** UPDATE: Calendars are sold out on the US-Shop but you can still get them from the EU-shop: https://shop-eu.kurzgesagt.org/ ** For the fifth time, we present to you the Human Era Calendar for the year 12,021 – this time it is all about the journey of humanity, beginning tens of thousands of years ago, leading into the revolution of agriculture, to ancient high civilizations and the beginning of modern times, culminating in a vision for our future. You can get the limited Edition now until we sell out and then never again. As always the calendar features 12 illustrated pages printed on high quality paper in Europe and the US. And this year the cover is especially shiny. The calendar will look great on your wall and let you dream about a glorious future. We truly have come far as a species!

Why does the more modern looking half in the thumbnail also look more white? Is that deliberate?

@Zampoukos ok

I was about to place an order but the shipping is more expensive than the calendar, give us more shipping methods

Привет :3

Dear Kurzgesagt- I recently went to look for the video your channel did about conservative and liberal brains (or novelty adverse vs novelty seeking), but cannot find it. was it switched to be a private video?

OMGOD IM SO DUMb ive been watching for like since the very begginign of this channel and im still not subbed. Finally i am :)

earth was nearly the end so be a good ppl and blessed by jesus

The opening sentence is literally what happened to me a year ago when homeless people who lived in the forest nearby broke into my house

do you know how much i love you ?

Yuval Noah Harari: 'Hold my Sapiens!'

This isn't the first time we have done this

Umfortunetly that cool future Is gonna be until 2099 or 2150 or 2060 if lucky

The moment you are reading this comment will be past

Really good vid

This makes me feel like I’m part of some kind of legendary fantasy species. Then I looked at all the memetards and retards in the comments and I lose my faith in humanity.

I know, right? All these people writing nonsense meme templates to get a few likes, and it all keeps continuing because people keep liking them!

Your content is inspirational. Thanks.

Ngl i shared this channel with my grandma

Do a video on brain chips

I'm pretty sure it's just Hunter Gathers not being as effective at reproduction as Farmers. Even if the farmers life is arguably more painful and sad they definitely had and kept more kids on average then Hunter Gathers. Kinda like how the bird with the longer beak gets the deeper grub, and the ones with the shorter beaks get nothing. evolution marches on.

"Hopefully in another 12,000 years our descendants will look back on us today with gratitude for the amazing world they are able to inhabit" Press x to doubt

Super cool! I'm inspired by your videos!

I am going to share this video.

the world is in chaos while murica is still busy doing side quests

Kurzgesagt: Humans are a complex being who collectively evolved from hunter gatherers to farming. Me: humans dance funny

except for the Koranderthals...........they are stuck at 600AD. But oh my god, here we have the ridiculous grain/seeds theory.......................that people thousands of years ago selectively bred useless grass seeds, with no meaningful results for hundreds of generations until they had grain seeds that actually had productive calories...........what utter bollocks. The sumerian history clearly explains where grains, and mankind came from. Homo sapiens is not millions of years old..............its only about 200,000 years, go read the human genome project results that align with the sumerian history.

Yuval Noah Harari: 'Hold my Sapiens!'

I didn't sure our next generations could survive in this dirty, hot world

Bought the calendar before they sold out. I'm probably going to make it a yearly thing. I love this channel.

and also 3:39 that's my country Indonesia

how do you know that our ancestors use old technologies and have a same life? do you ever met them? how do you said that we started from 2 million and 80.000 generations ago? do you ever count them?

It's all about evidence we found, really. Like skeletons of old humanoids or ancient caves with really old tools that was made by people. If you consider the genus Homo as humans, then yes we did start about 2 million years ago, Homo Sapiens is two hundred thousand years old.

Such garbage

Hi sir. You are requested to make a video on this: 1. When does the sun's magnetic polarity get reversed? 2. What impact will it have on the Earth? 3. Recently in 2020, the sun's polarity has been reversed, for the 25th cycle. When was the first cycle occurred? 4. Approximately when will the 48th (final) cycle occur? 5. What will happen, when the final 48th cycke occurs? 6. Whenever the first cycle had occurred, before that had no polarity reversal cycle ever occured on the sun? 7. Will the sun never ever change its polarity, after the 48th (final) cycle? 8. If the answer to question 7 is that the polarity will stilll be changed even after that, then why is the 48th cycle considered as the final cycle? 9. If after the 48th cycle, any new fresh cycle starts, then what will be different in the cycle? Why will be a fresh new cycle and not the 49th cycle?

I always like a Kurzegsagt video before watching it.

You can always notice an improvement on the animation but the soundtracks... Man they are fantastic! At some point I got distracted by the beuty of music. Congratulations and thanks for all the magnificient work!

7:14 *They had us in the first half, not gonna lie.*

OH MY GOD THIS SOUNDTRACK ITS THE REMAKE OF THE SOUNDTRACK USED IN YOUR VIDEO YEARS AGO REGARDING TIME, PAST AND FUTURE OH MY GOD IM SO GLAD I COULD RECOGNIZE THIS, NOSTALGIAAAA

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I was about to buy the calendar but the shipping price was higher than the calendar itself :/ there should be an option for economy shipping.

I don't agree with 10k thousand history of humans. There are strong evidence which suggest the opposite. It's kind of biblical. I got no problem with research done by Kurz team. But I think Kurz should research a bit more by including some latest researches.

Haven't you guys made like 5 videos explaining how we'll never become a ln interplanetary species?

stop making videos i need to attend my online classes (Its just joke, its supposed to be a compliment)

The opening sentence is literally what happened to me a year ago when homeless people who lived in the forest nearby broke into my house

Born too late to spear hunt, born too early to have a robot arm -_-

What is that music?

Jesus is king

Wait where is intro

You’re forgetting about war. More people means a bigger army to fight other tribes. Those who could not adapt were wiped out.

It did mention that in a sentence, I think you have missed it.

02:27 contra vibes

Wow joreden valley boys 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

More videos, pleaseeee!

I've been scared of the future a lot recently but what does that accomplish this has inspired me to start trying to think positively about the future again

You need a podcast

@Bo Spoonson Okay.

@DefeatedMelon I meant the channel, and I’m sure he has a basic understanding of things he says.

He's not really that smart. He reads the script.

Love these videos. I'm playing with the srs tool app to get answers about the future from our ancestors on the other side👻👻👻🤭

2:19 evolutionary timeline

Getting big ass dr stone vibes tho

Knowing humanity in our days, I really do think hunters and gatherers have been persecuted over time and either became farmers or died of starvation. Just look at how indigenous populations are treated today, their lands being stolen or poisoned, their food source killed, etc.

You’re talking about this like climate change isn’t happening and like we’re not going extinct way before we will be able to travel far into space

Yes yes we are

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I've been so bummed out about somebody but watching this, all my worry feels meaningless (which is good to remember lol) and as though my experiences are most definitely shared through history.

i buy the human era calander 20,021!

We are living in a remarkable era of human life "the pollution era"

Born too late to spear hunt, born too early to have a robot arm -_-

Hey, this was uploaded on my sisters bday lol

This is my second time watching this. It's so good. I liked it. As I was watching again, entranced, I tried to like it again. In other words. I just want to like this video indefinitely or until my thumb falls off. It's so good.

Love all your vids im subscribed

I am unsubscribing to this channel because it is scaring me

His voice is so calm it makes me wanna fall asleep

The backround music 😵😵😵

Do a video about string theory and intradimensions

Love these videos. I'm playing with the srs tool app to get answers about the future from our ancestors on the other side👻👻👻🤭

I hade a history exam after this video was published thank you

teehee

What is that for a Melody in the background? It's so nice.

A few thousand years and this video will become "history" .....

I love this video! Thx for posting this Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell!

Future archeologist: Ah yes! hmmm I wonder what they used this for... (toilet paper) Me: ....

"Wheat domesticated us." - Yuval Noah Harari

@Zack Livestone "Sapiens" change my life forever.

@Mathew Wang Few books really get you to step outside of a paradigm and question it that you didn't even know you were stuck in. Sapiens and Homo Deus are such books.

Ahh yes, that was a good book.

SPOILER ALERT: In 12000 years, our ancestors (if they exist) will find that in the begenning of the 21 century we stupidly killed ourselves as a civilisation because we were enable to see the limits of our ressources and some people found it funny to add some zeros to their bank account by destroying the whole planet we live in.

When the concept of God came into humans?

@Dawidek to be honest he asked a really good question. When the first religion was born? It's actually really interesting

@Dawidek I will not criticize God. Because I do not believe in God

"HAHA GOD BAD RELIGION STUPID, LOOK AT ME BEING SO SMART JUST BECAUSE I CRITICIZE RELIGION HAHA"

When humans started asking questions they had no good answers for.

This video is completely wrong and unscientific right from the first 35 seconds. 1. The longer humans live, the less children they have. Our population will not grow that much more. 2. On top of this, humans will not become an interplanetary species. We will eventually force evolution on ourselves with things like genetic engineering, biomechatronics, neural networks etc. Creating a new species beyond homosapien that can actually learn more and do more as well as live far longer. Humans will begin to go into decline and we will likely become bear extinct at some point. This new super human will be leaps and bounds ahead of us technologically and we will be left in the wind. Like an animal on the side of the road. We'll see the advanced world around us. But we won't comprehend most of it.

Why do people exchanged the freedom of living in nature for agriculture? Beer

*As a Harvard Neuroscientist, the wonders and achievements of the human mind are built upon abstractions of the sensory-motor interface, of which language has been the most foundational. I'll elaborate on that later but, first, let's take a trip back in evolutionary history.* Much of the evolutionarily older parts of our brain - aside from dealing with homeostatic control of internal states (e.g. heart rate, respiration, satiety, digestion, wake-sleep, hormonal flux) - are explicitly wired to receive real-time sensory inputs and transform them into adaptive motor outputs. Even invertebrates, such as worms and insects, have nervous systems that exquisitely fulfill these critical tasks. For vertebrates like us, our spinal cord, hindbrain, and midbrain are largely dedicated to these real-time sensorimotor transformations, in addition to autonomically regulating our internal states. This comprises much of the brains and functionalities of simpler vertebrates, such as fish and reptiles. The advent of mammals brought about an expansion of subcortex conferring more complex emotionality in the service of caregiving, and a cerebral cortex for more flexible learning & strategizing for solving problems. Our cats and dogs, of course, are endowed with these capacities. But even they lack the formidable human capacity to abstract and transcend the sensorimotor interface. Language is our most foundational abstraction of the sensorimotor landscape. We look at an object and associate it with an arbitrary label - a word - and construct arbitrary vocalizations and other abstract motor outputs (writing symbols and letters) in relation to the sensory stimulus (the physical object). In so doing, we are able to take these associations - words with objects - and build more and more associations upon them to make sense of the world. We first dichotomize the world of word-objects into big/small, light/dark, fast/slow, and good/bad. From there, we can categorize the constellation of word-objects into convenient bins for comparisons and interactions. Beyond space, we can perform the same abstraction with time by categorizing it, binning it, and even discretizing it into infinitesimal points in the service of calculus and elaborately precise computations. In so doing, we can make accurate predictions of the future for many purposes. Speaking of the future, and also the past, our ability to think outside of our current physical space and time is another key ingredient to our dominance over the rest of the animal kingdom. But all these human-specific wonders of our minds often go awry and undermine our optimal functionality. Yes, our cerebral endowments of hindsight and foresight expand our cognitive landscapes beyond the linear sensory-motor interface known as the present. But this often makes the present elusive, yet all the more vital to embrace. Otherwise, we're just living in the memories of our future selves. Consider getting present to the moment more often, which is still possible even if you need to reflect on the past or plan for the future. Do those activities in the present as well. It's where all your power lies. Vids coming soon.

Jesus Christ that’s a lot of reading can someone sum it up for me

@Zachary Brooks I read the whole thing and understood it just fine. Sorry to hear that you were too inept to do so. This is by far the best comment on this video. Also there was no flex. Just cool info and insights. You're simply projecting your insecurity my dude. I sincerely hope you feel better later on my man cause I can sense your deep hurt and sense of inferiority.

Typical Harvard guy trying to flex on the general populace. No one read that comment, and those who did were more confused.

@DO NOT LAY IN EVENING DO NOT STAY IN MORNING usuehwhaiwvwiw

@Muhammad Rafi Considering that when he posted this same comment when this video first came out and it got like 2,000 likes and was #1 comment out of all comments for several days and the dude has 11,000 subs before he's even posted his first vid, I would say that at least a few thousand people read this comment my guy.

I’m literally about to start from this playlist and watch all the Vidoes!! This is so fucking dope! The information is amazing whatever the marketing tatic it is great lol! Honestly I’m a guy in the couch and finding my life right now with your channel thank you!! 💙💪🏽

Why am I crying happy tears when they show future generations talking about us as their ancestors

"We wish you a happy year 12,021 - And let's all hope that it will be less exciting than 12,020!"

Thank you ☺️💕💕😍

Bone

I mean wouldn't future generations be living in it unless every single social media platform got completely nuked

I love how the first foods you mentioned were bread and beer. Definitely a German channel.

@bodoti qwiu what?

7:16 That's a good question, especially when the indigenous peoples of North and South America proved you could use the same knowledge to turn the whole ecosystem int

What is that for a Melody in the background? It's so nice.

Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization

Can I get the calendar in latín América or only in anglosaxon world?

Kurzgesagt came from Infographics to 2-3D cinematics.

I like how you go from saying that we can’t see human history past 250 generations but then you say we’ve been on this earth for 12 million years.

This could be an introduction to yuval noah harrari sapiens!~

İzledim

If only authoritarian regimes like turkey, china etc stopped causing so much problem in our world

@Daniel Moreira ...

What this has to do with anything?

They’ll analyse memes and tiktoks like blooming Shakespeare, not realising we only made them for a laugh 😂!

Let’s all just appreciate that Kurzgesagt videos are just getting better and better.

Why no one is talking about how BEAUTIFUL is the soundtrack of this video?

I you really are intreasted in pat life you should watch dr stone anime

Привет :3 Я единственный русский который Смотрит это видео

This video makes me feel happy on how we came together and evolved. But then their were the ones who didn’t share their seeds😔

g'day my name is Dylan and I am a student at Knox grammar school in Sydney Australia. I am a proud aboriginal man and would really enjoy seeing a video on Australia's past. cheers

One universe ago, the static on my TV.

There are 10.000 lost cities under the surface. We have had many global civilizations. Mud Flood is just a few hundred years ago.

@Anthony Skidmark Well, yeah, of course there are some cities under the ocean. Not in the deepest parts, but for example there was Doggerland between the UK and the european mainland. Those were villages though, not vast sprawling high technological cities.

@Hm Grraarrpffrzz Every continent and the oceans have major ancient cities on them/under them and they are discovering them more and more with satelites. Look it up.

@Anthony Skidmark That some pyramids exist is without a doubt. That pyramids of tenthousand losts cities exist under the surface is doubtful until you provide evidence.

@Hm Grraarrpffrzz Yes, my eyes and the web is all you need. If you need a data sheet from me to know if the pyramids exist... that would be silly wouldn't it :)

Do you have evidence?

7:16 That's a good question, especially when the indigenous peoples of North and South America proved you could use the same knowledge to turn the whole ecosystem into a massive garden and thus have both agriculture AND hunting/gathering at the same time, in a system that was far more sustainable, still encouraged population growth, and made everyone happier.

Gábor Rigó lol I’m not gonna argue about the Aztecs anymore but 30 million-50 million Mexicans are pure native Americans that practice their languege and carry the culture they had prior to Columbus. The rest are mestizos with predominant Native American genes. Plus the native Americans weren’t asslimated, the Spanish were. Most Mexican culture and traditions were practiced before the arrival of the Spanish. Even the Mexican Spanish launguage have a lot of it words stemming from the azteca language. Mexicans are native Americans.

​@Tecumseh Zacateco One more thing: they incorporated the other tribes mostly by military subjugation, so while they were paying tributes and participating in flower wars, it's hard to say that they were actually happy about it.

​@Tecumseh Zacateco I agree that they had been more developed than Europeans in the fields of astrology and medicine, mostly because the Europeans were horribly backwards in those. However, they did not have domesticated beasts of burden, ergo they did not use the wheel, ergo no developed and efficient land infrastructure. They did conduct most of their trade on small boats, which was certainly impressive, but how was that even comparable to the ship building expertise of the Europeans? It wasn't. Also no advanced metalworking, which means their weapons were literally worse than bronze age weapons from the old world. They basically had what was comparable to the ancient Mezopotamian empires. They did not impact nature greatly simply because they did not have the industrial capacity to do so. As for their social structure, they might had some interesting/efficient systems, but it's not really my cup of tea so I won't go into that.

​@Tecumseh Zacateco They only banded up against the conquistadors when they were specifically targeted by them. However, they were more than happy to aid in the subjugation of rival tribes, and that pattern was pretty much exploited by the europeans ad infinitum.

​@Tecumseh Zacateco Why were they poor if they lived in an awesome utopia?

Don't you think calling the post-agricultural revolution era "the human era" is a bit condescending of you?

@Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell Well it is.

No.