CARTA: Exploring the Origins of Today's Humans - Tim Weaver Paola Villa Sriram Sankararaman

The archeologists from Italy is a wonderful and engaging speaker!

Three excellent speakers. Thank you.

Excellent, thank you!

This was kind of an enlightening talk. Not only did Tim Weaver kind of point to non-adaptive kind of changes in the human skull, but kind of also included in his talk phrases that kind of pointed to some kind of strange developments kind of in the way some scientists kind of like to kind of speak these days, or these kind of days. Very kind of enlightening, if you can kind of make it through kind of the way he speaks.

Whatever you do… Don’t listen for how many times the first guy says “kind of” You’re welcome

UCTV - I think you missed including a video in the CARTA playlist. There's one from this event uploaded by you a few days ago that isn't in the CARTA playlist.

I bet some day it's discovered that the ability to produce vocalizations are not the key factor for developing language, but rather brain development. And that a certain kind of brain development without the ability to vocalize in certain precise ways would still lead to the development of language. Just not so-called "spoken" language as we experience it... (See beginning around 6:40...)

That coughing.

Its cos I have no friends so I go to peices about these things cos I've got nothing else going on.

What the hell do I have to do to find someone?

36:59 Subs correction: bifacially done.

I kind of already seen this lecture before, I kind of think..

We had large scale migrations into Europe during the neolithic, so perhaps the change in jaw-bones is just a sign of population replacement.

I have a problem with trying to draw any conclusions based on skull data. We have so many recent finds of small brained hominids that have lived in our very recent past along side other hominin. We have no way of knowing how much interbreeding there was among them so any variation has multiple possible causes. DNA analysis pretty much trumps old school quantification of skull anatomy. You can pretty much throw out judging intelligence based on brain size, as well.

what about those tribes who are still hunter gatherer ? have you chdecked their skulls ? they never had farming diet .

The dramatic change in our diets going into the agricultural movement is too recent. Partly explains my non-Celiac severe gluten intolerance. Our guys are not adept to digest so much argicultural product (wheat,corn,rice,.....)

I will never understand where they get the idea that only humans are capable of speech when our speech capabilities is an adaptation to make speech simpler and easier. It didn't just occur one day that a human was born and said momma a few months later, earlier hominids had to be talking up a storm to create the vocal capacity we have today. Albeit their languages wouldn't be anything like ours is but simpler and more complicated. Simpler in the word variety but more complicated in the use of the fewer sounds they could make to say the words. If human intelligences with 100 years experience in speech was given a dogs vocal capabilities they could speak words just not what we would say or how we would say it.

"kind-of" ...............bye

Why don't you like call my name or tell me where to go or whatever I'm a person you've already broken me what else is there? Yer so mean.

Eating meat made our brains grow. Cooking meat made our jaws become smaller. Straight and simple.