Life And Death 3,000,000 Years Ago

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  • čas přidán 20. 05. 2024
  • Life and death of some of our earliest ancestors, australopiths like Lucy.
    Check out www.ugbert.com for awesome prehistoric art!
    Sources:
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    Huge thanks to my patreons!
    / stefanmilo
    Disclaimer: Use my videos as a rough guide to a topic. I am not an expert, I may get things wrong. This is why I always post my sources so you can critique my work and verify things for yourselves. Of course I aim to be as accurate as possible which is why you will only find reputable sources in my videos. Secondly, information is always subject to changes as new information is uncovered by archaeologists.
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  • @StefanMilo
    @StefanMilo  Před 2 lety +1267

    Yo yo yo, thanks for watching! Check out www.ugbert.com for some absolutely banging prehistoric themed mugs and an incredible Lucy poster! It seriously helps the channel and Ettore, the artist behind these brilliant images.

    • @StefanMilo
      @StefanMilo  Před 2 lety +34

      "yarrr it's perfect for me ale" That's a genuine review of these mugs by none other than King Henry VIII, a man who knows his mugs.

    • @pencilpauli9442
      @pencilpauli9442 Před 2 lety +7

      Beautiful video thanks, Stefan!
      Really top work

    • @bomaracev
      @bomaracev Před 2 lety +6

      I was so excited to see new content from you! Thanks for putting in all the work for this new video!

    • @teaser6089
      @teaser6089 Před 2 lety +7

      Whenever you release a new video it brings me great joy!

    • @sh0gun___
      @sh0gun___ Před 2 lety +6

      Absolute stunning art this episode, Ettore outdid himself yet again.

  • @Userrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.r

    I went to see Lucy's fossil in Ethiopia and if there is one thing that struck me at first sight, it was how small she was. As said in the video, she was about 1m tall. That's the size of a 6 year old. Imagine trying to survive in the savanna when you're that small

    • @Userrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.r
      @Userrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.r Před 2 lety +50

      @@billybob-ro6qf you think that Ethiopia, a country that can barely feed its population, is going to spend so much money to create a fake fossil?

    • @Userrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.r
      @Userrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.r Před 2 lety +115

      @@billybob-ro6qf do have any evidence of these giant fossils?

    • @Lepua2009
      @Lepua2009 Před 2 lety +107

      @@Userrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.r as an Ethiopian no but i don't think we are that advanced to know life and death of something that died millions of years ago 😁

    • @victorally_
      @victorally_ Před 2 lety +28

      @@billybob-ro6qf yo wtf bro are you ok like mentally do you need therapy

    • @Userrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.r
      @Userrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.r Před 2 lety +346

      @@Lepua2009 we don't know their life and death, this is mostly speculation but I'm pretty sure that Lucy isn't an artificial fossil that is the product of Satan

  • @meg2249
    @meg2249 Před 2 lety +10319

    Can you imagine being carried off by a predatory bird? Utterly terrifying to really consider that our ancestors were very much a typical prey animal.

    • @ruthanneseven
      @ruthanneseven Před 2 lety +190

      If we were "typical", our eyes would be farther apart. We do have varying degrees of peripheral vision, at best 180°. I'm not saying life wasn't perilous, but eyes forward served us better, for whatever reason.
      What's the deal with "wisdom teeth"? THAT'S bugged me since I was a teenager. Time is running out!

    • @airgunningyup
      @airgunningyup Před 2 lety +524

      @@ruthanneseven we are evolving out of wisdom teeth.. Kids are now being born without them , small numbers, but eventually no human will have them

    • @ruthanneseven
      @ruthanneseven Před 2 lety +26

      @@airgunningyup
      Hi Rob!
      Where did you discover this tidbit?

    • @smelk4774
      @smelk4774 Před 2 lety +109

      @@ruthanneseven well animals can still be prey no matter what they look like even if we hunted we were still prey everything is prey in all actuality even apex predators are prey to something cause if they weren't ever prey they most likely could have caused mass extinctions!

    • @AfkHavoc
      @AfkHavoc Před 2 lety +7

      @@airgunningyup Thats just not true its highly unlikely a day will ever come where no human is born without wisdom teeth since theres no selective pressures that make the genes of people with wisdom teeth less desirable to mate with

  • @edensaylor7133
    @edensaylor7133 Před 2 měsíci +134

    finding a cool rock to take home has been in our blood for millions of years

  • @mrbeast85
    @mrbeast85 Před 10 měsíci +499

    In some cultures the act of remembering or speaking the name of the dead is believed to be what keeps them alive in the afterlife. Its quite touching to think that c3 million years after she died, Lucy is still being 'remembered' in a manner of speaking and hence in some senses we've brought this unassuming human ancestor back to life.

    • @zoozeeQ-
      @zoozeeQ- Před 5 měsíci +3

      MR BEAST?

    • @persephonepomegranate9652
      @persephonepomegranate9652 Před 4 měsíci +3

      Mr breast

    • @chyennewhisman7166
      @chyennewhisman7166 Před 3 měsíci +2

      But what if this is not the name she had while she was alive? I believe that they were smart enough to have a name but we will never know it.

    • @myspleenisbursting4825
      @myspleenisbursting4825 Před 2 měsíci +10

      ​@@chyennewhisman7166 I mean yes, obviously. But that doesn't change anything. We are still talking about her. Her name doesn't really matter

    • @ceceliam9014
      @ceceliam9014 Před 24 dny +4

      I love that sentiment. There's that saying that we die two deaths, first is our own death and the next is the death of the last person who remembers us. Lucy, in essence, has been resurrected then, but as something different, because none of us really knew her, we can only imagine some version of who she was.
      Also, it's a minkr thing, but she wasn't really "human" or even homo genus, she was hominin 😁

  • @dannyb3663
    @dannyb3663 Před rokem +3410

    Made my hair stand on end when he pointed out that Lucy would've been obsessed over in death, and that 3 million years later, she is still being mourned. Lucy teaches us what made us human. And the fact that we can find, identify, and understand the significance of 3 million year old remains, is the result of the humanity she gave us.

    • @consciousobserver629
      @consciousobserver629 Před rokem +93

      We are indeed deeply emotive beings! Other animals show similar inclinations. Take elephants that mourn the loss of their family members, visiting their remains decades later. Truly amazing!

    • @ruthmckay9086
      @ruthmckay9086 Před rokem +45

      @@consciousobserver629 It really is amazing, and what's more is that it's finally getting recognition. Recently in the UK - 'Lobsters, octopuses and crabs recognised as sentient beings in UK Law. The UK government has declared that lobsters, crabs, octopuses and related species will be included under the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill.' For so long human exceptionalism has been the default, even though many of us knew differently.

    • @Yankeez001
      @Yankeez001 Před rokem +8

      Are u saying I’m a monkey..??

    • @ruthmckay9086
      @ruthmckay9086 Před rokem +46

      @@Yankeez001 No, you said that...

    • @terrio5258
      @terrio5258 Před rokem +3

      So we'll said.

  • @julianstanley5036
    @julianstanley5036 Před 2 lety +4682

    My son pointed out that the unusually intact condition of Lucy's remains may indicate the lingering protection of her family until the cadaver was too far gone to be of interest to scavengers. Great posts, look forward to more.

    • @phuckpootube6231
      @phuckpootube6231 Před 2 lety +35

      LOL

    • @trybunt
      @trybunt Před 2 lety +298

      Or a mudslide. Pretty sure fossilisation has a lot to do with luck, mostly of the condition of the land thousands of years after the animal dies. but I don't know much to be fair 🤷‍♂️

    • @leostgeorge2080
      @leostgeorge2080 Před 2 lety +321

      The body must be coved quickly after death for it to become fossilized. It must be free of air. Other wise microbes will eat any bone and soft tissue. Covered in dirt will not do. Air free places like clay and some times water like a peat bog or ice to name a couple. Very special conditions must be met for bone to be fossilized and endure for millions of years.

    • @fukkitful
      @fukkitful Před 2 lety +163

      @@trybunt Yeah I remember a scientist saying only a small fraction of a percent will become fossils. The conditions have to be perfect for it to happen.
      Also acidic soils will dissolve the bones. Its no coincidence that most fossils are found in desert environments.

    • @ruthanneseven
      @ruthanneseven Před 2 lety +50

      I found what appears to be a finger bone remnants of a scapula and an unidentified piece of really damage bone in a desert. They were right on top of the sand. They may not be from the same person either. I love collecting rocks, and these pieces caught my attention. The finger bone was old yet obvious, as was the partial scapula which seems a lot older. I would love to get 2nd opinions on all of them.
      The sand shifts often with the wind. I imagine that's how they were uncovered. The scapula is the most interesting piece. It's seems fossilized based in hardness and texture.
      That ridge is unmistakable though.
      I don't know where I could get help with further identification. Anyone have ideas?
      I also found a square black piece of stonework with traces if a knob in ine end, and faint, simplistic scrawling on one side. Found on the shore of a fastwater stream, near a river, what first hit my mind was that it was a part of a printing set that was interchangeable (knob).
      I'd love to have someone identify what it is. Black square rocks aren't found in nature!
      My last treasure is a stone tool. It's obviously been flaked. It might have made a good scraper. I love finding random treasures, but I'm getting too old. Time to find out what they are!

  • @Hemlat
    @Hemlat Před 5 měsíci +56

    Thanks for the video Stefan! I was a student of Dr. Thomas Gray (at Southwest Texas State) who was Lucy's co-discoverer along with Don Johanson. Dr. Gray also had a cast of Lucy's skeleton which we all learned to put together. So many discoveries have colored the image we have of their lives since the 80's when I was a student. Yet Lucy was foundational in many ways.

  • @theclownsystem9429
    @theclownsystem9429 Před rokem +816

    I don't care how old Lucy is or that she is now only a skeleton. She's beautiful. Seeing recreations of what she could have looked like just makes me so emotional.

    • @robertstallard7836
      @robertstallard7836 Před rokem

      She's a bit hairy for my taste.

    • @aninewforest
      @aninewforest Před rokem +75

      In a way, she's our great-great-(etc) grandmother. Mitochondrial DNA is passed down through the female line, so she's in our cells...

    • @squirrelycritter
      @squirrelycritter Před rokem +27

      Same here. It's so amazing to think about the long lineage we come from, I even get emotional about the first known mammal.

    • @Angie2343
      @Angie2343 Před rokem +11

      She is a supermodel for sure!

    • @spaceintuity9194
      @spaceintuity9194 Před rokem

      Ugly creatures, abominations for sure

  • @sprawlz6466
    @sprawlz6466 Před 2 lety +3022

    Fun fact: Lucy was named after the Beatles song “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” that had just come out because the scientists who discovered her liked the song.

    • @bingbongstupid
      @bingbongstupid Před 2 lety +9

      I believe one of them was reluctant of the name

    • @Lil_chxnga
      @Lil_chxnga Před 2 lety +63

      I was named after the Beatles aswell and my middle name is sky too!

    • @InComgenie
      @InComgenie Před 2 lety +5

      I can confirm this fact

    • @bingbongstupid
      @bingbongstupid Před 2 lety +27

      @@Lil_chxnga Is your last name Diamond?

    • @Lucy-rb2zj
      @Lucy-rb2zj Před 2 lety +26

      @@bingbongstupid lol no but that would be cool

  • @oppaloopa3698
    @oppaloopa3698 Před 2 lety +1863

    Did y’all have a relative that died before you were born that the rest of your family talked about often? You hear all these great stories, you see all these beautiful pictures, though you never spoke a word to them you feel you know them. You love them. You miss them. You miss someone who you never met.
    I feel the same way I do towards my beloved grandaddy that I do towards past humans. I look at these faces and feel the string that connects us all tug.
    Who were you? What did your voice sound like? What were your dreams like? Was I in them? I wish I could thank you for working so hard. For loving this world enough to evolve. I look at your bleached skull and despite the genetics and the millennias I see every human I’ve ever loved and hated and been indifferent to in your face. I love you.
    Its 11:14 pm on a Saturday and I am yet again emotional about hominids.

    • @trybunt
      @trybunt Před 2 lety +165

      It must of been terrifying, to be honest- becoming just smart enough to realise just how hostile and confusing the world around us really is.
      Light.
      Dark.
      Light.
      Dark.
      Eat.
      Sleep.
      Give.
      Keep.
      Friend.
      Foe.
      Yes.
      No.
      Run.
      Hide.
      Yell.
      Cry.
      Why.
      WHY!
      Rain.
      Dry.
      Live.
      Die.
      Light.
      Dark.
      Our
      Sky.

    • @oppaloopa3698
      @oppaloopa3698 Před 2 lety +93

      @@trybunt
      I like how you ended with “sky”. I feel like the realization of just how big and guiding the sky is was a big turning point for us as a species. We made gods and travel and legends. Sky. Sky. Sky.
      They really were brave. Maybe that was the most brave humans have ever been. Could ever be.
      Also, finally someone who get.

    • @sergeantsonso3490
      @sergeantsonso3490 Před 2 lety +31

      glad im not the only one who feels this way.

    • @sergeantsonso3490
      @sergeantsonso3490 Před 2 lety +27

      @@trybunt
      "Why.
      WHY"
      i relate to this.

    • @Alchemy818.
      @Alchemy818. Před 2 lety +46

      It’s still way early in the morning for me but here I am shedding tears over prehistoric humans

  • @akshatverma957
    @akshatverma957 Před 8 měsíci +19

    I just appreciate how much our ancestors suffered & struggled to make the way for our species. Their struggles led to us conquering the earth.

    • @WWFYMN
      @WWFYMN Před 7 měsíci

      And space

  • @Erkhesbold
    @Erkhesbold Před rokem +47

    Dude this video is so good that i want to learn more about human history. Maybe, you helped me to discover my new hobby; so thank you for this incredible video

    • @RezValla
      @RezValla Před rokem +3

      Check out North 02 if you haven’t found that channel yet

    • @yunusaharuna7139
      @yunusaharuna7139 Před 2 měsíci

      @@RezValla ALL is fiction

    • @MeganVictoriaKearns
      @MeganVictoriaKearns Před měsícem

      ​@@yunusaharuna7139Hey everybody, I found the gullible fool!

  • @andromeda7588
    @andromeda7588 Před 2 lety +1384

    There was also a significant point in Lucy's life where she met Scarlet Johansson

  • @beckyevans889
    @beckyevans889 Před rokem +1634

    It made me really sad to hear that Lucy died by an accident or at the hands of a predator. I’m sad that she didn’t get to become an old Australopithecus lady. Imagine if you could travel back in time to see how life really was then, to interact with our ancestors from millions of years ago.

  • @destinytallent2444
    @destinytallent2444 Před 11 měsíci +40

    The thought of the mother being with lucy during birth touched me ...

  • @stephenw.6588
    @stephenw.6588 Před rokem +6

    Excellent script you wrote for this one. Really thoughtful and sensitive while super informative. Kudos to you for your efforts.

  • @bribread
    @bribread Před 2 lety +1959

    I wish time machines existed, imagine how eye-opening and fascinating it would be to watch all of this go down in person. To watch history in action.

    • @ousmansano21
      @ousmansano21 Před 2 lety +159

      We will also be history in 3 million years 😭

    • @stephday6225
      @stephday6225 Před 2 lety +21

      Wow this is exactly how I feel

    • @Sky_Blaze
      @Sky_Blaze Před 2 lety +82

      If time machines exsited ..life itself wouldn't exist, the butterfly effect would be out of control.

    • @Danuxsy
      @Danuxsy Před 2 lety +20

      one day we might be able to do that through simulations

    • @lazar2949
      @lazar2949 Před 2 lety +33

      @@Sky_Blaze thats all just one of the many theories, as far as we know, reality could be immune to these things, able to bend and "patch" the holes, much as the planet, we may damage it a little, but in the end it will survive

  • @AlmostEthical
    @AlmostEthical Před 2 lety +252

    A difference between humans and other apes is our relationship with rocks. Most apes don't care for them, while we have have long been fascinated with them and worked with them, creating ever more complex things from stone and metal. These days our favourite rocks are mobile phones and computers, made from a range of metals and compounds.

    • @yoissy
      @yoissy Před 2 lety +23

      I love this way of looking at things!

    • @ceilingfan6969
      @ceilingfan6969 Před 2 lety +1

      That's awesome man

    • @GeovanniCastro666
      @GeovanniCastro666 Před 2 lety

      @Order comes from Mind, Gardens Proof yeah it's obious that evolucion is fake. Bible stories are more creidible

    • @mothastrud
      @mothastrud Před 2 lety +20

      actually there are a few monkeys interested in rocks. i think it’s a fairly recent interest for them but they use the rocks to smash open coconuts and other nuts.

    • @AlmostEthical
      @AlmostEthical Před 2 lety +7

      Yes, and some animals eat them to help digestion. But humans really have taken their relationship with geology to another level. Who knows? Maybe one day there will be people who are half metal and silicon?

  • @kamoheloradebe1230
    @kamoheloradebe1230 Před 5 měsíci +4

    Wow. This is incredible, and on top of that, your video editing and the illustrations that you chose are spot on. This is incredible! And we got a history, wow. A million years is mind blowing, now imagine 3.3 million. Great video! plus its funny!

  • @SarcastSempervirens
    @SarcastSempervirens Před 7 měsíci +3

    I love that you do these with such an emotional tone people come to care about the topic.

  • @saria6742
    @saria6742 Před 2 lety +2244

    "We can only imagine the pain that they would have felt watching over her body. Little would they know, we would still be watching over Lucy more than three million years later."
    Oh man, that hit me! Who left these onions lying around??
    I've been watching your channel for a long time (it helped me in my decision to go back to school and finish my anthropology degree!), and I'm really impressed in how your production value has developed! You've clearly put a lot of work behind your content :)

    • @robertmcgovern8850
      @robertmcgovern8850 Před 2 lety +3

      Yeah, just sat thru that vigil two weeks ago. Not an easy scene to watch, or to live.🥺

    • @elyshauwilson9448
      @elyshauwilson9448 Před 2 lety +1

      Yupp

    • @johnburns2940
      @johnburns2940 Před 2 lety +11

      Foyer, what a tender heart you have. Congrats on finishing you degree 👏.

    • @woutervanlent5181
      @woutervanlent5181 Před 2 lety +5

      Very good comment Foyet ! I couldn't have said it better . Hope you will finnish your school so that I can also watch your productions in the future . Good luck !

    • @smelk4774
      @smelk4774 Před 2 lety +5

      Same I seriously wish Lucy and her clan were immortal and had so much luck they could keep all the bad stuff from happening and all Lucy I guess is the embodiment of what makes us.... us I guess.

  • @brianedwards1595
    @brianedwards1595 Před 2 lety +2604

    Stefan, you're evolving as a content creator. Thorough research, increasing video production, and an obvious curiosity in the subject. Thank you for bringing us such excellent content!

    • @StefanMilo
      @StefanMilo  Před 2 lety +162

      Cheers Brian, I genuinely try my best. I agonise over these videos soooo much lol

    • @pinzinkinzin4066
      @pinzinkinzin4066 Před 2 lety +20

      @@StefanMilo don’t be too harsh on yourself. You will only get better and better! Even if it takes a few ups and downs.

    • @evanmangone523
      @evanmangone523 Před 2 lety +8

      I agree you’re able to answer the “why it matters” question more directly … and dare I say, poetically? Great job!

    • @GrannyGooseOnYouTube
      @GrannyGooseOnYouTube Před 2 lety +6

      YES This was AWESOME!

    • @mtathos_
      @mtathos_ Před 2 lety +12

      @@StefanMilo and your agony is well worth the troubles. you're an amazing creator and one of a kind on this platform, you fulfill perfectly your evolutionary niche! XD

  • @ElderHiker
    @ElderHiker Před rokem +2

    Well done Milo. I enjoyed your production very much. You are elevating your game to new levels of expertise.

  • @paddy1952
    @paddy1952 Před rokem +16

    Stefan, you're getting very good at making vids and telling these stories.

  • @NORTH02
    @NORTH02 Před 2 lety +2667

    I love the original footage in this video, excellent quality!

    • @misterx168
      @misterx168 Před 2 lety +14

      Nice to see you around.

    • @happyspanners
      @happyspanners Před 2 lety +23

      Real recognises real

    • @DarthBane959
      @DarthBane959 Před 2 lety +12

      You guys should team up like the documentarian avengers

    • @NORTH02
      @NORTH02 Před 2 lety +23

      @@DarthBane959 we did a long time ago with 2 other youtubers

    • @StefanMilo
      @StefanMilo  Před 2 lety +73

      I’m sure we will again in the future but it takes a long time to make videos and it’s hard to coordinate

  • @timeless9940
    @timeless9940 Před 2 lety +926

    This has made me feel in a way I hadn’t felt since I watched documentaries when I was like 7 years old. I just can’t describe the fascination seeing these reconstructions of our ancestors makes me feel. We are just a speck in the very long life of our planet and universe, and I hope we can preserve it for many more generations to come, so that we can all enjoy life here and learn from those who lived before us. Thanks, Stefan. You made my week.

    • @arkamukhopadhyay9111
      @arkamukhopadhyay9111 Před rokem +10

      We'll be gone in another 10,000 years. If that.

    • @82luft49
      @82luft49 Před rokem +1

      @@arkamukhopadhyay9111 What do you think we will evolve into?

    • @arkamukhopadhyay9111
      @arkamukhopadhyay9111 Před rokem +2

      @@82luft49 we'll be extinct

    • @Farweasel
      @Farweasel Před rokem +3

      @@arkamukhopadhyay9111 I reckon IF we can survive the next 200 / 300 years we're in with a shout for the long haul.
      Its one of the biggest 'IFs' in the history of life on Earth .....
      We are everywhere. And almost everywhere we are phenomenally destructive.

    • @jerrymiller2367
      @jerrymiller2367 Před rokem +5

      Even if 90% of humans were suddenly killed by war or disease or an asteroid impact, the human lineage would still survive quite well. With this many people on the planet, it would be hard for us to go extinct as a species. And humans are so adaptable and clever that whoever survives will survive just fine, or at least most of them will.

  • @FlexsterBR
    @FlexsterBR Před rokem +15

    Thank you grandma Lucy for everything ❤️

  • @karphin1
    @karphin1 Před 5 měsíci +2

    Fabulous as always Stefan! Enjoy your videos. I recall reading Donald Johansen’s book about finding Lucy, back when he discovered her bones. You make a logical argument for the type of life she undoubtedly led. Thanks for your great videos, I love watching them!

  • @88HELLJUMPER88
    @88HELLJUMPER88 Před 2 lety +519

    You know, I had almost no interest in the subjects you talked about on your channel before finding you nearly two years ago. But your humor and thorough research were intriguing and helped to show how fascinating our deep past can be! So thank you Stephan! For being a true gentleman!

    • @harrietharlow9929
      @harrietharlow9929 Před 2 lety +3

      It truly is fascinating, isn't it? There are so many things to learn about the various hominid species which come before us. The evolution of emotions, already present in our relatives, the chimpanzees is extremely interesting. By the time you get to Neanderthals, at least in some groups, deceased individuals were being lovingly buried. I look forward to more videos like this.

    • @88HELLJUMPER88
      @88HELLJUMPER88 Před 2 lety +2

      @@harrietharlow9929 exactly. It's an enormous world, and Stephan is an excellent content creator. The only thing I would want changed about his videos, is that there would be more of them.

    • @billybob-ro6qf
      @billybob-ro6qf Před 2 lety

      Our past can be read in the bible, GOD's TRUTH not these lies of evolution & millions of years.

    • @88HELLJUMPER88
      @88HELLJUMPER88 Před 2 lety +1

      @@billybob-ro6qf you got any evidence to back up those claims?

    • @andrewfleming1638
      @andrewfleming1638 Před rokem

      ​@@billybob-ro6qf proove it please🙏??

  • @AncientArchitects
    @AncientArchitects Před 2 lety +409

    The production of your videos is absolutely incredible. Superb video.

    • @artemiosnicola523
      @artemiosnicola523 Před 2 lety +3

      Hey Matt, I was just thinking about how you guys are two of my favourite CZcamsrs! And then I stumbled upon your comment. 🤯
      Much love and respect to both of you!

    • @StefanMilo
      @StefanMilo  Před 2 lety +6

      Thanks Matt, this took bloody ages

    • @marthawelch4289
      @marthawelch4289 Před 2 lety

      @@StefanMilo English fellow, huh? Well, that's alright.

    • @louisebelair2245
      @louisebelair2245 Před 2 lety

      @Srbo lazic I will recommend also NORTH 02 it is a great chanel for amateur paleontologists.

    • @JESUSCHRIST-ONLYWAYTOHEAVEN
      @JESUSCHRIST-ONLYWAYTOHEAVEN Před 2 lety

      JESUS KNOCKS ON YOUR HEART AND LONGS FOR YOU TO ANSWER! HE DOESN'T WANT
      TO SEE ANYONE PERISH INTO HELL. GOD LOVES YOU SO HE GIVES YOU FREE
      WILL AND A CHOICE TO ACCEPT HIM OR REJECT HIM. TO LOVE HIM OR TO LOVE
      SIN/THIS WORLD. CALL UPON JESUS & ASK HIM TO FORGIVE YOUR SINS!
      SURRENDER YOUR WILL & YOUR LIFE TO HIM AND HE WILL GIVE YOU ETERNAL
      LIFE IN HEAVEN! PICTURE YOUR BEST DAY ON EARTH TIMES A BILLION FOR
      ETERNITY, THAT'S HEAVEN! NOW PICTURE YOUR WORST DAY ON EARTH TIMES A
      BILLION FOR ETERNITY, THAT'S HELL! HE WILL GIVE YOU WHAT YOU WANT SO IF
      YOU REJECT HIM YOU WILL BE SEPARATED FROM HIM & HIS BLESSINGS
      (LOVE, PEACE, JOY, HOPE, REST, ETC). IN HELL YOU WILL BE ALONE WITHOUT
      GOD OR PEOPLE, YOU WILL BE HOPELESS, YOU WILL BE IN DESPAIR & AGONY FOREVER!
      GOD'S STANDARD FOR HEAVEN IS PERFECTION AND ONLY JESUS
      (THE SON OF GOD/GOD IN THE FLESH) LIVED THAT PERFECT LIFE! HE LAID
      DOWN HIS LIFE & TOOK THE WRATH OF THE FATHER ON THE CROSS FOR YOUR
      SINS! GOD IS JUST SO HE MUST PUNISH SIN & HE IS HOLY SO NO SIN CAN
      ENTER HIS KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. IF YOU ARE IN CHRIST ON JUDGEMENT DAY GOD
      WILL SEE YOU AS HIS PERFECT SON (SINLESS SINCE YOUR SINS ARE COVERED BY
      JESUS' OFFERING). YOU CAN ALSO CHOOSE TO REJECT JESUS' GIFT/SACRIFICE
      & PAY FOR YOUR OWN SIN WITH DEATH (HELL) BUT THAT SEEMS PRETTY
      FOOLISH! GOD SEES & HEARS EVERYTHING YOU HAVE SAID & DONE. YOU
      WONT WIN AN ARGUMENT WITH HIM & YOU CANT DEFEND ANY OF YOUR SINS TO
      HIM. WE'RE ALL GUILTY WITHOUT ACCEPTING JESUS' SACRIFICE FOR OUR SINS!
      MUHAMMAD DIDN'T DIE FOR YOUR SINS, BUDDHA DIDN'T DIE FOR
      YOUR SINS, NO PASTOR/PRIEST/MARY OR SAINT DIED FOR YOUR SINS, NO IDOLS
      OR FALSE GODS DIED FOR YOUR SINS, NO ACTOR OR CELEBRITY DIED FOR YOUR
      SINS, NO ATHLETE OR POLITICIAN DIED FOR YOUR SINS!
      JESUS CHRIST ALONE DIED FOR YOUR SINS & WAS RESURRECTED FROM THE GRAVE! HE IS
      ALIVE & COMING BACK VERY SOON (THESE ARE END TIMES) WITH JUDGEMENT!
      PREPARE YOURSELVES, TURN FROM SIN & RUN TO JESUS! IT STARTS WITH
      ASKING HIM TO FORGIVE YOUR SINS & INVITING HIM INTO YOUR HEART/LIFE,
      SURRENDER ALL TO HIM! IT'S ABOUT A RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR CREATOR. HE
      KNOWS YOUR PAIN & TROUBLES, TALK TO HIM LIKE A BEST FRIEND! ASK
      HIM TO REVEAL HIMSELF TO YOU & HELP YOU TO BELIEVE IF YOU DOUBT!
      DON'T WAIT TO CRY OUT! NO ONE IS PROMISED TOMORROW! HE LONGS FOR YOU TO
      INVITE HIM IN, HE LOVES YOU MORE THAN ANY PERSON EVER COULD, HE CREATED YOU!
      Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."-John 14:6
      "But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven."-Matthew 10:33
      “For the wages of sin is death (hell), but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord”-Romans 6:23

  • @jimatmile56
    @jimatmile56 Před rokem +3

    You make wonderful and informative videos. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.

  • @TyraStromLund
    @TyraStromLund Před rokem +20

    I just found your channel and have watched a couple of videos, am probably gonna binge them all ngl. I was raised as a jehovas witness and was never allowed to explore evolution or question the history of humanity. In the past 2 or 3 years I've dived into learning as much as possible of what is known or thought about our species' past, and your videos are just SO great in helping me with that! Thank you so much!

    • @acex222
      @acex222 Před rokem +3

      Well done for escaping JW and Watchtower.

    • @ilonahaun
      @ilonahaun Před rokem

      Hello Tyra, has your attitude towards faith changed as a result of the further education?

    • @TyraStromLund
      @TyraStromLund Před rokem

      @@acex222 Thank you!

    • @TyraStromLund
      @TyraStromLund Před rokem

      @@ilonahaun Absolutely, in combination with other things. :)

    • @ilonahaun
      @ilonahaun Před rokem

      @@TyraStromLund
      How much has it changed?
      Have you just stopped believing in the pictorial descriptions of the Bible?
      Or do you doubt the God described in the Bible?
      ...or have you completely lost your faith?
      Do you still believe in a higher power?

  • @LaynaJoyy
    @LaynaJoyy Před 2 lety +1003

    This is so awesome. I work at museum where Lucy “lives” now lol. But she doesn’t open up much 😂. It’s nice to know a little more about her.

    • @StefanMilo
      @StefanMilo  Před 2 lety +220

      I heard she’s pretty shy

    • @mdastolfo70
      @mdastolfo70 Před 2 lety +4

      What museum is it?

    • @gargoyle4807
      @gargoyle4807 Před 2 lety +5

      @@mdastolfo70 maybe the buffalo museum of science because I've seen this name in a comment a bit under this one

    • @jerrychacon8814
      @jerrychacon8814 Před 2 lety +5

      forensics expert Carl N Stephan, "the face of earlier human ancestors cannot be objectively constructed or tested" "any facial reconstrutions of earlier hominids are likely to be misleading." no way to take a finger or jawbone of a 2-400,000year old, an say this is how it looked, and this is the skin color, hair looked and color, and eye color.

    • @catel4781
      @catel4781 Před 2 lety +6

      I too worked at a Museum with a copy of Lucy, in a diarama. She was smaller than I imagined.

  • @yensid4294
    @yensid4294 Před 2 lety +833

    I really like that you brought up the physical changes around child birth & how that might have influenced a female support system. So often it is hunting that is emphasized when analyzing hunter-gatherer societies. Like the duties of child rearing & keeping things going while the men were away didn't require communication, organization, cooperation & diplomacy? Especially since foraging was most likely where early man like Lucy got most of their food resources, not hunting. Anyway, great video 👍

    • @SnidgetAsphodel
      @SnidgetAsphodel Před 2 lety +6

      Yeah same.

    • @bel4417
      @bel4417 Před 2 lety +33

      Interesting point, but why do you assume women are not hunters? I have spent quite a bit of time around modern hunter-gatherers living their ancient lifestyle, and women are generally equally involved in hunting as males, in my experience. Also, in every omnivorous/carnivorous species I can think of, females are hunting and are often more effective than their male counterparts (for example in a pride of lions).
      Your comment implies males are the leaders and the ones doing the hunting, but in my experience, women/female animals not only do the majority of child raising, but do hard and dangerous work like males, AND are also often taking on the leadership role, at least on a family level. This is true even in western society: women are expected to maintain a career, carry and birth multiple children, do the majority of child rearing, cook, clean, and often maintain the household’s finances. Pre history is definitely not my area of expertise, so this is just my opinion. But is there actual evidence of men being the hunters? I know people often assume this simply because men are seen as fitter than women, but modern hunter-gather women are extremely fit, not too different to males. If you have any link about this I’d love that, thanks!

    • @yensid4294
      @yensid4294 Před 2 lety +18

      @@bel4417 Big game hunting is usually associated with men. In modern hunter gatherer societies this type of hunting is mostly done by men & the fossil record seems to show in the past it was mainly a male occupation. That is not to say that women didn't hunt or provide food for the family/tribe--they most certainly did. They gathered & cultivated plants (agriculture was probably started by women) trapped small game & possibly fished. I've heard it suggested that foraging/gathering actually made up the majority of a paleo diet vs hunting. Much of evolutionary theory about human development/social behaviors seems to have been based around the skills required to hunt & my comment was directed at that. I was pleased to see other physiological reasons given for why more human social bonding may have taken place, ie difficult childbirth. This imo, gave a different perspective to the changes that early hominids made on their way to becoming homo sapiens. One that is often overlooked in favor of cranial measurements & tool use.

    • @bel4417
      @bel4417 Před 2 lety +19

      @@yensid4294 could you tell me what modern hunter gatherer societies you are referring to? I have spent extensive time amongst hunter gatherers (indigenous people) in Australia, Africa and Island Nations as well as a little time in the Americas, and have rarely found this to be the case, this is why I am asking. This is also the case in my culture. Yes, you are right that gathering makes up a large portion of these diets, but hunting is also important and done by women. Generally, all physically able members of the community are involved in this large game hunting, because there is safety and strength in numbers, or in some cases, it is done by a certain group as part of a sacred ritual (although again, in my experience, small game makes up the majority of meat being eaten). I have even taken part of woman only ‘ritual’ hunting, both small and large game. Again, if you have some resources about this, I would really be interested in it, but it seems there is very little actual research done into this, and that it’s just an assumption.
      And I’m not trying to discredit the importance of child birth - after all it the most crucial part of our society, and a burden that only women have had forced upon them, whilst males escape unscathed. I’m simply saying that women’s roles should not be downplayed in other areas, especially considering it is often women who are doing the largest share of that work

    • @yensid4294
      @yensid4294 Před 2 lety +9

      @@bel4417 I will defer to your expertise since my knowledge of hunter gatherer societies is very, very broad & my main interest is in paleoanthropology. I was always given examples of men leaving to go on a hunt & then everyone participating in butchering/preserving the meat & following the migrating herds. But it kind of depends on what time period & geographic location specifically. I'm most familiar with Western Europe. I agree, having children is not the epitome of women's contribution to society, that's why I never had any. Btw, newer evidence & re-examined evidence (fossil remains) are showing that paleolithic women probably did hunt. They had bone density & injuries similar to javelin throwers indicating they were throwing spears too :) There was a recent PBS Secrets Of the Dead special about it that I think you would enjoy called Lady Sapiens.
      ( I think the examples we were given of hunter gatherer societies don't really fit since technically they are pasturalists & only semi-nomadic & very de pendant on cattle, goats, etc with hunting as more of a cultural ritual & supplemental source of food so I decided not to mention them. I think you're right & it makes sense. 👍)

  • @JayCee-hw4zc
    @JayCee-hw4zc Před rokem +1

    Love your work, Stefan!

  • @goedude83
    @goedude83 Před 24 dny

    Absolutely beautiful video, made with devotion and love. Thank you, Stefan.

  • @velksa6835
    @velksa6835 Před 2 lety +91

    the ending is honestly giving me goosebumps when she died, she had no idea how important she would be to our understanding of our past

    • @solmoman
      @solmoman Před rokem +7

      Wtf at least put "Spoiler alert" before commenting on the ending..

    • @triangulum_mori
      @triangulum_mori Před rokem +1

      @@solmoman all living things die sorry

    • @solmoman
      @solmoman Před rokem +5

      @@triangulum_mori the joke
      -
      Your head

    • @topcat5992
      @topcat5992 Před rokem

      Thanks for that, you saved 15mins of my life.

  • @emmahardesty4330
    @emmahardesty4330 Před 2 lety +537

    Very big thank you. This type of info--life of a prehistoric female--is extremely rare, even to the indication that Lucy fashioned stone into tool, when of course females made tools: It's not practical or realistic to wait around for a male to replace a broken tool. So much to ponder. Wish this were an hour long. Again, thanks.

    • @StefanMilo
      @StefanMilo  Před 2 lety +129

      In chimpanzees it's actually women who produce more tools than men and children typically gain that ability from their mothers. So it's not far fetched at all to think its ancient women producing these tools.

    • @MustObeyTheRules
      @MustObeyTheRules Před 2 lety +9

      How do we know that Lucy was female? Maybe they identified as male 🤔……..

    • @chocolatecream5593
      @chocolatecream5593 Před 2 lety +74

      @@MustObeyTheRules idk your exact intention with this comment, whether it was satire, animosity, or genuine curiosity, but she’s being identified by her sex (at birth) because that’s what’s being evolved. Gender identities have developed socially over the years because of different minds, not their biological makeup.

    • @smelk4774
      @smelk4774 Před 2 lety +13

      @@chocolatecream5593 don't forget gender identification is still extremely new depending on the context

    • @audioeditzdj
      @audioeditzdj Před 2 lety +8

      @@MustObeyTheRules gender is societal. sex is biological. society as it is now was literally not a thing back then stfu

  • @TRUCKLOVER305
    @TRUCKLOVER305 Před rokem +1

    Wow! thanks for this lovely video Stefan.

  • @EGamer8008_
    @EGamer8008_ Před rokem +66

    I never thought I would feel a tinge of sadness for hearing about an ancient ancestor eventually dying. I mean I knew she was dead. Lucy lived 3million years ago and fragments of her skull are on display almost throughout the entire video. I think the fact that it was brought up that she died and then her possible causes of death were animated triggered somethin in my brain (the sound effects especially). Very educational video, very interesting.

  • @donnahughs9749
    @donnahughs9749 Před rokem +480

    Stories and videos like this remind me of something I like to contemplate: Every single person on earth has one fascinating thing in common, namely that every single one of our ancestors going back millions of years lived long enough to produce offspring before they died. Those are some pretty long ancestral chains; which, given the dangers our forebears faced, strikes me as an amazing accomplishment!

    • @Farweasel
      @Farweasel Před rokem +17

      An excellent point
      but
      What I find absolutley incredible is how they calculated *exactly* what noise would be made by a rhino treading on an Australopithicus (14.22)

    • @insanelyinsensitive4059
      @insanelyinsensitive4059 Před rokem +3

      If you believe in the OUT OF AFRICA theory.

    • @tomnicholson2115
      @tomnicholson2115 Před rokem +14

      @@insanelyinsensitive4059 Do you believe it? Or are you just happy to deny science? You don't make it clear where you stand, just to clarify I do believe (subject to new information) that we did come out of Africa.

    • @insanelyinsensitive4059
      @insanelyinsensitive4059 Před rokem +1

      @@tomnicholson2115 deny science? Who's science? There is more than one theory.

    • @tomnicholson2115
      @tomnicholson2115 Před rokem +15

      @@insanelyinsensitive4059 But are there any theories that have both genetic and archeological evidence to back them up? Because out of Africa does!

  • @gertsgarden
    @gertsgarden Před 2 lety +254

    My mom took me to see Lucy at the Buffalo Museum of Science when I was in 3rd grade, yikes some odd 45 years ago. I've been interested in our early ancestors ever since! Thank you so much for all the time and effort you put into you channel. I think this video should be played along her display it would add so much to the experience. Thanks again!

    • @billybob-ro6qf
      @billybob-ro6qf Před 2 lety +5

      Our early ancestors were Adam & Eve, NOT some dirty ape LOL. You want to truly know the truth then read the BIBLE!

    • @officialrealstories1
      @officialrealstories1 Před 2 lety +2

      @@billybob-ro6qf Yess! 👏

    • @karanaferreira
      @karanaferreira Před 2 lety +1

      Some odd 45 years lol you don’t know your age minus 8 years

    • @BRlGADE_KINGPIN
      @BRlGADE_KINGPIN Před 2 lety

      It’s fake.

    • @alaynaasmr1
      @alaynaasmr1 Před 2 lety +13

      @@billybob-ro6qf this is literal science and your saying some book is true and not ACTUAL science and bones found.

  • @rayz9790
    @rayz9790 Před rokem +2

    Great video! I love your channel and this video was extremely well done. Thank you

  • @Greg-bz2bf
    @Greg-bz2bf Před 2 měsíci

    Thank you; I learned again from you and your team. Keep shining.

  • @keriezy
    @keriezy Před 2 lety +357

    There are times I would give anything to travel to the past. To see our past with my own eyes would be so freaking cool.

    • @patstaysuckafreeboss8006
      @patstaysuckafreeboss8006 Před 2 lety +35

      It’s a shame we will never be able to. But maybe with enough evidence we can put a good story together

    • @meyr1992
      @meyr1992 Před 2 lety +28

      You also wouldn’t last 2 minutes there

    • @meyr1992
      @meyr1992 Před 2 lety +14

      @Cornn Flaek more like , lack of ability to climb high trees and abundance of animals that are stronger and faster than you equal death. If you think you can survive a day 3 million years ago then you are a CHILD

    • @woutervanlent5181
      @woutervanlent5181 Před 2 lety +13

      Nice to hear that more people think in the way i do . I also dream of timemachines

    • @nasiampadeka4606
      @nasiampadeka4606 Před 2 lety +16

      I would like only to watch but not be part of it and be safe 😶

  • @jerrymiller2367
    @jerrymiller2367 Před rokem +446

    I had the pleasure of seeing Lucy's actual bones at the Houston Museum of Natural History some years ago. I was an anthropology major in college, and these videos put a wonderful human perspective on our prehistory. They're very lucid and distill a lot of information, including current discoveries and interpretations. Superbly done! In the video you mentioned that Australopithecus had a longer childhood and developmental period. From what I understand, this is because their babies were born in a more immature state, because their brain cavity could not be too big at birth, otherwise it wouldn't get through the narrower birth canal that evolved because of upright walking. So they were on the path to the longer childhood of modern humans by having to be born biologically immature. Much development had to happen outside the womb. And like so many things in evolution, this probably enabled the co-evolution of something else: a cultural shift to a longer teaching and learning period in childhood while their bodies matured. Which in turn may have driven evolution to produce smarter, better learners to maximize the childhood learning period. . . . And regardless if the males were harem-keepers or not, they would have certainly been present in their babies' childhoods because Australopithecines could not have had large social units---they were probably at the 'band' level of social grouping --- roughly 10 to 30 individuals in a group, including the children. This is likely true because the food capacity of their environment could not support more than that many people in one area, and it wasn't feasible to always be roaming with pregnant women and babies in the group.
    And somewhere along the evolutionary line, it became more advantageous for these pre-humans to cooperate rather than be hostile to each other. War and conflict are expensive and highly fatal, and there are benefits to sharing big game, division of labor, trading knowledge, and of course exchanging mates without dangerous inbreeding. I'd like to see you make a video about this aspect of hominin evolution.

    • @compassioncampaigner728
      @compassioncampaigner728 Před rokem

      Uhhhhhhh.......humans seem to whither without war.
      War is exensive....yep.....just ask gbr bean counters at Haliburton....Raytheon...Lockheed.
      I'm just sayn

    • @swyman10
      @swyman10 Před rokem +19

      I did too! I majored in Anthro & went on for a P.hd in Anthro at THE Ohio State University in the mid to late ‘70’s.
      I got to handle Lucy, the actual fossils, not casts. Dr.’s D Johansson & R Leaky were two of my graduate school advisors. Dr. Johansson was at Case Western U & Dr. Leaky was curator of KNM at the time. I was in a personalized P.hd program studying forensic paleo dental morphology, in ‘77 I was the only grad student I knew of with that major. I never completed my P.hd, I only earned $800/qtr as a ta & we were so broke my folks were supporting us. I had to quit & take a job. I have remained current all these years & at 68 yrs old I fantasize about completing my P.hd sometimes.
      Your comment is right on!❗️

    • @harvestingseason2725
      @harvestingseason2725 Před rokem +3

      @@swyman10 very warming experience thanks for sharing :)

    • @downwithosama1
      @downwithosama1 Před rokem +3

      @@swyman10 if you've got the money now then do it. Or just get a loan and do it anyway 😜

    • @whatthe.4703
      @whatthe.4703 Před rokem +3

      😂😂😂😂😂fake it was a baboons skeleton ..

  • @debbrahalikowski7768
    @debbrahalikowski7768 Před rokem +10

    My prof. at ASU was Don Johanson. He had a replica of Lucy in his office. Also, he was my mentor. So, all of us in his classes had quite an education on Lucy.

  • @matous895
    @matous895 Před 5 měsíci +9

    Sorry, but "Lucy's life began as all life does. With a bang" is just straight comedy 😂

  • @davidianhowe
    @davidianhowe Před 2 lety +98

    Ah yes, birds and hyenas. Our archenemies before heart disease

    • @StefanMilo
      @StefanMilo  Před 2 lety +20

      Don’t forget crocodiles

    • @lakrids-pibe
      @lakrids-pibe Před 2 lety +11

      @@StefanMilo And mosquitoes?
      Did they have malaria back then?
      Edit: Although the parasite responsible for P. falciparum malaria has been in existence for 50,000-100,000 years, the population size of the parasite did not increase until about 10,000 years ago, concurrently with advances in agriculture. (wiki)

    • @devinsmith4790
      @devinsmith4790 Před 2 lety

      @@StefanMilo
      And saber-toothed cats.

    • @isaacbruner65
      @isaacbruner65 Před rokem +1

      @@devinsmith4790 hippos are pretty dangerous too, extremely territorial

  • @chrisball3778
    @chrisball3778 Před 2 lety +74

    I think most of the people watching this have probably heard of 'Lucy', but this is a really brilliant outline of the current state of knowledge about her life and times. All humanity's (maybe) great (X150,000) grandmother was, and remains an amazing woman. Ettore's art for this channel is consistently excellent. He somehow makes even ancestors as distant as A. Afarensis somehow seem like knowable people with rich, valuable lives.

    • @MrLaughingcorpse
      @MrLaughingcorpse Před 2 lety +4

      You actually believe apes turned into humans?

    • @TheMilkMan8008
      @TheMilkMan8008 Před 2 lety +6

      @@MrLaughingcorpse humans are apes.

    • @random6004
      @random6004 Před 2 lety +4

      @@MrLaughingcorpse technically we evolved from the common ancestor then split apart somewhere down the line

    • @mikeoxmall69420
      @mikeoxmall69420 Před rokem

      ​@@MrLaughingcorpse I consider humans a type of ape, but we evolved from a very monkeylike ancestor species. The ones that stayed in the trees stayed monkey, and the ones that chose the ground became us

  • @sdarms111doug9
    @sdarms111doug9 Před rokem

    I enjoyed that. Thank you for posting it!

  • @_rat_5758
    @_rat_5758 Před 9 měsíci +9

    Found you because of other Milo (miniminuteman) and wow I love your videos dude! Such amazing visuals and information and truly connecting just how similar we are - most would brush them off as “ape-humans” but I absolutely love it when people remember that they were technically people! They lived, had emotions, had a family, etc - while almost all living creatures do have those things I often see it so much less recognized in early Hominids

    • @MeganVictoriaKearns
      @MeganVictoriaKearns Před měsícem

      He really is awesome. Glad you found his channel. ❤ miniminuteman too.

  • @TheWuschi
    @TheWuschi Před 2 lety +104

    Again and again and again you give us the most beautiful and most brillant features, Stefan! I cannot tell you, how happy I am about these gifts! This one, once again, is such a perfect mix of scientific education and a touching, heartfelt (and sometimes refreshingly black-humored) art of storytelling that makes you unique among the best science educators on CZcams. Just beautiful, thank you so much!

  • @hesterwright3674
    @hesterwright3674 Před 2 lety +79

    This is the best thing I've watched in ages, I actually teared up at the end. You really brought Lucy to life and made her relatable and more real somehow. Really beautiful and cleverly made content, well done

  • @ethandaniel8123
    @ethandaniel8123 Před rokem

    Wow… I just absolutely love learning about our REAL ANCESTORS.. Super fascinating.. INSANELY FASCINATING. Thank you for educating me man. This channel is awesome and I subscribed. 👍🏼👏🏼 Keep up the FANTASTIC CONTENT MAN!!!

  • @rockit3422
    @rockit3422 Před 9 měsíci +1

    Fabulous! Loved this, thank you💗

  • @elifshow3799
    @elifshow3799 Před 2 lety +247

    Great video “ Lucy,” were discovered in Hadar, Ethiopia. We Ethiopian call her ድንቅነሽ ( Dinknesh ) “ Lucy” is the nickname for the Australopithecus afarensis partial skeleton that was discovered in the Afar desert of Ethiopia in 1974 by an international team of scientists led by former Museum curator Dr. Donald Johanson.
    Thank you 😊

    • @Farweasel
      @Farweasel Před rokem +10

      Hang on a moment.
      Johanson was no one man band: Johanson was working alongside Tom Gray in a gully when the spotted the first of Lucy's bones. But Mary Leakey & Yves Coppens were critical to the dig and working nearby as a team.
      *none* of them would have been there at the critical time had Maurice Taieb not undertaken the original reconnaisance which identified the Hadar Formation as a high probability site.
      Dinkinesh is Amharic for 'You're marvellous'. Which is an apposite handle for Lucy to wear.

    • @eddynewton4081
      @eddynewton4081 Před rokem

      Yes....but Donald Johanson is an atheist. So Donny would try encourage the Big Bang instead of Creation. By the way Creation is how life started. Humans didnot come from 🐒 monkeys

    • @Farweasel
      @Farweasel Před rokem +4

      @@eddynewton4081 Indeed humans did not come from monkeys .......
      They came from *proto-human hominids*
      But you'd better stick to the big book of fables because understanding Science takes intelligence.

    • @jerrymiller2367
      @jerrymiller2367 Před rokem +4

      You should read the book "Lucy" which details her discovery. It's a great read.

    • @goldenovaries
      @goldenovaries Před rokem +1

      @Soheyl Kian thank you for saying so 🙏

  • @andreapandoli3168
    @andreapandoli3168 Před 2 lety +54

    I don't usually comment under CZcams videos, but i can't just see an amazing video, able to both give scientific information and goosebumps without leaving my sincere congratulation. I think that this video explains very well why you are my favorite CZcamsr Stefan, wish you good luck with the future. Also shoutout to Ettore Mazza! His artstyle definitely captures the emotions of the video.

  • @handymanny_777
    @handymanny_777 Před 9 měsíci +2

    Can't get enough of your videos

  • @SeaTurtle515
    @SeaTurtle515 Před měsícem +1

    Great video, Stefan. Thank you.

  • @flyingsodwai1382
    @flyingsodwai1382 Před rokem +38

    Wow! A frank and earnest doc not given over to sensationalism and soundbite phrases. THANKYOU soooooo much!! I love how you constantly mention how we don't know things for sure and some things are speculation. It's so refreshing, Instant subscribe and like.

  • @richabrams6240
    @richabrams6240 Před 2 lety +464

    "We can only imagine" is absolutely true for all of this. The foundation of science is observation. Who was there 3 million years ago to watch and record what happened? We know 1% and imagine the remaining 99%.

    • @skippy9214
      @skippy9214 Před 2 lety +35

      Nobody was there that long ago, but whatever lived there left fossils and radioisotopes. We can observe those, quite well.

    • @Bajannubian095
      @Bajannubian095 Před 2 lety +11

      @@skippy9214 and those fossils don’t show no signs of evolution

    • @skippy9214
      @skippy9214 Před 2 lety +82

      @@Bajannubian095 well, each individual fossil can’t. That’s not how it works.
      But, let’s say you have a series of fossils. Each has a slight alteration from the previous in the series. Your starting and ending fossils look very different, but in the context of the ones in between, you can clearly see how one morphed into the other.
      That is a simplified form of what we see. Granted, the fossil record is never that easy. There will be branches, homologies, and incomplete chains. But there’s enough of these chains, and some are complete enough for us to clearly see that there is a linear descent.
      And fossils are not the main form of evidence. They’re the most well known and the easiest to see, but genetics is probably the most secure.

    • @pi1596
      @pi1596 Před 2 lety +5

      Carbon dating, u can find the age of anything using half life

    • @fumble_brewski5410
      @fumble_brewski5410 Před 2 lety +21

      That's because Darwinian evolution IS 99% imagination. To date, no intermediate forms have been verified, only fossilized non-human primates. Darwinism predicts that there should be intermediate stages in the evolution of life between the ancestral form of an organism and its presumed descendent. For this reason, Harvard paleontologist, the late Stephen J. Gould, wrote: "The history of most fossil species includes two features particularly inconsistent with gradualism: 1. Stasis. Most species exhibit no directional change during their tenure on earth. They appear in the fossil record looking much the same as when they disappear; morphological change is usually limited and directionless. 2. Sudden appearance. In any local area, a species does not arise gradually by the
      steady transformation of its ancestors; it appears all at once and `fully formed.’ "
      But let Charles Darwin say it himself: "If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ exists which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. If numerous species, belonging to the same genera or families, have really started into life at once, the fact would be fatal to the theory of evolution through natural selection.”
      Fossils do reveal some truth about Darwin’s theory-they reveal that the same inconsistencies he noted between his theory and the fossil data persist, even after over 150 years of frantic searches for elusive transitions. Not only is there no single, undisputed transition, but real fossils reveal that animals were fully formed from the beginning. But of course, evolutionists don't wish to be confused by the facts. 🦖

  • @ObamAmerican48
    @ObamAmerican48 Před rokem +1

    Excellent video, so glad I found your channel.

  • @tiffanypriore9220
    @tiffanypriore9220 Před 9 měsíci +1

    Love your content! Super informative & interesting

  • @holidayarmadillo8653
    @holidayarmadillo8653 Před 2 lety +6

    Absolutely LOVE this channel, Stefan. You’re great at making videos and narrating, and you have a very nice presence/charisma. Easy to listen to you talk. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and entertaining and educating us all! Your hard work is absolutely appreciated 💪🏽

  • @readmycomment3157
    @readmycomment3157 Před 2 lety +25

    What a wonderful video Stefan, the quality of your work is getting so good. The artwork is stunning too. Well done to all involved.

  • @Heartbreak_Kid_
    @Heartbreak_Kid_ Před 10 měsíci

    The way of presentation is really amazing, cheers! 🥂

  • @janepage3608
    @janepage3608 Před 9 měsíci +3

    Excellent film, beautifully presented and told. Thank you.

  • @TheOriginalCranberyy
    @TheOriginalCranberyy Před 2 lety +4

    The production value in this video is superb! I recently watched a lot of your old videos. It's amazing how much the details have improved.
    The content has always been quality, thank you.

  • @formicapple2
    @formicapple2 Před 2 lety +150

    About 35 years ago, I read the book, “Lucy” by Richard Leaky. It is a fascinating book that also contains the various rivalries between various paleo archeologists.

    • @ariesleorising9421
      @ariesleorising9421 Před 2 lety +2

      I read that in college getting my Psychology degree with an Anthropology minor. Great read.

    • @hippiemom8481
      @hippiemom8481 Před 2 lety +2

      Why don’t you read the book by the guy who discovered Lucy?

    • @hippiemom8481
      @hippiemom8481 Před 2 lety +1

      Donald Johanson

    • @formicapple2
      @formicapple2 Před 2 lety +1

      @@hippiemom8481 thanks, I will

    • @susanmccormick6022
      @susanmccormick6022 Před rokem

      formicapple2: That I would like to read if it's still in print.Big fan of the late Dr.

  • @100amps
    @100amps Před 8 měsíci +1

    Wow. Really well written, Stephan!

  • @pailhorsegaming6762
    @pailhorsegaming6762 Před rokem +3

    This is an awesome video, I’m teaching my students about early humans, and lucy, and this gave me a lot to consider!

  • @formulajuan6038
    @formulajuan6038 Před 2 lety +13

    This is your best video so far. The production, editing and voiceover is truly professional.
    I salute you and thank you again for great content!

  • @KilldeerCheer
    @KilldeerCheer Před 2 lety +9

    Very wonderfully-made video!! Your summary of australopithecine research was thorough enough to cover all the major points and you explained everything in a very easy-to-follow manner. I loved the atmosphere of the video and the beautiful paleoart and I especially appreciated the little bits of humor here and there. Cheers!

  • @ninadsheth8422
    @ninadsheth8422 Před 5 měsíci +4

    Brilliant detailing of the abiding story and the many mysteries of Lucy !!!

  • @anamariacastro5272
    @anamariacastro5272 Před 6 měsíci +4

    Thank you so much! Makes you appreciate how beautiful life is and why it's such a miracle that we're even here enjoying the wonders of this world. I'm in awe of this beautiful, unique and varied creation we have at hand, and that's all thanks to that gene that was installed in our ancestors which told them what to do next in every single step of the way. Just incredibly miraculous 🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤

  • @rhiannonm8132
    @rhiannonm8132 Před 2 lety +8

    your videos are fantastic, i love how you give great info with high quality visuals and writing, and include enough personality and humor to make it really engaging and fun to watch.

  • @ponypals100
    @ponypals100 Před 2 lety +191

    I saw a copy or a 3D model of Lucy’s bones, it made me so emotional seeing her despite the fact it wasn’t the actual fossils. She is so so so amazing and I genuinely find her story so beautifully tragic

    • @solmoman
      @solmoman Před rokem

      while in reality, she was basically a monkey digging through her feces after nuts and corn

    • @redvelvet9215
      @redvelvet9215 Před 10 měsíci

      You definitely inherited her small brain

  • @bob_s_drawkcab
    @bob_s_drawkcab Před rokem

    This is a brilliaiant video, the art, the music and the information....thank you!

  • @the._.nabihouse
    @the._.nabihouse Před 10 měsíci +4

    Its amazing how lucy and many other australopiths continue to teach us all many things about our phylogeny and went through all the events which slowly led to our creation, the truly advanced humans. Youll continue to be mourned lucy and keep doing your amazing work ❤

  • @BigBird3502
    @BigBird3502 Před 2 lety +5

    One minute in and can already see such a dramatic change in your production quality - already loved your videos before and this is just awesome!

  • @straighttalking2090
    @straighttalking2090 Před rokem +16

    BRILLIANT!! Informative, thought provoking, well illustrated and even emotional (wasn't expecting that) and great narration. Helped bring together a lot of open ended thoughts on evolution for me.

  • @randalliveyivey136
    @randalliveyivey136 Před rokem

    Good video. I've watched your work for years. You've made wonderful progress in the quality of your product. Glad to see the microphone taped to the spoon is gone. Keep up the good work. respectfully, Randall.

  • @rebeccaLV
    @rebeccaLV Před rokem

    wow what a gift having your videos will be TY

  • @carolynvanarsdale
    @carolynvanarsdale Před rokem +97

    Love your content, Stefan. Makes me laugh, helps me learn, and is unique among the field. Keep it up!

    • @carolynvanarsdale
      @carolynvanarsdale Před rokem +7

      That megantereon animation will haunt me tho

    • @moaoz
      @moaoz Před 5 měsíci +2

      lol you give him money and he doesn't even care

    • @natchocolatina
      @natchocolatina Před 4 měsíci

      @@moaozshe voluntarily gave him the $$ although it would be appreciated if he answered he doesn’t have too he probably is busy 😅

  • @jamesrussell7760
    @jamesrussell7760 Před 2 lety +124

    Stefan, I used to participate in a citizen-scientist study in Mozambique, identifying pictures of animals captured in trail cams. One day, I came upon an image of a chimpanzee walking bi-pedal and I was struck by how much the image evoked my imagination of what an Australopithecus would look like in the flesh. I joked with a fellow C-S that I was seeing 3 million years in the past. Great video, Stefan!

    • @rayanrahmoune1064
      @rayanrahmoune1064 Před 2 lety +1

      Why do you guys follow everything you see in such videos. It's proven that lucy didn't exist go look for articles published in some scientific magazines. I don't have the reference now.
      I'm quoting from this professor's youtube channel: Dr Eyad Qunaibi Global Channel
      His content is mainly in arabic but you could read the subtitles.
      We're all looking for truth and science we shouldn't stereotype any scientist due to his ethnicity.
      It would be very logical to listen to both who believe in the Evolution Joke and the ones who don't.
      I would love to hear your response.

    • @bummster4236
      @bummster4236 Před 2 lety +13

      @@rayanrahmoune1064 "Proven that Lucy didn't exist". Buddy. We quite literally have her parts. And even if she didn't exist, we still know evolution took place and can prove it with countless amounts of evidence. "Evolution joke" I will never understand why so many people deny fact 😔✋

    • @rayanrahmoune1064
      @rayanrahmoune1064 Před 2 lety

      ​@@bummster4236 Do you call the lies of so many of your scientists, and the mistakes done throughout history to prove that the Evolution Joke is real facts?
      Most of them end up being unreal but the problem is that people don't update their information, at least go watch some videos about the people who truly understand science, and who don't build lies because of their beliefs.

    • @richardstephens5570
      @richardstephens5570 Před 2 lety

      @@rayanrahmoune1064 Religious people are going to reject any evidence that doesn't match their beliefs. Science doesn't care about "faith", or old books, it looks for the truth. Even if there were no fossils, DNA evidence alone proves human evolution is true.

    • @rayanrahmoune1064
      @rayanrahmoune1064 Před 2 lety

      ​@@richardstephens5570 Let me clarify some points for you:
      Read it all and tell me about it, we could change beliefs don't worry about that.
      I believe in God, and I'm sure the revelation we recieved from doesn't contradict his creation, how could god not know his creation, so what we should do is understanding his creation, finding the laws.
      When I started looking in the topic of Evolution I had so many contradictions in mind that definetly disproves it, One: why aren't there mixed creatures, half ape and half human, since evolution doesn't occur in a small amount of time, definetly those apes will do sex with each other and the genes will be mixed right? then why do we have pure apes and pure humans, you may say some ppl look like apes, I say others look like cats, cows, pigs, and this is not a scientific way. Two: We all know that there is a food chain when it comes to nature, when a species extincs, we will have major problems, so if every species is evolving the way it suits it, or random mutations, will the food change be stable, no, and the proof of this is that there are so many campaings and organizations that do their best to protect endagered species. I believe I just proved that evolution is unreal using logic and some science, but let's do more.
      When I made some research I found that If you truly Believe in evolution (I consider it as a belief because it's not scientifically proven) you will end up being contradicting science. A friend of mine believes in it and started giving me examples of its evidences, which made me say I need to go to science to strengthen my points which he wasn't able to disprove. After searching I found that there were some skull that existed millions of years before which look identical to ours, during all this time we couldn't evolve, why?. Furthemore, I found that so many scietists made lies in their researches, that appeared to be wrong 20 or 15 years after by other scientists, like saying we found a human tooth, but in reality it's a pig's tooth, we found bones of lucy but in reality they were spread in a moutain and we are not sure they are from the same body, lies in embriology and so much more.
      My explanation for this is that some ppl want some money and they bring such jokes, make books and movies and stories which are unreal, stupid. Normal ppl like you and me watch and buy resulting in good profits.
      If you are truly seeking truth I hope you watch the videos of this man, they are not in english but you could read the subtitles.
      Episode 53 I guess is the best so far when it comes to evolution you could watch when he prepares the subtitlesl
      Dr Eyad El Qunaibi Global Channel the journey of certainty. If you want to contact me on instagram: rayan __ rahmoune no spaces and that is a double underscore. My profile pic is a candle in dark area

  • @simpiil
    @simpiil Před rokem +1

    such a beautiful story we all have in common and a beautiful, funny yet educational video that shares it. Thank you 😊

  • @kristeljimenez5412
    @kristeljimenez5412 Před 6 měsíci

    What a beautiful video, the way it is narrated, very moving and the same time with a tremendous scientific rigor.

  • @AraboNormand
    @AraboNormand Před 2 lety +6

    From the cheeky “began in the same way as all life does-with a bang” :D
    to the last comments about death, grief and fossils,
    I feel like I've been taken on a journey of emotions and i want to thank you for the ride.
    Beautiful

  • @DeuceGenius
    @DeuceGenius Před 2 lety +22

    RIP Lucy. youve helped your species more than you could have ever known.

  • @softspain
    @softspain Před 6 měsíci

    Beautiful video. Thank you so much

  • @jcmusc
    @jcmusc Před 8 měsíci +4

    What a journey we have gone through to be to where we are, watching videos about the past on CZcams. We've really come a looooooong way

  • @PraiseworthyNobleman
    @PraiseworthyNobleman Před 2 lety +24

    Hi Stefan, I'm from Indonesia and find your video is truly amazing. The video, the music, the narration. It's preserved very well.

  • @hayleywoods8657
    @hayleywoods8657 Před 2 lety +8

    Stefan, you always deliver such incredible videos! I look forward to every upload. Keep up the good work!

  • @ryleerichter804
    @ryleerichter804 Před rokem +3

    I appreciate things like this being free thank you all for your effort 🖤

  • @refferris6710
    @refferris6710 Před měsícem

    This is such a beautiful video, thank you

  • @normanvanrooy3113
    @normanvanrooy3113 Před 2 lety +3

    Hi Stefan, like most of the other commentators I really enjoy your relaxed style of documentary production. Very informative, nice graphics, and your script is easy going and quite relatable to our own behaviors. It must be fun for you to produce these as well as a lot of hard work finding video clips to match your story telling. The pace of your films are another thing I enjoy about them. You are becoming quite skilled in your film making craft and I am lucky enough to be able to view them on CZcams for free. Most probably it would be good for me to chip in on your costs. Thank you Stefan.

  • @nancyclark
    @nancyclark Před 2 lety +6

    This was very well done and entertaining! Thank you for uploading this!

  • @sergiorodriguezballestero714
    @sergiorodriguezballestero714 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Thanks Milo, for bringing emotions, feelings and a more "human" face to our ancestors