CARTA Presents The Origins of Today's Humans - John Hawks, How Homo Naledi Matters to Our Origins
Published 2020-04-18
Where did we humans come from? When did we become the dominant species on the planet?
Experts take you on an exploration of the last half-decade of new evidence from ancient DNA, fossils, archaeology and population studies that has updated our knowledge about The Origins of Today's Humans. Recorded on 02/21/2020. [Show ID: 35719]
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All Comments (21)
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Just blows my mind that Naledi kept going back into the cave over and over finding their way back to the same chamber,,,, in complete darkness. Big thanks to all who are involved in these discoveries and to all those who are making these videos public, Awesomeness!
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Phylogenic analysis is really fascinating. Puts human evolution in a whole new light.
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Really love CARTA 💖 Such an exciting time!!... studying deep history to best face our future... so wonderful👍
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Thank you to UCTV and to CARTA for making this enlightening talk accessible. What John Hawks is sharing of is breathtaking. 🌸
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I really loved this talk. I have enjoyed following the careers of Dr. Elliott & Dr. Peixotto, and I am excited to learn about the others. From the moment I watched an old live stream in late 2015 (I missed it when it was happening live) to now, I continue to be absolutely fascinated with these discoveries. I especially love the openness of this discovery- that the world didn’t have to wait a decade to learn of Naledi. It’s one of my favorite things to share with people- “Do you know about the Rising Star cave in South Africa? No? Lemme tell you a story!”
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I ALWAYS appreciate these posts, especially when the entire country is staying home. The story of the discovery of the Rising Star cave system is one story that will be remembered.
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This excellent presentation by John Hawkes on Homo Naledi and the bones recovered by archaeologists from the Rising Star Cave system was fascinating! The knowledge of the cave system and the mortuary behavior of these Homimins is amazing to ponder. It is the opposite of popular culture's presentation of "cave men" (how I despise that term!). I was impressed by John Hawkes' command of the subject matter and how it relates to other research being presented at the conference. I'm looking forward to following the progress on these and other excavations mentioned in the talk. One other point that I'd like to make is that as an archaeologist who worked on numerous excavations during my forty year career, I am in awe at the talent and the bravery of the archaeologists who conducted the survey of the cave system and the excavations of the burials. I am a big brawny male who braved many elements and difficulties in the field throughout my career, but the only way that I would be able to get out of the cave system once I was in it would be for this team of archaeologists to recover my body or for a future team of archaeologists to recover my bones. Kudos to John Hawkes and all of the members of the team!
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Couldn't have come out at a better time. :)
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I have watched this more than a dozen times and it is still fascinating to watch. I'd love to (try to) communicate with such ancient species. Most likely the cave was habitable or explorable but gave in unexpectedly and they were unable to get out of it.
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How did they navigate these caves I wonder. I assume they had fire/torches ? I've been in caves and its impossible to move around with no light efficiently.
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My deepest respect for those people doing this work climbing into the earth under these impossible conditions...I dont identify as claustrophobic but still......I really wouldn't like going in there and staying for any amount of time. I applause you and thank you for this interesting discoveries
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Great presentation and have loved Dr. Hawks's exciting presentations in the past! Experiencing interviews and presentations on Naledi and the cave findings... I haven't seen anything being discovered of their material culture. I suppose their concept of death and disposing of bodies must not have involved anything of their material artifacts. Have such artifacts been found yet? Thanks UCTV for making this possible!
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Dr Hawks outstanding presentation! Wish I could study under you!
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Great presentation. I have been following paleoanthropolgical research for decades. It is funny how the picture get more and more blurred as new findings come in. Fascinating
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Man, what a great find of so many individuals and relatively complete skeletons.Tough excavating conditions, but worth the effort to add another piece to the puzzle of our origins.
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The section beginning at 17:19, and the graph shown shortly after that, is key. Great information.
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I don't think the world understands how earth shattering this material is! Not my part of the world anyway. This hominin shouldn't exist but here it is. Mind blown.
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The best talk on this topic I have seen. Terrific.
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Very interesting. So much time, effort, energy, dedication etc put into all this work. Still, evidence shows clearly that we have not evolved from all those previous creatures, but are rather modified and created at some point in history.
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Great talk!
