Does this Footprint Prove Humans Originated in Europe?

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23 күн бұрын

I suppose I don't have much to say in the description. The distant past is a confusing place with far more fog than visibility. But it's fun to think about, and even more fun to watch it change.
So what do you think - did Crete have apes?
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@RareEarthSeries 22 күн бұрын

When I say hominid are the great apes whereas you're a hominin i should have said humans are hominids but not all great apes are hominins But I didnt say that did I? No. But here we are asking for support regardless: www.patreon.com/rareearth ko-fi.com/rareearth

@jamesglenn4151 22 күн бұрын

hahaha glad you beat me to it! keep it frosty mate loved your content for years!

@RareEarthSeries 22 күн бұрын

@@xp8969 the audio is just directly cut from me talking into the mic - I don't hear any major issues in the edit, certainly not ones that leave the video unwatchable

@disky01 22 күн бұрын

@RareEarthSeries Bro, my guy, my dude. You're fine.

@5t4n5 21 күн бұрын

@@xp8969 You need some decent speakers for your computer, and a decent computer, because the sound was perfectly ok to listen to, i heard every word perfectly ok.

@DIREWOLFx75 21 күн бұрын

"other creatures got here, so why not they?" Thank goodness that there's SOMEONE who actually looks at evidence instead of just trying to disprove anything that doesn't fit the currently accepted dogma. Because yes, no need for SAILING(why not rowing? paddling?) to get there. Lots of species got across waters without any connecting lands. It as a completely worthless argument. "is it really that much of a stretch" Nope. It is in fact VERY plausible that pre-humans figured out how to get across waters with the help of something floating. And as you said, how did monkeys get to S.America? That's MUCH longer and on an ocean that have much more dangerous weather. When it comes to archeology, there is one horribly big issue with the official science. That they tend to treat anything that has not been PROVEN without any doubt to have happened, is completely impossible until proven otherwise. It's terribly annoying. Anyone who cannot look at something new with an unprejudiced mind has already failed as a scientist, because science is looking at all evidence and trying to figure out what it means, not making assumptions to fit the evidence into. Evidence does not stop being evidence just because we find it implausible to be possible. The migration of humans to Americas is an excellent example of this. Until recently every piece of evidence pointing towards migration there before a landbridge existed, was dismissed, often outright casually and arrogantly. And yet now, the last decade of findings have pretty much provided close to rocksolid evidence of migration happening before the landbridge could possibly have existed. And now the accepted narrative is changing towards likewise instead rejecting that the less solid evidence of even earlier migrations could possibly be true. And yet most of that evidence is now at the same level of validity that the previously discarded evidence was a few decades ago. And always always, the single biggest problem is the assumption of primitivism. Assumptions that has been disproven literally thousands upon thousands of times, and yet we STILL keep going with the bad logic of "less technology and ancient=inferior ability to think or invent". Also the fallacy of equating knowledge with intelligence. Ancient pre-humans would also have their geniuses, the lower populations means they would be fewer and further between, but there's no reason to assume that someone with the mental abilities of Da Vinci didn't exist a few million years ago. They would have had vastly inferior resources to build upon of course, but the most likely problems and questions they would have tried to solve would also generally be dramatically less complex and not require nearly as much nonlocal resources. All you need for a raft is the very primitive toolmaking of very early pre-humans, and basically seeing something float in water. And realising that something hollow floats better, is a very easy next step. So yes, rafts and primitive canoes is pretty much guaranteed to have existed for millions of years. And possibly one of the single most reinvented technologies in history.

@palinironthumb8522 22 күн бұрын

Just a heads up, hippos can't swim (they just run on the ground underwater), so how they got there is even more amazing.

@RareEarthSeries 22 күн бұрын

I had no idea, that's so cool thanks

@meisteremm 22 күн бұрын

They had great scuba gear.

@nonsequitor 21 күн бұрын

Here to post same 😅👍

@nonsequitor 21 күн бұрын

@@RareEarthSeriesnow you know this. .. imagine all those documentary scenes of hippos chasing small boats... Yup, that hippo is running on the riverbed, or sinking and jumping up and forward😳😂 .kinda makes it even scarier for me. Btw it's the muscle mass that sinks them not incapacity to doggy paddle- hippo paddle?

@raedwulf61 21 күн бұрын

They flew, of course.

@Trisador9 22 күн бұрын

"... but!, but, huge but - brazilian sized butt *gestures* ..." -Evan Hadfield, talking about palaeoarchaeology, 2024.

@kacperwoch4368 21 күн бұрын

For a second i thought it was a Stefan Milo video.

@Hollylivengood 21 күн бұрын

@@kacperwoch4368 You know Stefan is watching this, wishing he'd come up with this line.

@Nmethyltransferase 21 күн бұрын

Come for the obscure stories. Lurk for an education in biology, paleontology, and anthropology. Stay for the culture.

@rridderbusch518 22 күн бұрын

My daughter made an error (not a typo) on her Ph.D thesis in Human Genetics. It went unnoticed until it was published. A student spotted the error. It took her months to make everything make sense again. It happens.

@0topon 22 күн бұрын

Fun fact: The "footprints" were first found by a researcher who stumbled across them during his vacation

@OsirusHandle 20 күн бұрын

that does happen quite often with fossils and so on

@QuantumLeclerc 22 күн бұрын

I think even if you ignore the possibility of a group of hominids walking to Crete and experiencing speciation, the fact that we have innumerable examples of "random rafting events" onto small islands throughout the world and history is just too much of a giant thorn in the side of a "it's IMPOSSIBLE" debunk. I feel pretty much any biologist studying evolution should be aware of that.

@SomePotato 20 күн бұрын

I was looking for this comment. Thanks.

@westenicho 6 күн бұрын

the dominant theory of apes arriving to South America from Africa is via a land raft. that journey was further back in history, and much longer. so they'd be challenging their colleagues' theories by stating it was impossible.

@sayakchakraborty4206 22 күн бұрын

The possibilities which you've highlighted are actually ones which we as palaeoanthropologists and evolutionary anthropologists have also thought and discussed among our circles. Improbable, yes, but they can't be ignored. I am planning to write a paper on this in the future.

@LEFT4BASS 21 күн бұрын

It’s good to keep an open mind. So many of the obvious truths we take for granted now would have once seemed like insane conspiracy theories.

@MadDoodles 14 күн бұрын

@@LEFT4BASSHealthy skepticism is also good however, plenty of “common facts” have also turned out to be wrong. They are both sides of the same coin, so exercise both. :)

@PDXDrumr 22 күн бұрын

As a former biologist, we know something close to nothing, maybe 5%. The world is a fascinating place.

@peggysmith5202 22 күн бұрын

U got that right!!

@Norralin 22 күн бұрын

Former biologist? Aren't you still a biologist??

@FirstDagger 22 күн бұрын

@@Norralin They could be retired.

@hope1575 21 күн бұрын

@@Norralinthat was my question lol

@hope1575 21 күн бұрын

@@FirstDagger I feel like if a biologist retires from work they are still a biologist 🤔. Leaving academia or industry doesn't undo your scientific training. "Former biologist" makes it sound like they've renounced the science altogether or something lol. Maybe if their work in that field was brief and they completely changed career paths afterwards it could make sense to me to say it that way, but that's just based on the connotations I have associated with those words and phrasing.

@jrhoadley 22 күн бұрын

Even proto humans refused to ask for directions?

@malahammer 21 күн бұрын

Only the male of the species 😀

@andrewhooper7603 21 күн бұрын

@@malahammer The real proto humans were the friends we made along the way.

@OllamhDrab 22 күн бұрын

One of the things about the 'improbable' is that given a really long time, a lot of improbable things happen.

@kiri101 21 күн бұрын

While I believe we may find evidence of earlier and more complex tool use than we currently have I'm a big believer in accidental rafting. It's a bit more plausible with pregnant rats than something on the scale of an ape but the ingredients are simple: end up in the water, can't really swim, hold on to something floating for dear life and go where the currents take you.

@purebloodedgriffin 21 күн бұрын

There's also the inbetween point, where a homonid uses a log or other piece of driftwood as a raft intentionally

@jmchristoph 21 күн бұрын

Speaking in my capacity as a geologist, the biggest issue for me is that the Cenozoic history of the Aegean is among the more complex within both the modern Mediterranean and the broader Eurasian-Nubian continental boundary. The folks who study the tectonics of the Aegean Microplate regularly keep coming up with refinements to our understanding of the structure & sense of motion of all of its plate boundaries. Those kind of refinements often result in significant changes in how the stratigraphic record can be interpreted, both in the specific setting of Crete and elsewhere that we learn similar things about a plate boundary. Mind you, this is all completely independent of the repeated separation of the Mediterranean from the Atlantic, which is driven by global sea levels much more than plate tectonics. But even still, both the Aegean and the basin between Crete and Africa are relatively deep, so it's worth considering tectonic evolution alongside sealevel evolution, because both would play a role in determining Crete's hypothetical past connections to other land, and indeed both may have been necessary for Crete to have ever been contiguous with the mainland. If I was ever asked to peer review a paper like those you've cited in this video (which probably wouldn't happen because I'm not a paleobiologist or archaeologist), the first thing I'd ask for is a section addressing the geologic context of the field site. What's the local rock unit; what's its sedimentary fabric; what's its relationship with the stratigraphically adjacent & geographically proximal units; what structural features does it contain; *before* getting into specific fossil or radioisotope ages & their interpretation. By itself, that discussion doesn't have much direct relevance to the question of where hominids migrated in the cenozoic. But if an argument about animal migration relies on a set of claims about where land was at a certain time, then there must be a robust analysis of how much we understand how that land itself has evolved.

@gryphon0468 21 күн бұрын

Good points.

@asicdathens 21 күн бұрын

You don't need specialized sailing to reach Crete from mainland Greece. The island of Antikythera is 42 km away and Crete is clearly visible from an elevated point of the island. We are not discussing some star navigation

@TheGahta 21 күн бұрын

So how you keep going in the right direction once your not on that high elevation? Kinda a weak reasoning

@TheGahta 21 күн бұрын

@@yt.personal.identification yes a concept known in prehistory and we all know how easy keeping direction on open seas is... If you cant admit a bad take fine, but dont embarass yourself like this

@TheGahta 21 күн бұрын

@@yt.personal.identification how far you can see at sea level? Whats making it not an open ocean? Its not about size but currents and the like... Just stop or start making points and not just excuses

@TheGahta 21 күн бұрын

@@yt.personal.identification were not talking about what we can do with our knowledge now but if thats reasonable to imply on a ancient peoples Dont get more cringe please

@gerardtimings5625 21 күн бұрын

@@TheGahta By keen observation of water currents and their colours,winds/sky conditions, types of birds and their flight patterns,and sounds. I'm descended from people who lived on the Shetlands, 60 miles north of Scotland, and they still use these techniques sometimes, even sailing at night without radar or GPS. Before those were invented they could navigate to Scotland, and elsewhere.

@nunliski 22 күн бұрын

There really isn't a "missing link" anymore. It was already found, and it was actually multiple discoveries. The big picture of human evolution is very well proven and understood. Of course, there are many small questions remaining, but none of those gaps in understanding are anywhere near the significance of the what the term "missing link" meant historically.

@rantingrodent416 22 күн бұрын

I was under the impression that the "missing link" people really want to know about is the immediate ancestor of homo sapiens, which I believe we still don't have, and I suppose might not look different enough from us to even be distinguishable in the fossil record?

@Croz89 21 күн бұрын

It's morphed from an argument against evolution to pretty much any gap in the evolutionary timeline.

@viktorkukuruzovic5332 21 күн бұрын

If you're looking for teeth, Turkey is pretty close, you can get them for a low price there

@superglue7677 22 күн бұрын

The Sailing Deers, now that's a good name for a band.

@36inc 22 күн бұрын

sounds like theyd fit in with artic monkeys

@dsnodgrass4843 21 күн бұрын

It'd even be good as The Sailing Deer. I could draw the logo and T-shirt already. 😂

@meisteremm 22 күн бұрын

I think that I can provide the answer to this, at least as far as the Elephants go: one Elephant wrapped its trunk around the tail of the Elephant in front of it, so on, so forth. The lead Elephant was just a really strong swimmer. Think of "Hands across America," except more like "Elephants swimming to Crete."

@glennmungra5476 20 күн бұрын

It's a known fact that elephants have been spotted swimming from the african coast to the french islands. Maybe it was an elephant with a hominin fotoprint?

@glennmungra5476 20 күн бұрын

It's a known fact that elephants have been spotten swimming from the african coast to the french islands. They just have to paddle with 4 legs, keep their trunk high enough to be able to breath and know which way to swim to.

@JonnoPlays 9 күн бұрын

Let's say a tsunami hits your village. You find yourself and surviving members of your family clinging to floating debris for dear life. The debris floats wherever the material takes them and with no other choice these people cling to it and go to that place and continue living there. This would likely be the first instance of a raft, discovered by accident and remembered and adapted by those who survived. It's just a possibility.

@sayakchakraborty4206 22 күн бұрын

@StefanMilo you got an end credit!

@sheilam4964 22 күн бұрын

Thx for doing this, filming it and sharing it with us.

@LilFeralGangrel 21 күн бұрын

I've been watching this channel for a bit over half a decade now. Every video makes me think about something in an interesting perspective, and I'm thankful for that. Thank you for challenging my perceptions.

@Riceslayerrr 21 күн бұрын

Love the variety of all your videos, I learn so much from such obscure topics around the world. Keep up the good work!

@user-nb4ex5zk3w 19 күн бұрын

I found a stone with an apparent footprint on it. I took it to a well known archeologist in Johannesburg. He said "we often find these, caused by erosion".

@terenceokane 21 күн бұрын

Love he very subtle Stefan Milo shoutout at the end!

@julietfischer5056 21 күн бұрын

Unless the ancestors of those animals were also stranded when the Mediterranean flooded, the smaller animals could have floated on 'rafts' of storm-felled trees and other vegetation. Either the clumps were washed ashore, or came close enough for the animals to swim. The deer could also have swum, and elephants have been observed swimming (using their trunks for snorkels). Once they came ashore, enough of them stayed to produce the animals of Crete (those who left either died or never went near the ocean again).

@netx421 21 күн бұрын

What if the ape taught some sea turtles to be his conveyance across the open oceans?

@dukeon 19 күн бұрын

Or a scorpion tried to convince a frog… 🤔

@Nick-zp3ub 8 күн бұрын

That ape must have been the great great grandfather of captain jack sparrow

@kevinrishton1060 10 күн бұрын

I really like the way this guy isn't bias one way or the other and how he really digs into and sometimes refutes or comes up with other left out possibilities! Definitely subscribing now❤

@Iscannon 21 күн бұрын

The mediterranean basin was where the Tanu had their civilisations during the pliocene when the humans time traveled to avoid the galactic milieu before Felice Landry broke the Gibraltar strait as revenge against Culluket. That was a very coherent sentence don't fight me.

@elizabethharttley4073 21 күн бұрын

You truly stretch my mind and imagination, and i love it. You bring such a wide variety of topics to light. Idk what my life would be like if i didn't keep learning and thinking. Thank you 😊 Carry on

@liamolaoghaire 21 күн бұрын

Love the videos Evan, keep up the great work!

@kalrandom7387 21 күн бұрын

This is video I could read the comments on for days

@420Khatz 21 күн бұрын

Thanks, Rare Earth. I needed this food for thought.

@MephieStopheles 20 күн бұрын

Hippos dont swim, they're too dense. They literally just walk along the bottom.

@WightMoon61 21 күн бұрын

the past couple of decades have seen so many new finds and revelations nothing is impossible, who knows what will be found next or where, nice job.

@EyesOfByes 21 күн бұрын

KZfaq's best storyteller. Period.

@jeetpradhan2906 7 күн бұрын

Evan 'Just Saying' Hadfield

@ValensBellator 11 күн бұрын

The one thing I’ve always felt people underestimate due to an obvious lack of evidence (the odds of such materials surviving are almost zero) is how early basic rafts might have been invented. With all the floating logs every one of them would see it doesn’t seem far fetched to me that the concept of wrapping a few together and riding it would occur to some of them.

@michelecox5241 22 күн бұрын

Awesome as usual. ❤❤ you are totally correct. It IS possible. It has happened with others.

@LENZ5369 21 күн бұрын

"The Missing link" isn't really a thing, at least not how pop culture (and kinda this vid) uses it. Also there are tons of evidence (beyond fossils -which there are also a ton off) pointing to an African origin; including artifacts, customs and simple ethnographic DNA. Europeans, Asians and Americans are all more closely related to each other than they are to Africans ('Founder effect') -Africa has the greatest amount of human genetic diversity in the world.

@RareEarthSeries 21 күн бұрын

You're not wrong, but you're also speaking about homo sapien, and this is talking about a time millions of years before we (modern homo sapiens) unquestionably walked out of Africa - it would be the first hominin we'd have ever found by a substantial amount. Which is what the colloquial 'missing link' refers to here. What is being questioned, and even then rather lightly, is if the predecessor to those sapiens who blossomed in East Africa might have evolved from hominin species who developed in Europe and then walked back across the Mediterranean before evolving further in Africa's central grasslands. I'm not saying that's what happened, merely that as of yet it can't be discounted.

@LENZ5369 21 күн бұрын

@@RareEarthSeries I think I must be missing something? AFAIK 7ish million years ago - the H.sapien line was splitting (last common ancestor) from the chimpanzees, and there is no suggestion that LCA was primarily bipedal. If this Euro bipedal ape was a direct ancestor -it would either: also have to be ancestral to both chimps and our LCA with them (if it was placed earlier than the LCA), or (if it is placed after our LCA with chimps) our current 'australopithecine' descent path is wrong. There were alot of these apes walking/climbing around for millions of years on either side of that 7million years -frankly; one could pick any of them and make an assertion of similar or greater strength. Leaving aside that the inclusion of this Euro ape ancestor would create contradictions with the current decent paradigm from that point onward -isn't the path of inclusion (leaves Africa, as or becomes bipedal, then comes back to Africa, becomes the ancestor of (at the time) non bipedal Hominini (humans and chimps) rather convoluted?

@Timmycoo 21 күн бұрын

There are other theories of how certain species made it to islands when we know they didn't originate there. (This is from PBS Eons) and the conjecture is that they fed and lived near the shore, of which they "rode" there on island breakaways, landing on larger islands ie. Madagascar being the most famous one. I don't see why we can't apply this logic to a this.

@bozhidarmihaylov 21 күн бұрын

Beautifully, as always!

@myeyeswentdeaf6213 12 күн бұрын

Ya know what!? 🤔….Just for you being THEE ONLY channel I’ve EVER seen be so honest so fast, with the first words of their video saying there’s probably nothing true at all about their title,… I’m giving you a Sub! 👍

@kwisin1337 22 күн бұрын

Love the story. Thanks from NS..

@ltlbuddha 21 күн бұрын

I watch you and Stefan Milo. rarely do your subjects overlap, though

@MisterMakerNL 22 күн бұрын

So it wasn't Moses?

@schiz0phren1c 21 күн бұрын

Sir Terry Pratchett would have said they floated there on a log...(if there was room with all the camels!)

@schiz0phren1c 21 күн бұрын

"That's where the hominid carried you" ...awesome.

@onbearfeet 21 күн бұрын

"My boy Chuckie Dee and his love of barnacles." 😂

@GuntherRommel 22 күн бұрын

Frig you're good at this.

@StoneCBears 18 күн бұрын

If the hypothesis is correct and turn into theory, we should named the first Crete hominid fossil Wilson from Tom Hank's movie Cast Away.

@tysoe11111 22 күн бұрын

I really like your videos my friend

@RareEarthSeries 22 күн бұрын

Thank you

@john_michael_white 21 күн бұрын

I hope if I take a ferry to Crete it's very much floating.

@shatterthemirror8563 20 күн бұрын

I myself wouldn't put so much weight on whether an ape walked like a human especially seeing how homo naledi had so many less-than-human-seeming traits and yet was fairly modern, and even theoretically a hominin.

@36inc 22 күн бұрын

as a hockey fan you have my condolences on the leafs.

@36inc 22 күн бұрын

also on the side of yes it is possible- its just alil too close to white nationalist interests to ignore that maybe all the but what ifs are just highlighting an old dogfight about african origins. since its muddied by racism im not too keen on giving the less than favorable odds too much credit. cause its partly only interesting to prove for bigots. and we still underestimate social issues in sciences both practical and research. so yeah im not giving this one much a bet just cause its technically possible- so is aliens with magic underwear (i guess theyre magic till proven otherwise maybe its tech but you dont see me giving that possibility any legitimacy. this is just the scientific version of that. a what if but its possible- who cares the only excitement i get from these is knowing more about history so idc if its true or not but its jut kinda too convenient politically. and the last thing i wanna hear is europeans getting all bigheaded cause an ancient animal existed there or something.

@RareEarthSeries 21 күн бұрын

None of these creatures are homo sapien, so racism doesn't really make sense here. Even if this is 100% true, these hominin still walked back to Africa, evolved into homo sapien, and walked back to Europe. Nothing would change in any respect, race-wise. All it would really mean is that the common ancestor of humans and apes split first in Europe, rather than East Africa.

@36inc 21 күн бұрын

@@RareEarthSeries yeah i agree but you can see the angle the media takes with it. i imagine how sensible it is up to if it takes off in right wing circles as bad as id expect it. they often purposely misinterpret science and this is just a way that i think feels predictable. id love to be wrong their science blindspot does go both ways like that.

@RareEarthSeries 21 күн бұрын

It seems to me like you're dismissing the potential advancement of scientific understanding because it would give your political enemies a false talking point and to me that's no different than them doing it to you - misinterpreting science goes both ways There is nothing in this story that aligns with modern Europeans, race, or differentiation of homo sapiens. There is no concept of race here except that which you're forcing into it. Dismissing the information because the media might misconstrue it is a problem of the media, not the information. Dismissing it because it doesn't align with your political desires is ironically what you're claiming they're going to do.

@36inc 21 күн бұрын

@@RareEarthSeries dont get me wrong any dismissiveness is me just not wanting that angle played. the actual result of the science isnt something i have any stake in.belief wise. i personally will perc my ears up more if something less razor thin shows up later- its not like this is my field work after all im gonna be in neutral on the data till its more substantive. the possibility of annoying future arguments i will actually have some stake in though have field days with speculative material. like verses the data that bets a 50/50 maybe they do nothing with it. maybe they run with it like "god particle" and extrapolate conveniently. and my fear is that itll be this decades reason for me to collect a bunch of clarifications that are still ya know in speculation. ideally we never have to deal with it and im just underestimating peoples ability to read. but unlike footprints we dont know are footprints, i think human stupidity is quite well established in its patterns. maybe i should separated the two feelings about it more clearly.

@modivin 21 күн бұрын

Graecopithecus is still walking among people in Crete, as I'm sure you have already realized. They are easy to identify by their clothing and pickup trucks.

@user-if4br9rf7f 7 күн бұрын

People underestimate the urge in a nomad to see over the next ridge, both literally and figuratively.

@cfish64 21 күн бұрын

cool video man

@sensorymats8544 7 күн бұрын

thank you. very interesting

@ChrisCaramia 21 күн бұрын

Vertigo is a hard & fast way to get out of camera duty.

@sesa2984 9 күн бұрын

I have casually watched your videos for years based on recommendation by the machine, but I just subscribed. Please point me to the video of yours that you think will most blow my mind. Thank you.

@bforman1300 17 күн бұрын

Well reasoned.

@jonathancardy9941 3 күн бұрын

forget the 100 km between the mainland and Crete, whether they swam, rafted or clung to a tree, they probably island hopped, and no one hop needed be anywhere near 100 km.

@alicefreist318 21 күн бұрын

hominids. other words: all hominins are also hominids. Not all hominids are hominins.

@freshofftheufo 21 күн бұрын

"If there were teeth in Greece, there coulda been some feet in Crete." brilliant!

@derrickmantie2413 21 күн бұрын

In my head, I beat you to the answer to the answer to the question in the title by only about one second

@carnsoaks1 21 күн бұрын

There's a great Science Fiction novel, it's called EVOLUTION, by Stephen Baxter. Worth the weekend long read. All about Mammals fight to the middle of the evolutionary hierarchy.

@Nmethyltransferase 21 күн бұрын

6:32 Verily, a man of culture! 😭

@brianwelch1579 20 күн бұрын

Hey, are you even ALLOWED to answer the question in the title? I though that wasn't permitted on YT, I've never seen that done before. Thumbs up!

@jhnmur 19 күн бұрын

Good luck trying to find the missing link.

@OsirusHandle 20 күн бұрын

in 2017 Sarah Thomas swam 164 km of ocean in one go. ofc she had a team feeding her energy smoothies but still. *swam*.

@dikoo6506 22 күн бұрын

Never misses

@patrick247two 21 күн бұрын

As Cody would say, "Beware of the BOAR, boar can swim."

@TonksMoriarty 21 күн бұрын

The term "missing link" irks me so much as by any definition that makes sense, we have it. The extreme end of that definition is every single generation of human ancestor.

@stevejohnson3357 21 күн бұрын

This is a great reminder that bad habits of thought happen on both sides. Anti-science people are always inclined to believe that a new find is far older than most think it could be while the more educated of us tend to think that anything strange and unexplainable must be an error. Not quite that cut and dried but in general, those seem to be the battle lines.

@jacklovejoy5290 17 күн бұрын

10:40 Hippos can't swim, they bounce along the bottom of rivers

@sonikku956 21 күн бұрын

The idea of a species of distant hominin evolving bipedalism separately from our ancestors is intriguing!

@Dude-tv6cj 22 күн бұрын

Coming here just to also answer, “No. no, it’s not”.

@phillyrocks3847 7 күн бұрын

To view jpaleo artwork, you must view it from every angle and every light source.

@adamshinbrot 21 күн бұрын

I know this is a stupid question and I am an ignorant fool, but schoolteachers in prison? Also, kudos for "teeth in Greece, feet in Crete". I do so love poetry.

@dsnodgrass4843 21 күн бұрын

The person who stole 8 of the "footprints" was a schoolteacher.

@adamshinbrot 21 күн бұрын

@@dsnodgrass4843 Thank you

@garybhagan2528 7 күн бұрын

Very likely that upright walking hominid would not evolve in only one place

@grbradsk 5 күн бұрын

Since 99.999% of all wood from even a couple 100Ks of years ago is gone, I'm going to guess that one of our smarter Hominins would have found at least tidal marshes irresistible to get something floating out there to harvest food, and then they would have contrived movable rafts, and some of these could have been swept out to sea. Or, an ice age could have made the sea very shallow making it easier to float over.

@jamesonpace726 21 күн бұрын

"Missing Link"? Haha, haven't heard that phrase in 40 years, immediately after the teacher/jailbirds taught it to us....

@dark_messiah8183 21 күн бұрын

Anyone know if @StefanMilo *does* have a video on this?

@wadelintick9538 22 күн бұрын

Love me some Milo, cheers

@Nyerguds 18 күн бұрын

Huh, this episode was certainly different. You don't usually get so hypothetical. Still, interesting stuff.

@nosondre 7 күн бұрын

They, like so many societies, clearly need to pay their schoolteachers more.

@prasanthkandula2930 Күн бұрын

Brazilian size BUT 😂 you r hillirious ... bro.. love you from india😊

@C3darCr33k 21 күн бұрын

The creature that made those footprints was likely considering how it was going to clean the mud from between the toes.

@roseduste80 18 күн бұрын

How do you know deer can't sail?

@nonsequitor 22 күн бұрын

Commiserations for anyone expecting a Rare Earth video to be a straight answer 😉🙌

@Poldovico 21 күн бұрын

And a smaller subset of those expecting it to be a straight answer about... race, of all things.

@gordonf.woodbine7588 20 күн бұрын

An interesting approach by a keen amateur, which most people are unwilling to consider. Professional people have been taught to avoid speculative assessments. After all one’s career and reputation stand to suffer.

@wowdanalise 19 күн бұрын

"Input the logical joke to make here that, for the purpose not being banned, I cannot post"

@jarezlem 20 күн бұрын

i love your videos and me and my gf were absolutleys sent laughing by the first 5 seconds becuase we made the joke no probably not and you said the exact same thing hahah but then again we have watched like all your videos

@retrovideoquest 21 күн бұрын

Evan, I've been following your channel for years and I think I've watched every single one of your videos. So I'm frankly surprised and disappointed by your supposedly funny "Brazilian-sized butt" comment. Cheap. I've lived many years in both Brazil an Canada and I can categorically say that I've seen Canadian butts much, much larger than anything I've seen in Brazil... No only that, but this video had all the potential of being a commentary about how individual biases and particular agendas play a role in amplifying bad science and outright lies, but at the end it was just about the triumph of bothsideism. You are better than that, and I look forward to watching more of the well-thought insight that characterizes your earlier videos. This one was definitely uninspired.

@Cyssane 21 күн бұрын

I was going to give this fascinating video a 10/10, but then I read "A Lite Hop" in the credits. Now much like the researchers, that one detail forces me to re-evaluate everything. (Well played, now take your angry upvote and get out, lol)

@juststardust8103 8 күн бұрын

Greetings from Brazil! 🇧🇷

@kennyhagan5781 21 күн бұрын

Until we can figure out time travel, we can't really be certain of much at all.

@danielrose881 21 күн бұрын

Why the assumption that the only way any African animals could even get to Crete would be to cross the Med? They could easily have just walked around the Med, through the Levant, through Türkiye and into Greece. From there, the island chain from the mainland to Crete would be easy to traverse.

@RareEarthSeries 21 күн бұрын

Crossing from Greece to Crete requires crossing the Med, nobody is suggesting they crossed from Libya directly

@danielrose881 21 күн бұрын

@@RareEarthSeries The video appears to suggest that. What I'm saying is that the longest stretch of water between the islands from the mainland to Crete is less than 50kms... today. Notwithstanding sea level rises and falls, the chain of islands from Crete to the mainland also sits on the edge of the Aegean and African tectonic plates, with the Aegean plate moving southwards at a rate of 3.7cm per year. So it's perfectly plausible that the islands were still connected in the era of time we're talking about.