Evolution FAILS in the Human Body

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    If you were taking an engineering class in school and you turned in the human body for your final exam… you would get like, a C+. Or maybe a B- at best. That’s because the human body is full of design flaws. Except they aren’t really design flaws, because the human body wasn’t designed. It was evolved, and it is still evolving. And that means some of our parts don’t work as well as they could, they just work well enough. Here’s a rundown of a few of the human body’s biggest evolutionary fails!
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  • @besmart
    @besmart  Před 4 lety +3365

    Your body is perfectly imperfect. Thanks evolution!
    What's your favorite/least favorite evolutionary body flaw?

    • @pootispencerguy
      @pootispencerguy Před 4 lety +259

      That one spot at the back of your throat where that small piece of food gets stuck at and causes you to make the weirdest faces and sounds while trying to get the food out
      Admit it, everyone faced that before and wondered wtf is that spot

    • @Allegroport
      @Allegroport Před 4 lety +241

      eyesight, why do I have to pay for HD

    • @shrinidhi14
      @shrinidhi14 Před 4 lety +55

      Is it possible to have a accelerated healing or healing factor in humans , by performing some mutations and specific changes to gene patterns , somewhat similar to Deadpool or Wolverine in marvel movies ?

    • @abilashbrian4997
      @abilashbrian4997 Před 4 lety +28

      It's Okay To Be Smart ....love your work....I hate that we have imperfect eyes 👀

    • @abilashbrian4997
      @abilashbrian4997 Před 4 lety +5

      Please do a video on Apollo11 mission

  • @grimwatcher
    @grimwatcher Před 4 lety +8625

    "Surviving isn't about being perfect, it's about being good enough"
    When evolution has lower standards than your parents.

    • @campkira
      @campkira Před 4 lety +127

      There r room to improve

    • @arnhelmkrausson8445
      @arnhelmkrausson8445 Před 4 lety +148

      "Surviving isn't about..."
      To me that was the most important message in this video. Great channel, subscribed

    • @LisaBeergutHolst
      @LisaBeergutHolst Před 4 lety +46

      I think you mean "expectations".

    • @surfk9836
      @surfk9836 Před 4 lety +6

      FANTASTIC!

    • @justaguy6216
      @justaguy6216 Před 4 lety +44

      As a kid who have Asian parents, that's really not saying much.

  • @TheMladen
    @TheMladen Před 4 lety +2391

    My body is like a temple
    ... ancient and crumbling
    ... probably cursed and haunted

  • @phyro4122
    @phyro4122 Před 2 lety +174

    “Surviving isn’t about being perfect, it’s about being good enough”
    Possibly one of the smartest quotes I’ve ever heard

    • @EmilMToft
      @EmilMToft Před rokem +1

      Surviving is not "about being good enough" but about adaptation. Without adaptation and gene mutation over time, we would not have come this far but would be extinct.

    • @roberthuntley1090
      @roberthuntley1090 Před 11 měsíci +2

      Its about being better than the possible alternatives within reach of a few generations of genetic changes. In other words, each generation has to be as good as/better than the one before, or its gets selected out.
      As a result, you can't make yourself less competitive for a few tens of generations to undo one of evolutions mistakes, and only then get better again in the new configuration.

    • @theghost4984
      @theghost4984 Před 9 měsíci

      This entire argument is the dump classic blind watch maker
      Essentially hating on god creation just because we are getting sick and born with problem that means we are thr result of evolution that doesn't make sense at all
      Cause god hasn't created us to live forever still the human design is intelligent yet we are eventually going to die and age

    • @14__16
      @14__16 Před 2 měsíci

      Watch episode 29, the Journey of Certainty.

  • @amberwolf5371
    @amberwolf5371 Před 2 lety +288

    My body is just a plethora of failures. Need glasses, have asthma, allergic to some metals, back problems (spina bifida occulta. My spine just straight up decided not to form properly), depression and anxiety. If I wasn't in modern society I probably wouldn't last lol

    • @raquelpk2
      @raquelpk2 Před 2 lety +29

      My sister and I call each other lemons lol . You know like the cars filled with problems right out of the dealer ? .

    • @edwinsalisbury83
      @edwinsalisbury83 Před rokem +4

      What metals are you allergic to? Nickel?

    • @amberwolf5371
      @amberwolf5371 Před rokem +19

      @@edwinsalisbury83 that is the big one! It is a pain because I'm allergic to a lot of cheap filler that they put in most affordable jewelry. I've had to go on antibiotics before because I had an allergic reaction to some earrings that got infected. I can't wear belts with metal buckles cause I will break out with a rash on my stomach if it makes prolonged contact with my skin. I've also had reactions to the metal backs of the buttons on jeans so I prefer to wear leggings.

    • @edwinsalisbury83
      @edwinsalisbury83 Před rokem +21

      @@amberwolf5371 oh woah that sounds hard. It would be hell for me since I work with metal all the time. Copper, nickel, chromium, and even tantalum.

    • @amberwolf5371
      @amberwolf5371 Před rokem +4

      @@edwinsalisbury83 it's not so bad once you learn what to avoid. And my skin has to make contact for a few hours before I start to have a reaction so just touching or working with metal objects is perfectly safe. I usually run into issues when it is in jewelry or clothing items with metal pieces.

  • @omer-mk4rs
    @omer-mk4rs Před 4 lety +4618

    Our bodies is like that meme
    It's not much, but it's honest work.

  • @pumpkinsproutarts4000
    @pumpkinsproutarts4000 Před 4 lety +2351

    Body: gets an infection
    Body: heats up to kill the bacteria
    Also body: can't survive being a few degrees above 37°c

    • @tmoe_ow2523
      @tmoe_ow2523 Před 4 lety +34

      37 degrees is pretty cold

    • @nightowl19god25
      @nightowl19god25 Před 4 lety +114

      tmoe Celcius so times it by 1.8 and add 32 of you use Fahrenheit

    • @Theeduckie
      @Theeduckie Před 4 lety +80

      37C=98.6F
      38C=100.4F
      FOR THE HUMAN BODY, IT MAKES MORE SENSE TO MEASURE IN FARENHEIT. Above 100 F is danger zone, 100F is approximately 37.77777778C

    • @weareorigin
      @weareorigin Před 4 lety +120

      You think that simple trick would stop working on bacteria millions of years ago.

    •  Před 4 lety +102

      Very few people die because of high fever. Overall it's an advantageous defence mechanism.

  • @happystar6314
    @happystar6314 Před rokem +76

    This video is unironically one of the best counter arguments to intelligent design there is. And that's hilarious.

    • @finitewonder4978
      @finitewonder4978 Před 10 měsíci +1

      Might be intelligent design if the designer meant to remain unchallenged 😅

    • @timexironman1
      @timexironman1 Před 9 měsíci +2

      This was not very convincing!

    • @fohrum4757
      @fohrum4757 Před 8 měsíci

      ​@@timexironman1Would you be more convinced if humans wrote it down thousands of years ago? 😂. You believers are hilarious. Believe in some words that people wrote thousands of years ago, but refute the science that literally shaped the world we live in today. You guys are beyond ridiculous and illogical 🤣

    • @VisonsofFalseTruths
      @VisonsofFalseTruths Před 8 měsíci +10

      Unless our designer is cruel. The human body is the kind of thing you’d design in Spore just to watch the dumb, ugly thing stumble around, or like a challenge run where you intentionally use suboptimal parts.

    • @DashMatin
      @DashMatin Před měsícem

      yeah

  • @fruitpunk
    @fruitpunk Před 2 lety +173

    "our bodies are designed terribly"
    the guy who designed us for the simulation creation assignment he had: "aw man, i got a D"

    • @eeurr1306
      @eeurr1306 Před rokem +18

      The humans getting mad after finding out that they were a school project.

    • @tonettegraceorbena6078
      @tonettegraceorbena6078 Před rokem

      I remember this scenario on one of Zach Star Himself's videos

  • @Kylora2112
    @Kylora2112 Před 4 lety +4275

    Body: "I am perfectly capable of growing an entirely new human being inside of me."
    Also body: "You really think I'm going to actually fix that ankle you sprained 20 years ago? PFFT!"

    • @nate7790
      @nate7790 Před 4 lety +330

      I see what you mean.
      And yet the entirely new human comes out waaayyy before it's ready to face the world. We are born very weak and unable to take care of ourselves if you compare to many other species. There are others born weak like us as well but many actually require much less time to be able to fend for themselves.

    • @JFlora23
      @JFlora23 Před 4 lety +130

      The baby is supplied with copious amounts of blood, which is why it's able to develop as it does. Tendons and ligaments, on the other hand, aren't fed with a steady blood supply. In turn, this makes healing extremely difficult and long.

    • @Yora21
      @Yora21 Před 4 lety +209

      "Do you need it to prevent your species from going extinct? No? Then don't waste my time!"

    • @Aaron-us2ux
      @Aaron-us2ux Před 4 lety +6

      Have you asked for it to? 🧐Sheesh, rude😏😂🤣✌🏼My ankles are both fine....😁❤️👍🏼

    • @Aaron-us2ux
      @Aaron-us2ux Před 4 lety +3

      @@JFlora23 oh yes, takes a while, like a year.👍🏼😁😎✌🏼

  • @Drecon84
    @Drecon84 Před 4 lety +1086

    "Guess who doesn't get sinus infections?"
    It's squids again, isn't it?

  • @ghostanxiety5918
    @ghostanxiety5918 Před 2 lety +36

    Have you made a video about cool human body features? Like how even though we can’t see it, we both glow in the dark and have stripes. Or our ability to throw accurately which isn’t really seen anywhere else. Or how we have one of the most diverse diets, being able to eat just about everything, some of the things we eat like mint and pepper is down right poisonous to other species.

    • @VoidAlien
      @VoidAlien Před rokem +3

      where did you hear about glow in the dark and stripes?

    • @lpsnofuture1586
      @lpsnofuture1586 Před rokem +4

      @@VoidAlien they are called blashco lines (most definitely spelled it wrong) it’s the way our skin was formed in the womb. It can be seen under a certain uv light. Not sure about the glowing.

    • @m.dennis
      @m.dennis Před rokem

      I love this!

    • @theghost4984
      @theghost4984 Před 9 měsíci

      Nope he can't...it completely blows his dump argument so if course he won't dare to say this

  • @aaronseet2738
    @aaronseet2738 Před 2 lety +117

    I like how Neil deGrasse Tyson complains about how our sexual organs and urinary tract are intertwined.
    "That's like building the bowling alley next to the sewage treatment plant!"

    • @jamescheddar4896
      @jamescheddar4896 Před rokem

      You're not going to like it but the creatures with the most efficient metabolisms in the world eat and poop out of the same hole

    • @jamesw3746
      @jamesw3746 Před rokem +2

      It was an old joke long before he said it

    • @kevinsayes
      @kevinsayes Před rokem

      @@vargasg92 um…yea…

    • @QueenJellyBean307
      @QueenJellyBean307 Před rokem +4

      A UTI is just Gods little reminder to clean up after having sex.😊

    • @theharshtruthoutthere
      @theharshtruthoutthere Před 11 měsíci

      @@QueenJellyBean307 Evolution is a (masonic)lie,
      Reincarnation is a(masonic) lie,
      Religions are (masonic) lies,
      Is there more to say?
      We all been deceived on a major scale. Whence the truth been known, it can stop a heart. Truth can blow a mind, as the lies collapse. The reality is opposite to what we been told. Many live in delusions and proudly so.
      Can a soul survive, on the path to truth?
      Can the faith be found, when life take its turns?
      Will the heart in the chest keep beating warm?
      What a wonderful testimonies from souls, who got saved.
      What a heartbreaking tragedy from those who remianed lost.
      BIBLE, every time and everywhere, as it to be only book which:
      heals, guides, judge, warns, helps.

  • @Yora21
    @Yora21 Před 4 lety +626

    Evolution does not works towards perfection.
    Evolution only works towards "Eh, good enough to not go extinct."

    • @___LC___
      @___LC___ Před 4 lety +25

      Evolution doesn’t work towards anything, it’s descriptive.

    • @himborat855
      @himborat855 Před 4 lety +31

      Yora wrong, evolution is a drunk rollercoaster I mean look at the platypus, its cute but why and what-

    • @_cran
      @_cran Před 4 lety +18

      Animals which went extinct: *Are you sure about that?*

    • @picklejuice6699
      @picklejuice6699 Před 4 lety

      Ahahaha I love this comment

    • @hydrolito
      @hydrolito Před 4 lety +1

      Most species that ever existed went extinct.

  • @w0lfyovi294
    @w0lfyovi294 Před 4 lety +2284

    I would love to see a video about how an engineer would fix or redesign the human body flaws and how we would look like

    • @SwedishNeo
      @SwedishNeo Před 4 lety +327

      Give the task to a biologist and you will get a better design.

    • @xspager
      @xspager Před 4 lety +28

      No, please don't give stupid people ideas

    • @xspager
      @xspager Před 4 lety +11

      @Dawson Harris I'm a Millennial 🙃

    • @w0lfyovi294
      @w0lfyovi294 Před 4 lety +143

      @@SwedishNeo True but I would find an engineer's way of thinking of efficiency more interesting, we would get more interesting design, possibly more entertaining at lesst

    • @rogeriopenna9014
      @rogeriopenna9014 Před 4 lety +5

      Like me.

  • @artemisDev
    @artemisDev Před 2 lety +37

    "your body is a blunderland" love that

  • @Roberto-REME
    @Roberto-REME Před 3 lety +23

    Outstanding video and very well narrated. You have great talent for communicating in an interesting and engaging way and peeking the viewers curiosity.

  • @cyeayttheratking9501
    @cyeayttheratking9501 Před 4 lety +753

    Drinks saltwater and dies
    Eats caffeine that evolved as a pesticide, and is kept awake

    • @dojokonojo
      @dojokonojo Před 4 lety +60

      Don't forget capsaicin is natures natural fungicide!

    • @gavinbrown216
      @gavinbrown216 Před 4 lety +14

      dojokonojo and we love it

    • @Kylora2112
      @Kylora2112 Před 4 lety +101

      Nature: "I have evolved a poisonous chemical defense system to fend off things that would otherwise eat me!"
      Humans: "This makes me feel kinda funny...in a good way. Pass the chips!"

    • @bluester7177
      @bluester7177 Před 4 lety +14

      There is also chocolate.

    • @travisrhodus1362
      @travisrhodus1362 Před 4 lety +20

      @@dojokonojo It also is a deterrent against mammals & their molars as birds that spread seeds aren't affected. It's a psychotropic: it literally makes you think you're on fire!
      Mustard is an insecticide & the taste deters; ofc we happen to be able to break it down. Cocaine deters insects by overstimulating them. Etc.

  • @madison2750
    @madison2750 Před 4 lety +510

    “Look at all we can do!”
    *picture of man opening pickle jar*

    • @PaintedBB
      @PaintedBB Před 4 lety +34

      That's a next tier skill.

    • @robbekker9994
      @robbekker9994 Před 4 lety +11

      show me another animal that can open a pickle jar, and store food indefinitely.

    • @PaintedBB
      @PaintedBB Před 4 lety +24

      @@robbekker9994 Raccoons and octopi can open jars. Ironically, iirc chimps cannot, because their wrists are too different from ours.

    • @charliegarrison9688
      @charliegarrison9688 Před 4 lety +2

      Firmly grasp it!

    • @andymiron7941
      @andymiron7941 Před 4 lety +1

      And only the male of the specie can do it. :D

  • @jerelull9629
    @jerelull9629 Před 8 měsíci +30

    My top failure if someone insists we were "designed": The birth canal is absolutely ridiculous. No species should court death just to deliver the next generation.

    • @guizintheinsect5022
      @guizintheinsect5022 Před 5 měsíci +8

      Hyenas have it worse

    • @thealrightygina5725
      @thealrightygina5725 Před 2 měsíci +2

      No species that has such helpless offspring should anyway.

    • @EveofPyrite
      @EveofPyrite Před měsícem +1

      Lol if I design a car does that mean it will never need maintenance. Also most women get through childbirth just fine it just hurts oftentimes.

    • @playathesaints9599
      @playathesaints9599 Před měsícem

      You aren’t God though

    • @AlisonHenryson
      @AlisonHenryson Před měsícem

      @@EveofPyrite if you literally make the rules of how thinks function, you'd need to INVENT maintenance for it to need it.
      Since God doesn't apply to human rules of very HUMAN things he could orevent from happening, he could make a perfectly fine car without it needing maintenance. he's MAGIC. and omnipotent.
      many women still die from childbirth, including children who couldn't get an abortion because of Sects of God's followers banning it.
      And it hurts ALOT. If he is real then he A: Made EVERYONE have that pain, because of Eve, something we didn't even have a CHOICE IN,
      or B: Make everyone have that pain for NO REASON, or atleast a reason he won't explain to us?
      Atheist, out.
      quick summary: Your comment is assuming that God acts like a human or NEEDS to make his creations a certain way, If a human makes a car it EXOECTS it to need maintenance, God shouldn't.
      hope this didn't come off as rude 🫡

  • @droidnautica
    @droidnautica Před 2 lety +20

    "The human body is not intelligently designed to be perfect." Exactly. We are not designed to be perfect, we are just the "that will do" version of Humanity.

    • @luizansounds
      @luizansounds Před rokem +1

      The knee is the perfect example, it works but if you tear your MCL you can't rely in your knee for any inside movement, if you tear you LCL any outside movement will make your knee unstable, if you tear your ACL it's game over in changing direction's, if you tear your meniscus the cartilage will wear down faster and cause arthritis, if you do enough force to tear your quad or patellar tendons you basically will have a horrible time moving in general, if you tear more than one of those things is game over with that leg without surgery, it's so much to go wrong that is laughable
      (And not even mentioning all the other tendons and ligaments)

  • @aoarashi3025
    @aoarashi3025 Před 4 lety +836

    "Surviving isn't about being perfect, it's about being good enough"
    I want that on a T shirt.
    That ending is really inspiring.

    • @avocares
      @avocares Před 4 lety +11

      There is a fantastic book: Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales that is all about the cognitive and emotional aspects of surviving life threatening situations, which might be worth adding to your "to read" list.

    • @briebel2684
      @briebel2684 Před 4 lety +4

      Scurvy Is No Fun
      Looks like a great T-shirt waiting to happen @ 9:14

    • @llGuydll
      @llGuydll Před 4 lety +4

      Ao Arashi my AP bio class got ourselves a t shirt with, "survival of he good enough" on it

    • @christianheichel
      @christianheichel Před 4 lety

      Johny B. Goodenough

    • @mauorel
      @mauorel Před 4 lety

      Surviving= C- , good for you!

  • @Gonzo9battalion
    @Gonzo9battalion Před 4 lety +2135

    Evolution always reminds of the joke in which two hunters see a bear moving their way. One quickly pulls off his boots. and puts on running shoes. His friend looks at him as says "are you crazy? Even with those shoes, you'll never outrun a bear". His friend replies "I don't need to outrun the bear, I need to outrun YOU".
    That's evolution - your variation doesn't need to be the best that can be, it just needs to be better than the others around you.

  • @HayTatsuko
    @HayTatsuko Před 3 lety +14

    This is probably the most succinct and entertaining argument against Intelligent Design I have seen. Evolution is a random walk. It can lead to wonderful places, such as the extreme color vision of mantis shrimps, or to much less nice ones, as in the numerous spinal and lower-body bone and muscle issues coming from our bipedal stance.

  • @YuBeace
    @YuBeace Před rokem +4

    As someone who is severely disabled and ill, the end part of this video really hit me. Thank you, man…

  • @thatrocksong
    @thatrocksong Před 3 lety +760

    I think what's also pretty flawed are allergies. "Hey, this peanut could be dangerous for you. Let me just swell up everything so you can't breathe in order to save you"

  • @bugjams
    @bugjams Před 4 lety +2447

    “Who designed the human body? Well, no one did!”
    Christians: *bruh*

    • @jchinckley
      @jchinckley Před 4 lety +259

      Also Christians: It was designed right from the beginning. We just screwed it up by eating some plant that edited the genome just enough to keep us alive but only viable as organisms up to a potential of about 120 years or so.

    • @davidtiah
      @davidtiah Před 4 lety +122

      @@jchinckley erm.... Pretty sure Christians don't say that.

    • @moejoegaming9838
      @moejoegaming9838 Před 4 lety +155

      @@jchinckley You're stupid if you think only 2 people can populate the human race into what it is now.

    • @hellavadeal
      @hellavadeal Před 4 lety +90

      @@moejoegaming9838 , it took 6. Remember the flood.

    • @jimbobaggans1564
      @jimbobaggans1564 Před 4 lety +35

      @@hellavadeal
      Oh yeah, that's another thing.

  • @rinamoses7112
    @rinamoses7112 Před 2 lety +18

    this whole video simply scientifically complementing you on how being imperfect is perfect

  • @leewinlan8084
    @leewinlan8084 Před 2 lety +126

    "Who the heck designed these things? Well no one did."
    Christians: aight imma head out

    • @jaden_kys
      @jaden_kys Před 2 lety +14

      Yeah what a great god, what a great designer he is

    • @libertymartin5167
      @libertymartin5167 Před 2 lety +12

      Exactly. I do believe in God, but I'm more Spiritual. I know Genesis is a lie and Evolution is the truth! I feel so sad that people who refuse to believe in Evolution miss out on cool facts about our bodies, like these videos that Joe makes for us.

    • @Newmoon19
      @Newmoon19 Před 2 lety +3

      @@libertymartin5167 evolution of wrong, read Qur'an. It's written that there is commanalities because of common creator not common ancestor

    • @Ordinary_Guy
      @Ordinary_Guy Před 2 lety +10

      @@Newmoon19 uhh, maybe could we not bringing religion to evolution?

    • @Mark-Wilson
      @Mark-Wilson Před 2 lety

      @@Newmoon19 lol shut up dummy stop br4inging bronze age book into real science lol

  • @SuperSupper135
    @SuperSupper135 Před 4 lety +824

    Tier Zoo: this is how the developers try to nerf humans in the late game.

    • @loadingscreen8888
      @loadingscreen8888 Před 4 lety +16

      We to op

    • @phatastube
      @phatastube Před 4 lety +11

      Well, it’s probably been like that from update 1.34 or whenever we were made.

    • @Vekcrazah
      @Vekcrazah Před 4 lety +13

      More like,
      This is how the devs tried to buff humans too late, resulting in the morphoanatomy being inefficient...
      But hey, way too much work when you pull out a whole species and revamp their specs amirite

    • @t4ky0n
      @t4ky0n Před 4 lety +6

      Yea im a dolphin main and damn humans get SOOOOO much exclusive loot and craftables.

    • @downrangefuture6493
      @downrangefuture6493 Před 4 lety +2

      r/outside

  • @mexicanjojo6369
    @mexicanjojo6369 Před 3 lety +2412

    Human: The muscles of my knees and feet are torn, my bones break constantly, I almost died choking at least ten times this year and I'm severely undernourished
    Evolution: Can you sex?
    Human: Yes?
    Evolution: Good enough

    • @brito7175
      @brito7175 Před 3 lety +97

      Dude 🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @jonahjerryson4913
      @jonahjerryson4913 Před 3 lety +239

      Yeah evolution doesn't care about you it just cares if you pass on the genes then if you die or not is in your hands.

    • @DhawalMukulVarma
      @DhawalMukulVarma Před 3 lety +25

      This was hilarious! 😂😂😂

    • @Nomphalos
      @Nomphalos Před 3 lety +126

      But how well can you sex compared to other humans?

    • @user-rw9no4vt7e
      @user-rw9no4vt7e Před 3 lety +29

      @@Nomphalos
      Lmaooo

  • @SirPhroggieCroaksALot
    @SirPhroggieCroaksALot Před 2 lety +6

    I just realised I can see my blind spot. I always thought that was just because I wore glasses but it’s actually a blind spot. You learn something new everyday

  • @reedr7142
    @reedr7142 Před 2 lety +6

    Years ago, I asked my eye doctor why, of all the senses, vision seems to go first in humans, and he told me he wasn't an evolutionist. He said it nicely, but I was surprised he didn't learn answers to that.
    Also, I have a "crook finger" as a result of an old injury, that hand specialists that I've seen said they can't fix. Apparently, there are parts of our bodies that don't repair well either.

  •  Před 4 lety +363

    Things i would love to see solved in a patch "Human, version 1.1":
    -eyelashes falling in my eyes
    -forgetting why i went to the kitchen
    -forgetting someone's name right after they introduced themselves
    -easily twisting ankles

    • @Shirokroete
      @Shirokroete Před 4 lety +29

      Fun fact: Human used to have a very good short term memory. That part of the brain, which most animals have, was likely replaced with the speech center.

    • @angelikaskoroszyn8495
      @angelikaskoroszyn8495 Před 4 lety +20

      The easily twisting ankles will probably get better when we will finally sort out the whole walking on two feet correctly. Now we still have dozens of useless, breakable bones and too complicated structure

    • @supersquare
      @supersquare Před 4 lety +27

      My eyelashes are curly and can grow toward my eyes. Pretty sure I'm running a bootleg kernel.

    • @grannykiminalaska
      @grannykiminalaska Před 4 lety +7

      Correct carbohydrate intolerance

    • @TheZapan99
      @TheZapan99 Před 4 lety +8

      Some seashells have eye lenses made of aragonite, a very hard mineral crytal as durable as your bones that can only be affected by acid.

  • @MrDemonWorm
    @MrDemonWorm Před 4 lety +752

    "Behold, I have made the wisest of all creatures!"
    "You've ruined a perfectly good ape!"
    "What?!"
    "Just look! It only just reached adulthood, and it's already got persistent self-doubt!"

  • @FROGGY-hg7df
    @FROGGY-hg7df Před 3 lety +10

    So much we can do!
    Shows someone opening a pickle jar
    Me: excuse me I’m not superman!

  • @sungdrip-woo321
    @sungdrip-woo321 Před 2 lety +8

    This was the best motivational speech I received this year

  • @arnavanand6083
    @arnavanand6083 Před 4 lety +1380

    Well, since we breathe and eat through the same hole, I have officially decided to stop breathing so I have a lower risk of choking!
    1 Year Update: Don’t worry people! My strategy had indeed been working. I have officially starved myself of oxygen for a year and things are going great! Never even came close to choking 🤪🤪

    • @velveq
      @velveq Před 4 lety +77

      You okay? Give us an update...

    • @nikhilpolekar8325
      @nikhilpolekar8325 Před 4 lety +31

      @@velveq maybe he isn't.. 😕

    • @Vader4499
      @Vader4499 Před 4 lety +7

      Mmmmm......

    • @picklejuice6699
      @picklejuice6699 Před 4 lety +48

      Basically anti-vax parents logic too lmao

    • @hydrolito
      @hydrolito Před 4 lety +7

      You dying faster from not breathing than not eating.

  • @roonthegoon114
    @roonthegoon114 Před 4 lety +371

    “Look at all we can do”
    *shows opening a pickle jar*

    • @renz1013
      @renz1013 Před 4 lety +6

      Jurassic park raptor's: Am I a joke to you?

    • @Titanic-wo6bq
      @Titanic-wo6bq Před 4 lety +1

      @@renz1013 Henry Wu: Am I a joke to you?

    • @mandirarai1215
      @mandirarai1215 Před 4 lety +3

      That was the most funniest thing in the video. XD

    • @HG-gj9lh
      @HG-gj9lh Před 4 lety +3

      The most important skill to date.

    • @bibasik7
      @bibasik7 Před 4 lety +5

      Well, yeah. If you can't open a pickle jar, you starve.

  • @CalebDoane
    @CalebDoane Před 2 lety +36

    Joe: Everyone has a blind spot in their eyes
    Me who couldn’t get the cross OR the dot to disappear: …..

    • @preethao.c2262
      @preethao.c2262 Před 2 lety +5

      For me there is a specific distance where I can't see one, closer or farther, I can see it.

    • @Foolbound282
      @Foolbound282 Před 2 lety

      @@preethao.c2262 same

    • @theeinertia4106
      @theeinertia4106 Před 2 lety

      keep an eye on the dot and move about 15 inches

    • @photon3566
      @photon3566 Před 2 lety

      Move slowly and pay attention, sto close, the cross is still there, to far, same thing.

    • @sourbythehour4204
      @sourbythehour4204 Před 2 lety

      I think he meant move the phone left and right. 🤷‍♂️

  • @ckinggaming5bucketmadness766

    7:48
    My biggest fear is someone coming up behind me and cutting my Achilles tendon, just saying this makes me want to cut off my legs

  • @laziifishii9359
    @laziifishii9359 Před 4 lety +468

    "I'll have vitamin C please"
    "Sorry, vitamin c machine broke"

    • @hitorishinda5118
      @hitorishinda5118 Před 4 lety +16

      Error 404: Vitamine C machine not found

    • @chromosoze
      @chromosoze Před 4 lety +2

      Dangit it has 69 likes i cant like it now

    • @eksskellybur
      @eksskellybur Před 4 lety +3

      Understandable have a great day.

    • @uncleanunicorn4571
      @uncleanunicorn4571 Před 4 lety +3

      The GULO cascade pseudo gene was instrumental in my atheism. Our bodies were not designed with intent or foresight.

    • @william41017
      @william41017 Před 4 lety +3

      I ded now

  • @furkell
    @furkell Před 4 lety +561

    Joe: bodies, we all got them.
    Me, a computer A.I. : oh yeah, I keep them in the freezer.

  • @icravethecringe3144
    @icravethecringe3144 Před 2 lety +8

    I see a lot of mistakes with our evolution every time I open tiktok

  • @ironman2326
    @ironman2326 Před rokem +2

    When you quickly change directions while running you have multiple ligaments holding your knee together, the MCL, LCL, ACL, among others that provide passive stability. Our quadriceps, hamstrings, and calves provide active stability and contract as necessary as backup for the ligaments. Those muscles fire within milliseconds to stabilize the knee. It's pretty amazing!

    • @alethalassiter
      @alethalassiter Před rokem +1

      It really is!!! I wish he would have mentioned that the reason knee, foot and hip dysfunction in our modern world has more to do with obesity and a sedentary lifestyle, than it does the design of our bodies. Ancient man was active and probably had an average BMI of 19. In the US the average BMI is 26.6.

    • @ironman2326
      @ironman2326 Před rokem

      @@alethalassiter Agreed! There are several of these type of videos and their goal is to make the body's design look bad. They are always made by agnostics or atheists and it's a way to try and discredit God's design. I've noticed all the videos are dishonest in the way that they present their arguments and they don't give nearly enough credit for all the marvels of the human body.

    • @NoOne-sy5fg
      @NoOne-sy5fg Před 10 měsíci

      ACL tear occurs when you try to rotate your torso without rotating your legs with it. ACL is the only thing supporting the knee because those leg muscles, don't exert force sideways. The pectineus and sartorius let you flex and rotate the thighs at the hip joints not quadriceps or hamstrings. Consider it like this. There are two wooden rods which are connected by a thin piece of wood (ligament). Now rotate one rod without rotating the other, the thin piece of wood will break.

  • @daveoropesa5601
    @daveoropesa5601 Před 3 lety +1982

    I got teary eyed on the last part of the video. "If you're watching this video, then you are good enough" I needed that today. Thank you very much

    • @gabriellara8864
      @gabriellara8864 Před 3 lety +41

      Yup, I really needed to hear that. I didn't expect it to be here tho

    • @amapparatistkwabena
      @amapparatistkwabena Před 3 lety +27

      5 months after your comment, I'm getting teary-eyed thinking about the amazing power of words... Hope you're in a better space, bud.

    • @dragonenthusiast9528
      @dragonenthusiast9528 Před 2 lety +5

      Yes you are king

    • @raegardens8339
      @raegardens8339 Před 2 lety +7

      You are good enough, you always have been and you always will be

    • @TakumisBizarreRacingAdventure
      @TakumisBizarreRacingAdventure Před 2 lety +13

      It's not even one of those fake comforting words tho. It's literally the real thing. We're the top dawgs, who survived thousands of years. A fish walked out of water one day and look what we've become now, we have memes, we have music, we have racecars, we have amusement parks, we live.... to ACTUALLY live and not just reproduce and die. As miserable as we think our lives might be, along with knowing our physical and mental imperfections, but despite all lf that, we're still a part of this huge phenomena.

  • @Filipinoimposter
    @Filipinoimposter Před 4 lety +685

    I bursted laughing when Joe talked about the importance of the Achilles tendon and how you can ram a shopping cart into it lmao

    • @missitheachievementhuntres560
      @missitheachievementhuntres560 Před 3 lety +32

      Makes me also wonder who designed our shopping carts :p amd can’t we fix that bottom part of the car. Just a few cm higher might be enough.

    • @aliensguy4291
      @aliensguy4291 Před 3 lety +18

      As a cart pusher for lowes i relate. Plus the garden center carts have handle baskets at perfect knee destroying height so i have to lean forward to not get my knees shattered like a dinner plate. Plus the lumber carts have nearly severed my Achilles tendon god knows how many tines... Those carts have really questionable design choices

    • @the1uppers10
      @the1uppers10 Před 3 lety +6

      As a cart Pusher at Walmart I can confirm exactly the same about said bars and I end up smacking my legs off of them constantly my legs are black and blue probably 75% of my week LOL

    • @Mazangui
      @Mazangui Před 3 lety +3

      I'm now afraid of going to a market

    • @ShadowFoxSF
      @ShadowFoxSF Před 3 lety +4

      The sad music and crying animated Joe just made it all the better

  • @idkanymore790
    @idkanymore790 Před 2 lety +6

    my family members: look at the human body, so fearfully and wonderfully made. It surely points to a creator
    me: * reaches for vitamin supliments *

    • @josephpostma1787
      @josephpostma1787 Před rokem

      Yaweh's dad probably got lazy on the take your son to work day.

  • @bsheldon2000
    @bsheldon2000 Před 2 lety +10

    I initially just accepted the combination of being imperfect and aging, as there is not much that can be done. Add in that I also accepted the western ideas of comfort and ergonomics as healthy, plus being too stubborn to change my diet and exercise. Oh yeah, and that whole posture thing is silly.
    Luckily, I was forced to walk a lot everyday for a while. Suddenly, my legs don't go numb when I sleep on one side too long. Maybe I should try exercising the rest of me. Of course there is that issue with my hands due to all those decades in the office typing, more strain is bad right, wrong. Varying amounts of strain are good, repetitive consistent strain is bad. Playing with heavy dumbbells fixed my hands.
    And thanks to youtube and some good suggested videos. Like this posture thing is actually a good idea. Still working on the deep squat thing, but close Carrying stuff on the head works too, but still need to work on that as well.
    Oh and those visits to the physiotherapist taught me so much. Now when I pull something, often a few minutes using mild stretching and pressure on tight sensitive muscle tissue, and I am as good as new.
    So yes, we do have some imperfections and probably can not always fix them when they result in issues, but let us not forget that our lifestyle, activity and diet may be just as imperfect if not more imperfect, and maybe just maybe we can keep ourselves in better shape than we realized.

  • @zhubajie6940
    @zhubajie6940 Před 4 lety +124

    The Law of Nature: You don't have to be the fastest zebra just not the slowest.

    • @campkira
      @campkira Před 4 lety +2

      Extinction is a thing....

    • @NaturalSisuRomare
      @NaturalSisuRomare Před 4 lety +1

      RULES OF NATURE!
      YES RAIDEN, SPLIT IT RIGHT OPEN!

  • @koibubbles3302
    @koibubbles3302 Před 4 lety +719

    “How come animals’ bodies work better than ours?”
    “Animals don't have couches.”

    • @pierregoba5713
      @pierregoba5713 Před 4 lety +13

      Based on the things he pointed out where does a couche fit in? Sinus, weak knees & ankles, defective eyes & ears. Nutrition that we cannot make but others can make, the only thing a couch is impacting is comfy self and a fat body🤷🏽‍♂️

    • @koibubbles3302
      @koibubbles3302 Před 4 lety +49

      pierre goba I meant that humans are lazy while animals have to survive out in the wild every day, always at risk of being eaten. Since more people survive, the likelihood of people with bodies that don’t work so well increase, meaning more of those not-working body genes pass on. See what I mean? Their bodies function better partly because the ones that didn’t died off.

    • @1w598
      @1w598 Před 4 lety +3

      pierre goba Bad back.

    • @PremierCCGuyMMXVI
      @PremierCCGuyMMXVI Před 4 lety +13

      Koi Bubbles do also note that even most fit, healthy people, we all have the same body structure. Always ready to crack.

    • @hydrolito
      @hydrolito Před 4 lety +5

      How many other kinds of animals can build houses, roads, automobile, computer, television, bicycle, airplane, and telephone. Seems human bodies did pretty good. Sloths are even slower than humans.

  • @lachlanwashere1279
    @lachlanwashere1279 Před 2 lety +47

    "Let's talk about some of our critical weaknesses."
    The aliens will use this against us, mark my words.

  • @GarryDumblowski
    @GarryDumblowski Před 8 měsíci +2

    Something I think about a lot is period cramps, which are apparently not supposed to be a thing. If you think about it, if periods were supposed to be as painful as they are, then that would mean that 1/8th of the otherwise able-bodied population would be out of commission at any one time (seven days on period for every 28 days is 1/4, only half of all people get periods, that's 1/8th). How is that sustainable when you're living in a hunter-gatherer society???
    Sidenote, apparently most animals reabsorb the uterine lining instead of shedding it. A lot of people are rightfully jealous but it apparently comes with its own set of problems completely different from the ones we get.

  • @AUnicorn666
    @AUnicorn666 Před 4 lety +494

    The nutrients you mentioned are micronutrients but you called them macronutrients, the macronutrients are carbs, protein, and fat.

    • @NickWellingFitness
      @NickWellingFitness Před 4 lety +48

      I'm happy someone else noticed this too. Regardless, I love the video!

    • @NickWellingFitness
      @NickWellingFitness Před 4 lety +56

      @@archaeopteryx9458 Simply put, Macronutrients are nutrients that the body needs in large amounts and contribute to caloric potential energy. Micronutrients are nutrients needed in smaller amounts that don't directly contribute to caloric potential energy. You are right, both are important for health and survival, but the categories are different.

    • @patstaysuckafreeboss8006
      @patstaysuckafreeboss8006 Před 4 lety +16

      @@NickWellingFitness Dont teach him. He should've paid attention in grade 6 biology

    • @anibal1331
      @anibal1331 Před 4 lety

      I bet you got bad knees though...

    • @a.i.dimmer4616
      @a.i.dimmer4616 Před 4 lety

      thats right

  • @Epiccatqueen-un1ew
    @Epiccatqueen-un1ew Před 4 lety +245

    Joe: “If you are watching this, you are good enough”
    Me: That’s the nicest and most motivational thing anyone has ever said to me

    • @TheReal_ist
      @TheReal_ist Před 4 lety +1

      You : ^gets migraine*
      KILL ME NOW I'M NOT WORTHY!!

    • @majermike
      @majermike Před 4 lety

      yea I loved the conclusion, beautiful

    • @delphine5260
      @delphine5260 Před 4 lety

      You are awesome!🤗🤗

    • @thulyblu5486
      @thulyblu5486 Před 4 lety

      Well, technically if you don't have children, your unbroken 4 billion year lineage ends because of you. So if you have viable healthy children then evolution gives a thumbs up; otherwise... hmm well maybe thumbs up, maybe thumbs down, depends on how well you helped others who have copies of your genes (i.e. your family members, loved ones, your clone army, etc)

    • @BernardoPatino
      @BernardoPatino Před 4 lety

      @Lonely Guy that nerd

  • @danielvanzyl6226
    @danielvanzyl6226 Před 2 lety +1

    I am obsessed with your voice and your channel. Loving it.

  • @danchisholm1
    @danchisholm1 Před 3 lety +8

    omg I laughed so much thru this. you (and or your writers) rock joe

  • @Lord_Vesh
    @Lord_Vesh Před 4 lety +201

    I’d love to see an artists interpretation of what a perfectly optimized human would look like

    • @sk8rdman
      @sk8rdman Před 4 lety +47

      I don't think a perfectly optimized human could even theoretically exist.
      Every optimization comes at a cost. It's impossible to make one feature perfect without compromising the perfection of some other quality of the human.
      Perfection really depends on what it is you're optimizing for specifically.

    • @NomadUrpagi
      @NomadUrpagi Před 4 lety +26

      @@sk8rdman i think we can evoke math and physics and come closer to it.
      A body flaw: Why am i here?
      Evolution: Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the body. You are the eventuality of an anomaly, which despite my sincerest efforts I have been unable to eliminate from what is otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision.

    • @bucketheadkfc
      @bucketheadkfc Před 4 lety +7

      Humans are already perfect humans...if they were different, they wouldn't be humans.

    • @septegram
      @septegram Před 4 lety +4

      Scientific American designed one in a promo booklet thirty or forty years ago. I have always regretted not being able to afford to subscribe at that time.

    • @philippecr
      @philippecr Před 4 lety +2

      Someone did, but it isn't beautiful thou.... Alien I can say.....

  • @SquirrelGrrl
    @SquirrelGrrl Před 4 lety +570

    Forgot one: menstrual cycle. Wtf is up with that nonsense!?!

    • @alopiaspelagicus1628
      @alopiaspelagicus1628 Před 4 lety +45

      Yess! Period pain!

    • @maxshishkn
      @maxshishkn Před 4 lety +41

      well, if not your periods you would never get a chance to have a baby and humanity would never take place. if you're asking why do you have it? then it's your period releases the tissue that grew to support a possible pregnancy. it happens after each menstrual cycle in which a pregnancy doesn’t occur-i.e. when an egg hasn’t been fertilized and/or attached itself to the uterine wall.

    • @LadyAhro
      @LadyAhro Před 4 lety +135

      Maximus Shishkin Yeah but a lot of animals get to avoid it. For one reason or another. One fertile week a year sounds potentially less hellish than every month, or if you’re unlucky more frequently than that.

    • @youmaycallmeken
      @youmaycallmeken Před 4 lety +80

      @@maxshishkn Cat's do not have bloody periods, nonetheless, they get pregnant.

    • @TheReal_ist
      @TheReal_ist Před 4 lety +132

      @@maxshishkn u do realize that WE ARE THE only mammals that don't reabsorb the lining of the uterine wall when we shed. U DON"T SEE mammals in nature just bleeding on the ground for days every month cause if u did they would be dead on the ground from a predator. Humans avoid this because we have our brains. All other mammals don't have such luck so they had to evolve to not have something so stupid.
      Hence fixing this would be simple, i'll add it to my list of things to add as I do my genetic research thanks for reminding me of this one females. :)

  • @CatWhisperer570
    @CatWhisperer570 Před 10 měsíci +3

    That blind spot thing is really interesting! 🤯 I don't even wear glasses or anything and I was about five feet from the decent sized tv before one disappeared. Is it the size of the characters? Like if they were a little bigger, would that still happen? Or would it just change the distance it takes to happen?

    • @mikep3226
      @mikep3226 Před 9 měsíci

      It's mostly about how far apart they are, that's why with a larger display the effect happens further away. It's actually the incident angle between the spot you are concentrating on and where your blind spot is in the retina.

  • @freudsilver3097
    @freudsilver3097 Před rokem +8

    Mean while average creationist - "oUr bOdY iS sO pErFeCt, iT mUsT bE dEsIgNeD bY sOmE sUpErNaTuRal bEiNg"

  • @Rebellum1
    @Rebellum1 Před 3 lety +481

    The ending notes "no BODY is perfect, and if you are watching this you are good enough" made me feel so much better about myself. I was feeling down today bc I am disabled and can't do as much stuff as most other people can, so it was nice hearing that even though I can't do some things, its keeping me alive so its good enough :)

    • @am0eba168
      @am0eba168 Před 2 lety +15

      Hey we're here to help... So what we can't be physically be there but our words are always there with you... Stay strong.. your brave cuz you made it till here... And you have a long way to go... So never think of giving up... All the best!

    • @kapi2345
      @kapi2345 Před 2 lety +4

      Aww :)

    • @biggusdickus4305
      @biggusdickus4305 Před 2 lety +6

      Hang in there buddy
      I'm sure you have the ability to change the world and make it a better place

    • @ladderlappen4585
      @ladderlappen4585 Před 2 lety +1

      good enough to watch youtube rather lulz

    • @sharonkende4774
      @sharonkende4774 Před 2 lety

      hang in

  • @bradwatson7324
    @bradwatson7324 Před 4 lety +233

    I'm watching this because I was born after antibiotics were invented.

  • @stachu5049
    @stachu5049 Před 11 měsíci +2

    (As a man) I'm surprised period pains aren't here. Why is a simple removal of unused cells so painfull?

  • @smdls6221
    @smdls6221 Před rokem +2

    The “flaws” observed without looking deep into their full environmental and biological contexts might not be flaws at all; they might even be a perfection. Dont think is easy to create a human being. Since we are talking about “evolving on what was there before” can you please make a video explaining how the human communication ( language/ brain) are marvelous and how these evolved from “what was there before” ?

  • @mikahkilgore4972
    @mikahkilgore4972 Před 3 lety +1278

    Him: your eyes are f*cked up.
    Me, a literal blind person: Trust me. I know. Lol

    • @DivineBeastVahMedoh
      @DivineBeastVahMedoh Před 3 lety +38

      How r u blind if u cant type that comment

    • @supahcomix
      @supahcomix Před 3 lety +248

      @@DivineBeastVahMedoh there are things called braille keyboards, and theres also a chance this person was just playing a character as a joke

    • @DivineBeastVahMedoh
      @DivineBeastVahMedoh Před 3 lety +35

      @@supahcomix he said literal, and braille keyboards wont show you where the buttons on a computer screen are, unless a braille computer screen exists too

    • @alveeislam2934
      @alveeislam2934 Před 3 lety +94

      @@DivineBeastVahMedoh he usd the talk back option on his phone it tells you what buttons your pressing

    • @thomaslittle4188
      @thomaslittle4188 Před 3 lety +170

      @@DivineBeastVahMedoh My guy voice text, and accessibility mode in your phone help blind people use phones. Stop acting like you know everything.

  • @josephjeon804
    @josephjeon804 Před 3 lety +1760

    I like how he says "look at all the things humans can do!" While showing everything that humans created designed FOR the human body

    • @genostellar
      @genostellar Před 3 lety +132

      I'm sure that you know he's talking about how we can pull off stunts, apply great strength in our hands, eat a lot of different things, balance very well, etc. That's what the pictures are showing off, not specifically showing off what has been made for our bodies.

    • @swine13
      @swine13 Před 3 lety +42

      And regardless... any object made for humans was made BY humans, as well. The engineering and ergonomics of any and all of those pictured are pretty spectacular things in and of themselves, and its all "things we can do".

    • @jochenstacker7448
      @jochenstacker7448 Před 3 lety +28

      Yeah, but the human body can do them! 🙂

    • @nathanbrawley7256
      @nathanbrawley7256 Před 3 lety +18

      Funny thing is that we don’t actually rely on many of the things in our society, we just depend on them because of our culture

    • @diogoencarnacao5300
      @diogoencarnacao5300 Před 3 lety +18

      @@genostellar That's what human can do. Create.

  •  Před 10 měsíci +2

    We also have things we don't use, like the wisdom teeth, appendix and also the brain, which many people don't use.

  • @RohitPant04
    @RohitPant04 Před 2 lety +2

    A tendon is a band of tissue that connects muscle to bone. A ligament is an elastic band of tissue that connects bone to bone and provides stability to the joint. Cartilage is a soft, gel-like padding between bones that protects joints and facilitates movement.
    Also, Ligament has lesser blood supply than tendon.

  • @Kenneth_James
    @Kenneth_James Před 4 lety +734

    bad eyes would have been naturally selected away if we were not so smart.

    • @martiddy
      @martiddy Před 4 lety +10

      Good point!

    • @thehorseformerlywithoutana2522
      @thehorseformerlywithoutana2522 Před 4 lety +36

      Now we got a bunch of Mr. Magoo's walking around.

    • @elafinPL
      @elafinPL Před 4 lety +44

      Well you must have seen some kind of shitty vilan in a movie or book that was crazy about starting evolution in human race again usually by killing defected people . I never thought about it but they are a little bit right we can't progress if we as a race don't evolve . Hope scientist will figure out a way to evolve as a race without killing people by I dunno modifying our geome or something

    • @Raylen_Fa-ield
      @Raylen_Fa-ield Před 4 lety +14

      Small dicks too

    • @ianmacfarlane1241
      @ianmacfarlane1241 Před 4 lety +36

      If we hadn't been smart we probably would have gone extinct.

  • @DulcetCatharsis
    @DulcetCatharsis Před 3 lety +269

    When you said "this is not how someone would design an efficient leg" (or something along those lines) it got me wondering if a bioengineer has ever tried to design an efficient bipedal leg

    • @victory8928
      @victory8928 Před 2 lety +34

      Looks at birds. Ostriches have good ones.

    • @Tinyvalkyrie410
      @Tinyvalkyrie410 Před 2 lety +61

      Take a look at the prosthetics used by amputee athletes. They are significantly more efficient in a lot of ways.

    • @EmilMToft
      @EmilMToft Před rokem +16

      To answer your question: yes!
      Bioengineers don't just develope designs seen in the nature without extensively calculate and measure whether the design is the most appropriate and efficient for a given task.

    • @jamescheddar4896
      @jamescheddar4896 Před rokem

      yeah they can make a knee and foot joint that bend in either direction

    • @chamsseddin4449
      @chamsseddin4449 Před rokem

      @@EmilMToft but we born, grow and die, just think if that will make a change or changes may be ??

  • @observingrogue7652
    @observingrogue7652 Před 8 měsíci +2

    I can imagine a sequel to this video, being about Transhumanism, cyborgs, CRISPR, and NanoMachines son.

    • @MaxOakland
      @MaxOakland Před 7 měsíci +1

      Transhumanism is toxic. We have to learn to love ourselves

    • @observingrogue7652
      @observingrogue7652 Před 7 měsíci

      @@MaxOakland
      I want to live forever.
      I want to outlive the Sun.
      I want to have my own space program like Elon Musk, and see more of the universe.
      I want to deliver things between planets and solar systems.
      I want to help with the colonization & terraforming of Mars. I want my own spaceship.
      Aging is a disease.
      Whatever the financial cost, I want to earn the final solution to that & cancer.

    • @MaxOakland
      @MaxOakland Před 7 měsíci +1

      Why? @@observingrogue7652

    • @ScorpionClaws789
      @ScorpionClaws789 Před 6 měsíci

      ​@@MaxOaklandI don't see why technological augmentations are a threat. People already get biological enhancements to their natural forms, prosthetic limbs are a thing. Would those people be better off without their aids?

  • @abstraktdrey
    @abstraktdrey Před 2 lety +3

    That ending, beautifully written.

  • @l_ngpham
    @l_ngpham Před 4 lety +126

    When he mentions the ACL being torn, I feel weak in the knees

    • @overseasonedlamb5604
      @overseasonedlamb5604 Před 4 lety

      i felt it too

    • @EdoDave
      @EdoDave Před 4 lety +6

      Palms are sweaty
      Knees weak
      Arms are heavy

    • @jonsnow9659
      @jonsnow9659 Před 4 lety +4

      @@EdoDave Mom's spaghetti

    • @jasonbarkley2459
      @jasonbarkley2459 Před 4 lety

      You can walk fine with a torn acl with no pain, you would have been fine in hunter gatherer days with that injury you would actually be able to do fine with torn acl mcl and pcl , if it we Achilles you would be out of luck

    • @mauricethegecko9700
      @mauricethegecko9700 Před 4 lety

      Same

  • @rynfornow3411
    @rynfornow3411 Před 4 lety +1335

    Bible: “God made us in his image”
    So, God has bad knees, then?

    • @PallabDutt
      @PallabDutt Před 4 lety +46

      I died.

    • @paladin_2164
      @paladin_2164 Před 4 lety +79

      I have a feeling this is sarcastic, but, the whole “God made us in his image” thing, is that he made us in his *spiritual* image, not physical.

    • @hotarubinariko
      @hotarubinariko Před 4 lety +165

      @@paladin_2164 Well I think he messed that up too if that's the case. Have you looked around lately?

    • @renz1013
      @renz1013 Před 4 lety +34

      Hahahahahhaahahha so this is why I always see clouds covering his lower body when reading a childrens bible when I was young

    • @renz1013
      @renz1013 Před 4 lety +5

      But no I feel that as to be taken in the litteral sense. he didnt litteraly take his image copy and paste it to the 2 primates that turned into the 2 first humans

  • @carltaylor2975
    @carltaylor2975 Před 2 lety

    Awesome video! I love watching your videos. :) The part where you laughed after the ACL hunter gatherer bit was hilarious. Just so you know though vitamins aren't essential macronutrients, macronutrients are carbohydrates, fat, and protein, we only have three of those, micronutrients are the vitamins.

  • @verranox4785
    @verranox4785 Před 6 měsíci +2

    I love how engineers and evolution agree on one thing "Its not about being perfect, its about being good enough"

  • @skylaroconnor2903
    @skylaroconnor2903 Před 4 lety +114

    This video is how the aliens are gonna learn our biggest weaknesses.

    • @colinp2238
      @colinp2238 Před 4 lety +4

      We already know them Earthling.

    • @skylaroconnor2903
      @skylaroconnor2903 Před 4 lety +1

      I mean, we humans aren’t all that subtle anyway.

    • @ethanmazarire361
      @ethanmazarire361 Před 4 lety +5

      Attack their knees!

    • @skylaroconnor2903
      @skylaroconnor2903 Před 4 lety +2

      And get those elbows and heels while you’re at it. Those joints are weak sauce.

    • @ngchloe9314
      @ngchloe9314 Před 4 lety +2

      All they gotta do is slice the back of our heels and we're immobilized, stick that slicer in our throat and we're dead

  • @scottmacs
    @scottmacs Před 4 lety +233

    "Every animal with a backbone has a blindspot." Are you calling cephalopods cowards?

    • @roxyshow123
      @roxyshow123 Před 4 lety +26

      Scott Morgan - No, just spineless.

    • @legendarypussydestroyer6943
      @legendarypussydestroyer6943 Před 4 lety +1

      @@roxyshow123 No, *BONELESS*

    • @roxyshow123
      @roxyshow123 Před 4 lety +2

      @@legendarypussydestroyer6943 Are you that killjoy at a family gathering who destroys every joke with scientific facts?

    • @Hamani1999
      @Hamani1999 Před 4 lety +1

      @@roxyshow123 i dont think u got the joke, you never heard of boneless pizza?

    • @roxyshow123
      @roxyshow123 Před 4 lety +1

      @@Hamani1999 I have to admit I have never heard of a boneless pizza. Is that a meme?

  • @coolperson9470
    @coolperson9470 Před 2 lety

    questtion: i was in science class and my teacher said that in our trachea we have rings of collegen or smthing that hold it open because wet things tend to stick together (and the trachea is wet) and that got me thinking, did we evolve to have them rings or when humans came to life in the way they did we just somehow had them, like our body knew we needed them

  • @EriksGarbage
    @EriksGarbage Před 2 lety +3

    2:34 If you close both of your eyes, you can't see either the dot or the cross

  • @aliyatsabitadaffamutaqin9682

    Evolution: I think your body is good enough
    Crispr: i'm going to end this man's whole career

  • @bryanjensen300
    @bryanjensen300 Před 3 lety +560

    “Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder, 'Why, why, why? ' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand" Vonnegut

    • @LeoLeo-yi5yx
      @LeoLeo-yi5yx Před 3 lety

      ?

    • @niku10
      @niku10 Před 3 lety +24

      We have become wise fools

    • @slevinchannel7589
      @slevinchannel7589 Před 3 lety +4

      I hate Pain and Hunger. They're so useless.
      IF anything: Give me one little shock, IF necesary - but constant pain and/or hunger is just useless or more.
      Possibly even bad. I mean, isnt Pain reducing my Survival Abilities? Thanks, Evolution, thanks.
      -And that's simplifying it.

    • @kubox000
      @kubox000 Před 3 lety +9

      @@slevinchannel7589 Well, if there was big, let's say splint in your back, and it would cause pain only once, you would've probably ignored that and it could end in infection which can lead to gangrene and probably death. But in scenario in which you feel constant pain which basically forces you to doing something so you remove said splint and you're more likely to survive because the faster you take it out the bigger the chance it won't get infected. So constant pain is a body's way to warn you that there is constantly something wrong with it.
      But still I partially agree with you. For example toothache really sucks because before the era of dentists you couldn't really do anything about it except rip it out. Nonetheless causes of toothache can be almost just as deadly as an infection so i understand why our bodies do this.

    • @slevinchannel7589
      @slevinchannel7589 Před 3 lety +1

      @@kubox000 Yeah, nice scenerios, buddy, but no, in reality, it just does not work as intended.
      I'm amazed how my Body's Warning Signals actively make my survival harder, if anything.
      Mostly, hunger and pain do not ever improve anything. I would also not starve if i never had hunger - I'm smart enough for this, since decades.
      I see no use in all this, looking at countless scenarios that actually happened.

  • @lawrencehaines8103
    @lawrencehaines8103 Před 2 lety +3

    He didn't even mention the things that kill us with the highest frequency:
    -The blood vessels to our single beating heart are tiny and tortuous and prone to clogging (heart attack). We have two lungs, two kidneys and two eyes... why not two hearts.
    -The blood vessels to our brain are similar and when they clog it causes a stroke.
    - Our brains are not adapted to living the nearly hundred years that our bodies do now and as we live longer, proteins build up in the brain tissue and cause dementia.
    - The unecessary appendix frequently gets infected (appendicitis) and before surgery and antibiotics would commonly kill us.
    - Similarly the gallbladder has a tendency to form gallstones that can block bile from exiting and cause the gallbladder to become infected. Before surgery and antibiotics cholecystitis would commonly kill us.
    -Our kidneys have a tendency to form stones as well. Besides being incredibly painful when they obstruct the ureters they can cause renal failure and life threatening urinary tract infections.
    - Most every man has a prostate that enlarges with age that can block the flow of urine through the urethra.
    -don't get cancer. why do we?

  • @Fourrandomidiots
    @Fourrandomidiots Před 2 lety

    Interesting video. All of these keep me entertained!

  • @drecion1
    @drecion1 Před 4 lety +49

    Fancy dancing apes is the best descriptor of humanity I’ve ever heard

  • @subscribefornoreason542
    @subscribefornoreason542 Před 4 lety +171

    So you're sayin that if we advance in genetic engineering just enough......We can fix the Vitamin C problem forever!

    • @nate7790
      @nate7790 Před 4 lety +10

      Well no. Not forever. The fact that we lost it once indicates it could happen again. But yes we might be able to solve that problem. I just don't see who would go through the trouble and expenses of genetically changing all the humans on the planet just to get back the ability to produce vitamin C on our own.

    • @downrangefuture6493
      @downrangefuture6493 Před 4 lety +8

      With pretty much all the amino acids our bodies need. Yes
      The only reason we can't do it today is that getting a genetic change to propgate across all the cells is extremely difficult. That's why genetic testing is done on mice embryos. When the cells can be counted on one hand, it's far simpler.

    • @travisrhodus1362
      @travisrhodus1362 Před 4 lety +4

      I see how it may be possible, but it will definitely take some work. Our vitamin C gene isn't just turned off, it's broken.

    • @quincy9908
      @quincy9908 Před 4 lety

      Yeah but the world would like it since it's you science

    • @tomrize
      @tomrize Před 4 lety +1

      i don't understand the problem we can easily get vitamin c from food it is not really something to worry about and besides we live in average as much as 5 times more then the animals he describes.

  • @chrishoo2
    @chrishoo2 Před 2 lety

    Second video in a row of excellent videos fro you guys. Thanks

  • @Bookdragon11
    @Bookdragon11 Před 2 lety +2

    “And others look like Ikea furniture if you accidentally threw the instructions away before putting it together.” 😂😂

  • @PADARM
    @PADARM Před 4 lety +72

    People: Human body is perfect
    Me: Lying in bed wanting to die due to Migraine

    • @TiffanyRay
      @TiffanyRay Před 4 lety +11

      Human body is perfect
      My female reproductive organs: HAHAHA!! nope!

    • @usagi2934
      @usagi2934 Před 4 lety +12

      People : human body is perfect
      Male exposed reproductive organ : "I'm in danger!"

    • @kzdjarrard
      @kzdjarrard Před 4 lety +4

      I feel you.

    • @beth8775
      @beth8775 Před 4 lety +4

      I feel you on the migraines. Mine happen when my neck gets out of whack. My mom is more prone to them when her insomnia is worse. If you haven't already, I hope you can figure out what triggers yours.

    • @Kylora2112
      @Kylora2112 Před 4 lety +2

      @@usagi2934 The wingdangdoodle and the oompa loompas were, at one point, protected by tails and thighs like other quadrupeds. Now it's a giant "KICK HERE!!!" sign.

  • @9elypses
    @9elypses Před 3 lety +156

    When I was in high school I went to one of my friend's tennis games and she stepped and there was this sound like a gunshot that rang across the court and then my friend sat down on the court and screamed. You're Achilles tendon has enough tension to make a loud sound when it snaps. Just be careful.

    • @johnrogan9420
      @johnrogan9420 Před 3 lety +1

      Snaps like a twig...unm runner

    • @Moneymyke357
      @Moneymyke357 Před 3 lety +29

      That is terrifying.

    • @kenmore01
      @kenmore01 Před 2 lety +3

      It doesn't just tear though, it must have been damaged before. If not, that's a genetic defect.

    • @allanrichardson3135
      @allanrichardson3135 Před rokem

      Maybe that’s why Homer (or the anonymous bards who passed that part of the story down to him) chose that part of the body to be Achilles’ weak spot.

  • @meaf
    @meaf Před 10 měsíci +1

    The cross disappearing freaked me TF out. How have I lived this long with these eyes without noticing things disappearing?

  • @MrTurbo_
    @MrTurbo_ Před 2 lety +2

    can't wait for genetic engineering to become a normal thing "ah, you sliced your arm off, no biggy, it will just grow back"

    • @xuehua2564
      @xuehua2564 Před 2 lety

      Who slices there arm off , even in future

    • @MrTurbo_
      @MrTurbo_ Před 2 lety +1

      @@xuehua2564 i mean of all the people that got their arm sliced of, how many did it intentionally

  • @genostellar
    @genostellar Před 3 lety +173

    "If you're watching this today, then you are good enough."
    Inspirational message from evolution science.

  • @flamingoqueen281
    @flamingoqueen281 Před 4 lety +570

    “If we were intelligently designed the designer was drunk” -Arron Ra

    • @johnlamb95
      @johnlamb95 Před 4 lety

      Flamingo Queen: lol Stupid (god bothers)

    • @kodlcan
      @kodlcan Před 4 lety +8

      We were designed in a haste. Our creators didn't care about our life span. We are just more intelligent livestock. They lived for thousands of years and they didn't care about quality of our life at all. The only goal was to create an army of workers to serve them, with short lifespan to make changes, if needed, quick and effective.

    • @steaks3451
      @steaks3451 Před 4 lety +36

      @@kodlcan While this is a cool hypothesis, there is nothing to indicate that this is how it really went down.

    • @Vegeta8300
      @Vegeta8300 Před 4 lety +17

      @@steaks3451 But there is plenty of evidence that we share genetics with every other living creature aswell as extinct ones too. As do all living creatures on the planet. We have common ancestors where basically all life shares. With scientists around the world studying evolution, natural selection, and genetics. While we have a lot to learn. We do know that evolution by natural selection is real and true.
      I realize this would probably be a better response to @Kodlcan as they were the ones talking about creators and designing.

    • @impalabeeper
      @impalabeeper Před 4 lety +18

      Haha. The video is basically summarisation and points to make if you came across a creationist.

  • @Pro_gamer69420
    @Pro_gamer69420 Před rokem +11

    I almost died laughing when he said "since we walk on the balls of our feet".

  • @aldindavidvillanueva6354

    Thanks, man! You're really good.

  • @insomnia20422
    @insomnia20422 Před 4 lety +78

    what i learned today:
    "Im good enough." mehhh
    "Im a survivor of a 4 billion years story." WOW

    • @nutmeg0144
      @nutmeg0144 Před 4 lety +1

      Yeah the same with all the other trillions of animals that lived on this planet. Stop trying to find meaning where there isn't any. Ya just a nobody who'll be completely forgotten in a few generations

    • @robinchesterfield42
      @robinchesterfield42 Před 4 lety +5

      Think of it this way: You know all those huge extinction events?
      ALLLLL of them? Including the one that took out over 90-something percent of _all life on Earth_ ?!
      We're from the percent of a percent of a percent that survived ALL of them.
      :)

    • @sanstheskeleton679
      @sanstheskeleton679 Před 4 lety

      @@nutmeg0144 We've been around for technically 4 BILLION years, of course trillions of species will survive, quadrillions or even QUINTILLIONS probably went extinct

  • @MagSec40
    @MagSec40 Před 4 lety +64

    One of my favorite idiocies of evolution is the recurrent laryngeal nerve. It goes from the brainstem to the larynx. Simple enough? No.. this nerve heads south toward the heart, like an idiot, and loops around the aorta before coming back up to the larynx.
    The route made perfect efficient sense back in our fish ancestors. It looks silly in humans, and ludicrous in giraffes.

    • @VictorLopez-vc6cf
      @VictorLopez-vc6cf Před 3 lety

      You watch Med Life Crisis too? 😉

    • @uptamistik
      @uptamistik Před 3 lety +1

      Richard Dawkins showed this on a giraffe a while back to students in the UK, a great example of how imperfect evolution is.

  • @darialomurno05
    @darialomurno05 Před 2 měsíci

    This explains so much about things we gave for granted