| Title |
Becoming human : unearthing our earliest ancestors / PBS ; Produced by Shining Red Productions for Nova ; WGBH Educational Foundation ; Series producer, Graham Townsley ; Written and directed by Graham Townsley ; produced by Jennifer Beman White, Graham Townsley. |
| OCLC |
493555109 |
| ISBN |
9781608831012 |
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1608831019 |
| ISBN/ISSN |
841887011044 |
| Music number |
NOVA7192 PBS Distribution |
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NOVA6192 PBS Distribution |
| Publisher |
[Place of publication not identified] : PBS Distribution, [2010] |
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©2010 |
| Description |
1 videodisc (approximately 159 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| LC Subject heading/s |
Human evolution.
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Homo erectus -- Evolution.
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Primates -- Evolution.
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Fossil hominids.
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Neanderthals.
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Paleoanthropology.
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Social evolution.
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Other
Genre heading/s |
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.
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| System details note |
DVD ; NTSC, Region 1 ; widescreen ; stereo. |
| Participant or performer note |
Narrator, Lance Lewman. |
| Creation/Production credits |
Editors, Jennifer Beman White, Barbara Burst, Paige Smith Lee ; original score, Joe Delia ; animation/special effects, People's Republic of Animation, Pixeldust Studios ; camera, Reuben Aaronson, Michael Anderson, Stan Barua, Chris Cox, Gary Grieg, Oliver Gurr, Tony Miller, Richard Slater Jones, Gordy Waterman. |
| NOTE |
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| Language note |
Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired ; optional audio description for the visually impaired. |
| Summary |
"Where did we come from? What makes us human? NOVA's...investigation explores how new discoveries are transforming views of our earliest ancestors. Featuring interviews with world-renowned scientists, footage shot "in the trenches" as fossils were unearthed, and...computer-generated animation, [these programs] bring early hominids to life, examining how we became the creative and adaptable modern humans of today...In the first episode...encounter..."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...[T]he second episode investigates the riddle of "Turkana Boy" -- a tantalizing fossil of Homo erectus, the first ancestor to leave Africa and colonize the globe...[T]he final episode...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..." -- Container. |
| Contents |
First steps (ca. 53 min.) -- Birth of humanity (ca. 53 min.) -- Last human standing (ca. 53 min.). |
| General note |
Originally broadcast as episodes of the public television series Nova in 2009. |
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