Built for the Stone Age - part one: Pleasure

[Xzazazazia]

5:22 (Later that day)

[Chuukun1]

I would watch this if it made it to TV

[jaskamakkara]

What do you mean by there being species that have been around much longer?

[lindybeige]

@jaskamakkara Humans have only been around about 2 million years. Crocodiles have been around for hundreds of millions of years.

[jaskamakkara]

@lindybeige In the sense that their anatomy hasn't changed as radically as ours during that time? I mean we share the same ancestors (at least that's what I've heard) with them so we have been around as long as them in the literal sense.

[AdNeeb]

@lindybeige

Well, the genus Homo has been around about 2.4 million years. Homo sapiens has only been around for about 250 thousand years.

[lindybeige]

@AdNeeb Homo sapiens sapiens for perhaps as little as 40,000.

[MiRyRE]

Pretty good idea, but you may want to check out on getting a better microphone.

[lindybeige]

@MiRyRE It was a very echoey room. I was using two mics, both of them professional quality, one on the camera, and one on a boom. When I edited it, I was in a professional editing suite with great speakers, and the echo effect sounded great. Several people watching this video on other equipment have complained about Zeus and his echo. On some televisions/computers it sounds okay, on others it is indistinct. Sorry.

[Username93611]

@lindybeige

I can't comment on the other televisions or computers that it sounds great on, but I'm using reference headphones EQ'd to a flat response, and the echoing voice often disappears into a jumble of inaudibility.

[tapatapaz]

randomly got to your evo psy mini site.. and i liked it

nice work

[Keasri]

I have my own addiction too, which I'm very aware of. I am still trying to tell my own archaic pleasure seeking device into believing that making lots of money is joyful. No success so far. But you know what strange thing is. Many people seems to be so in tune with what modern society has to offer. So I don't think having a totally new brain is necessary to live in this age. Just a little twist here and there in our brains or attitudes is enough.

[BelgianGeneral]

This is brilliant!

[OmniAndro]

id watch this if it was on tv :)

watching part 2 now

[WSWarthog]

I like it.

[mageslayerisking]

Brilliant. This is well thought out, from what I have seen. You have a story tellers knack, sir.

[PlayboyForThisLife]

stupid view

[lindybeige]

@PlayboyForThisLife Care to elaborate?

[44SCB]

The reason humans are so complex is because we can come up with new ideas where as animals cant. We have computers and they dont we can go from hunter 2 farmer and animals stick with the same ideas.

[MartinTheReader]

@44SCB at this point I feel I have to quote the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy:

"For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much — the wheel, New York, wars and so on — whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man — for precisely the same reasons."

[robcmoseley]

All your stuff is amusing and true.

[ccharlton]

This is something that should be on T.V please keep pushing this mate, the humour was witty yet light. Your voice as said is super for the job and the scenes themselves where funny,

[ANCESTERSMEMORIES]

well done

i enjoyed this vid

please look into ,,,,michio kaku<<my fav scientist

he has many vids on youtube

quantum theory ,,string theory

[StoopidSins]

I wish hospitals did not exist so evolution would continue..

Yet.. i'm going to work for one..

[lindybeige]

Evolution continues, but the environment alters. Hospitals will create an evolutionary pressure to be good at getting the most out of them, or, if they are bad, avoiding them.

[elgostine]

absolutely awsome set of videos ive never seen all this stuff don this way,

btw... may i ask, you mentioned doing evolutionary psycology. is that usually an undergraduate or postgraduate degree.

[lindybeige]

I've never heard of an entire degree in evolutionary psychology, but I gave some lectures on it as part of a general psychology degree. I was a graduate in archaeology (hunter gatherers) working in the psychology dept.

[elgostine]

ah, my mistake... in anycase..this series pretty much has summerised alot of what ive heard about human evolution, and done so spectacularly.

[elgostine]

so to clarify. if i wanted to do similar work to what you do, id need to do a degree in archeology?

currently im a student of environmental forensic science (pollutent analysis, legislation etc) and ive had a great interest in history so im thinking, later on down the track how id go about doing your sort of work because its endlessly fascinating.

[lindybeige]

No, you needn't do archaeology. That was just my route in.  I'm sure that there are many other routes to it. Anything biological and Darwinian would do, or you could just get a degree in whatever and then change direction. Probably best just to start reading a lot about it.

[elgostine]

thats a relief. that means my degree path in environmental sciences (YES, that means it covers chlimate change quite abit as you can imagine.) can be maybnee altered with reletive ease, or make it easier to come back a few years later.

ill beet it would have been a riot to film.. im quite frankly jealous..

[oywidapoodles]

I love the host's objectivity. It's amusing. :)

[whowantsabighug]

are those hormone things the reason why young boys love making bows and arrows and fighting and stuff?

[lindybeige]

Not exactly. Hormones are simply signalling chemicals. They have no innate effects. What happened was that humans evolved to react to testosterone by becoming more interested in things of use to men, such as survival and hunting techniques.

[Deadman1709]

Well, if you consider "boy" and "girl" as genders. Gender is socially constructed while sex is biologically.

I know some people who was born as male, biologically, but due to some misidentification, they were raised as girls, and they are exactly like girls. And vice versa.

That says, making bows ... are socially constructed and "inherited". Boys, I would say. influenced by previous boys and thus, it continues. The case of misidentified gender (not the same as sex) illustrate this point.

[lindybeige]

I don't think your case holds up, or possibly I have misunderstood you. Do you really know some people personally who were raised as girls but were biologically boys? These are exceedingly rare, and their cases are much studied, and so far none I have read about has been successfully raised as a girl. Indeed, their cases are used to illustrate how it is impossible to raise someone against their biology.

[ElveeKaye]

Have you seen the recent debate over athlete Caster Semenya? There is no way one can look at this woman and not conclude that she either has a Y chromosome, or a very high testosterone level. She has a deep voice, a mannish face and physique, and facial hair. Yet, her friends and parents insist she is female. Has she been raised "against her biology?" Hard to tell, not knowing exactly what her biology is. Human sexuality is very strange sometimes!

[BlueSpirals]

i think that's primarily cultural.

in some societies, like japan, this behavior is discouraged and shows up little in children.

[lindybeige]

I'm afraid I don't know to what you are referring.

[CorvusVal]

lol very pythonesque, shame it never came off :(

[Rudadiz]

shocking.

[lindybeige]

Ambiguous.

[tyciol]

lol at the dancing vids

[PineappleCatapult]

The end sequence reminded me of my job.

Also, you are my hero.

[Bloodylion101]

so you walk against walls to than xD