‘Lucy’s baby’ suggests famed human ancestor had a primitive brain

New study also reveals ancient human ancestors enjoyed a long childhood.

Credits

editor/narrator
Meagan Cantwell

supervising producer
Joel Goldberg

script
Meagan Cantwell
Joel Goldberg
Ann Gibbons

illustrations
British Photo Library/Flickr
Mauricio Anton/Science Source

video footage
Paul Tafforeau/ESRF Grenoble
Philipp Gunz/MPI EVA Leipzig
Archive/org/Prelinger Archives

photos
Cleveland Natural history Museum
Institute of Human Origins
Philipp Gunz
S. Entressangle/E. Daynes
Todd Preuss/Yerkes Primate Research
Zeray Alemseged

research
Gunz et al., Science Advances 2020

music
“Artificial Wave”
by Nguyên Khôi Nguyên

special thanks
Elizabeth Culotta

[Metacognition]

Lucy's brain still smarter than today's politicians.

[lzl]

I like how australopithecus learned how to wear lipstick, some may say sign of intelligence maybe

[Tony-Blake]

Commenters with pronounced lunate sulci do not approve of these findings.

[jgbdickcleland]

I hope the narrator's block dose is bedder

[adkinsyum]

Is it just a cold? Or is it something terrible?

[ralphpercy]

I came from a monkey> But there are still monkeys?>

[Pwnagotchi-]

Did anyone ever stop to think that Lucy may have just been then bones of an ape?

[franzjosephaque]

Our related family species are apes 🦍🦧

[laveredasecreta]

She looks like some of the women you see today in sub-Saharan Africa, or in Brooklyn. Not much difference really.

[robsonenesvirgilio]

Are you kidding me?

Since when did a species evolve to become another species?

[christianoh]

I was wrong to subscribe on this channel, still believing on lies made by Darwin.