THE VIDEO SHELF · human origins
What Happened Before History? Human Origins
Kurzgesagt's animated overview of human origins and the vast prehistory before recorded history. It covers how modern humans emerged and spread.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters recommend it as a compact, well-sourced intro to human evolution that even led one viewer to read Sapiens.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
- Topic
- human origins
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2016–2022
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
I live in a world where 90% of my friends and family believe that they came from the sins of a woman who decided to eat an apple. I recently read a book called Sapiens, this book really drilled into my mind that we homo-sapiens …
joshbaptiste on Hacker News · 2016-08
In Did Our Ancestors Become Bipedal So They Could Throw?It might not be what you were thinking, but the YouTube channel Kurzgesagt has 2 very good videos on the topic: [VIDEO] [LINK] His stuff is well sourced and generally reliable.
doctoboggan on Hacker News · 2018-01
In Jawbone of Earliest Modern Human Out of Africa Discovered in Israeli Cave
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