What If a Stone Age Human Lived Your Tuesday?

A man from 50,000 years ago wakes up in your flat and has to live your ordinary Tuesday: your breakfast, your commute, your desk, your phone, your bed. He has the same body you do. Watch what a normal day does to it. Po is a thought experiment; the numbers are real. Chapters 0:00 7 a.m. Someone is in your room 1:23 Why he was already awake 1:56 Breakfast: the box that is never empty 3:10 The street: more faces than a lifetime 4:11 The office: four minutes on a chair 5:21 The screen and your eyes 6:02 The supermarket hunt 7:01 The phone 7:55 The candle's confession 8:37 Why he can't sleep 9:19 One month later 10:14 Three things to take back 10:58 Tuesday again Sources Yetish and others, Natural Sleep and Its Seasonal Variations in Three Pre-industrial Societies, Current Biology, 2015 Hall and others, Ultra-Processed Diets Cause Excess Calorie Intake and Weight Gain, Cell Metabolism, 2019 Hill and others, Hunter-Gatherer Inter-Band Interaction Rates, PLOS ONE, 2014 Raichlen and others, Sitting, squatting, and the evolutionary biology of human inactivity, PNAS, 2020 Raichlen and others, Physical activity patterns and biomarkers of cardiovascular disease risk in hunter-gatherers, American Journal of Human Biology, 2017 Wu and others, Outdoor activity during class recess reduces myopia onset in school children, Ophthalmology, 2013 Hawkes, O'Connell and Blurton Jones, More Lessons from the Hadza about Men's Work, Human Nature, 2014 Wright and others, Entrainment of the Human Circadian Clock to the Natural Light-Dark Cycle, Current Biology, 2013 Volk and Atkinson, Infant and child death in the human environment of evolutionary adaptation, Evolution and Human Behavior, 2013 Studies of people who hunt and gather today are the closest evidence we have, not a recording of the past. The parts about looking at the floor on the train and about phones are the narrator's guesses and are marked as such in the video. This video is educational and is not medical advice. Voice: ElevenLabs Music: Clean Soul by Kevin MacLeod, incompetech, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 #stoneage #humanevolution #ancienthumans