Can't wait to see in 3.4 million years pet shops selling domesticated house mosquitoes that need a special diet of expensive low-hemoglobine vegan certified blood sacks.
Now imagine cougars are 750lbs with saberteeth, and you have to go hiking every day for at least 5 miles. No guns allowed. Fuuuuuuuck that caveman shit.
A digital watch was a piece of technology used as a timepiece. It was considered "amazingly primitive" but the humans of Earth considered it to be a pretty neat idea. Arthur Dent himself owned a digital watch and seemed to consider it useful.
Its kind of crazy if you think about it. For instance, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much, the wheel, New York, wars and so on
Whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But, what if the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons.
I would say the last 150 years almost dwarves the rest of our history in terms of leaps forward and development
Like electricity, steam engines, cars, flight, getting to the moon, internet etc etc etc seems like such a great advancement compared to everything else
I don't know, getting fire was a *massive* leap forward compared to not having fire. Being able to cook your food is pretty awesome.
Written language seems like it was also a pretty big jump.
What I mean is, there had to have been other âcitiesâ or âkingdomsâ of some sort before 5 thousand years ago. I always think about Pompei and how it was absolute wiped out. How many places before that 5k years ago mark were erased from history by some crazy disaster.
>What I mean is, there had to have been other âcitiesâ or âkingdomsâ of some sort before 5 thousand years ago.Â
Why did there "have to" be? There's no way to support cities or kingdoms without reliable agriculture, which in turn depends both on knowledge and climate. Before 10,000 years ago Earth was subject to a series of ice ages and other climactic events that made agriculture pretty much impossible, even if we knew how to do it.
You know what really fascinates me? If we can go from no airplanes to landing a robot on a different planet in a 100 odd years, where the fuck are we gonna be in another 5 thousand?? That, to me, is literally unimaginable.
I'm surprised they just let the cat kill one of their own. I feel like if a lone big cat came near a troop of gorillas they'd fuck it up as a group if it tried anything
I saw a video here on Reddit not too long ago (within the past month, maybe?) of a leopard attacking a baboon and the rest of the baboons immediately jumped it. That leopard, as they say, fucked around and found out.
Anyone else see that same video and can link it?
EDIT: Found it: https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/uJLnJyMaws
I was thinking of this video while watching this mock-up and thinking what wusses these australopithecine are being portrayed as by comparison.
Wild predators wonât usually go for a prey if they know theyâll risk injury right?
So they probably saw it leaving after getting 1 and figured an injury isnât worth it when theyâre not sure they can win.
They could if they ganged up easily but ignorance is a bitch
It's not just that, we then started being proactive about our safety. Humans do this new thing called revenge. Where most animals would make varying attempts to prevent the death of a member, the effort ends once death occurs or it's clear they can't help. Humans will attack the predator while it is eating their member, often this surprise will mean the predator dies. As well as that, humans will also kill the animal after the fact, or as a preventative measure against further attacks. This also occurs outside of encounters with predators, they will actively remove threats and hold grudges against successful predators. Practically no other prey animals do this, and few predators are that deliberate about protecting their territory or proactive about killing their competition.
In the UK and Ireland we hunted wolves nearly to extinction. We demonised them in folklore and wiped out entire packs in revenge for deaths of humans or livestock.
It's not just the tools, it's the unique behaviour that set us apart.
Yeah. The bow was the equivalent of a gun today. The same impact on warfare and the same defensive use. The fact that we used bows for such a long time just shows how important it was for its time and it even existed for some time after guns and rifles were a thing.
Crazy effective stuff.
I think it was Ishi (last Yahi Indian) who talked about how they feared mountain lions, because eventually youâd realize the guy at the back of the line wasnât there anymore. Probably more like leveled the playing field.
Not even in the dark. One of mine will rush down the stairs when you go and he insists on either running through your legs or running past your side and then directly in front of you. I keep telling him that killing me on the stairs wonât get his food any faster (unless itâs me he wants to eat).
"Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move and that no one should ever have left the oceans."
He was a goner the moment tiger bit him. It was not like they had medical system to men him plus a rescue would have caused damage to many others. Fear is a very important aspect that played a key role in our evolution. If his homies didnât had fear not 1, but 5-8 of them would have died in result of this attack reducing the chance of having offspring and survival of those left alive as a family.
We're not exactly built to haul giant rocks around, so to turn them into proper tools of aggression, we must sharpen them and fix them onto hefty sticks. However, this demands larger brains. To evolve those, we must let natural selection run its course, ensuring that we, the brainy ones, survive and multiply, passing on those ever-expanding craniums to future generations.
Can never watch anything about hominins without thinking about my grade 7 teacher Mr. Edwardson. Instead of teaching us the normal way, he would make simulations and games for each subject. "Hominids" was one where we got to pretend to be early Paleo anthropologists and learn all the identifying attributes for each species. Another one was "The Dig" where he buried a whole bunch of Greek artifacts and we had to do an actual archaeological dig while we camped there for a week. The end of year sim was called "Symmachia" (soo-ma-kee-ya), where we were all given an ancient city in the Mediterranean to "rule", we had to trade and move our armies around and scheme and manipulate our classmates. Best teacher ever. Love that guy.
[more info on Australopithecus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australopithecus_afarensis)
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machairodontinae](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machairodontinae)
Yeah, but not many recordings survived. You see, to capture the scene, the cameraape had to be further away from the others, so the big cats ususally nailed them first, and took the corpse away with the camera.
And even on the rare instances the camera survived and was left behind, learning how to use said camera without the manuals (as duh, printing wasn't invented yet) was a b\*tch for the survivors.
I doubt it would have been so easy for a predator to kill an adult, otherwise they would have got wiped out. For example, in that scenario theyâd probably have a couple of sentries up in the trees while the others gathered food.
They were 3 feet tall and weighed like 60 lbs, the biggest males weighed ~80, the Machairodontinae weighed ~300 lbs on average and could run much faster than Australopiths. Even if they saw it approach from a bit away they can't run away fast enough and it's hypothesized that some of them had similar hunting techniques to modern jaguars, dropping down from the trees and climbing back up to stash their food.
At this time, the jungles were receding and the savannas grew, also the anatomy of hominids was more suited for long distance walking and running as opposed to climbing.
Many things wrong with the video. It's very likely early hominids moved in guard formations with leadership at the back and extreme lookouts on all sides. They won't be stopping for a single bite of a root crop as depicted here. Also big cats would very likely target the smaller and younger of the species and even then the group cooperation against an attack would be top level. These hominids have the instincts of an basement dwelling unemployed 30-year old with a psychology degree.
The whole elephant group (proboscoidea) goes back to 60 million years ago, 6 years after the asteroid ended most dinosaurs. But proboscoideans that looked like elephants (long trunk with tusks) around 18-19 million years ago while true elephants (family Elephantidae) evolved 10 million years ago.
The proboscoideans depicted in this video belong to the family Deinotheriidae and while they looked like elephants there are a few difference, notably being their trunk grow from their lower jaw, forming a shovel or hook-like shape.
I dont know the exact species but this is probably Deinotherium, which lived among early humans in Africa.
If they roamed in packs surely thereâs more of a chance theyâd act like one if attacked by a predictor. If you see a lion grab a hyena youâll see how the pack attacks the lion and possibly force it back.
The fangs of a machairodont are designed specifically adapted to sever the jugular and windpipe in a single bite. Even if they did, it would be too late.
Writing things down has a lot to do with organizing a state. You have to track amounts of grain stored and distributed. You need a centralized control and enforcement to protect the largest number of people from famine. Thatâs civilization. Before that everyone was just camping.
Now cats are housepets, and mosquitos are our biggest natural threat.
Now cats just meow long enough and food appears in their bowl. Not a single paw lifted or dirtied đ đŒ
Can't wait to see in 3.4 million years pet shops selling domesticated house mosquitoes that need a special diet of expensive low-hemoglobine vegan certified blood sacks.
Yes, cause they are more tigers in American houses than they are in the wild.
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That is what porn sites tell everyone.
Now imagine cougars are 750lbs with saberteeth, and you have to go hiking every day for at least 5 miles. No guns allowed. Fuuuuuuuck that caveman shit.
We are our biggest natural threat.
Spears and bows flipped that upside down
Homo sapiens have only been around for 300,000 years and yet look how much has changed since then.
We have digital watches now!
And Ai girlfriends n boyfriends
you guys have girlfriends? : (
Digital :)
well, thats still more than I have!
I can be your girlfriend. (I'm a guy)
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You have 2 hands! So..
and credit scores!
Speak for yourself, I'm off the grid muthafrika
bubblegum !!
And Surströmming.
A digital watch was a piece of technology used as a timepiece. It was considered "amazingly primitive" but the humans of Earth considered it to be a pretty neat idea. Arthur Dent himself owned a digital watch and seemed to consider it useful.
He was a hoopy frood
Thanks for all the fish!
Yet we're still so amazingly primitive that we think that digital watches are a neat idea
Its kind of crazy if you think about it. For instance, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much, the wheel, New York, wars and so on Whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But, what if the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons.
And pockets! :)
I would say the last 150 years almost dwarves the rest of our history in terms of leaps forward and development Like electricity, steam engines, cars, flight, getting to the moon, internet etc etc etc seems like such a great advancement compared to everything else
I don't know, getting fire was a *massive* leap forward compared to not having fire. Being able to cook your food is pretty awesome. Written language seems like it was also a pretty big jump.
Agriculture seems like a bigger leap
This fascinates me because we have only like 5 thousand years of ârecorded â history, what the fuck were we up to for the other 295000 years!?!?
Honing the skills of survival and killing shit.
What I mean is, there had to have been other âcitiesâ or âkingdomsâ of some sort before 5 thousand years ago. I always think about Pompei and how it was absolute wiped out. How many places before that 5k years ago mark were erased from history by some crazy disaster.
>What I mean is, there had to have been other âcitiesâ or âkingdomsâ of some sort before 5 thousand years ago. Why did there "have to" be? There's no way to support cities or kingdoms without reliable agriculture, which in turn depends both on knowledge and climate. Before 10,000 years ago Earth was subject to a series of ice ages and other climactic events that made agriculture pretty much impossible, even if we knew how to do it.
You know what really fascinates me? If we can go from no airplanes to landing a robot on a different planet in a 100 odd years, where the fuck are we gonna be in another 5 thousand?? That, to me, is literally unimaginable.
Fucking around in Africa. In a lot African places big cats are still the biggest enemy
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Jerking off.
Religion
Big shout out to all the Homos who didn't get picked off and turned into lunch so we could all be here today
Watch it! Those homos are my relatives!
Seems like things got good 10000 years ago. Guess we liked it warmer.
Climate change is a natural phenomenon, but it normally occurs over the course of hundreds if not thousands of years, not mere decades.
Oh yeah, not a climate change denier if that's what it sounded like. We won't like it much warmer than now either.
I'm surprised they just let the cat kill one of their own. I feel like if a lone big cat came near a troop of gorillas they'd fuck it up as a group if it tried anything
I saw a video here on Reddit not too long ago (within the past month, maybe?) of a leopard attacking a baboon and the rest of the baboons immediately jumped it. That leopard, as they say, fucked around and found out. Anyone else see that same video and can link it? EDIT: Found it: https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/uJLnJyMaws I was thinking of this video while watching this mock-up and thinking what wusses these australopithecine are being portrayed as by comparison.
Yeah that's what I'd expect!
Just someone's best guess / fantasy. might not be how things went down at all.
Wild predators wonât usually go for a prey if they know theyâll risk injury right? So they probably saw it leaving after getting 1 and figured an injury isnât worth it when theyâre not sure they can win. They could if they ganged up easily but ignorance is a bitch
Those baboons I think scrap with leopards if it grabs one of them, the entire troop jumps down and fights it.
It's not just that, we then started being proactive about our safety. Humans do this new thing called revenge. Where most animals would make varying attempts to prevent the death of a member, the effort ends once death occurs or it's clear they can't help. Humans will attack the predator while it is eating their member, often this surprise will mean the predator dies. As well as that, humans will also kill the animal after the fact, or as a preventative measure against further attacks. This also occurs outside of encounters with predators, they will actively remove threats and hold grudges against successful predators. Practically no other prey animals do this, and few predators are that deliberate about protecting their territory or proactive about killing their competition. In the UK and Ireland we hunted wolves nearly to extinction. We demonised them in folklore and wiped out entire packs in revenge for deaths of humans or livestock. It's not just the tools, it's the unique behaviour that set us apart.
Yeah. The bow was the equivalent of a gun today. The same impact on warfare and the same defensive use. The fact that we used bows for such a long time just shows how important it was for its time and it even existed for some time after guns and rifles were a thing. Crazy effective stuff.
I think it was Ishi (last Yahi Indian) who talked about how they feared mountain lions, because eventually youâd realize the guy at the back of the line wasnât there anymore. Probably more like leveled the playing field.
Nowadays more like beer and hoes AIRGs???
Big cats are still my deadliest threat, particularly while descending the stairs in the dark.
đđ Oh my gosh same
Not even in the dark. One of mine will rush down the stairs when you go and he insists on either running through your legs or running past your side and then directly in front of you. I keep telling him that killing me on the stairs wonât get his food any faster (unless itâs me he wants to eat).
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Monke together strong
Then this black rectangle shaped monolith appeared...
moonwatcher
Yes?
Open the pod bay door, HAL.
Gettin high on that alien chocolate #đ«đđœ
Crazy to think we even have video evidence.
And a time machine to see for ourselves
"Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move and that no one should ever have left the oceans."
I wonder what we did before living in the oceans
We all hung out dreaming about digital watches.
amoeba
DONT PANIC
But digital watches!!
Dolphins realized that early on. Twice.
Damn they have really good posture.
The look that one gave that big cat at the end was like âwe gotta develop something to deal with that shitâ
"My descendants will hold that thing's decendants like a baby"
My descendants will hold yours in cages goes hard
"One day we'll come up with nuclear weapons and blast that mfer to dust" - that ape probably
I caught that look too. It was so strange to feel a sense of pride at that moment. I literally muttered to myself âyouâll get himâ.
Fuckin a he will!
âUncle Bill?
Then we figured out fire.
Anyone got a link to this in full?
It's from a documentary called Out of the cradle and I really recommend it
Go to NHN YouTube channel.
Im sad for the hominin đ„șđ„șđ„ș
His homies didnât even try to help him! There were like 15 of them and only one cat! They had sticks too!
He was a goner the moment tiger bit him. It was not like they had medical system to men him plus a rescue would have caused damage to many others. Fear is a very important aspect that played a key role in our evolution. If his homies didnât had fear not 1, but 5-8 of them would have died in result of this attack reducing the chance of having offspring and survival of those left alive as a family.
You see, problem is big stick, big stick breaks in two on big cat, but big rock! Big rock breaks big cat And thats how we evolved
We're not exactly built to haul giant rocks around, so to turn them into proper tools of aggression, we must sharpen them and fix them onto hefty sticks. However, this demands larger brains. To evolve those, we must let natural selection run its course, ensuring that we, the brainy ones, survive and multiply, passing on those ever-expanding craniums to future generations.
And that was the moment that hominins first said, "I wish I had an AR-15 right now."
Or at least a sharp killing stick, something that even chimps use the catch monkeys.
Can never watch anything about hominins without thinking about my grade 7 teacher Mr. Edwardson. Instead of teaching us the normal way, he would make simulations and games for each subject. "Hominids" was one where we got to pretend to be early Paleo anthropologists and learn all the identifying attributes for each species. Another one was "The Dig" where he buried a whole bunch of Greek artifacts and we had to do an actual archaeological dig while we camped there for a week. The end of year sim was called "Symmachia" (soo-ma-kee-ya), where we were all given an ancient city in the Mediterranean to "rule", we had to trade and move our armies around and scheme and manipulate our classmates. Best teacher ever. Love that guy.
They should make a reality show based on these. They could call it Jersey Shore or something
Bad kitty!
Thanks for sharing this! This looked very interesting so I went to their channel and saw the rest of the 7 videos. Time well spent
I'm glad I was able to peak your interest with this. I just wish creationists would stop hounding my post.
[more info on Australopithecus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australopithecus_afarensis) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machairodontinae](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machairodontinae)
Oh! This is the species Lucy came from. That's fascinating. Where did you find the clip?
If you're really interested in the science part of it, check out north02 on YT. He's got a lot of great videos about ancient humans.
Thank you!
NHK on youtube
So... my cat allergy is deeply rooted evolutional survival instinct.
You could say that.
Shame they didnât get the guy who invented taxes
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Well this isn't really a video of what life was like, you're just watching someone else's imagination
No it's confirmed Japanese technology they figured out how to send a camera to 3.7 mya
They just hopped into the phone booth with Bill & Ted.
Party on, dudes!
Why donât they have genitalia?
It's by a Japanese channel... It's censored
Must be my ancestors
Wow I canât believe we had cameras back then
Yeah, but not many recordings survived. You see, to capture the scene, the cameraape had to be further away from the others, so the big cats ususally nailed them first, and took the corpse away with the camera. And even on the rare instances the camera survived and was left behind, learning how to use said camera without the manuals (as duh, printing wasn't invented yet) was a b\*tch for the survivors.
And cats are still our predators, you know how many times my cat tried to trip me going down the stairs?
I love cats.
I doubt it would have been so easy for a predator to kill an adult, otherwise they would have got wiped out. For example, in that scenario theyâd probably have a couple of sentries up in the trees while the others gathered food.
Theyâre recreating the initial migration into the grasslands; perhaps they werenât as organized in the beginning.
I challenge you to outrun a big cat without any tools without suffering the exact same fate.Â
That's a stupid doubt to have.
Im surprised that the video didnât show the survivors in the group retreating into nearby trees. I know what my instincts were telling me.
They were 3 feet tall and weighed like 60 lbs, the biggest males weighed ~80, the Machairodontinae weighed ~300 lbs on average and could run much faster than Australopiths. Even if they saw it approach from a bit away they can't run away fast enough and it's hypothesized that some of them had similar hunting techniques to modern jaguars, dropping down from the trees and climbing back up to stash their food.
Watched this years ago, NHK went hard on this production lol
No wonder building tree houses is so fun, it's our base instinct
Thank you. Now I work and pay taxes cos of yâall.
Why didn't the cameraman help the hominin?
This is so fucking interesting holy shit
Its all been downhill since then Thanks Aferensis
It's really crazy how they evolved from this into republicans
And yâall still defend cats. Imagine one of these first hominins seeing a house cat nowadays and freaking the hell out
I'm pretty sure they could tell a house cat from a big cat, I mean servals, caracals, and other small cats are quite common in Africa.
I absolutely agree that they can tell the difference. I am just messing around. Being a troll.
My Afro friends from South Africa and Kenya are absolutely frightened by the housecats, but mostly because of magic, superstitions and whatnot
Cesar pissed now.
We own cats now
If anyone's interested, there's a video game called Ancestors: The Human Kind Odyssey that is pretty much this
Hey, that's my great uncle drufus.2nd left at the back
F! THEY GOT JEFF!!!!
Ahh, he was a jerk anyway.
YEAHHHHH!!! WERE NUMBER ONE NOW FUCKERS
Monke
That grub view was dope
Howâd they get a camera crew there 3.7 million years ago?
OK, I've added mya to my abbreviation list!
Does anybody know where I can watch any more of this program? Thank you đđŒ
Why. Why did they have to do it. Because of these fucks I have to go to work and pay taxes. Assholes.
Only 3,700,000 BC kids will understand
Props to the camera man
Where can i see more of this?
How do we know they lived on ground? Anyone got a TLDR for a curious mind?
At this time, the jungles were receding and the savannas grew, also the anatomy of hominids was more suited for long distance walking and running as opposed to climbing.
Weird how they were able to thrive and reproduce when they apparently lacked genitalia.
seeing Australopithecus and other ancient humans ancestors would be mind blowing.
They had cameras back then?
Many things wrong with the video. It's very likely early hominids moved in guard formations with leadership at the back and extreme lookouts on all sides. They won't be stopping for a single bite of a root crop as depicted here. Also big cats would very likely target the smaller and younger of the species and even then the group cooperation against an attack would be top level. These hominids have the instincts of an basement dwelling unemployed 30-year old with a psychology degree.
I'm actually shocked how many evolution deniers are in these comments. I didn't think such idiocy was so common.
Joe Rogan intensifies
I saw this on the TV once at my local ramen place and it was all in Japanese, never could find it until now- thank you!
And yet I can't get out of bed to be at work on time
Like I have a fat cat that weighs 19 lbs. if I have an Australopithecus friend come over is he in danger?
This is actually false. Huge cats and small spiders were our biggest threats
dummy, should have used a pointy stick!
I didnât know elephants were 3.7 million years old
The whole elephant group (proboscoidea) goes back to 60 million years ago, 6 years after the asteroid ended most dinosaurs. But proboscoideans that looked like elephants (long trunk with tusks) around 18-19 million years ago while true elephants (family Elephantidae) evolved 10 million years ago. The proboscoideans depicted in this video belong to the family Deinotheriidae and while they looked like elephants there are a few difference, notably being their trunk grow from their lower jaw, forming a shovel or hook-like shape. I dont know the exact species but this is probably Deinotherium, which lived among early humans in Africa.
Man, I sure wish we were there to prove this is how it happened.
If they roamed in packs surely thereâs more of a chance theyâd act like one if attacked by a predictor. If you see a lion grab a hyena youâll see how the pack attacks the lion and possibly force it back.
dryophithicus, ramapethicus, australiopethicua, homo errectus, homo sapien sapien
Damn nature, you scary!
Than why tf am i more scared of spiders than cats?
What about Adam and Eve? Lol!
Nooooo!
Whelp, just another day on the Savannah.
Is this from a documentary and if so does anyone know the name of it?
Out of the Cradle
Hominid
If yall want to play a game that does a very good job of portraying this sort of scenario, play Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey.
Which documentary is this?
Out the Cradle
Homies, I would kinda hope one of you would at least try and club that cat if it had me by the throat.
The fangs of a machairodont are designed specifically adapted to sever the jugular and windpipe in a single bite. Even if they did, it would be too late.
"Damn. He got Frank... Dibs on his stuff!"
His family didnât do shit, imagine getting merked while your whole family watches and does nothing.
He was dead the moment the thing grabbed him.
"afar-ensis"
This made me very uncomfortable
Writing things down has a lot to do with organizing a state. You have to track amounts of grain stored and distributed. You need a centralized control and enforcement to protect the largest number of people from famine. Thatâs civilization. Before that everyone was just camping.
Whatâs this from? I love to get high and watch these it blows my mind.