Australopithecus (That We Know Of) | The Evolution of Us I Lindsay Nikole
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Australopithecus is the Hollywood it girl of human evolution and quite literally some of the most famous fossils… EVER. Ever heard of Lucy, the Taung Child, or the Laetoli footprints? Yep, all Australopithecus. Today, I’m “digging” into how these early apes set the stage for us, Homo sapiens, and all the heated big brain debates still going on today.
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Join zoologist Lindsay Nikole for vivid stories about evolution, animal behavior, and the wonderfully weird life around (and before) us. Each video dives into creatures you’ve never met and facts you’ll never forget, blending science with humor, visuals, and memorable explanations. From viral mystery IDs and prehistoric deep dives to myth-busting and conservation context, this channel makes complex biology easy and exciting to understand.
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Chapters:
00:00 The Early Human Evolution
01:08 What is Australopithecus?!
02:31 The Discovery of the “Taung Child”
04:24 Exposing Biggest Hoax of the History
07:59 Microwear and Stable Isotope Analysis
15:03 Orrorin’s Relationship to Modern Humans
18:55 Laetoli Footprints & Evidence of Bipedalism
25:52 “Abel” The Australopithecus Bahrelghazali
27:08 “Garhi” The Australopithecus Garhi
28:51 “Kenyanthropus Platyops” & “Deyiremeda”
30:31 The “Australopithecus Sediba” in Malapa Cave
Australopithecus (That We Know Of) | Lindsay Nikole
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@LindsayNikole
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
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@secondchance5914
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
instructions unclear, my girlfriend is now an apple
@5001Fergies
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
12:20 and this is why i dont use eggshells to add calcium to my garden soil. eggs from hundreds of thousands of years ago still intact enough to be identified, something tells me they wont break down in my soil in a year or two 😅
@stevenr5534
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
If they named a set of remains "Cain" have they found "Abel" yet?
@caterpillarnana
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
Listening to you say made up words like oldener is hilarious, but reading made up words made up words is a pain in the butt.
@lugo5678
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
"The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know." -Einstein
@laurachapple6795
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
There's a book called 'The Piltdown Man Hoax' by Miles Russel and honestly, "Shame on you, Charles Dawson, Shame, Shame, Shame!" is a good summary of it. Everything else the dude ever found was also fake.
@darkvalues8298
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
Thanks for making this in the same time im having an exam on this in BIO 🙏
@AMERICAN-VKING
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
Hello Miss Nicole I saw the part where you were talking about how the Apes of that time had more curved fingers what I would like to let you know is that I have on both my hands are curved index finger in a curved middle finger and on top of that I have four of my wisdom teeth that came straight up with no impactions no angles just straight and on top of that I have a overbite which causes me to self sharpen my teeth am I great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great ancestors were Australopithecus and the neanderthal
@DIRTBRAH
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
Why do you talk like that?
@Shadeem
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
and to complicate matters, our ancient family members liked to bone each other, so classifying them can be even more fun
@Sigma__gamer0720
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
Thank you i Need this for science wow you are a life saver 😊
@kalixkatt
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
Stoned whilst watching Lindsay with Be'lakor in the background is a peak evening.
@MegamiTheGoddess
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
9:31
Side effect now there’s oxygen everywhere and the sky is blue
Something about the earth being a snowball
then I think it was something about continental drift
I need to watch hotewig again ngl
I memorized a lot of it just not this bit
@ninovargas7867
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
Nice Warwick Corvette you got hanging there
@Jkrieg_official
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
Algorithm nitrous
@ezdlc2693
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
literally me
@irritableblackwoman
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
Hey Lindsay! Love your videos! I know I’m late to the party.
South African 🇿🇦 here, ‘Taung Child’ is pronounced ‘Taa-ooong’ (make that oooo sound) meaning place of the lion. ❤️
@kalam420
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
Lucy in the Sky with Diamond
@devan.abshire8600
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
I am really curious when your done with this series if you have played a game that's amazing..!! Humans Ancestry it's fun
@lostpony4885
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
Alas Lucy could not buy a Helix mattress which wasnt sold until Erectus was around
@RetzleYT
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
She has been doing this forever and I swear I always randomly stumble upon it late night and learn some random old facts not complaining tho I enjoy my yearly run in
@marcus6991
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
The first stoners if you will
@fuzzyhair321
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
what is so strange though, is why we are the only remaining bipedal ape left. were our ancestors just so dominate to kill off every other versions of homos or environmentally disaster left us the last one standing with the Neanderthal
@williamhayashi2190
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
I thought the world’s most famous footprint was the Apollo 11
@alobo9937
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
Literally studying for my final….I need these videos like you wouldn't believe!!!!! Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!
@uncle_beenz
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
The more I learn thanks to you, the more questions I have
But thank you for the work!
@thomasdjonesnil
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
We are all transitional forms, all of us are passing our variances down if we are making descendants.
I am not particularly distinctive, but I have had physicians remark on the strength and density of my bones, as well as the thickness and toughness of my jaw muscles. I have a very wide and dense mandible, and my teeth have long roots and strong dentition. If I had passed my genetics on, that would have been yet another step in our species' continuing diversification.
My ancestors are largely European, with about 25% African. We have split, and recombined, over and over again over tens of thousands of years, at least. We are, each of us, a transitional form.
@Rennoch
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
quick note, hopefully YT will fix it someday, but… your playlist is adding videos backwards, newest to oldest, rather then oldest to newest, so using the playlist shows us the teaser last, for example.
sorry if this has been brought up already.
@amydansie8685
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
Excellent overview, from a retired anthropologist, so clear and concise, but thorough. Bravo
@nosmoke_1000
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
How talk is this host lol just curious
@jacobgober3875
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
There are still people who think the fucking Piltdown Man is real
@DamonNeri
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
Your show is awesome!
@DamonNeri
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
Birds? Cats!
@ToG00d
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
Please stop the background music thing, I hear many youtubers do this, very distracting and completely unnecessary in your case.
@BurntedToasted
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
nice
@anyfrankie20k4
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
I gotta thank Lucy for being my gateway into being a history buff her and my 4th grade Native American unit
@cowjump
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
I’m using this to study for my lab practical!
@PrincessKushana
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
At age 8 I had a stand up screaming row with my religion studies teacher over Lucy.
She will always be my gal.
@douglasdarling7606
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
It is.
The neoteny and the more extreme, it is the more advanced of a tool maker and artist species.You have on your hands from homel erectus which should be named homo faber to homo neandertalensis which should be named homo faber artifex to ourselves which should be named homo faber artifex infans or in the spirit of the latin , the childlike toolmaker and artist because the only thing we can prove that was different between ourselves and them is our more extreme and longer lasting neotony and it makes sense to me that the longer lasting childlike.Wonder curiosity and imagination would allow a species to generate more innovation😊
@temujin2
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
background guitar always gross… im out. ur not cool or rad
@snideaugustine2143
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
The biggest issue in name and organizing species with high variation, like ourselves and our ancestors, is EGO. Everyone wants to get to name something so they’re willing to ignore high variation for the accolades… if we followed the same idea with Homo sapiens then we should be divided into multiple species as well. Because that would end well… 💀
@Elcacas007
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
Ah yes the first stoners
Wait a minute
@chopsyoutube
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
Sahelanthropus tchadensis and ardipithecus ramidus I know because of ancestors the humankind odyssey and also because of my biological anthropology course I’m takin
@JadeOwl02
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
So much info in so little time. I initially had this on in the background, but quickly learned I’d miss a lot that way. ❤
@itsjayn4538
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
why you have to be SO ATTRACTIVE and LESBIAN :(((((
@letitiajeavons6333
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
When did walking upright and the brain size of babies become a dilemma? I've women walking upright while giving birth to babies with the brains for language, inventing fire, and drawing on cave walls became the reason why giving birth is so difficult and prone to complications today and why apes can give birth alone, while humans need a doctor, midwife, or other trained birth attendant across all cultures.
@bravo2_0
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
"Fucking birds man!" I love this lady. What a great teacher.
@valerieunsworth4038
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 am
Any plans to do an audio book?
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