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1) Primates
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This film reviews the characteristics that differentiate primate species and looks at adaptations that influenced geographic distribution, habits, diet, teeth, and locomotion. The presentation highlights primate classifications including prosimians, anthropoids, and hominoids, and considers social and cultural behaviors among primates.
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The common consensus among anthropologists is that modern man emerged from Africa. This program examines new evidence that disputes this theory and alleges that simultaneous to the emergence of Homo erectus in Africa, there were also groups of Homo erectus in Australia. Was there an earlier diaspora that predates the African migration? Is there a single, linear evolution from Homo erectus to modern man, or is it possible that there were various strains...
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This program launches an investigation into the identity of the bonobo, formerly known as the pygmy chimpanzee. To what extent is this remarkable African ape closer to humans than all the other animals on the planet? Scientists from around the world, including Yves Coppens, paleoanthropologist at the College de France, and Paula Cavalieri, philosopher and founder of the Great Ape Project, discuss their findings on the genetics, biology, intelligence,...
4) Chimps R Us
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She is unconventional wisdom personified, as she had dedicated her entire life to chimpanzee research and conservation. It all began in 1960 when Jane Goodall, the 26-year-old untrained animal enthusiast, set off into the forest and launched what would become the most comprehensive and revealing study of chimps in the wild. In this episode of the PBS Scientific American Frontiers series, Chimps R Us, host Alan Alda spends time with the ground-breaking...
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In this classic program, Horizon looks at discoveries about where modern man originated. Most scientists hold that modern man came from Africa, and some believe that everyone in the world today is descended from a single woman who lived in Africa 300,000 years ago. This program probes the "molecular clock" theory, which maintains that a new people evolved in Africa, and only a few thousand years have passed since they ventured into the rest of the...
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Out of the great cradle of Africa came several waves of prehistoric hominid populations, some venturing into the Middle East while others crossed land bridges into Spain. This program shows how, over millennia, these nomads laid the groundwork for a permanent human presence in Europe. From La Caune de l'Arago in France to Britain's Boxgrove Cliffs to a Hungarian riverbank where Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans may have intermingled, the...
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In this episode, Last Human Standing explores the origins of "us"--Where modern humans and our capacities for art, invention, and survival came from, and what happened when we encountered the mysterious Neanderthals. Crucial new evidence comes from the recent decoding of the Neanderthal genome. Did modern humans interbreed with Neanderthals? Exterminate them? Becoming Human examines why "we" survived while our other ancestral cousins - including Indonesia's...
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"Join anatomist Dr Alice Roberts in a fascinating series that reveals how your body tells the story of human evolution. The way you look, think and behave is the product of a 6 million year struggle for survival that transformed us from forest dwelling apes to the most successful species on the planet"--Container.
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Curiosity is often the driving force behind great discoveries. In this program, Friedemann Schrenk teams up with Meave Leakey to examine fossil specimens recovered at Lake Turkana, Lothagam, and Kanapoi, where they discuss the relationships between Australopithicus afarensis, A. boisei, and Homo habilis. Dr. Schrenk also visits the Nairobi Museum, the Anatomical Institute in Dar es Salaam, and Ngorongoro National Park. In addition, a meeting at Witwatersrand...
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This collection of 18 video clips (1 minute to 2 minutes 30 seconds each) takes a close look at genetics. Topics range from the human genome, to?junk? DNA, to genetic implications for obesity, dyslexia, eating disorders, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, substance abuse, weight loss, and aging. Video clips include: Genetics * Junk DNA * Living Longer * Secrets of the Y Chromosome * Tiny Genes, Big Role * Genome ABCs * Custom Cures * SIDS Test * Blame...
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With the disappearance of the Neanderthal species some 25,000 years ago, Homo sapiens reigned supreme across Eurasia - but the human family was still dramatically in flux. This film depicts the cultural adaptations and far-flung migrations that continued to shape European societies from the end of the Ice Age through the development of agriculture to the invention of writing. Viewers learn about the major role of Middle Eastern diasporas in the settlement...
13) Brains
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Drawing on research into social politics among chimpanzees, the cognitive development of children, and the ancient tools that have been found littered across the Rift Valley, in this program Dr. Alice Roberts explores how Homo sapiens developed such large brains - and asks why we are the only species of our kind left on the planet today. She also discusses how caring for large-brained offspring has shaped civilization, and the evolutionary adaptation...
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How we choose and lose our mates has long been a subject of intense fascination. Close scrutiny of the ways we attract, keep, and even leave our loved ones reveals more similarities than differences to the behavior of the great apes. In this respect, life seems as difficult for these, our closest relatives, as it is for humans. The apes want to get on in life just as much as we do - and they'll do almost anything to get ahead.
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We humans consider ourselves a unique species - the way we're able to plan, build, dream, and communicate. Our great ape cousins, on the other hand, are simple creatures with simple needs - or so we used to think. Now that image is being shattered. As we begin to see ourselves in apes, dare we admit they might have feelings and thoughts as we do? This episode of Who's Aping Who investigates.
16) Water babies
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Did the ancestors of the human race go through a crucial semi-aquatic phase? This balanced program examines the latest evidence that water played a major role in human evolution and assesses how it stands up to the traditional Savanna Theory proposed by Darwin. Preeminent critics and adherents of the Aquatic Ape Theory discuss such key points as humans' unique diving reflex and voluntary breath control; the connection between brain development and...
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Hunger is one of the biological drives essential to the survival of the human species. Constantly in search of something to eat, humanity has invented societal structures and means of conservation in an effort to ensure an adequate supply of food. This program traces the history of humankind's efforts to satiate the need to feed, from hunting and gathering, to agriculture and animal husbandry, to barter and commerce. And going beyond simple subsistence,...
18) Bones
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In this program, Dr. Alice Roberts charts the advance from Australopithecus to Homo erectus and beyond to demonstrate what the modern skeleton reveals about human evolution. Examining the traits of chimps and an intriguing Sahelanthropus hominid fossil, she also discusses the role of bipedalism in the emergence of Homo sapiens. Along the way, viewers learn what running shoes to wear, the purpose of armpit hair, and whether back pain is an inevitable...
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Jane Goodall is legendary among primate researchers, and for good reason: she learned more on her own studying chimpanzees than all who went before her combined. In 1960, Goodall set out for Tanzania's remote Gombe Stream Game Reserve to study the behavior of man's closest living relative, the chimpanzee, showing her quiet determination to observe these animals closely while disturbing them as little as possible. Gaining their trust over a 20-year...
20) First steps
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In this episode, NOVA encounters "Selam," the amazingly complete remains of a 3-million-year-old child packed with clues to why we split from the apes, came down from the trees, and started walking upright.
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