Lloyd brings up some good points, but I know the answers, and it seems he's leading us toward a fantasy. Maybe he will change my mind nevertheless as I continue watching, but here are my thoughts on the first 20 minutes.
Lloyd's Video
PART 1
My first alarm is that he's using an old model of primate evolution. Most mainstreamers no longer think bipedalism started 4 million years ago. The more common idea today is that all great apes evolved from a bipedal ancestor. We now have possible upright australopithecines in Greece 10 million years ago. In fact there is a 10 million year old fossil of an ape with a skeleton very close yo Homo, but with a brain as small as a chimp. And a bipedal footprint near it far older than the one he's showing. They've also found a living bipedal chimp in the Congo which hunts big cats and acts like a gorilla. Their feet are bigger than gorillas and they're estimated to stand nearly 6 foot tall. It's called the Bili Ape and there's an entry on it in wikipedia. I have a theory on the implications of this I'll be presenting soon.
Loyd's's not taking into account the hybridization events which shaped our species.
Homo didn't evolve in a linear fashion from Austros. Homo is a hybrid between several species of austros, some of which lived outside of Africa or in the Congo where the fossil record is blank or poor.
Only certain environments have even a chance of producing a fossil, especially the fossil of a primate. Only super-successful species with a huge range even leave a single fossil.
The skulls changed so much because they result from the mixing of several subspecies. We can see every trait that defines Anatomically Modern Homo Sapien in the various species of archaic homo sapien that came before them. Mix them all together and you have a anatomically modern homo sapien.
Why did we lose our strength?
If you could mix a gorilla with a macaque, the hybrid child wouldn't be as strong as the gorilla.
If a 6 foot Bili Ape had a kid with a 3 foot bonobo, which they could...how strong is the hybrid going to be?
Probably about half as strong as the Bili Ape.
On top of that, we don't use our muscles even a tenth of what our ancestors did, and bone gains mass as we grow muscle within our lifetimes.
Neolithic people were also much stronger than us. A Neolithic woman could lift more than most modern male athletes.
"There's not a single human bone in the so-called pre-human fossil record."
I could just as easily say, "There is not a single chihuahua bone in the so-called wolf fossil record."
So we sexually/naturally selected the upper torso of a pygmy tribe and our pelvis and legs from a savanna people. What's the big deal? Our DNA shows evidence of 5 different hominids that we chose our physical make-up from.
A possible reason for the choice:
This is the only torso that's good for throwing spears. Neanderthal may not have been able to throw a spear, but pygmies from 150,000 years ago had the correct shoulder structure to do so.
We have direct evidence that Neanderthal was finally defeated in the Middle East by throwing spears. Our only chance against them was to throw spears and run away, hence the need for long legs. Best man for the job is gonna be a pygmy with long legs from his 7 foot tall Homo Sapiens Idaltu mother.
The limb ratio seen in apes and early hominids is also observed in certain paleolithic homo sapiens. Interestingly, several of these are practitioners of artificial cranial deformation, like the Kow Swamp people and certain Native American tribes, notably in Pantagonia.
Perhaps the spear-thrower people reached those places last?
Lloyd's Video
PART 1
My first alarm is that he's using an old model of primate evolution. Most mainstreamers no longer think bipedalism started 4 million years ago. The more common idea today is that all great apes evolved from a bipedal ancestor. We now have possible upright australopithecines in Greece 10 million years ago. In fact there is a 10 million year old fossil of an ape with a skeleton very close yo Homo, but with a brain as small as a chimp. And a bipedal footprint near it far older than the one he's showing. They've also found a living bipedal chimp in the Congo which hunts big cats and acts like a gorilla. Their feet are bigger than gorillas and they're estimated to stand nearly 6 foot tall. It's called the Bili Ape and there's an entry on it in wikipedia. I have a theory on the implications of this I'll be presenting soon.
Loyd's's not taking into account the hybridization events which shaped our species.
Homo didn't evolve in a linear fashion from Austros. Homo is a hybrid between several species of austros, some of which lived outside of Africa or in the Congo where the fossil record is blank or poor.
Only certain environments have even a chance of producing a fossil, especially the fossil of a primate. Only super-successful species with a huge range even leave a single fossil.
The skulls changed so much because they result from the mixing of several subspecies. We can see every trait that defines Anatomically Modern Homo Sapien in the various species of archaic homo sapien that came before them. Mix them all together and you have a anatomically modern homo sapien.
Why did we lose our strength?
If you could mix a gorilla with a macaque, the hybrid child wouldn't be as strong as the gorilla.
If a 6 foot Bili Ape had a kid with a 3 foot bonobo, which they could...how strong is the hybrid going to be?
Probably about half as strong as the Bili Ape.
On top of that, we don't use our muscles even a tenth of what our ancestors did, and bone gains mass as we grow muscle within our lifetimes.
Neolithic people were also much stronger than us. A Neolithic woman could lift more than most modern male athletes.
"There's not a single human bone in the so-called pre-human fossil record."
I could just as easily say, "There is not a single chihuahua bone in the so-called wolf fossil record."
So we sexually/naturally selected the upper torso of a pygmy tribe and our pelvis and legs from a savanna people. What's the big deal? Our DNA shows evidence of 5 different hominids that we chose our physical make-up from.
A possible reason for the choice:
This is the only torso that's good for throwing spears. Neanderthal may not have been able to throw a spear, but pygmies from 150,000 years ago had the correct shoulder structure to do so.
We have direct evidence that Neanderthal was finally defeated in the Middle East by throwing spears. Our only chance against them was to throw spears and run away, hence the need for long legs. Best man for the job is gonna be a pygmy with long legs from his 7 foot tall Homo Sapiens Idaltu mother.
The limb ratio seen in apes and early hominids is also observed in certain paleolithic homo sapiens. Interestingly, several of these are practitioners of artificial cranial deformation, like the Kow Swamp people and certain Native American tribes, notably in Pantagonia.
Perhaps the spear-thrower people reached those places last?
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