Human Evolution: We Didn't Evolve From Chimps: Crash Course Biology #19

What’s a human? And how did we become humans, anyway? In this episode of Crash Course Biology, we’ll meet some of our closest relatives and trace how we evolved into the brainy, inventive, complex species we are today.

Chapters:
The First Humans 00:00
What is a Human? 1:18
Hominins 2:31
Dr. Xinzhi Wu 4:09
Hominin Interbreeding 5:32
How Humans Evolved 7:02
Review & Credits 11:44

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[beybrain]

Goes to show that skin color shouldn't be an indicator of "superiority" or "inferiority, " it just represents how we humans have adapted to different biomes.

[raydavison]

Thank you for making the subject of human evolution simple enough for this old man to understand. 😊

[kobrateeth]

I’m an anthropology minor in college- this is an amazing introduction to human evolution

[briobarb]

Love your intelligent but light-hearted approach and presentation. Thank you. Look forward to more! 😊

[hollyhobgoblin]

This episode was so good! I love learning about early hominids, and the Thought Bubble renditions of early hominid species were just precious.

[sqrt]

0:46 Very suspicious looking cave paintings...

[wotsupoo]

The way you explain things are simple, but the actual content is very sophisticated. Great.

[truejim]

It’s fun to ponder that once upon a time Middle Earth (mediterranean) really was populated by multiple human-like species.

[quorrexnoway]

Nice video! :)
11:16 Wasn't there the coincidence, that all other human subspecies vanished once homo sapiens started to settle near them? Like it strongly indicated that the thing they did not survive were homo sapiens? Not to be prejudgment against our own species but.... *gestures wildly at everything*

[INSPIRITM]

I absolutely loooove your presentation Dr. Sammy! Such a good host for this series. I wish my biology teacher had been like this back in school. I love that I get to reclaim my interest in learning with crash course that school kinda stole from me.

[Beryllahawk]

This was a good one. I came across an old issue of Nat Geo recently (from 2017) discussing how race has nothing to do with genetics and everything to do with social constructs. A lot of the info there on things like melanin and migration was presented here, but the details are better refined now, and it's both interesting and really just NICE to see that we're still learning - and still going in the right direction for a more inclusive understanding of humans.

[Rubyshadows]

I'm loving this course so far! Dr. Samuel has 100% Reading Rainbow Llevar Burton vibe. ❤️

[itsmalia]

i was just explaining this to my friends the other day and didn’t have any resources to point to (aside from what i remembered in class) !! thank u !!

[robabiera]

This caught me by surprise. Somehow I wasn't really expecting such a deft summation of the latest findings. Or such an engaging presenter. There are some nits I could pick but overall I'd have to say this was pretty awesome! I also have to recognize that I'm already pretty familiar with this subject and I have to wonder what somebody who is new to all this would make of it. Hmmm . . .

[simonmcglary]

When I first learnt about Denisovian in Asia, and having learnt before about Neanderthal and Homo Sapian it brought to mind the complexity of the reality of the situation. Evolution helps to understand ourselves as well as other species shared traits with us. Evolution is absolutely fascinating, as is nature in general.

[Terminally_rizible]

I found a mental floss video nine years ago hosted by Hank Green that brought me to Crash Course. I have been enjoying infotainment like this ever since. Thank you, PBS studios for keeping it going.

[JC-jihp]

So many things about science I swear I have thought about on some level but have never articulated or done some sort of study on. I truly believe their is a deeper understanding within us all we just need to tap in.

[FranBunnyFFXII]

I'm loving these Anthropology episodes on CC. I studied Bio Anthro for years, but wasnt able to get agree. These are nice to keep up with where I left off.
And the host, he got flair! Thanks for teaching us Dr.Sammy!(Did I spell that correctly?)

[AngryKid]

we can't even get along among different skin colors and ethnicities 😢

i can't even imagine what having more than 1 (sub)species would be like

[fkhan]

this would've been so useful when I took high school biology! Great video!