craighughes5363 жыл бұрын

    Amazing video Simon...great info

  • @eddieparr1038
    @eddieparr10383 жыл бұрын

    Classic Roper, wouldn’t be the same without roadworks, cars, planes... Good stuff Simon 👍

  • @unraed
    @unraed3 жыл бұрын

    Love your channel! I am from Kazakhstan and here I don´t have any resources to have such knowledge as you do. But thank the Internet, and may God bless the souls of people who invented it)))

  • @kirthanasivakumar640
    @kirthanasivakumar6403 жыл бұрын

    This is so interesting! Love it! Simon, please do more videos on Evolution!

  • @Catwoman1464
    @Catwoman14642 жыл бұрын

    Its refreshing to listen to you, since you don't proclaim to know the absolute truth, but show differentiated research

  • @gorimor
    @gorimor3 жыл бұрын

    Excellent video, I really enjoyed listening.

  • @stefanocalesini3923
    @stefanocalesini39233 жыл бұрын

    Excellent. Very interesting video (and I could hear no noise)

  • @SnarkNSass
    @SnarkNSass3 жыл бұрын

    Love the shirt! You are rockin 1971!!💖💖

  • @helenahandkart1857

    @helenahandkart1857

    3 жыл бұрын

    It's a beauty!💗

  • @johnhaller7017

    @johnhaller7017

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@helenahandkart1857 Cycle dealick!

  • @nothandsomecody7469
    @nothandsomecody74693 жыл бұрын

    For some strange reason I watched the whole video. You're good at this.

  • @esquare807
    @esquare8073 жыл бұрын

    Very informative. Please keep posting

  • @helenahandkart1857
    @helenahandkart18573 жыл бұрын

    Really fascinating, Simon, thanks for lending your mind & knowledge in creating this bridge for many of us. You've some good painting skills there, too, did you use a model to some degree? How d'ya reckon those people shaved & clipped their moustaches? (Just being cheeky, this last!) Thanks too, for all the great links! 🐵🦧🦍🧔👍

  • @squeezyjohn1
    @squeezyjohn13 жыл бұрын

    Just the most perfect lovely video ... thanks Simon. Thank you. I am (through experience) naturally wary of KZread videos with titles like this ... you have categorically not followed that format.

  • @KeefsCattys
    @KeefsCattys3 жыл бұрын

    Really fascinating . Thank you

  • @johndelong5574
    @johndelong55743 жыл бұрын

    I am impressed by the fantasy art associated with these vids they become more modern with every episode. Once upon a time far far away.My daughter loved the three bears.

  • @jonnyrocket3659
    @jonnyrocket36593 жыл бұрын

    very interesting video... thanks Simon

  • @pabmusic1
    @pabmusic13 жыл бұрын

    Really good. Look forward to more.

  • @cooper8515
    @cooper85153 жыл бұрын

    I love your painting!

  • @PB-0116
    @PB-01163 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Simon excellent explanation

  • @nathanhobson1142
    @nathanhobson11423 жыл бұрын

    Another fascinating video.

  • @jackpalmer8250
    @jackpalmer82503 жыл бұрын

    excellent video, thank you for the information S imon

  • @anna_in_aotearoa3166
    @anna_in_aotearoa3166 Жыл бұрын

    So interesting - think I'm going to have to rewatch this one to fully shake my ideas into new patterns! It's a little scary how much "pop anthropology/paleontology" (along with pop psychiatry!) influences majorly important parts of our collective thinking? Particularly in terms of what constitutes "civilisation", how we relate to nature, and what group behaviors are considered inherent vs learned... BTW really like the long hair + beard/mo look for you, Simon, it really seems to suit face shape etc! 👍

  • @BeatlesBiitch
    @BeatlesBiitch3 жыл бұрын

    AH! Thank you Simon! This video so succinctly and eloquently targets the dangerous misconceptions that undergird the the """lay""" understanding of evolution. Going to save this one for the next time someone comes at me with some bullshit about "the direction of progress"

  • @marksimpson489
    @marksimpson4893 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for this video. I'm not convinced by the theory of human evolution - but your student-beard look is beginning to persuade me again.

  • @emilyb5278

    @emilyb5278

    2 жыл бұрын

    It's not theory there are skulls bones fossils and dna it's pretty factual that we evolved just like other animals. In some snakes they still find hip bones from when it had legs

  • @johnhaller7017
    @johnhaller70173 жыл бұрын

    Just as we were geo centric in the past, we tend to be, understandably, species centric now. Simon reminds us that this is just a view and that this can be revised at any time, by greater knowledge and by any number of external phenomena. Solar flares are top of my random phenomena list. The Carrington event of 1859 is a good starting point to clarify our centric assumptions. By 1859, we had only just established a global, telegraph system! And then.......? A version of that graph of our human origins with the crowning glory of city dwellers at it's apex, may well be rediscovered as a petroglyph on some cave wall at some remote time in the future. Keep up the good work Simon.

  • @JamesBrown-mt5ru
    @JamesBrown-mt5ru3 жыл бұрын

    Re: disposal of the dead. It is noticeable that there is a recent trend regarding "lost at sea" whereby people in some cases wish their drowned relatives to be brought to the surface for burial or cremation on land (e.g. sinking of a fishing boat). 'Buried at sea' was once thought of an acceptable fate.

  • @bioniclegoblin6495

    @bioniclegoblin6495

    3 жыл бұрын

    Till recently, there was not much to be done about it, I reckon.

  • @davidweihe6052

    @davidweihe6052

    3 жыл бұрын

    I assume that the corpses were expected to be buried, rather exposed to vultures or cremated. This could be from a desire for them to be visitable, rather than located somewhere hundreds of feet below the surface at a location hard to get to, like on the Andrea Doria. Also, the dead must be fairly recent, or you just have the leavings of local crustaceans (ugh!).

  • @joshmartin4136
    @joshmartin41363 жыл бұрын

    Simon Roper what a cool guy good man thanks for the video

  • @lsporter88
    @lsporter883 жыл бұрын

    Very logical, rational, and well put together presentation.

  • @LordLove
    @LordLove3 жыл бұрын

    Superb video, great art and a nice shirt! If I was to guess the brand by the naked eye, I'd say Jenson and Samuel. You may like some of Joe Browns shirt offerings as they also do paisleys and distinctive patterns (I wear 'em myself!).

  • @reeyees50
    @reeyees503 жыл бұрын

    nice stuff my lad

  • @robertmcdonnell3117
    @robertmcdonnell31173 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic video

  • @ikeekieeki
    @ikeekieeki3 жыл бұрын

    i hope many students find your video channel

  • @ofconsciousness
    @ofconsciousness3 жыл бұрын

    I absolutely loved this! Thank you.

  • @charlesq7866
    @charlesq78663 жыл бұрын

    This is quality content.

  • @saiyajedi
    @saiyajedi3 жыл бұрын

    12:33 “Some people keep them and socially interact with them...” What’s that, Mother? A new guest?

  • @manorueda1432
    @manorueda14323 жыл бұрын

    Great content.

  • @GraemeMarkNI
    @GraemeMarkNI3 жыл бұрын

    Can’t believe I’m crying about the chimpanzee stepmother 😥

  • @Story-Voracious66

    @Story-Voracious66

    3 жыл бұрын

    ❤️

  • @paulohagan3309

    @paulohagan3309

    3 жыл бұрын

    Oh man, I've seen some pictures of Chimpanzees and their rituals with the dead and elephants too. Would break your heart ...

  • @Aengus42
    @Aengus423 жыл бұрын

    A splendid video to listen to with my morning toast & the dawn chorus starting up. More please! I think a short pause when new text come up. Just long enough to read it. Even after being online since '97 I can't properly absorb text if I'm listening closely to the spoken word. I hear kids who've grown up online can do this. I'm sceptical until I see experimental results. Does comprehension suffer if doing both at the same time? I'd put my money on Yes! Great subject though. I enjoyed it.

  • @coocaran
    @coocaran3 жыл бұрын

    Lovely Paisley shirt Simon. I have the same one in green

  • @simonroper9218

    @simonroper9218

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you! It would look good in green, I might try to track one down :)

  • @masstv9052
    @masstv90523 жыл бұрын

    At 9:54 the chimps are just trying to play a game of Wall Ball, but it's kinda difficult to find walls and balls in the jungle. So competitive "Tree Rocks" is there next best option.

  • @jillroyson4589
    @jillroyson45893 жыл бұрын

    Cheers Simon

  • @connormitchell4863
    @connormitchell48633 жыл бұрын

    hey simon. do more stuff youre great.

  • @iain349
    @iain3493 жыл бұрын

    INteresting - thanks Simon. Can I ask, are you familiar with Yuval Harari's work, and his views on religion and culture? What do you think of those?

  • @wowthatwasit
    @wowthatwasit3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this infinitely interesting video!!!!! Need more of this thinking of how to think about evolution....so many variables that linear thinking leading to the sometimes narrow concepts shouldn't be standard. So much of the unknown not surviving outside of stone, bone, and rare art...filling in the blanks isn't easy. I love this video.

  • @sordidspectacle7393
    @sordidspectacle73933 жыл бұрын

    Simon should make more videos like this

  • @kennethgoldie5257
    @kennethgoldie52573 жыл бұрын

    Will your video on hunter-gatherers be specifically about Western Hunter-Gatherers? Your picture at 16:55 reminded me of the lost phenotypes of those populations and the challenges they may have faced with the arrival of farming populations from Anatolia. I always found the idea of these lifestyles clashing together absolutely fascinating. Keep up the good work young one

  • @autonomousthought4106
    @autonomousthought41063 жыл бұрын

    the most interesting thing in this video (not because it's uninteresting but because i already know this stuff) is how you mentioned that our ancestors lived in grasslands and that this is why our fossils were preserved so well. this seems like it's possibly a similar error to the idea that our ancestors lived in caves, because we found most of their bones preserved in caves, when really it was not the case that they especially lived in caves, it was just that the ones that did had their remains preserved more.

  • @mondopinion3777

    @mondopinion3777

    3 жыл бұрын

    Great observation ! You just erased another false narrative from my mind, planted there by media and educators. Thanks :)

  • @gh3slashguitar
    @gh3slashguitar3 жыл бұрын

    Love your channel man

  • @LimeyRedneck
    @LimeyRedneck9 ай бұрын

    We're often blinkered and sometimes by ourselves.

  • @pepperco100
    @pepperco1003 жыл бұрын

    You are a rare and wonderful bird!

  • @arkaig1
    @arkaig12 жыл бұрын

    The hallway metaphor in the opening to TV's "Get Smart" might be a good metaphor for speciation (removing the humorous part, perhaps)?

  • @marcuscohen191
    @marcuscohen1913 жыл бұрын

    Hey Simon, wondering if you've read/have any opinions on "Catching Fire" by Richard Wrangham? He advocates the thesis that preparing/cooking food was the primary engine driving the development of basically every unique trait of modern humans. E.G, more efficient calorie extraction allowed our guts to get smaller which freed up energy budget for our brains to get larger. I had to read it for a lower level undergraduate course, and had some reservations about it both due to the quality of the class, the pop-sci nature of the book, and the monocausal way he seems to explain everything. Though the arguments themselves seemed logical enough. Where do serious academics stand on the "cooking hypothesis?"

  • @johannageisel5390
    @johannageisel53903 жыл бұрын

    Looking forward to the Hunter-Gatherer video.

  • @simonpenny2564
    @simonpenny25642 жыл бұрын

    Nicely put Simon. Really apprecIate your unpretentious intelligence. Important the clear the air of spurious teleological ideas. Interesting to see you branching out from your euro-linguistic territory. I've become quite a fanboy of genomic archeology - denisovans etc. I'd be interested you hear your thoughts about that work - seems to me it might defuse implicit racism in archeological thought - ie H Sapiens was not the (white) victor over weaker species/races, but successful because inherently hybrid. As Jenny Holzer said - random mating is good for the species. And who knew, you're handy with a brush too.

  • @muddywitch9016
    @muddywitch90163 жыл бұрын

    You always sound like a sage University professor!

  • @douglasgrant8315
    @douglasgrant83153 жыл бұрын

    Simon your painting looks nice. Those that say you got the look wrong well that is there perceptions no one know what they looked like...