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What Happened Before History? Human Origins

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

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For anyone, no background needed. Education, not medical advice.

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An animated overview of human evolutionary history, tracing our origins from early hominids to the rise of modern Homo sapiens.

Humans. We have been around for a while now. When we think about our past we think about ancient civilizations, the pyramids, stuff like that. But this is only a tiny, tiny part of our history. OUR CHANNELS ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ German Channel: kgs.link/youtubeDE Spanish Channel: kgs.link/youtubeES HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT US? ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ This is how we make our living and it would be a pleasure if you support us! Get Merch designed with ❤ from kgs.link/shop Join the Patreon Bird Army 🐧 kgs.link/patreon DISCUSSIONS & SOCIAL MEDIA ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ Reddit: kgs.link/reddit Instagram: kgs.link/instagram Twitter: kgs.link/twitter Facebook: kgs.link/facebook Discord: kgs.link/discord Newsletter: kgs.link/newsletter OUR VOICE ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ The Kurzgesagt voice is from Steve Taylor: kgs.link/youtube-voice OUR MUSIC ♬♪ ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ 700+ minutes of Kurzgesagt Soundtracks by Epic Mountain: Spotify: kgs.link/music-spotify Soundcloud: kgs.link/music-soundcloud Bandcamp: kgs.link/music-bandcamp Youtube: kgs.link/music-youtube Facebook: kgs.link/music-facebook The Soundtrack of this video: Soundcloud: bit.ly/28Ze6Ni Bandcamp: bit.ly/28NPJSb 🐦🐧🐤 PATREON BIRD ARMY 🐤🐧🐦 ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ Many Thanks to our wonderful Patreons from kgs.link/patreon who support us every month and made this video possible: William Kerr, Sean Beier, Donal Botkin, Hugo NAJBERG, Harley Faggetter, robert walsh, Amir Shahar, Corey Hinds, Vegard Bellika, Dasha, Charles LaVene, Wesley Kleeman, jeremy avnet, Zachary Dickson, Timothy Basanov, Richard Stambaugh, Hamish Wilson, John Smith, Tyler Lainer, Yalın Günayer, Drew DeVault, Nicholas Bethencourt, Mike Wiley, Stefan Schnitzer, Brian Coule, John Markus, Sergey Sirotenko, Alex Howe, Angel Ivan Luna Parra, Liam Wade, Hannah Montovani, Noah Harris, David Durant, Hans-Jörg Peter, Daniel McCartney, Marcus Lee, Martin Atanasov, Plyrde Rayos, Emin Arslan ,Sam, Adam, TheVerySeriousLewis, Sam, Shermaine Chew, Sathepine, Manraj Dhaliwal, César Mendonça, Corne Kruger, Andrew Peachey, Thomas, Müller, Daniel, Forssten, Matthew Tse, Matthias S., Azila Azman, Fras Samarit, Jake Wood What Happened Before History? Human Origins Help us caption & translate this video! youtube.com/timedtext_cs_panel?c=UCsXVk37bltHxD1rDPwtNM8Q&ta…

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What people say. Recommended as an accessible and well-sourced introduction to human evolution and prehistory.

joshbaptistein Hacker News • Recommends

On “Did Our Ancestors Become Bipedal So They Could Throw?”

I live in a world where 90% of my friends and family believe that they came from the sins of a woman who decided to eat an apple. I recently read a book called Sapiens, this book really drilled into my mind that we homo-sapiens are a derivative of a single great ape that had two daughters, one that became the ancestor of all chimpanzees and the other all humans. If human origin interests you there is a great 10 minute video from the Youtube Kurzgesagt channel that lead me to read Sapiens. link to this video link
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On “Jawbone of Earliest Modern Human Out of Africa Discovered in Israeli Cave”

It might not be what you were thinking, but the YouTube channel Kurzgesagt has 2 very good videos on the topic: link to this video link His stuff is well sourced and generally reliable.
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sillysaurusxin Hacker News • Mentions

On “Modern human incursion into Neanderthal territories 54k years ago at Mandrin”

It's possible. It's just one of those explanations that we'd really love to believe, since the alternative is so unthinkable. It's been a hobby of mine to be skeptical of it. Even Kurzgesagt mentioned in passing that we're not sure if it was due to "a series of minor genocides." - link to this video - link If anyone knows of breadcrumbs to follow, please chime in. Genetic testing implies it should be possible to figure out how much interbreeding took place. We seem to be able to trace extinction events with some degree of accuracy, so it would be surprising if a genocide-type extinction event was easy to confuse with interbreeding.
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