Humans weren’t always human, but what were we before? // The first 1,000 to join Skillshare will get their premium tier free for two months! https://skl.sh/unodosoftrace0920 Plus you support the channel. All 1,000 of you. 😆 👇👇👇 Sources & More down here 👇👇👇 I see you're reading the description, you should probably subscribe at this point, don't you think? https://bit.ly/subscribe-to-trace ✨I’m on Patreon! ✨ http://patreon.com/tracedominguez Every new patron causes a litany of excited squeals. Thank you for supporting this scicomm 💕 ⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠ 📶 EPISODE ⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡ Where did the #human animal originate? What are we really? What are humans? Where did we evolve and how long did it take? In this episode I explore what we know of the ancient human family tree and how we got here in the first place. ⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠ 📚CHAPTERS ⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡ 0:00 Where did humans come from? 2:11 The power of language 5:56 The family bush (not tree) 9:31 What makes a human? 11:55 Meeting ancients? 16:10 What’s coming? ⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠ ⏰ SERIES DESCRIPTION ⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡ As a crustacean poet once said, “The Human World, is a mess,” and boy was he correct. Our history is a patchwork of fossilized bones spread across the world. In the last 20 years, we’ve made huge leaps in our understanding of the human story, but we’re still trying to understand exactly where we came from and why we’re still here! This is especially confusing when you learn there were so many other ancient human-like creatures on this planet throughout our long history. If you take one thing away from this series, I want you to know you're a combination of millions of ancient animals toiling, adapting, evolving and breeding. Just ponder that for a while. ⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠ 🤯SERIES LINKS: #HumanOrigins ⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡ PART 1 - What’s a human? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSIKuxdhogk PART 2 - Ancient primate to Homo sapiens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx9AqIWsKgI PART 3 - Why us? Survivorship bias. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD6Okv_gzO0 PART 4 - How we’re going to evolve next https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjmGOvdoXVo PART 5 - 10,000 years from now… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ath7h1i5b7Q Hey, thanks for watching! 😊 If you want to help grow this channel, just share this video with a friend or three! Shares make a HUGE difference and don't cost you anything at all. ⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠ ✨GO THANK OUR GUESTS! ⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡ Join my patreon community (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ http://patreon.com/tracedominguez ⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠ 👾👾👾 FIND ME ON SOCIAL ⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡ 🐤:: http://twitter.com/tracedominguez 📷:: http://instagram.com/tracedominguez 👴🏻:: http://facebook.com/official.tracedom... 🎮:: http://twitch.tv/mrtraced ⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠⏠ 📚📚📚 SOURCES ⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡⏡ This is a HUGE source for all things human origins. https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species/homo-sapiens The species that you and all other living human beings on this planet belong to is Homo sapiens. During a time of dramatic climate change 300,000 years ago, Homo sapiens evolved in Africa. Like other early humans that were living at this time, they gathered and hunted food, and evolved behaviors that helped them respond to the challenges of survival in unstable environments. Oldest Homo sapiens fossil claim rewrites our species' history https://www.nature.com/news/oldest-homo-sapiens-fossil-claim-rewrites-our-species-history-1.22114 Researchers say that they have found the oldest Homo sapiens remains on record in an improbable place: Morocco. 300,000 year-old “early Homo sapiens” sparks debate over evolution https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/06/300000-year-old-early-homo-sapiens-sparks-debate-over-evolution/ Until this week, the earliest known fossils of Homo sapiens were about 200,000 years old. But two recent papers in Nature have obliterated that date with a report of 300,000 year-old skull fragments from five individuals found in Morocco. The researchers who discovered the fossils call them "early Homo sapiens." But other scientists say this misrepresents the complex story of human #evolution and adaptation. More links: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fossil-reveals-what-last-common-ancestor-of-humans-and-apes-looked-liked/ https://www.jstor.org/stable/2709633?seq=1 https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150706-the-small-list-of-things-that-make-humans-unique https://slate.com/technology/2014/03/the-science-of-what-separates-us-from-other-animals-human-imagination-and-our-ability-to-share-imaginative-scenarios-with-others.html https://www.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/fulltext/S0169-5347(18)30117-4 Vectors from Vecteezy Music by Epidemic Sound: http://epidemicsound.com/creator Love you, #nerdfam! Stay #curious and thanks for supporting #stem, #learning, and science communication! Yours in nerdiness 🙌, Trace Dominguez