Becoming Human : Last Human Standing (NOVA) Part 1/4 HD

[Pilaf1984]

I'd point out the one flaw repeated over and over in this video and the discussion of evolution in general. We didn't come from apes - we ARE still apes, taxonomical. That's like saying ducks came from birds or tigers came from cats.

[54markl]

Homo Sapiens absorbed Neanderthal, he vastly outnumbered him. Neanderthal became part of Sapiens. The hybrid is still around, it's called "Europeans," and they have enjoyed some small successes in the meantime. All people are just different varieties of Heidelbergensis, Asians are Sapiens combined with Denisova, Africans came about in West Africa when Sapiens combined with Rhodesiensis (as just recently found). We're all different varieties of the same thing. Today we're called Mankind.

[Urvakhsha]

We ware not apes. We have common ancestors as apes. Stupid docu from start.

[DemonicAss4ssin72]

@Urvakhsha *Face-Palm* Learn how to spell before you comment...

[impulsivegrrl]

Please please create ordered playlists for these videos I would love to be able to watch them in entirety without interruptions! :)

[batrider]

Excellent video uploads by WhyEvolutionIsTrue4. The world needs to learn this and PBS Nova does an excellent job. Unfortunately America's education system is so lacking that most people never bother to find interest in things put out by excellent stations like PBS. Most people are ignorantly blissful in believing the world is only 6000 years old.

[mhr88]

homo sapiens killed all neandertal but they kept some of their women for sex ,,thats why we have about 5% neandertal in our DNA ,,,but African american dont have neandertal in their DNA.

[Urvakhsha]

@mhr88

LOL Homo sapiens did not genocide Neanderthals.

[interstellarwonder]

some scientists are saying humans have no neandertal DNA, some scientists are saying humans have some neandertal DNA, will science make up their fucken mind!?!?! for fuck sakes,please!!!!!!!?!!!??stop confusing humanity YOU ASSHOLES!

[M79609]

@interstellarwonder Everyone except for Africans have 1-5% Neanderthal DNA.

[interstellarwonder]

@M79609 right on man,humans are proof of life that god din't make

[Urvakhsha]

@M79609

Nop, just Europeans. :P

[dumbnetworks]

we are in part neanderthals

[Mrmoc7]

@dumbnetworks

I'm not.

[dumbnetworks]

@Mrmoc7 take a dna test... or you did already?

[Mrmoc7]

@dumbnetworks

I happen to be African. To be more precise, "Modern African." I do not have neanderthal DNA.

[dumbnetworks]

@Mrmoc7 well It is possible, however apparently there were interbreedings for tens of thousand of years so you might just happen to have the gene :). So black doesn't mean non neanderthal. But apparently you know the drill. If you don't have it then, that is also fine with me.

[Mrmoc7]

@dumbnetworks

Anything is possible, but as far as we know now, all peoples across all continents possess a Neanderthal haplotype except people from Sub-saharan Africa and the original Australians.

[marcjtdc]

why did we survive and all the others disappear? maybe "they" don't want us to know, but I think we killed our competition.

[TheCarlliinha]

@marcjtdc lol

[Kinkspace]

@marcjtdc It is try we are a very violent stupid monkey, but evidence suggests that it was our ability to adapt when climate change occurred. That was then, this is now, and now due to artificial evolution selective breeding programs resulting from industrialization of our spiecies and the subsequent mindsets/expectations/beliefs that have evolved along with our ever increasing population necessary to support such a value system we are no longer adaptable to the same degree.

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[Kinkspace]

@marcjtdc Darwin observed that natural selection occurred via the process of ability of adaption to environment. Those that did not adapt to their environment became extinct, those that did survived.

This was corrupted in meaning by (Comp Wikki) Herbert Spence, who first used the phrase – after reading Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species– in his Principles of Biology (1864), in which he drew parallels between his own economic theories and Darwin's biological ones, writing, ...

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[RWizzay86]

@Kinkspace give it a f*cking rest! Your boring mate! You pertinently state yourself that the human species has been the dominant species on earth for a mere hairs width of both the entire life of the earth and even those other species who have dominated it at various points throughout it's history. Surely as you sit there at your PC (or maybe laptop, as it rests more easily on your bulging gut), chowing down on another twinky; that the human species has far outstripped the achievements

[Kinkspace]

@RWizzay86 Projections of a territorial predator stupid monkey.

Your are relating to yourself, you are unable to relate to moi.

[RWizzay86]

@Kinkspace 'Your are'? Monkey see monkey do! You mug!

[RWizzay86]

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of any other species and whether we fulfill your prophecy of self destruction or not, then it's still been a hell of a ride. Everything is finite, the human race quite clearly included, but my god have we burned brightly! Go outside mate, you might enjoy it!

[Kinkspace]

@marcjtdc "This survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called 'natural selection', or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life."

Darwin first used Spencer's new phrase "survival of the fittest" as a synonym for natural selection in the fifth edition of On the Origin of Species, published in 1869.

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[Kinkspace]

@marcjtdc Darwin meant it as a metaphor for "better adapted for immediate, local environment", not the common inference of "in the best physical shape". Hence, it is not a scientific description.

The Herbert Spence definition was jumped on by politicians, the ruling elite etc of the time & indeed ever since to justify their actions of war, false morality, subjugation, tyranny & many forms of "legal" slavery.

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[Kinkspace]

@marcjtdc It does not take a rocket scientist to work out that this in turn has done no favours to our spiecies in respect of adaptation qualities being demonised, at best frowned upon in our political economic systems favouring conformism.

Simultaneously our spiecies is now responsible for the 6th mass extinction, never before in earths history have so many spiecies become extinct in such a short time frame. Never as a result of one spiecies.

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[Kinkspace]

@marcjtdc The results of which will be the ultimate destruction of the very bandwidth necessary to maintain human life Earth has a self regulating mechanism, therefore as more spiecies become extinct it will become less supporting of human life

We may have already passed the event horizon on reversal of both the extinction rate of spiecies that's responsible for maintaining the habitable zone we are dependent upon & that of our own ability to adapt to ongoing natural changes of environment

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[marcjtdc]

@Kinkspace We, homosapiens, have and still do kill everything we touch. We have the ability to be both benevolent and malevolent. 

[Kinkspace]

@marcjtdc We do and I am working full out on the latter becoming the primary value system and dominant characteristic of our nature, which is achievable over time as altruism exists in our most basic survival instincts in the reptilian part of our brain. It has been over ridden for thousands of years by memetics linked to the salvation meme, linked to the king Cnut syndrome etc which is not a simple matter connected to religion but to all "belief" in a multitude of one-true-way-isms.

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[Kinkspace]

@marcjtdc Unfortunately every political, economic & legal system we have built enforces the one-true-way-ism belief structures that need to be dismantled/reverse engineered. For the first time in history due to the internet & will of an increasing majority of the population, reversal of the one-true-way-ism mindset stands a hope in hells chance of being achievable and workable with effort and without prejudice diligence, but time is not on our side...

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[Kinkspace]

@marcjtdc I'll just keep putting one foot in front of the other and hope my great grandchildren will inherit a better world than I did.

[Kinkspace]

@marcjtdc Placing the two side by side it is indeed a strong possibility that our event horizon for survival as a spiecies has been long surpassed. This does not mean that we will all die tomorrow as that is not how it works. If the event horizon has been passed we will have a long and painful dwindling after a peak of population over the next 50- 100 thousand years. but extinct we will be... Dead men walking as the saying goes.

Hell of a legacy to leave out future generations.

[BloodyLisBeth]

@marcjtdc by eating them,maybe...

[Kinkspace]

Ok as much as I was looking forwards to watch this, the opening statement "Humans without a doubt the smartest animal on Earth." Was more than enough for me. 8 sec's, a falsehood, your on par with the creationists.

I'll explain: Vy = Vg + Ve + Vi + 2COVge + Ve that's just the basics.

We're stupid monkeys, we've only been on the planet a short time in comparison to the majority of species & we're already a threat to all species including ourselves, & the makers of this think we're smart :)))

[darkwolf38]

@Kinkspace To be a threat to all life, including us, takes intelligence. 

[Kinkspace]

@darkwolf38 I disagree it takes stupidity. The aim of life is to survive, it is an unquestionable fact that we have failed to acknowledge this in our actions and non actions, where other species have managed perfectly well.

Indeed our artificial evolution due to industrialization has only fed our ego and delusion of entitlement. Many do not even grasp the concept that as a species we are no different from any other in character.

You obviously did not understand the simplistic equation I left.

[RWizzay86]

@Kinkspace But it's very fact that we are able to appreciate that there is more to life than just survival that marks us as intelligent creatures.

[Kinkspace]

@RWizzay86 ROLMAO! You believe! :)))

[Kinkspace]

@RWizzay86 And remember, forgetting all the other spiecies, we have not even walked the planet for 50% of the time Neanderthals did, & if we become extinct over the next 100,000 years then they are a far more successful spiecies than humans. In the grand scheme of things we are not doing well, indeed we delude ourselves that dominance rather than adaptation is the key to our survival.

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[Kinkspace]

@RWizzay86 We cannot fight nature and win. We are part of nature, to fight it is to fight ourselves and will only result in creating a situation where we will have to produce our own breathable air as nothing else will. Our own life support machine, its life Jim but not as we know it.

We are not special, we are not superior, indeed it is that arrogant, narcissistic, egotistical "belief" that has been and will continue to be our undoing.

I call it the "King Cnut syndrome" ;)

[bad4ever2001]

@Kinkspace But considering our technological achievements thus far, even you at some point must admit: "not bad for a bunch of apes" c'mon, I know you must have thought so at some point :}

[Kinkspace]

@bad4ever2001 LOL, Never actually, I think it heinous baggage that no other species has found necessary to develop in order to survive for millennial.

[ohmphthschwrhu]

@bad4ever2001 dont you think our motivation for techno development, which henged on war constantly,makes your comment as haphazard as the wheel sword musket nuke?we can identify 32 types of emotions now.you can pick any 7 and practice them till you develop an intended dexterity totruely mature as a group.instead the best shit going for us today is religion and monks snorting some bullshit uphoria into their nirvana.the mind will create! mine your emotions first to stop the psycho fantasies

[blazereef]

i hate how they say we were no longer ape, we ARE apes, dont give the creotards more to fuck with

[MrRedthief]

With these discoveries and future discoveries everyone should see that there is no need for a supernatural cause for us to be here.