Imagine being able to observe that very moment the first hominin created fire on its own. The most pivotal moment in hominin history. Awe-inspiring!

@alexisanne8190

4 жыл бұрын

The real prometheus

@dindinprivate3477

4 жыл бұрын

Time travel anyone?

@wakawaka1976

4 жыл бұрын

MrStensnask yeah I got excited when I started a friction fire with a stick and a piece of wood. To think that’s been around for over 1 million years... imagine how lost we would be back in the day

@mandira_draws

4 жыл бұрын

Thinking about it really makes me wanna time travel and see how we got to this point.

@jimmym3352

4 жыл бұрын

I'm guessing it goes like this: Guy says: "Hold my Beer", starts to rub 2 sticks together.

Imagine the courage of that first genius who, instead of running away from lightning and fire, ran toward it.

@KandaiyoR6

2 жыл бұрын

the stone age was named after the density of his balls

@cryingwater

2 жыл бұрын

They are probably stupid and played with it because fire is dangerous

@SometimesStarWars

2 жыл бұрын

@@cryingwater you wouldn't be alive if they hadent

@cryingwater

2 жыл бұрын

@@SometimesStarWars I know, but it's still stupid. It's foolish to ignore that fact

@SometimesStarWars

2 жыл бұрын

@@cryingwater there must be something off with you to look at the dawn of humanity and feel the need to call your ancestors dumb.

Fire gets started: Molecules: I’m sorry were breaking up

@Jinx-iw6zb

4 жыл бұрын

Carbon be like: damn,look at that oxygen booty😍😍😍

@siyacer

4 жыл бұрын

@@Jinx-iw6zb oxygen be kinda thicc tho 😳

@bradmetcalf5333

3 жыл бұрын

It’s not you. It’s me.

@AbsoluteAbsurd

3 жыл бұрын

damnit xD

@haikalmiftah2529

3 жыл бұрын

Atoms: Am getting stronger!!

Welcome to another episode of "When I got struck in a PBS rabbithole"

@jackthefrog80085

3 жыл бұрын

I should be sleeping

@kaizokujimbei143

3 жыл бұрын

@Just some fat beluga whale with internet acess I should be creating Universes.

@epauletshark3793

3 жыл бұрын

I go into multi day eons binges.

@hasnaalshammri4490

3 жыл бұрын

@@jackthefrog80085 إله تحت

@jackthefrog80085

3 жыл бұрын

@@hasnaalshammri4490 I don't know

Utilizing fire that was started by nature is one thing. But figuring out how to make a fire is a huge leap. Most of us would be challenged to make a fire without matches or lighter

@cendesenrendesen7910

5 жыл бұрын

U wanna come for dinner

@drbigmdftnu

5 жыл бұрын

@@cendesenrendesen7910 I'll bring the lighter

@drbigmdftnu

5 жыл бұрын

@@cendesenrendesen7910 What are we having? What type of wine do you like?

@kennmossman8701

4 жыл бұрын

@@BirdmanandPrincess I think I have an app for that on my phone :) They would wonder how to duplicate their selfie .......shake that phone!

@effigytormented

4 жыл бұрын

@@BirdmanandPrincess You don't even know what a millennial is, sir. The Latest generation is Gen z, millennial are the people like me who were born in the early 80's, late 70's.

"Damn it Ugor, you burned the meat again, now we have to hunt again tomorow." 2 Million jears later: "Look Billy, this burned bones are the only evidence that humans lived here long ago."

@user-pt6wh4tz3i

4 жыл бұрын

What isnyour point

@Asa...S

4 жыл бұрын

"Damn it Ugor, now you started a forest fire again, now we everyone has to migrate. Again."

@kukifitte7357

4 жыл бұрын

Ugor: me sorry, grug

@tlshortyshorty5810

4 жыл бұрын

“Ugor, you had one job!”

@snow.flower

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao imagine if this is true

"But of course the other advantage of fire is that it keeps you warm" And provides light in the darkness, which frightens away nocturnal predators. It also fires clay pots, hardens wooden spear points, clears land, smelts metals, and so on, and so on.

@kylieschultz6971

3 жыл бұрын

👇👇👇👇👇👇

@craigcorson3036

3 жыл бұрын

@@kylieschultz6971 You kids these days. What does that MEAN?

@itsalily_lei_lei

3 жыл бұрын

@@craigcorson3036 He’s telling you to like, dislike, and reply to his comment. Press the second one I said.

@craigcorson3036

3 жыл бұрын

@@itsalily_lei_lei I see. Thanks for explaining that to an old man who can no longer keep up.

@itsalily_lei_lei

3 жыл бұрын

@@craigcorson3036 I was more of joking but your welcome.

No wonder campfires smell so nice to us. We've been making them since before we were humans. Edit 12/19/20: Guys, no. I'm not talking about standing in the smoke or shoving your face in the embers. I'm talking about being out walking on a cold night and smelling someone's wood-burning fireplace off in the distance. It just makes me feel comforted.

@jamesfry552

3 жыл бұрын

"smell nice" bruh no

@Auradyme

3 жыл бұрын

i too love foul smelling headache inducing smoke

@everydaycliche1529

3 жыл бұрын

There is at the very least the generally calming feeling of staring into a campfire after eating. Think about how far that feeling goes. The relief that we ate again, we are warm, we survived again today

@itsmxtwist

3 жыл бұрын

I kinda like the smell of pine. Nothing too strong though

@kamster518

3 жыл бұрын

Everyday DormRoomCliché So true, taming fore started the next chapter in human history. I feel every time we look into the fire, something in our chimp brain perks up in comfort and awe has those emotions are built into our dna, those feeling are in the blood of every homo sapien who lived and will ever live

There is a lot more uncertainty around this topic than I realized.

@Ben_the_Ignorant

5 жыл бұрын

It's sad but a lot of clues have been destroyed or are buried to deep.

@thebigpicture2032

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, early fire use would have been scattered and tentative leaving little evidence. It was probably occurring much earlier than we have a fossil record of.

@krumble104

5 жыл бұрын

Get used to it...

@Furiends

5 жыл бұрын

Funny enough there's even more uncertainty than is even depicted in the video.

@kekoajk05

5 жыл бұрын

Seriously.... what did these weirdos do??... burn the evidence??... I don’t care if I’m politically correct or not, there’s a lot of evidence supports my theory that cavemen were actually a bunch of idiots...

Me, a Boy Scout, mastered fire about 1.5 decades ago in the middleschoolerian period.

This video made me nostalgic for some reason for my human ancestors.

@postery5029

2 жыл бұрын

Ah yes those times when we were all monkeys ooh ooh ah ah ing at fire

@crystaltheo8494

2 жыл бұрын

@@postery5029 if you watched this channel you’d know we weren’t monkeys

@postery5029

2 жыл бұрын

@@crystaltheo8494 we were monke.

@postery5029

2 жыл бұрын

@@crystaltheo8494 ooh ooh ah ah ah oo

@ENTP247

2 жыл бұрын

Ramro kura garyau timile.

I love that they said, "maybe", instead of making "this is the truth" statements like so many other documentaries.

Hank I swear I’m not stalking you but somehow you host everything I want to watch on the internet

@_AmanSingh-xu9bf

4 жыл бұрын

please go with this and give your honest review alivechemicals.blogspot.com/2020/04/so-you-know-everything-about-fire.html

@cobe398

4 жыл бұрын

@@_AmanSingh-xu9bf this is really good

@cobe398

4 жыл бұрын

@@_AmanSingh-xu9bf it must have took some time to gather that info

It's sort of amazing that one of the most important innovations in our development as a species is something that I'm sure 99.9 percent of us couldn't achieve today without modern tools.

@one5643

3 жыл бұрын

Underrated comment

@boristhespacedude9096

3 жыл бұрын

@Sparky Puddins Imagine a living at a time where you really have to make fire to survive

@Benji10109

3 жыл бұрын

@Sparky Puddins id say the best method to make a fire is with the bow method. All you need is a piece of string wrapped around two edges of a bendy stick. Then wrap the string around another stick. Then use the bow to move the stick back and forth.

@mac11380

3 жыл бұрын

True, but all we have to do now is spend a buck on a bic lighter.

@hellohellohistory7727

3 жыл бұрын

That's like we're dwarfs on the shoulders of giants.

I've accidentally caught my mat on fire while flint napping. Can't help but to think that's how it all started. With making fire. It's one of those answers that will be forever lost in time.

@koriko88

4 жыл бұрын

Yep...most great discoveries are accidental. Someone probably had been working wood earlier and had a pile of dry wood shavings, and then were making stone or flint tools, made a spark and the shavings caught on fire. And the rest is history!

@shannonleary2399

3 жыл бұрын

Yo I had to google that ish! XD I thought it was like sleeping and I was so intrigued... Then I realised that you mis spelled knapping and I felt like a lazy twat 😁😁

@bec7357

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. Just what I was thinking! Making tools led to making fire. Accidentally sparked a fire and said eureka!

@YetiCave

3 жыл бұрын

Mind blowing! Thank you.

@HeyNonyNonymous

3 жыл бұрын

You must have a very flamable hat :)

There's a book entitled "Catching Fire, How Cooking Made us Human" by Richard Wrangham. It expands on this video by describing how our bodies changed as our diets changed through the use of fire, and how the changes that preparing food with fire changed our interpersonal and societal relationships.

Could you do a video on when human beings first arrived in Australia and the species they encountered/affected, We had some amazing wildlife here people just don’t know about! Edit: Thanks everyone who's hopped over to have a look at some of the animals in our videos!

@stevenbaumann8692

5 жыл бұрын

Wicked Wildlife I second this.

@that_pizza_drive6687

5 жыл бұрын

I third this!

@corvs

5 жыл бұрын

I dont know the full story but I think they came from south east Asia. Such as Indonesia Malaysia etc. At one point in time sea levels dropped and they island hop their way to the new continent. Although I'm not fully sure is this is correct so don't take my word for it. 🤔😶

@WickedWildlife

5 жыл бұрын

Dreadnought yes they must have come through Indonesia but the fact they where here so long and isolated for so long suggests they where an earlier wave of human expansion then ones that went elsewhere

@steveknight4291

5 жыл бұрын

also about the monotremes

ive honestly learnt more from this channel than 16 years in school

@raslasagne

3 жыл бұрын

@Sparky Puddins if that helps you sleep at night

@Qoolen

3 жыл бұрын

@Sparky Puddins no one study’s 😂

@paleobc65

3 жыл бұрын

I've learned more from KZread than I did in college and highschool

@jasongodwise6068

3 жыл бұрын

@Sparky Puddins this is better than most school courses

@Aeternitum13

3 жыл бұрын

@Sparky Puddins the school system is messed up not his fault

Man stuff like this makes me wish I were omnipotent so I could travel back in time, make myself invisible and just fly around observing early humans. It'd be the ultimate people watching, and it'd be so amazing to see them with the knowledge of what's to come. I could find the very first person to learn how to create fire, it'd be like visiting a great (times however many) grandparent or something. Like "wow so it was you huh? you got things going for us without even the slightest clue of what this moment will lead to" it'd be incredible.

Man, I love the PBS and SciShow channels. So much knowledge tightly packed in a few minutes of video.

My only skepticism is that the ‘harnessing of fire’ is not the same as ‘starting fire’. As is the case with many modern nomadic tribes, they generally don’t favor starting a fire every time they move, they keep smoldering embers that travel with them. It seems much more likely that fire-wielding hominids were keeping fires going for millennia before they were actually creating fire. The process of fire creation is quite involved. Keeping smoldering embers hot for a day and then stoking a fire every night is a far more passive action than spending 30+ minutes starting a fire from scratch. Another thing fire brought that I don’t if I missed in the video or not was the safety fire brought. Most predators will steer clear of fire, meaning fire-wielding hominids could focus more on sleeping well and less on being alert at night. Allowing for greater brain development in that sense too.

@notsure6187

5 жыл бұрын

Zootycoonman223 Great intuitive explanation!

@Skythikon

5 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/dHqcusimmtrYhc4.html is a relevant video on the transport of fires, and how common that is compared to starting new ones.

@parkertalley239

5 жыл бұрын

I find it hard to believe that hominids evolved around keeping a naturally occurring fire, that they stumbled upon, going for thousands of years. Imagine those embers get wet.. I suppose that they are just screwed until they find another fire? Those who consistently used, depended upon and evolved around fire, most likely knew how to make it.

@Zootycoonman223

5 жыл бұрын

It’s not so much that a single fire was kept going for millennia, it’s that these earlier hominids probably knew how to keep fire going before they learned how to make fire. The process of just keeping a fire going is advantageous, yet not as complicated as starting fire. Meaning these ancestors were probably wielding naturally occurring fires, keeping them going for weeks or months and then finding new fire to replenish in the case an old fire is extinguished. Of course this is a simplification of the process. You have to imagine that there are multiple generations between each step, until ultimately starting a fire becomes a norm. Fire is much like all tool use. It starts with simple, archaic designs and slowly is sophisticated through trial and error and learning how to use those tools.

@Furiends

5 жыл бұрын

Another aspect missing from the video is that much more plausible items to cook like potatoes are also extremely unlikely to be fossilized. Therefor we should take "evidence" like burnt bone with a huge grain of salt. We use to think Neanderthals must have been big angry and dumb based on completely silly assumptions. One of the possible evolutionary advantages of humans was being able to chew lots of different types of foods like seeds or bark, etc which would easily explain Neanderthals "devoted real estate" to their jaws and which would have no longer been of any advantage after fire. Further their extinction can be easily explained by cross breeding which also explains the so far otherwise unexplained rapid genealogical changes of homo sapiens. But no the most obvious explanation is clearly that were big aggressive dumb dumbs that smashed their heads with rocks and homo sapiens became protohunters and wiped them out through sophisticated deathtraps. Meanwhile homo sapiens were cutting up meat with extremely sharp rock tools and not getting sick thanks to their exceptional microbial tolerance that of course we lost again after agriculture. That sounds WAYYY more plausible right? And hey if we're gonna believe in fanciful stories over being honest about what the evidence actually proves then I choose to believe homo sapiens were providers for Neanderthals. Neanderthals would have had the advantage of being able to chew just about anything for food while homo sapiens would have been able to prepare food including the ability to have better discretion over which foods were poisonous for example. It makes sense than that homo sapiens would have had a better time with migration which helps their species stay alive through climate changes. In the meantime though the cohabitation of Neanderthals leads to cross breeding. Note that in this way cross breeds with mostly Neanderthal traits would have had a much higher morality. Having a lot of muscle puts you at a huge disadvantage for surviving winters for example when calories are extremely limited. But its a lot easier for a species to "go extinct" when its not actually dying out but rather is susceptible to selection pressures in what is technically a new species. In that sense we can say about 20% or so of Neanderthals did survive except that its in each of us rather than separate less adaptable individuals.

Last time I was so early Gondwana was still a thing

@jackaboy6077

5 жыл бұрын

RIP GONDWANA 😭 YOU WILL BE MISSED BRO

@b.griffin317

5 жыл бұрын

@@jackaboy6077 lmao

@user-ge8yn4ql4i

5 жыл бұрын

The 70s? Great piece by Miles Davis :)

@blewched4164

5 жыл бұрын

7th,

@ycasto1063

5 жыл бұрын

Isn't it a bit too soon for these jokes?

"By someone, somewhere when we first tamed fire..." The power of one

This video is made of the same stuff that made me love pbs nature documentaries and other pbs shows while growing up as a kid in the 90's. Thank you so much!

I love the movie, "Quest For Fire" & one of my favorite parts is when our "hero" sees a member of the other tribe start a fire from scratch. The awe on that Actor's face deserved an Oscar, IMO! To learn this skill would mean no more "questing" to find fire (not to mention trying to keep it burning), would make all the difference in their world.

@KinseySwartz

5 жыл бұрын

It's like when Steve Jobs first showed us the iPhone.

@timmillan6701

5 жыл бұрын

That movie contained many scenes that felt truly authentic- I thought it was great

@cgaccount3669

5 жыл бұрын

Spoiler ahead...My favorite scene is when he finally gets home in the swamp and they accidentally put out the fire while celebrating lol. Awe.

@KinseySwartz

5 жыл бұрын

@@m_i_g_5108 Well, yes, all you had to do was listen to Macbreak Weekly's latest episode just before the keynote to hear a summary of the most credible rumors, which all pretty much turned out to be true. "Quest for Fire" also had people in the know about how to start a fire.

@olivierdeplanques708

Жыл бұрын

i totally agree with you, this part is amazing, and the music composed by Philippe Sarde is marvellous

Please keep making videos about the origin of man, they are very interesting and my favorite videos of yours! 👍🏾

@pendulousphallus

5 жыл бұрын

When a momma and a dadda love eachother really much...

@vinicius2uiciniv

5 жыл бұрын

NO! Please, there's too much anthropocentric (Cenozoicenter?) videos. So many marvelous things from the Proterozoic, the Paleozoic and Mesozoic times have yet to be discussed.

@KeegoonBarnacle

5 жыл бұрын

Vinícius R S Why should we not be anthropocentric when discussing our own origins? What’s wrong with Cenozoic videos? It’s a very underrated time period like the Paleozoic. Also humans are probably the most unique species to have evolved, the only animal to conquered nature to such an extent and become intelligent designers. Our rise to this position stands out among the more standard stories of other animal species, which by all means should be told, but still pale in comparison to human origins which have entire fields dedicated to it.

@vinicius2uiciniv

5 жыл бұрын

@@KeegoonBarnacle Of course we as a specie are insteresting... but the name of the channel is EONS, it could arguably talk about other Eons besides the Phanerozoic one. And about this last Eon, the Cenozoic is just a small part of it, so many primitive lifeforms and peculiarities from other Eras are rarely mentioned or discussed elsewhere.

@squillamsquallace2468

5 жыл бұрын

@@vinicius2uiciniv Why not both?

"Fire", so easy even a caveman can do it.

This was totally fascinating. Movement of humans around the globes is still my #1 Eons vid, but this one is definitely top 5. So much info in so little time!

Please make: "When we first tamed wolves" Edit: Thank you

@landofthelivingskies3318

5 жыл бұрын

You didn't watch Alpha!? That's how we tamed wolves...I think. Regardless excellent movie.

@TheNeilDarby

5 жыл бұрын

It's not quite old enough for eons, but something about our relationship with cats and how that started would be cool. I'm willing to bet it's older than most people think.

@reuireuiop0

5 жыл бұрын

From what game is that, Patriotis ?

@tashanognog3419

5 жыл бұрын

reuireuiop0 Minecraft

@aykay7828

4 жыл бұрын

Baboons tamed wild puppies. kzread.info/dash/bejne/h2agtbyJhMSZmNI.html

The First Flame quickly fades. Darkness will shortly settle. But one day, tiny flames will dance across the darkness. Like embers, linked by lords past."

@gobzanuff5078

5 жыл бұрын

Hey, don't remind me the amazing chest ahead... i might go hollow...

@rotcivtilems7228

5 жыл бұрын

Prithee be careful.

@generalkenobi2164

4 жыл бұрын

Try tongue, but hole

@HN-kr1nf

4 жыл бұрын

???

@Marek_J

4 жыл бұрын

N H Dark souls video game \[Т]/

Could you do a video that talks about how we learned which plants are safe to eat? Did they just dare each other to try different fruits?

@tsm688

2 жыл бұрын

One of their videos makes fun of the 'paleo diet' by pointing out we have found paleo skeletons deformed from eating weird things

You should make a video about how modern cats and dogs came to be from their wild ancestors or maybe just a general video on how domestication can effect evolution.

This episode was 🔥🔥🔥🔥

I absolutely enjoy every video produced by PBS eons... thank you very much!!! You help feed my mind with the finest of cuisines!!!

Der erfarer vi igjen hvor viktig det var for det tidligere mennesket være KREATIV

That is my country Kenya, I live about 116km away from the place. Thanks for educating us

As an archaeologist, I love these archaeology episodes. Keep em coming!

I think this was probably the most well-written Eons episode yet. It was almost cinematic while staying completely truthful to the tale and knowledge it was attempting to convey

I like his presentation the best. Thanks Hank.

I’ve been getting so deep into evolution because of this channel

Dam, Eons just uploaded and it’s nearly midnight... oh who am I kidding, probably won’t sleep for another 3hrs anyway.

as soon as i pull myself out of debt I'll buy that eon shirts

@gingergamergirl98

5 жыл бұрын

Mack Donald Sorry to heat that, dude. Capitalism kinda sucks that way :/

@D00dlebugInc

5 жыл бұрын

@@gingergamergirl98 (70 years later...) I'm in the same boat. It sucks

@gingergamergirl98

5 жыл бұрын

Michael-Paul Thompson Hope everything gets better for you soon, dude

@lasigna0212

4 жыл бұрын

69th like

@robertraymond762

4 жыл бұрын

Guys relax; "Debt" might just be the name of his pool.

Awesome. Thank you so very much Hank and friends. It is quite funny how early humans and other extinct hominids are always depicted with terrible hair and skin. As if people who don't have mirrors or tooth paste would not care about their appearance. As far as I can tell, small primates, cats, birds even seem to like a good groom and appear to care a lot about their appearance. Certainly, isolated tribes in the modern day spend a great deal of effort making themselves look the way they like. Why would early hominids have been any different?

@Hullj

2 жыл бұрын

Because they had different notions of beauty and attractiveness which were based on the abilities they had. If you don't have any makeup, you don't expect people to wear any makeup. If you don't have any scissors, you don't expect people to have nicely cut hair. I think that a lot of the illustrations of these people take those things into consideration. I also think that your observation is very important and should color our perceptions of the observations made in videos like this.

@mikewhitman745

Жыл бұрын

I think that most animals groom themselves because clean fur works better than dirty fur, or feathers.

@catsthinkmynameisclaude6955

Жыл бұрын

Right! They would attend to the beauty standards of their time, if they wanted a mate...

@chriswarburtonbrown1566

10 ай бұрын

​@@HulljI'm pretty sure they did have 'make up', from plant dyes and wood ash. Making woad paint, for example, is a pretty simple technology.

@Hullj

10 ай бұрын

@@chriswarburtonbrown1566 True. I was thinking more about glam shiny makeup and dreads, though. And while we're at it, tattoos seem to be makeup that was intermittent in its social acceptance. All I meant was applying our (Western) modern ideas of "beauty" aren't the way every human culture for the past 50k years or so, regardless of location, saw it.

2:00 Well, the song does say, "We didn't start the fire"

@draconix4131

3 жыл бұрын

I like that song. Funny comment.

@epauletshark3793

3 жыл бұрын

It was always burnin since the world's bin turnin!

“... and now it’s time to talk about FIRE. in the early 1980s, humans discovered fire”

@jorandebraekeleer7557

5 жыл бұрын

sound about right

@ArloMathis

5 жыл бұрын

But they didn't start it.

@xbjrrtc

5 жыл бұрын

@@ArloMathis they didn't start the fi-yur!

@xbjrrtc

5 жыл бұрын

I kinda thought that for a split second, too, when I first heard it.

@jamesmueller8701

4 жыл бұрын

@@ArloMathis ,,, But they shot the sheriff ...

This Video gon be Lit

@azanathwhateley7235

5 жыл бұрын

Lit + eg = L(eg)it

@azanathwhateley7235

5 жыл бұрын

I'm so stoned

@azanathwhateley7235

5 жыл бұрын

Why can I reply to myself???

@prestonang8216

5 жыл бұрын

Azanath Whateley Idk

@prestonang8216

5 жыл бұрын

I can do this

Finally, the type of video I was looking for, the type that all others avoided talking about...the history, creation and control of fire by mankind. I'm currently learning firestarting, using only sticks!!!

@jamesbryant8238

3 жыл бұрын

Share what you have learned so far?

Because of this kind of KZread channel I wanna be a biology teacher!!! Thank you, guys!!

Many years ago I attended a lecture on early humans and Fire by Louis Leakey. He told of an experiment in which a group of archeologists spent one night outside stark naked with no fire, and another night with fire, and the amazing difference it made to the group.

Today, somebody would try to patent fire. 🔥

@walterbushell7029

3 жыл бұрын

Us corporations take tribal cultavated plants and patent them, without permission or payment. Next step is to sue the originators for using their patented plants.

@draconix4131

3 жыл бұрын

Couldn’t agree more.

@AbsoluteAbsurd

3 жыл бұрын

lmao we devolved so much

I just find is amazing how we are studying our ancestors and trying to find out how they lived.

Goosebumps! Great video, thank you.

"Or just cuddling a lot"...I like that explanation.

honestly, "and /steve/" is one of my favorite parts of each of these videos.

@valinorean4816

3 жыл бұрын

it could only be better if it was "and Buddy Steve-o!"

One of best Eons episodes. TY!

I think this channel is my favorite on KZread. Keep up the hard work!!!

I'm really impressed with the script, especially the explanation of calorie budget and pre-digestion.

It's not that simple to start a fire without matches or a lighter. I wouldn't be surprised if it were a more exclusive skill for a long while before it became something every member of the general population could do. Which means there could very well have been vast differences between tribes of the same species based on wheter they had a "firestarter" or not.

@craigme2583

5 жыл бұрын

The original weapon of mas distruction

@dilaudid1

5 жыл бұрын

Yes fire is tough to start the old-fashioned way but have you ever tried making the simplest stone tools from stones? It is very humbling when a modern Homo sapiens cant do what the typical 2 to 3 million year old Homo or Australopithecine could do.

@veronicagorosito187

4 жыл бұрын

@@dilaudid1 That's what I remark everytime they say ''ancients were dumb monkeys''. Just try flintknapping to being able to cut some animal, and oh man...you'd better buy it on the market or get starving. And YES, they had the same problem to solve! Being hungry developes creativity, we have everything solved by now and don't realize how easy we live.

@dilaudid1

4 жыл бұрын

@@veronicagorosito187 That is a great point, Gitana. Even throwing any of us back 200 years would be nearly impossible for us to function. Now surviving in the stone age is at least an order of magnitude more difficult!

@Breached18

4 жыл бұрын

@@veronicagorosito187 compared to modern humans they are, but they have more survival instincts and are better survivalist

The person who invented fire probably felt so special

We've tamed nearly everything but ourselves

@vl760

4 жыл бұрын

Thats facts

@Jinx-iw6zb

4 жыл бұрын

Amen to that time traveling man

@neckreth

4 жыл бұрын

new evidence suggests tad we actually "domesticated" ourselves in the biological sense.

@neckreth

4 жыл бұрын

@Eriss R. sure, but that is not what I was getting at in terms of biological domestication. It has to do with physiological changes over time.

@post-leftluddite

4 жыл бұрын

That's not a bad thing, for instance, did you know that domesticated animals on average have approximately 25% smaller brains than their wild predecessors?

Appreciate all your videos...love u guys

"Stoned Ape Theory"... I know it's not currently scientific, but dammit, it's a fascinating hypothesis.

@post-leftluddite

4 жыл бұрын

Hey, there's no doubt that mind altering substances had a profound affect on the evolution of our consciousness, and anyone who's taken a psychedelic wouldn't doubt that

@abstract5249

3 жыл бұрын

@@post-leftluddite I honestly wouldn't be surprised our prehistoric ancestors experienced mind altering substances. The chances of coming across some psychedelic mushrooms in the forest seem just as likely (if not more so) than intentionally walking up to a dangerous forest fire to harness it.

@hugonavakopp

2 жыл бұрын

Wow , I’d never heard of this theory , I’m just reading about it thanks to you . Thanks man !

@user-svqmbiv

2 жыл бұрын

Just looked it up and while I definitely don't believe it, it's an interesting and kinda funny theory nonetheless.

@tsm688

2 жыл бұрын

@@post-leftluddite That's not what "evolution" means, is the problem.

You guys are -amazing-. Love watching these videos! Keep up the good work! :D

Incredible. Also very interesting is how fire could be carried from site to site perhaps even before it could be made allowing us to move north that much earlier. Here in New Mexico Native Americans used plants with massive roots such as bush morning glory, Ipomea sp and desert 4 o'clock Mirabilis sp in containers to keep a living fire with them wherever they go. That would have been a hell of a responsibility. Anyhow that's how I like to imagine we mozied on north so early. Thanks Hank!

The history of Fire! For a very long time our ancestors loved fire but couldn't create it. They likely tossed foods in a wildfire noting that it was a tasty treat and made some things more edible. Then someone came up with the idea of taking fire from the wildfires and cooking with it back at the homestead. A few burning branches near home made a fun, safe, and tasty food prep item. As time went on there were probably a lot of our ancestors that kept fires burning as long as they could, maybe even for years, but at some point they always went out. As the stone-age intensified and stone tools were being made regularly, there were likely places around the world where stone workers noticed that their sparks could start fires if around dried plants or fur. It was a happy circumstance, a gift from the spirits of nature, but it was fleeting. After many more centuries, they figured out how to create the circumstances of starting a fire themselves and began doing so regularly. The knowledge of fire starting was probably discovered, lost, and found again many times over the centuries. Still, some of those groups started keeping a tradition of knowing how to start fires, and over time nearly every group had this fire-starting knowledge. It was at this point in time, when cooked food could be a regular occurrence, that fire began to change the course of human evolution and human history forever! And over the millennia, no matter how many disasters were caused by fire, or how many people were killed by their precious fire, humans always rekindled the flame.

@xxXthekevXxx

5 жыл бұрын

Even though your story is only speculation, I found it a fun read :) I wonder how close it actually was to this.

@cadenrolland5250

5 жыл бұрын

@@xxXthekevXxx Thanks I found it fun to write.

When you sit around a campfire and talk, and maybe make something with your hands, even just whittling, you can feel the deep human history in your bones. It works for everyone and is a special magical feeling that ties all humans together regardless of race.

@chriswarburtonbrown1566

10 ай бұрын

Yeah I did exactly that last weekend and it was amazing how deep ( and hilarious) the conversation got very quickly. We ended up in a circle round the fire dancing the Time Warp. There's just something magical about fire for the human spirit.

The Background Sound Effects adds more sense to the image.. Love It.

I love this series, just awesome.

Awesome episode. I would like to learn more about the evolution of animals with radial symmetry.

@draconix4131

3 жыл бұрын

What would happen if a different animal evolve to be intelligent as us. It’s possible to happen even now, its just that humans are keeping them beck from becoming more intelligent.

how about when we tamed other animals im not gonna stop asking

@GageoftheJungle

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheBelrick excuse me what

@alonealien1474

5 жыл бұрын

@@GageoftheJungle Don't feed the troll(s).

@carissstewart3211

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheBelrick What? If you mean nothing was domesticated in Africa, well there are cats, asses, and Guinea fowl. If you mean nothing was domesticated outside of Africa, there are horses, camels, and llamas.

@nolanwestrich2602

5 жыл бұрын

I think they have already done a video on that, though more on specific instances of domestication would be great.

@NuncEstBibendumX

5 жыл бұрын

@@nolanwestrich2602 You mean like a video about the origins of our cattle? I thought they already had one about dogs

There are so many excellent myths and stories about this pivotal moment. Ancient (like Prometheus), modern (like Starkid's Firebringer). I love how culture can combine the hopeful and the terrifying: hopeful, in that fire allows us the use of the night; terrifying, in that we put ourselves in the way of danger by bringing fire into our homes, and the long road from hunting and gathering to climate change is traveled in the name of progress by the many things we burn. What a symbol. Contemplating it is so cool.

Nice work! Enjoyed the video, not to mention that it is very informative.

I find it so funny how the single best thing that they can say about the shirt is that it has a functional pocket 😂😂😂😂😂

I don't know about you but I burned my foot on a hot coal on my 9th birthday and I don't feel like I tamed any type of fire

@kylethompson6837

5 жыл бұрын

...thank you for a person of reason. I don't think the WILDFIRES that burned parts of California TO ASHES for the past few years was aware "WE TAMED IT "....

@kylethompson6837

5 жыл бұрын

...maybe "WE " should inform it .

@fashionovawigs

5 жыл бұрын

@@applebirds1nthefuture646 😔 I think I stomped the coal to death though

@fashionovawigs

5 жыл бұрын

@@kylethompson6837 we can use fire but we'll never control it

@milmex317th

4 жыл бұрын

Humans have mastered very little.

I love this channel. I realy do in the deepest of my heart

Great video! Thank you :)

This video is 🔥🔥🔥

i dunno what kind of sales psychology it speaks to, but telling me it has a functional pocket makes me actually want to buy it.

@dilaudid1

5 жыл бұрын

"Me too" says the easily impressed Home erectus

I love this series!

I started playing Far Cry Primal few days ago and all of this got so interesting suddenly.. Good stuff

Science is hard to do, but it sparks a fire in my heart.

When I finally decided to sleep...but then eons release a new video. Who needs sleep anyway.

I've been a fan for quite a while.

Thanks, Steve!

YESSSS!! I was hoping for this one!! +__+

Hey Eons team!!! Would love to see a video on the evolution of language. Books on this subject I would recommend are Robin Dunbar's Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language and also Susan Blackmore's radically different The Meme Machine. Love the videos as always, will be sure to pick up a tee!!

@covenawhite4855

4 жыл бұрын

There are videos comparing multiple languages to find the first language on Earth. They believe languages with similar grammar and sounds have common cultural origins. So they divide things in language families. Their is Sino-Tibetan language family, Indo-European language family, Pueblo language family, Semitic language family (Hebrew, Arabic, Aramaic).

Love love looooove this channel just subscribed ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Always informative, thank you.

Drawn by quest for fire They searched all through the land Drawn by quest for fire. Discovery of man! \m/

@bramstedt8997

5 жыл бұрын

Mystic Mind Analysis up the irons

All hail the mighty STEVE

Hi from republic of Georgia 🤗 thank you for this interesting video.

Man I love learning about these types of things

I would like to see a vid on when the atlatyl first appeared.

Thank you for this fascinating video! I could say it's lit...but...ok I will anyway. :-)

@albertsetiawan1969

5 жыл бұрын

Are you, by any chance, a relative to Marques Brownlee (MKBHD)? Lol

wonderful!! thank u

It's a beautiful thing to look back and think of my ancient ancestor sitting by a fire 1 million years ago

Please please please make a video of the evolution of bats. It would be so cool! I will never stop asking until you do :^)

@slipwaykitsune

5 жыл бұрын

That would be an awesome video! Hopefully they make one soon!

Y'all should do a video on the difference between archaea and bacteria and how they diverged if we know anything.

@veronicagorosito187

4 жыл бұрын

Yes!!

Excellent video, very interesting!!!

Perhaps the lack of fire in the colder zones reflects the lack of wood for fuel. The zones near the glaciated areas was usually not forested, but was grasslands/steppes, right? If they were making fires, it may have been material that left less evidence, due to smaller fires of shorter duration, such as those made by burning dung are today.