Nice lecture, too bad the audio sounds like John was standing at the bottom of a dry well.

Dr. Hawks, thank you for enriching my life so much. I hope you get to come back to your KZfaq channel one day with a trove of new ideas and information to enrich it even further.

There is so much we don’t know and every new find not only shows us something we didn’t know but shows us what we had wrong! Exciting times!

Great video! I can't believe how incredibly claustrophobic the cave exploring must be! Very brave!

Fantastic program!

Excellent lecture. Thank you for sharing.

Wonderful lecture. Unfortunate that the pointer is not visible on the video; it makes discussion of photos and diagrams hard to follow.

Thanks for posting. Interesting questions. 👍

I very much enjoy your videos. Fascinating! Thank you for doing the research!

What was the island he said that skeleton came from? Flores ?

So glad to see this video! Hawks, your absence has been noted! As for the "Squeeze", I've got one word: DEXPAN!

It's ironic that sound is better in an actual cave than in the lecture hall 2:30

Amazing information about human evolution.

Would love to do that. Fascinating

Please share with other people my two brief videos. Thank you.

When I was about 15 some buddies who had been in this cave kept telling me about it and I wanted to go So we get there and walk up this hill they said you have to climb down vertically for some 30 feet and it opened up to miles of cave ,so cool But scary af. I didn't want to stay after I imagined the roof caving in. I almost freaked trying to get back out. No more of that. My mind just keeps coming back to the roof.

Thanks for sharing 👍😀

Really informative really interesting thanks for sharing

We essentially diluted the hybrids to a point that there a mere 4 percent of our genome.

Thank you for this video. Must listen to it a few more times to make sure I truly understand it.

The diagram of the cave system should include chamber dimensions and depths underground

Science in general and archeology in particular is ultimately the search for the Truth. If we are true to our passion we should forever remain free to follow the evidence wherever the evidence leads; not what "settled science" (there is no such critter) has concluded. KUDOS!

One of my biggest beefs with modern archeology; judging intelligence by brain size or the evolution of man by brain size. I would like to think we have gotten beyond this after finding several species with small brains that make tools, fire, bury their dead, and hunt in groups. "......barking up the wrong tree up to 8 years ago." AND attacking any evidence contrary to their established theories out of pure arrogance.

That team is not Naledi.

Sound is poor and you can't tell what he's pointing at...

its so strange that mankind have found so many of these human ancestors but none of these anatomically humanoid monsters depicted in ancient wall reliefs all over the word in countless religions or perhaps is it possilbe that these human ancestors may have been these monsters of ancient history and not really humans at all.

Wish I could have listened to this but the sound was not good.

Why would an early hominid climb, wriggle, and crawl through such lengthy scary dark spaces? It's so obviously counter-survival. 'Shelter' is not a sufficient answer.

Where are the eye teeth? Looks like they filed them down

Question you said fossilized remains oh, does that not mean there's no DNA? Because without the DNA link you're only speculating human! That it is very interesting but it's like the difference between a cat, saber tooth tiger and a Bengal tiger.

Can you explain negative blood types because no Asians and black people have negative blood types

Love the lecture. Feel humbled by the courage and dedication those climbers posses. I dont consider myself claustrophobic but going in there....no thanks....I applause you.

My only question is how the hell did these bones get in here without the lights that these researchers had and why? Like they could barely get in and out how could you do it in the dark and why would you want to be in the dark period, to climb that far in.

I wonder if I have genes from ancient human like creatures that gave me crohns disease

Give Dr. Hawks credit for admitting what few cultural anthropologists seem willing to do: that the relationship between fossils (their relationships to each other) remains murky at best. The morphological differences that intrigue him, however, are quite consistent with the idea that hominids evolved from gracile Australopithecus and later from homo erectus in many different directions. Some of those hominid branches may well have survived long enough to overlap with early modern humans. There is nothing strange about that; the hominid tree is simply more diverse than first thought. It seems clear today that bipedalism, tool use, a trend toward omnivorous dentition, and the basic hominid morphology can be found in Australopithecines and were gradually refined by natural selection into the later specimens described. Anthropologists were mistaken in using them to differentiate subspecies of hominids, especially from homo sapiens. Which suggests all of the hominid species prior to homo sapiens ought to be reclassified as late stage Austraopithecines, leaving us as the only member of the homo genus. Because what really distinguishes us from the other hominids is what happened in the brain after the last 40-50,000 years. The neo-cortex is the defining attribute of humanness, from which sprang (around 50,000 years ago) human culture, art, lanuage, the capacity for abstract thought, and the ability to change the environment rather than merely adapt to it. Whatever the historic relationship among hominids, homo sapiens represents a quantum leap forward in intellect, sufficiently different intellectually as to deserve separate classification. No other hominid comes close.

All this stuff is coming from the same angle,until they they realise that, we won’t get the answers until they go back and start again from a entirely different angle.

Slow start,but pay off to wait.sad it ended so soon.🙃

24:00 30:30 31:15 neaNderthal (3) the 33:15 exchange/chimps

As our modern view of the past is skewed by The Lords of The Rings; legend and lore of past civilizations might be an interesting study of these lost cousins. . . ?

That appears to be a pretty small hill for a cave that big.. Are you sure it's not a man made mound over a sinkhole...?

Totally different creatures.

Clean up the AUDIO PLS.

I would be be perfect for the job I am 5'6" and only weigh 110 lbs I wish I could explore caves I love archeology.

dear dr john, with all due respect, you are being lied to sir... we are not the only hominids left on planet Earth today.

41:08 Any idea why this 10% Neanderthal has 36 teeth?

MOSTLY NOT EUROPE (ASIA ?)

So Naledi is where Sub-Saharan Africans come from?

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How does nature turn itself off and on? How do we account for the fusing of chromosones? How do we account for RH-? How do we claim certainty of case when half the planet has been wiped clean of evidence and the surviving mass has changed dramatically over time? ( genuinely interested, would love concise clear answers to be able to close down cranks and tinfoilers. Thanks in advance )

Gennesis 1. John 1.

There were millions on millions of miles of land exposed during the ice ages all habitable by humans much much older than anything found in Africa Africa would have been mostly a mountain top during this time so anything found there would be recent.

Bad title. Greater knowledge is not changing human origins! It's changing how we UNDERSTAND our origins. DUH.

Why do you make videos in the showers??? Don't you have a studio??

Cells do comunicate, ADN -DNA🤔 is a communication network, what language they use is another question🤔 human made technologies are not involved😥, unless you qualified technology as the process a virus uses to reprogram a human cell. (DNA) "Natures Technology" which makes the human self brain & body a natural technological achievement. (Goth 👻 inside the machine) however 📳radio waves , cell phone waves, television 📡waves wireless phone waves📺 do exist. what is not clear is if a virus uses the same wave length💻than a 5G 👙phone, neither Cells use the same wave length. therefore is not a lie however neither a fact precise truth. Is more an opening to different points of view.👽👽

Why speak inside a tunnel?

I think bigfoot is left

Nephilim... genisis...enoch .....

Lucy. Haha

People can't accept the fact that humans were created by a genius.

Don't let the Smithsonian get hands on it.

Maybe they had reproduction and fertility difficulties that limited their reproduction and they were assimilated into the stronger humans 🤔

It's simple,,. Beautiful people,, get beautiful hard to find, grave's.. ugly people,, get put in cave's, or left where they lay... We do have neanderthals alive, and working, running ALL around us today... And giants, and people with Big brains, and little brains... We don't have none 3 miles tall,,, lol.. but look around for a minute.. look at some of the people today.. short ones tall ones pretty ones ugly ones even smaller ones even taller one's... Look around...! And I got fossil's,, not Bones,, of human head's.. at least they look human to me.! And can show you pictures.. facebook me,, Try Me...!

Has anyone even considered that all od these different people actually lived at the same time? Tajeca good look at the many differentvm domestic dogs in the world. They look quie different from one another yet all of the werevmade from the same basic dog species. It does not take a million years to breed a new dog type. Only a few generations of birth with inbreeding. So what does that tell you about evolution?

It seems more than ironic that the intelectual boom of art and new tech or behavoir come from these hybrid decedants and in the same locations. its easy to see millenia of intellegance agead of none hybrid regions and humans. did it umlock something in the brai to veiw things more intelectually ? I think it could be something in the dna to mayne point to this enlightenment.

buzzing in my head :F1 and F2 crosses originated gods and semigods mythology

Sounds like he's in a tunnel

We have 46 chromosomes whilst primates have 48. Our chromosome no. 2 and 3 are fused together. Genetic engineering by the Elohim, the gods of old.

This is BS, so your cavers find hominid bones on the floor of this cave without doing any digging...👌

Interesting video however none of that surprises me although archaeology and biology is not my field of study I have been telling people with this video has been telling people for 20 years just without the proof I don't believe anyone will ever know an exact representation of how humans got to be where they are or what they are and I think the ghost population is much larger than anyone can imagine I also believe let the origins of several homo species is not Africa but let's be honest there is no other continents were you can walk across the ground shuffle your feet and find remains everywhere else is either tropical or Arctic like has massive amounts of Forestry and or very developed as far as cities roads and population and that makes it virtually impossible without complete cooperation and 10 to a hundred times the work to find ancient discoveries now frankly I think videos like this are being quite kind because of political pressures and or personal political views many refused to point out very obvious or proven facts so let me just ask this question today there are very distinct species whether people like that or not Asian African especially sub-Saharan African of course Caucasian or european however you want to list them South American Etc but let's just say there are two specifically genetic types of homo sapiens today who are the only ones who are inventive free thinkers have the healthiest of immune systems generally anyway who are the least tribal and actually build and create the closest thing we have to function allsafe societies who would actually encourage those species to interbreed with the others who's countries and or entire confidence if you want to look at it that way are constantly warring extremely tribal easily influenced and or brainwashed meaning they are not free thinkers that studies have proven have the lowest of the IQs amongst today's Homo Sapien species and have proven no matter how much time they have thousands of years we are talking can build a functioning safe civilized society so again who in their right mind would ever advocate for that when without question it would set Humanity back who knows how long and could possibly destroy Humanity as we know it since today it's a simple as pressing a button and launching nuclear missiles, and the keep in mind as was said in this video this idea first world country societies have that differences and today's homo species are cultural only is a myth and I'm saying that resoundingly it's about genetics another myth well in part anyway is that if you raise children in a certain way with a certain set of parenting skills you will always end up with an intelligent kind-hearted positive thinking contributing functioning member of society and I think that is definitely true and two of today's homo species and small amounts of others but by large part is only two the rest once again it is their genetics it is different and it does not respond to that it's like trying to teach a bull shark to act and think like a orca

Biblical States God created all. Scientists states it was the big bang and humans evolved from Monkeys🤔. 2 questions i have regarding evolution. If Humans evolved from Monkeys, What were monkeys before evolving into monkeys to than evolve into humans? 2) When are the monkeys that roam the earth today expected to evolve into humans? or what exactly happen to stop evolution?

These bones have been there for 300,000 years..seems like a shame to remove them..like they belong there.. should be returned when we're finished studying them..just a thought. .