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I've been waiting for Saturday ever since you mentioned a new video was coming out. Your work blows me away. I'm 70 years old and have many hours of internet listening under my belt. You, young man, produce some of the best content available. Your skills and attitude give me hope for the future of education and knowledge sharing. Don't quit. You are very needed!! ✌️❤️ Thank you.

I just wanted to mention how much I appreciate your relying on more "humanlike" artwork for even our distant ancestors. It really makes people less likely to underestimate or dismiss them.

This video might just be your best work yet--stellar writing and picture selection to say the least! A future video on ancient haplogroup origins and diffusion would be fascinating, in particular the oldest known haplogroup A00. Also, several ancient haplogroup discoveries are now showing Neanderthal inheritance within just a few generations suggesting that Homo Sapien and Neanderthal hybrids were common in shared territorial habitats... perhaps solid content for a future video. Good luck!

I'm 61 years old and I've been fascinated by human evolution ever since 7th grade, when I first learned about australopithecus in school.

before i even start watching. i simple would like to say that your content and specifically ancient humans/hominids videos is my absolute favorite content on youtube. God bless

Imagine how terrifying the night time would have been for these early hominins. Going to sleep, and knowing the terrors that lurk about at night. They would have had poor vision (like ours), and could only hear the predators in the distant. It’s incredibly fascinating that they were able to survive in such a dangerous and scary world. You also forgot to touch upon another potential dangerous animal back then: Agriotherium. A large bear in the African savannah. Scary as hell for a small hominid.

So glad I found this channel! The other stuff out there is so weak. This is very strong! Great work in every aspect.

Half human and half ape? We are all apes with very impressive twig technology. I don't know why this bothers people, but it seems to me that being human is very lonely, thinking we are something other than. We are apes, and this makes us right there with every other animal, a huge community.

You have the only long form and most informative documentary on Homo habilis I've ever seen, most on here are just a few minutes long. I love your videos dude, keep it up! I appreciate people that donate their time to spreading knowledge and information.. that's how we came so far as a species.

Great video as always dude. I've been watching you for a while but I think this is the first time I've left a comment. I listened to this while hiking with my cattle dog/cur mix and what really struck me was watching her catch voles hidden in the snow while listening to you talk about how we used to be preyed upon by all these ferocious beasts. An interesting future video idea imo would be your take on our domestication of dogs and other animals and how our relationship changed with them from seeing them as dangerous animals to depending on them for our survival, to modern humans seeing them as cute furbabies even lol. With dogs especially I can't imagine the bravery of our ancestors seeing wolves hunt and even being hunted by wolves, and choosing to overcome their fear to hunt alongside canines as it maximized their success. Somewhere along the way we stopped living alongside nature and began to manipulate it for our own mutualism.

Topic idea: since you work on anthropology and paleonthology, how about tackling the subject of proto-religious behaviours in non-human animals, such as chimps and elephants? I'm sure there's a lot to be said.

Very well done, in total it had an even flow through the topic. You covered points that are often omitted in other similar videos. Thank you!

Content is getting better and better. Truly appreciate these documentary youtube channels. Appreciate your content

At 70 I've come to despair for decent content on the web. You renew my faith, outstanding work. Please don't stop.

I usually use vids like this to fall sleep but the information and delivery kept my attention to the end. Well done to you and your team.

Top notch content! Well researched and I especially appreciate the fact that you include unobtrusive music in the background! Much enjoyed!

Your Ancient Humans series is getting better and better. Love putting them on while I work. Cant wait for the next one!

I haven't even started it yet, I just opened KZfaq to find a video I can knap out some points while listening to, and I am so excited you released something on this! Homo habilis is greatly unappreciated

Quickly becoming one of my go-to creators. Impressive how fast your content improves from already great content.

It is crazy to think that these guys co-existed with several other hominins. It makes me burn with curiosity for early human history. Listing the ancient animals that they lived beside sounds like the stuff of legends. The interaction with those larger hyenas and baboons reminds me of Tolkien's works for some reason, it would be like a party of orcs tearing into a defenseless town or something. The video was dead serious when it described their lives as a pre-historic hell!

Thank you so much, mister! I didn't know of Homo Habilis until you said you were gonna cover them in this series, and I avoided watching any other videos about them, in anticpation of this release. Worth it! And what a great usage of stock footage and still-picture illustrations -- it reminds me of when the channel History Time went from "This channel is nice..."-quality, to "It feels criminal not having to pay for this..."-quality. This series is such a interesting and pleasant watch -- can't wait for the next video!

Amazing video! I can't wait for your upcoming projects. It's always with the wait, your stuff is high quality and very well researched. Terrific stuff!

This was a wonderfully made video. Keep up the good work. I like the idea of seeing behind the scenes footage on a second channel, or just posting it here.

This is the first time I have watched this channel, to get right to the point, I feel this was as good and better than any television based documentary on this subject!

Ancient Africa as a world of different ape species of similar intelligence sounds like Tolkien. I sometimes wonder if the persistent and ubiquitous “wild ape man” stories are an imprinted memory of this time.

Absolutely love your series! Informative, well researched, entertaining. Keep it up.

Yesss, I've been foaming at the mouth for this video since I saw your community post. Your Ancient Human series is what got me started on your channel, it's like Christmas morning whenever I get an upload notification

This was a fantastic video North02 and I really like the Neanderthal video as well. I love the ancient humans series. Your videos just keep getting better and better. If you go back to animals eventually, I really enjoy the prehistoric animals. Maybe one on thylacosmilus atrox, or another South American megafauna. I see quite a lot on European and North American megafauna, and even a few on Australian but not much on South American.

Wonder when we became self aware? These beings manifestly were, but which of our ancestors was the first to have a true sense of self?

A new 50 minute video from North 02 on a sunday morning. Doesn't get much better than that.

thank you for not shying away from making long videos!

Spent the last two days of work listening to all six docs. while working. Great work, very informative content. Thank you, keep it up!

Hey NORTH 02 I really appreciate the depth you get into with the longer documentaries. Subject's like the development of hominids/ins benefit from exploring the complexities as you do so more "long-boned" documentaries please! I take my hat off to you and thank you; I've been thoroughly entertained and booted into reflection these past few days.

This video is nicely done. Viewers who are not students of paleo-anthropology should note the qualifications mentioned, but not emphasized, in this lecture. First, in any field of study where hard facts are few, speculation abounds -- and homo habilis artifacts are very limited: only two fragmentary skeletons, from which we cannot tell their true size, the degree of sexual dimorphism, or whether they directly evolved into homo erectus and are, therefore, ancestral to us. They could be refined Australopitchecines, and serious scholars have suggested they belong in that genus. We don't really know if they lived in large groups like chimps, or how hairy they were, or how they made a living or mated. Much of what we think we know about homo habilis is guesswork, learned attempts to interpret the meager evidence available, usually by extrapolating from living species, like chimps or apes or primitive people that occupy somewhat similar niches. We don't know how numerous they were. Specimens have been found only in parts of sub-Saharan Africa. Second, homo habilis existed between 2.3 and 1.65 million years ago, a span of 650,000 years. Over that span of time, we would expect any species to evolve and become more refined (better adapted to its niche). Therefore, it seems likely that h. habilis of 2.3 million years ago might well have looked and behaved differently than h. habilis of 1.6 million years ago. One artifact or one skeleton may not be truly representative of the species. This comment should not be construed as a criticism of the video, but as a cautionary note: hard conclusions based on fragmentary evidence are always suspect. Much of what we know today about h. habilis will be revised, perhaps substantially, by artifacts and bones yet to be discovered.

Your greatest work yet! I've followed your channel for a long (-ish) time now - and I'm very impressed by your dedication and talent. Top notch! You'll be the David Attenborough of paleontology. Congrats to the sponsor. It would be very interesting to see a video about all those hybrids that are scattered among the evolution of humans.

Such an amazing video. You put so much effort into what you do, and your narration is so very pleasant. This was really an exhaustive (in a good way!-meaning you covered everything) look at who these people were. Thanks again.

It’s amazing our hominid ancestors survived with just sharp sticks and rocks to defend themselves.

Outstanding! I've watched all of your videos. The ones on ancient humans are my favorite and better than most I've seen on youtube. Most of the others on YT are just uploads of old PBS or British documentaries. Plagiarism essentially. Few are original. Yours are self made and very good! Subscribed and looking forward to more!!!

It’s so cool that you’re making exactly the videos I wanna see. Can’t wait for the next installment of “Ancient Human”!

Love that you're taking your time to release vids like this, my favorite so far. Can't wait for the neanderthal vid

I have to tell you North, if you put out 2 hour videos, I'd be there. I love your voice, your content. Great video!

Very excited to see this- I've always been curious about the Habilis since it's the first species in the genus (that I'm aware of) but Erectus is often treated as the first 'human' hominid, with information on habilis relatively scarce.

I love these longer videos! So much to learn...

absolutely love all of your ancient human videos!

Awesome video..I can't wait to see the one of the clovis culture. And thanks for all the work you do to teach us something.

Excellent video! Thanks for sharing your passion for history!! I'm so glad to hear you mention how huge the African continent is. Many don't realize that Africa is more than 3 times the size of the contiguous U.S. I lived and worked from the Cape to Cairo over 30 years doing research and refugee work, and am amazed at how little most westerners know about the great & diverse continent. Well done!!

Another absolutely fantastic video North02. You do great work here....one of my favorite channels. Thank you.

I feel like this was made just for me! Great work as always man

Imagine how poorly us humans would treat them if they existed along side us.

I would so love to travel back in time and see how all of our prehistoric ancestors looked and behaved like. I mean even chimpanzees creep me out about how human like they are, imagine seeing these guys in action.

Found your videos last week and have been binge watching them love em!

I love your content man! This is one of my favorites channels on YT.

Any plans about a video like this on dog domestication? You have to be one of my favorite youtubers to listen to on chill evenings after work. You have awoken a new interest in me. I love paleontology but have only found interest in animals, specifically mammalians. But now human evolution is also part of it!

Your opening scenes are amazingly creative. I imagine a lot of scenes like this when I’m looking for paleo Indian artifacts in Texas on the ranches I grew up on.

Very instructive and relaxing video. Not sure which ancient man I'd like to see next -- they're all pretty good on this channel.

Another awsome video and just in time, I've already seen all your other video's multiple times

i don't know why i've never come across your channel sooner.. i am incredibly intrigued by ancient humans and the human tree of life with all it's extinct branches.. happy to have stumbled upon your video, i cover human evolution as well on my channel, as well as other ancient historic subjects. have a great day!

Best human evolution series ever!

Excellent video, certainly worth the wait.

Another amazing video. You continue to be my favorite KZfaqr. ❤ Your videos do not disappoint.

Im so glad he’s getting ads and sponsors because that means he’s going up in life and doing some AMAZING WORK!!! Best thing to Get high too

Awesome vid 😀👍. Since it ended with you asking for suggestions, here's mine. Lately there has been a lot of vids about hybridization between Neanderthals, Denisovans and Sapiens. What are your thoughts about hybridization occurring earlier between the various Austalopithecines, Habilis, Erectus, etc. Without DNA evidence I'm sure we'll never quite know for sure, but I definitely think it was plausible. Love all your vids and keep them coming 👊😀👍

Thank you so much for taking the time it takes for quality

Top job. another stellar vid and a well deserved sponsor is nice to see. Good work.

For all the people who would like a time machine to go back and see the non-avian dinosaurs -- which would, of course, be very cool -- it would really be much more interesting to go back and see stages of human evolution, to find out when language evolved and what stories they told each other, what art they had that is not preserved.

Great video! I like the tone of your clear voice and also the background tunes. Juval Hariri hypothised that homo sapiens had a 'cognitive revolution' and left Africa to conquer the world. I'm curious if there's evidence or more to explore into this 'cognitive revolution'.

Fabulous work. Very well done!

Another outstanding and thoroughly fascinating video. Thank you so much for all your work.

National geographic needs to hire this guy. Its crazy to think what life was like back then

A really excellent production, packed with useful information and great illustration. Far superior to the pointless hobby "science" productions on KZfaq. I also admire your quiet informative narration and use of music. Thanks for the hours of work this cost you.

So very interesting and I appreciate your hard work developing this video. Thank you 😊

This is such a wonderful channel, great content, music and images.

Excellent so far. How about a video on cross species cooperation? Using the larger stronger Humans as a spearhead, the smaller types for scouting etc... After all, nobody told them to hate each other? This could be fascinating. As far as I know, nobody has ever explored this topic. It's usually about Neanderthal/Erectus/Denisovan co-habitation. But they weren't the only ones around. It would be an extremely speculative video, but awesome?

Another excellent job North 02. I'll watch anything you do....just let us know.....and you have a faithful sub in me. As a hunter and collector of Native American artifacts....I'd love to see one on Clovis and Pre-Clovis culture. There is LOTS of information out there and I believe you would do a magnificent job at it.

Been a viewer since a few days ago. Your videos really catch my attention! Truly amazing! I love your videos on our ancestors!

I found your videos yesterday and have been hooked for hours. I personally love the topic and the material is very well thought out. Very nice job sir! Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

Brilliant video. Thank you. Both "Cargo Cult" and "Easter Island" are great subjects, and getting your deep diving in them is something to look forward to. If another channel is needed to share your making of tools etc., please do so.

Your documentaries are immediately devoured by me and my husband. Thanks for feeding our brain! 🧑🏽🧔🏻

Your videos are the best prehistoric life videos I’ve ever seen

I wait with such anticipation for each of your videos, and I'm never disappointed, well done!

Hello NORTH 02 I like your ancient human series its really good. I have some ideas regarding ancient humans. Humans before civilization Modern homo sapeins compared to ancient homo spaiens. How homo habilis would do if they existed today? Whether or not you see I hope your doing well and continue to make these videos.

Great docu, thank you. I just miss that you might have considered that lions migrated to Africa precisely in those dates (4-2 million years ago, depending who you read) and that their social behavior (along with their tree climbing skills) may have been a key selective pressure into forcing Australopithecines into becoming humans (survival of the brainiest, of those who could fathom weapons and tame fire eventually). Otherwise flawless IMO.

Another great video! So informative and easily digestible.

I love listening/watching your videos while I go to sleep. Your content is fascinating and very entertaining but your voice is pleasant and soothing which helps me fall asleep. Don't worry, I usually have to watch one of your videos three or four times so I can consume the entire video while awake. I don't let any of it go to waste. I don't have any specific suggestions for future videos but I personally love the ancient humans and ancient animals in long form. You do an excellent job and whatever you create I Will consume.💪🏽👍🏼

Have they been able to do any DNA testing to genetically trace where habilis is in the human line?

Yay 50 minutes :D

I'm a simple hominid, I see a new North 02 video, I click

THANK YOU ! I could watch videos on this subject 24/7

Cross between Gollum and the average Tory voter..

The creationists in the comments are so disheartening :(

Thanks again! I am looking forward to behind the scenes stuff. I think a documentary on the Inuit would be cool, showing how they, or other people, have adapted to frozen environments (e.g. eating half-digested plants from deer guts for veggies)

You do some great work. Keep em coming!

Thank you for another great video! Thanks for all your hard work, they are always a joy to watch!

The longer your videos the better! I love your content. Anything else you can dig up about ancient humanoids the better thank you :-)

Amazing man your voice is so mellow and all your info given keeps me pulled in and want to keep listening. Thanks.

Just found your channel tonight...these videos are amazing. Thank you

Great video. All the best for your future projects.

I love these ancient human videos and this one was really good

Your voice is so relaxing!! I found a long video to fall asleep to and ended up just watching the whole thing and then some more, haha. Very informative, please never stop making these!