Why Didn't Humans Evolve Into This?
- Duration 52 minutes
- Has Transcript
Description
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Written by Sarah Wild
Art by the legendary Ettore Mazza: https://www.instagram.com/ettore.mazza
Fact checking by Lucy Timbrell
Narration by David Kelly
Editing by Siji Sheehan and Andrew Dixon
Title editing by Manuel Rubio
Produced by David Kelly and Andrew Dixon
Huge thanks to Bone Clones for their fantastic skull replicas. Check them out at https://boneclones.com/
A special thanks to Dr Carrie Mongle and co-authors of the paper “New fossils reveal the hand of Paranthropus boisei” for kind permission to feature wonderful images from their study, reproduced with permission from Springer Nature.
Thank you to Jannatul Ahmed and the team at the American Museum of Natural History, for kind permission to feature Dennis Finnan’s image of the Klagenfurt skull.
Music from Silver Maple, Epidemic Sound and Artlist.
Stock footage from Storyblocks, Artgrid and Shutterstock.
00:00 Introduction
04:25 Beside Man
15:23 How Close To Human?
29:35 Where Did Paranthropus Go?
41:39 Betting On Gracile