Kurzgesagt digs into humanity's beginnings with DNA and lidar

Its only new upload of the week explores how modern techniques reveal traces of a largely lost human past.

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We Finally Know More About Humanity’s First Civilization

Kurzgesagt has turned from AI's possible dangers to a much older uncertainty: how human civilization began. "We Finally Know More About Humanity's First Civilization" has reached roughly eight million views since arriving on October 8, giving the week's single upload a substantial audience.

The question isn't simply which settlement came first. The description emphasizes how little of human history survives, and how DNA sequencing, dating ancient remains, mathematical models and aerial archaeology can help fill in the gaps. For a channel devoted to making big ideas visible through animation, an almost invisible past is a fitting subject.

Viewers are picking up on the everyday details as much as the grand timeline. Some discuss neighbors socializing through roof openings and wooden ladders; others imagine a civilization-building game in the video's art style. One recurring contrast is the viewing order: an episode about humanity's beginnings arriving just after one about its possible technological future.

That earlier upload, "AI Just Crossed the Terrifying Line - Now What?", remains close behind the history episode in daily views and has accumulated about 19 million views. Further back, "This Is What a Godlike Civilization Would Look Like" continues drawing attention to the Barrow Scale, which imagines technological power through control of ever-smaller structures rather than ever-larger space empires.

Kurzgesagt has the largest subscriber count among the science channels listed alongside it. Vsauce and Veritasium both added subscribers over the week, while The Slow Mo Guys had a steadier week. Here, the distinctive pairing is ancient civilization and artificial intelligence: two episodes asking what humans can build, and how much they understand what they've built.

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The videos drawing views on Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell right now

AI Just Crossed the Terrifying Line - Now What?19,051,652 views This Is What a Godlike Civilization Would Look Like8,421,577 views

The numbers

Here is a closer look at Kurzgesagt's audience and the videos drawing views.

subscribers

25,700,000

total views

3,946,301,160

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

25,700,000

Vsauce

25,300,000

Veritasium

21,400,000

The Slow Mo Guys

15,000,000

SmarterEveryDay

11,900,000

NileRed

11,000,000

AsapSCIENCE

10,800,000

ElectroBOOM

8,880,000

Cleo Abram

8,860,000

As of October 14, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.