An Annoying Quirk Of Our Evolution

Useful Charts breaking down our ENTIRE evolutionary tree: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpXaiG8L28s&feature=youtu.be

Evolution works on a "that'll do" principle lol

Evolution: No, but this design sucks and doesn't work Natural Selection: Ehhhh...but he's still alive?

So, we ended up evolving ourselves into the human equivalent of a pug sinus wise.

the devs seriously need to patch this. cant believe this nerf went out unnoticed

Let’s just restart bro maybe we can reroll our stats

I'm the annoying quirk of our evolution.

Can I fix that drainage issue with my cordless drill and never get a cold again??

"Why would someone designing us leave in all of these glitches?" Programmers: lmao good enough

Aegyptopithecus might have been discovered in or around Egypt. I hope there's a prize involved.

Just seen this now .... A clear case of ‘what you don’t know you don’t know.’ I am an ENT surgeon, and for years I wondered about the strange design of the maxillary sinuses and the flap called the uncinate process that closes tiny drainage hole. And then we learned about NO - nitrous oxide - a gas that why absorbed into the blood moves oxygen very quickly to the heart and muscles. Then we learnt that NO is produced in and quite possibly stored in the maxillary sinuses where it can be released into the lungs during heavy breathing while running. When you consider that humans are the fastest of the great apes in terms of sprinting and running, it suddenly makes sense. The maxillary sinuses are built the way they are as NO storage tanks for when we need to fight or flee.

Does anyone else love the sensation of when one of your sinuses is full and it's blocking your ability to sniff through that nostril, and then you roll over to your other side so that gravity slowy drains that sinus and fills the other one?

tldr - human sinuses are less than optimal and there isn't enough selection pressure for evolution to fix it.

This guy looks so happy talking about how we are literally the equivalent of a Jenga tower that I can't help laughing.

Oh so that's why treatments for the cold often include holding your head upside down above a bucket filled with steaming water. Mmm, might give it a try next time I get clogged sinuses.

Evolution is like a third grader doing a presentation, doesn't really put effort into it but as long as it gets a C he's fine with it

Correction: A small mutation in our DNA can reconfigure our entire facial structure, but most of the mutations like that we know about lead to a decreased lifespan and increased difficulty doing human stuff. Getting a mutation in the DNA that codes for facial structure that results in a completely functional but radically different prototype is akin to getting a bug in a game that results in a completely functional new gamemode. It’s not impossible in theory, but it’d take one hell of a miracle in order to happen, and good luck recreating it over and over to ensure the gamemode gets passed along to new players.

But that's only because the Intelligent Designer was poorly designed Himself. And in turn that must necessarily be because the Intelligent Designer of our Intelligent Designer was faulty Itself, and so on. Welcome to the Church of the Infinitely Faulty Design, our motto: "it's not your fault, it's His fault!"

I have heard that our flattened face is a result of neoteny in our evolution. Losing our snout was kind of “architectural” consequence of developing a bigger brain. The sense of smell getting weaker was rather a consequence than a cause of the change of shape of the face. Great video though, very interesting stuff. I am a relatively new subscriber and the channel never fails to deliver. Keep up the good work! 👍

0:29 "... We were single celled organisms as well" Last time I was a single celled organism my mum and dad were... you know...