What If Humans Are NOT Earth's First Civilization?

A famous thought experiment asked: what if humans were not the first civilization to live on earth? This radical idea, known as the Silurian Hypothesis, is not a scientifically likely possibility. However, it’s a captivating story, and serves as a useful test for understanding how life evolves - and what it leaves behind.

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Founder & Director: Peter Schumaker
Chief Editor: Tristan Reed
Original soundtrack by Joseph McDade
Narrated by James Brown

[Koranos]

In this video, we clearly depict the silurian hypothesis as nothing more than a meaningful and interesting thought experiment. Multiple times throughout, we clearly say there is no evidence for a pre-human civilization. I appreciate all feedback in the comments, but some of them have not watched the video and are judging a little too quickly. Thanks to you all of you who are watching for the context and not just the title. You can't say everything you need to say in a YouTube title - that's where the video comes in.

[nizamieminov]

Imagine aliens find our radio signals and come find us on earth and we ask "How did you find us" and they say "We picked up your radio signals" When they show us what signals they had found it turns out to be radio signals broadcasted millions of years ago by previous advanced civilisation. 😮😊

[christophergkassel]

Nearly all of the known mass extinctions have an oopart from the same time period. Probably been at least 5 previous advanced civilizations on Earth.

[mahermagdy]

If they truly had advanced communication system, does that mean they could have memes ?

[rcxstiw]

As far as I know, everybody knows that humans were never the first on Earth.

[TimeToStartOver]

All hail to our reptiloid overlords, still living in the hollow earth, that is also flat. 🙌

[matthewstromberg]

Why has your animation gotten so much worse? The narrator is one thing but the animation on this channel has tanked.

[tigsik]

I absolutely believe this. One major catastrophe and everything that we made is a goner.

[alfiepilkington]

Or there was a intelligent anaerobic civilisation that got wiped our by a alien aerobic metabolite

[joejankoski]

Wasn't expecting a Graham Hancock collab...

[ActJack]

After all earth is alive too in her own right bless the good earth she needs help

[Gillemear]

Archaeologist is not the correct term lads. Archaeologist study remains of human civilisation, not pre human remains. You are thinking of paleontologists.

[kennethmartin]

I LUUUUVVVV❤️ the 'Silurian Hypothesis' theories presentations, and this is a good one. This one hits on a few new points, and I've seen and read a lot of S.H. material. Thx, 😉👍🐲🗿

[ActJack]

Its about 3 and a half million years for all of human exsistance including the earliest forms

[borntowild]

The Silurian period was 448 MYA. So if a civilization rose during that time to influence people in Babylon, it has to survive 2 mass extinction & around 400 Million years 😅

[bazpearce]

Doctor Who did two stories about Silurians early on with Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker. Back when Dr Who was worth watching.

[Sage_Havi]

Makes you wonder what they keep in the Vatican archives 😮

[liamwhittaker]

Fantastic video with excellent animation and great narration. Brilliant as a thought experiment to consider both our own planet and the evolution of life elsewhere in the solar system. Great work Koranos! ❤

[Hilderspilder]

If you can make all these animations, you can make a thumbnail that isn't AI

[acardenasjr]

The earth is at least 4 billion years old.

Chances are, a handful of intelligent beings arose, however all never progress beyond hunter gatherer, imo. No great cities or monuments. Just huts, built in their unique way and then they were gone.

Humans, it seems, are the only ones who progressed beyond that filter.

I also think Humans have missing history and were far more advance in the past in terms of sciences and education, but nothing beyond stoneworks and master seafarers.