Have there ever been giants? News stories speak of whether there have been giants in the past. Prof. Berger has often been at the centre of this discussion based on his studies of hominid fossils from the Late Middle Pleistocene. In this lecture, Prof. Berger uses original fossils to explore the question “Is there any real fossil evidence for there having been giant humans in the past?”, and if so, why do some scientists get so agitated by this discussion?


To watch the previous lectures in the series go here:
The Context of Fossil Hominid Discoveries in Africa
https://youtu.be/3knmAz6W4kA
Visiting the Taung Child
https://youtu.be/0mWOJ56_Et0
Rise of Prometheus
https://youtu.be/86FvScE6ECA
The muddle in the middle Pleistocene
https://youtu.be/C1SsIT6CLYo
Exploring the Fossil Hominid Vault at the University of the Witwatersrand
https://youtu.be/Fgnlc03jN4E
Introduction to Sterkfontein
https://youtu.be/49Mycdc9Z7o
Species concepts in Palaeoanthropology
https://youtu.be/GWmtak1BGxo

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