HOMO ERGASTER - African Homo erectus ~ with DR KAREN BAAB

HOMO ERGASTER - African Homo erectus (Excerpt) ~ with KAREN BAAB
*Re-upload with sound fixes.

Excerpt from 'How Homo Erectus Took Over the World' (2021) - interview with paleoanthropologist Karen Baab. Here, Dr Baab discusses Homo ergaster and the species' most intriguing fossil, 'Turkana Boy - also known as 'Nariokotome Boy'.

DR KAREN BAAB is a biological anthropologist studying human evolution at Midwestern University in Glendale, Arizona, USA. Her main areas of research are the evolutionary history of Plio-Pleistocene Homo and what the shape of their skulls can tell us.

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[alec]

Great to see! I met this guy in in 2004 at the National Museum in Nairboi. The Curator of the Museum introduced me to the Nakatome boy. Then she introduced me to the discoverer of the Nariokome Boy, Kamoya Kimeu. A beautiful man! What a thrill!

[longcastle]

Such new and interesting information -

[sonarbangla]

Lack of samples and sufficient samples are equally a handicap, for eye opening conclusions.

[jameslace]

I’m a pediatrician doing volunteer medical work in Tanzania. One of my mothers looked exactly like a homo erectus person. I suspect there are others like her that are similar to homo erectus. Maybe homo erectus never totally died out

[ClaudiusDenk]

The evolution of scavenging, hunter-gatherer notions don't make sense unless we can skip 2 to 5 millions years from the LCA to Oldawan at, about 2.6 mya. Also, the evolution of hominid intellectual, cultural, and communal territorial behaviors don't make any sense if the unit of selection is just small groups rather than whole communities. This would mean then that the environmental selective factors of the earliest years of hominid/human evolution must have involved the possibility of communal extinction. This video explains it more explicitly:
The Earliest Years of Human Evolution
by Claudius Denk

[paulallen]

we all typed in the same thing to get here right? xD