Yes

semi recently chimps and bonobos have been shown to have the physical parts necessary to speak, but not the neurological ability to do so. basically all of the pieces of the puzzle were probably there, from the physical body to the social situations that result in language, so realistically you're right to at least an extent.

Better than my phD professors

But consensus isn't evidence

Imagine if the daily news was this analytical.

I agree. The fact that the earliest H. sapiens remains we know were already perfectly adapted to speech makes only sense if it was already present in earlier species. The ability to speak is very important for a social species that hunts in groups, so traits that make speech possible, both in the hyoid bone and the brain, must have been a strong selective advantage.

I totally agree, there would have been very primitive sounds that meant things like danger, attack, run, hide, food etc and I absolutely count that as language

Speech: maybe, language: definitely.

I know what you mean but regardless our line of ape has always had some form of "language" ive heard it theorized that even when we were still sort of grunting, the grunts were different than apes and worked as a means of language. Its also been theorized even before we developed language as we know it today, whistles were used. Whistle languages still exist today.

@@Soulintent95 there are also a number of African languages that are comprised of clicking noises

Peace to you Sylvius! ☮️

I would love to see those tools used by someone with the skills to show them off properly

@@mistydawnoliver6717 lots of Aboriginal people still live off the land like our ancestors, there are a lot of KZfaq channels with people from Arnham land and the Tiwi island’s showing off fighting boomerangs and napping techniques. :)

I wonder if those early humans knew how to make it feel super good.

Another outstanding documentary . Really impressed by your thoughtful honest style.

@@jacobsockness571 well yeah. That had all day to mess around….eat, sleep, and procreate.

@@ElkinsEric They actually spent most of their day staying safe from predators, hunting, skinning, butchering, cooking preserving food. Survival took a high proportion of their time. Think how it would be if you had nothing, lived in the uncontrolled wild, and had to live off what you could scavenge or kill.

@@OrvilleJenkins That is unless you're Homo heidelbergensis at least, absolute units they were

@@drippyboyfreshpharaoh6568 uhh what?

I agree. I look forward to new episodes and happy to hear 02 is expanding the hominid content in different directions. I am grateful for this and appreciate 02 dedication and hard work

Want to visit ireland soon. Respect my blood n roots. Any waves to surf ? Anybody surf overthere? What are the names of the better breaks ? What time of year is the surf the best ? I bet the water is cold ! I will bring my thicker wetsuits hoodie n boots !

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Lol an hour.. If only you knew how much I have binge watched your content in the last few weeks North 😂.. I totally agree with Delta Design.. I really appreciate the time and effort you put into this channel North, please keep the videos coming 👍 Edit: Also a New Zealand subscriber 🇳🇿..

New Zealander living in the UK

@@NORTH02 I wonder what Homo species first lost the gene that attaches the jaw muscles to the top of the head like we see attached in other primates? This allowed our brains to grow larger because the skull was no longer 'confined' by these muscles.

@@duckmanjoel maybe 30 years from now.

Hear hear! I totally agree.

ASMR. Will the ridiculous trends never stop? It's a grandiose title for a very simple basic thing. Back in the day, we just called it "relaxing sounds". I agree with the rest of your comment.

ASMR reminds me of another stupid recent "discovery". That walking on the earth barefoot is good for your health. No shit Sherlock. They called it "grounding". I called it common sense. Just another day.

Someday people will discover that sunshine is good for us. I guess some genius already discovered that air is good for us. Duh.

@@theobserver9131 It’s honestly hilarious how worked up you got over someone saying “asmr.”

what sort of " language" could H.heidelbergensis had articulated with his potent jaws ? I suppose nothing intelligible, only unarticulated sounds. What I do. not understand is why H heidelbergensis should be renamed H. bodoensis ? Why not Homo holywoodensis ?

I totally agree, the relaxed way in which North delivers this content is great.. I learn much better when I enjoy what I'm listening too..

Yes. Excellent idea. I totally agree. That would be great.

I can't see him doing that. To close to what Graham Hancock says. And he don't like graham 🙄

I can't stand the liberal debasement of the terms 'species' and 'race' / '(local) variety' .. Species should include all varieties that can interbreed.. I don't like the term subspecies so much as it has connotations of subhuman (another word I'd don't like)... Liberals can't admit MANY RACES WENT EXTINCT due to being Greatly Replaced by a recent mass-migration out of Africa... Neanderthals, Denosovians, Heidelbergensis, probably other Homo Erectus offshoots could all breed with Homo Sapiens as they were all different races / varieties of THE SAME SPECIES... HUMANITY. -- If this truth was pushed the Liberal Globalist Narrative would fall apart as the current white European Right Wing know they are being deliberately, systematically Greatly Replaced in their own native lands - in this case by ruling Globalist traitors in 60 years of European and British mass immigration, not 10s or 100s of 1000s of years.. Olde Colonisation bad, Neo Colonisation good to these neo inter-nasties. They warp history all the time and apply mad modern Libby values and value judgements on them.. cringing to watch.

Don't do this North 02, it sounds like a set up to me. This dude is trying to you set you up North 02.

U gay

Try doing one of the australopithecine species

In terms of ancient animal, a pliosaur like liopleurodon, kronosaurus or predator x, and as for amazing animal, orca or jaguar

North02 we need Ardipithecus I beg you. I have spammed this because it is greatly needed. Would love to see it on your channel.

Any kind of megafauna would be good

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I think Erectus bridges that gap. Before Erectus, we were much more primitive. No clothing or fire, more hair, more ape-like faces, smaller, very simplistic language if it all. By the end of Erectus getting into Hiedelberginsis, we had grown to modern proportions, our faces were more human than ape, we had clothes, language, one could even say civilization on a local scale. Late Erectus was human. By Hiedelbergensis/Neanderthal/Denisovan, they were practically archaic Homo Sapiens. They had just about every feature we had. Only the smallest of differences (like being more robust, which caused Neanderthals to have to eat more than us to do the same things as us, which led to them being slowly outcompeted) made us survive and them go extinct. By 1 million years ago or so, we had pretty much fully fledged humans walking around. As a side note, I used to always think of Neanderthals as so archaic, but having educated myself, it’s clear to me that they were every bit as human as our early ancestors were, just built slightly differently and slightly less efficiently. They were extremely modern hominins.

We still ARE animals, we're not special

@@daylightbright7675 I don't disagree with you. I was raised in a religious home, taught that God made humanity in his own image. Once I stopped being a Christian, I learned to check my own biases, and this is one of them.

@@daylightbright7675 Really? The process of this, as provided by paleontologists, occurred over millions of years. They still haven't found the fossils that bridge the gap, & as more evidence is found, we learn that hominids have multiple species that didn't occur in a linear fashion, as Darwin theorized. At most, paleontologists might have some clues to when and where, but they certainly don't have the answers to how or why. How did these species learn to dominant its environment? Merely climate change? In million of years, how did they cross over to the understanding of language, philosophy & human nature? How did they come to figure out the concept of art? How did they come to see their selves differentiated from the world around them & developing advanced cognition? How did they figure out how to adapt all of earth's elements? How did they figure out the things were proper for agriculture & making agricultural products that can only be generated from man, and not in the wild? How did they figure out how to domesticate animals? Where are the other animals, after millions of years, that have established agriculture and/or domestication and/or art/language/philosophy? Any animal that has the exact intelligence comparable to man that has ever existed on this planet??? Is brain size the mere difference? Then why isn't the sperm whale dominating its environment like humans? Why did these changes occur? Why aren't we living next to the planet of the apes? Or the bears? Or the whales? Or whatever animal that is just as 'special' as humans? Why aren't there other species that learned to control, adapt, & manipulate all of earth's elements? Why aren't there more animals that can create synthetic elements-- things literally NOT NATURALLY occurring on earth? Why aren't there animals that have left this planet to explore others? Why did human's intelligence cross over to advance cognitive understanding? Can anthropologists tell us exactly who figured it out and why and how? How do they know that these species were even covered in hair or not? It's imagination or a guess based on their own biases or what they would say is their best GUESS/theory. There is no scientist that can explain exactly how or why these changes occurred and/or why we are the only species to do all these SPECIAL things. At best, they can can guess at the possibilities of what, where and when things took place, although even that is a huge argumentative debate--i.e east, west, Africa... and guess/theorize about the hows and whys of it... but there is no written record in the bones and artifacts provided that can explain the exact thought process that went into the knowledge that every human takes for grant...and like yourself...claim isn't all that 'special' and we're just 1 animal out of many... The fact that you can even think and write that CONCEPT is a testament to what prehistoric man did on your behalf that you take for granted... It's definitely NOT as easy as you make it out to be.

@@daniell1483 I disagree with her extensively. As you pointed out, this is a process occurring over millions of years, YET, what other animal on earth has cognition/art/philosophy/science--adapting the elements, creating new elements/husbandry/agriculture/language and on and on. We humans now take for granted all the advances that MAN has made to transform to the modern era. All other animals on earth that have millions of years of recorded history have yet to develop one iota more than they were when they first existed to the point of even cognition. You'd even be hard pressed to find a species that would care for its old, sick, & injured to exhibit even slight compassion. If it ever does exist, it's the exception, not the rule...that's why it gets SO much attention. But they aren't communicating and understanding like you and I here on YT dialoguing over a computer created by man. ...and my only thing to say about 'biases' is that, I don't care if you're religious or not...Plato and Socrates could provide you more understanding than a chimpanzee. Not one anthropologist, paleontologist, or scientist can explain succinctly and definitively the full origins of man, since there is a gap in the fossils..even in the last 2 decades we've learned that our supposed "ancestors" didn't develop linearly like Darwin theorized but in separate species that co-existed. And the science isn't definitive as even this video explains, as things become discovered and we "learn" more. The only thing that scientists can do is guess as to why man developed cognition that lead to all the advancements of humankind. They are guesses. No one knows the whys of how these things came about. How they developed their intelligence to figure out all these advancements. It IS special. It IS unique...and what is the thing that put those thoughts into man??? One thing the scientists will admit is, the change over to man is when WE start BURYING or dead...suggestive of a spiritual understanding... why did man develop this cognition??? Can science explain that????

Our genus* , not species

@@pureone8350 sorry professor didn't realize I was writing a peer-reviewed paper over here

Coco pops?

Amen to that

Good point! I agree fully.

Well, heidelbergensis in particular is not commonly associated with bead technology specifically but certainly clothing. You could imagine some would have adorned themselves perhaps with feathers and other perishable items.

Right, a specie with a relatively huge brain and almost no fur at all lived north of the tropics for thousands of years through glacial ages? In my books they had clothes, period. To those who disagree, did they try having an Inuit (Yakut or other northern Sapiens) stay naked a single week by only 0 Celcius? Or better, try it themselves?

Just read a Jean M Auel novel! Peace ☮️

@@swyman10 Interesting tip! For what age group are her books intended?

Hiedelbergensis definitely knew how to make and use fire. Even Erectus a million years before him had mastered fire. Hiedelbergensis was probably clothed, spoke languages, weren’t hairy like an animal, had skin and sweat glands like us, maybe made huts and temp houses, had faces much more like humans than apes. They were basically archaic Homo Sapiens imo. Like, where do you draw the line some 315,000 years ago between Hiedelbergensis and Homo Sapiens doing the same things in the same ways? Homo Sapiens were merely built a tad more efficiently, so they had to eat less to do the same tasks, this outcompeting Hiedelbergensis, Neanderthals, and Denisovans.

Get smarter Jeff. We can’t put a definition for every word you aren’t familiar with.

@@hopkinsamye a request for labels on-screen is not unreasonable by any standard. Your own grammatical errors reveal the bog standard from which your comment arises.

@Eastern fence Lizard 😂

How can you tell if it's an actual handaxe and not just a well shaped natural rock? I also found what looked like a hand axe in the local hills of Zimbabwe called the Matopos but I was not sure if it was one or just a coincidence.

@@pureone8350 the sides are completely symmetrical, it has striking marks, a pointed tip, and fits very comfortably in the hand. Nature could not have formed this piece of flint. Plus, I found it at a major Palaeolithic site. Which is known for hand axes.

Some times a little to soothing 😉