Human Evolution: Crash Course Big History #6

In which John Green and Hank Green teach you about how human primates moved out of Africa and turned Earth into a real-life Planet of the Apes. And the apes are people! John and Hank teach you about how humans evolved, and the sort of tricks they picked up along the way like complex tool use, big brains, and fighting. Our ancestors adapted to the grasslands of Africa and went through several iterations including Australopithecus, homo habilis, and homo ergaster/erectus. Our ancestors tamed fire, made pressure flake tools, and eventually smartphones.

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[omranhamed]

Who else binges these videos just for the love of knowledge and not for finals😂

[briangarrow]

The best thing about the Internet is programs like this. I am a retired grandfather with a 2 year old grandson. When he gets a little older, we will be watching these courses together. And maybe have some cookies and milk too!!

[thHour]

It's 2018 and still no word on the reboot to this youtube video :(

[savannah]

“bonobos are... hippies” killed me omg

[loyisokhoali]

i swear i thought i was hallucinating when john turned into hank

you guys need to calm down

[SuneOli]

"Humans are amazing."* looks at comments section *"Nevermind..."

[QuantumBraced]

I can't comprehend how this can possibly offend anyone. I feel empowered and inspired by my connection to the rest of life on Earth.

[gumbyforreal]

when i was in school, i got detention a LOT. and in detention, you were only allowed to use computers for “homework” so to entertain myself during these two hour long blocks, i’d watch these crash course videos as they technically counted as “homework” these videos saved teenage me from perhaps hundreds of hours of boredom. i may have been a regular in detention, but i was definitely the only nerd in detention. thanks crash course

[HopperTheMCDoctor]

Humans are amazing, after millions of years we came about and so far we have come up with a lot of great ideas and inventions.

Then someone created the Youtube comment section and negated all of that.

[clairehaggett]

Please do a whole mini series on human evolution! Its fascinating, and tells us A LOT about ourselves. Paleoanthropology is rich with interesting information. If entire university degrees can be dedicated to the subject, I'm sure a series could be figured out. Just something I would love to see!

[nikkoval]

We should have a memorial to honor those few thousand humans who heroically survived the aftermath of that volcanic eruption

[snatchadams]

Male Bonobo: uhhh, I'm going to take off I don't know anybody here.
Female Bonobo: Hey there not so fast, you new around here cutie? ::flips hair::

[Lorad]

I don't know why people argue about evolution. It's a fact. Theory's in science are not speculation they have massive amounts of evidence backing them up. Why would we argue about evolution when we have lots of evidence saying it's true?

[enigma]

"Many of our viewers will be offended by our human centred bias" who? the non human viewers?

[nuimaleko]

I can't believe that John and Hank create all of these wonderful Crash
Course video series, just to help spread education. Thank you Mr. Green and Mr. Green, you are two of the best people on the planet.  

[phenomenalphysics]

6:17 Omg we've come a long way, I mean australopithecus had a hard time communicating and now we're hearing Hank speaking faster than I understand😂

[subjectnamehere]

I really like the fact that they included Jane Goodall. Such nice little details...

[matthewbaker]

"And we invented tumblr!"
That's not something to be proud of

[RandleSnipes]

Saw the Sapolsky reference... mad respect.

[greg.sym.]

I am offended by your human centric bias. I'm not anti-human or anything, I mean, some of my friends are human, but I am deeply offended nonetheless. I wanted to hear more about Gorgonopsaeons!