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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...

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...

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...

It's a belief that unites the left and right, psychologists and philosophers, writers and historians. It drives the headlines that surround us and the laws that touch our lives. From Machiavelli to Hobbes, Freud to Dawkins, the roots of this belief have sunk deep into Western thought. Human beings, we're taught, are by nature selfish and governed by self-interest. Humankind makes a new argument: that it is realistic, as well as revolutionary, to assume...

"It isn't always easy growing up as the only human in Elfhelm, even if your parents are Father and Mary Christmas and now it's up to Amelia to save Christmas from the jealous Easter Bunny and his rabbit army!"--

Changing climate probably played the decisive role in drawing hominids out of the trees, up on their hind legs, and off in search of food whose supply had been dispersed by the replacement of rainforests by grasslands. Migrations were motivated by the search for food; during ice ages, when sea levels dropped, new areas became accessible and populations spread. Links between climatic changes and emerging civilizations have also been postulated; the...

A reflex is an involuntary reaction to a stimulus. For example, if you're cooking hot oatmeal and it splatters and spills on you, your withdrawal reflex can save your hand from serious injury. When the hot oatmeal contacts your hand, pain receptors signal your spinal cord, which signals your arm muscles to pull away your hand. Because your arm flexes as it withdraws, this reflex is called the flexor, or withdrawal, reflex. Many other reflexes also...

In a series of amusing comparisons, a boy shows how humans are much more like each other than we are like any other thing on Earth.

Discusses how every day activities such as driving, heating buildings, and using aerosols release harmful gases into the air and how it affects the air we breathe.