Summary: Journey back 15,000 years to trace humankind's incredible journey through time. Beginning with humanity's exodus from the Ice Age and chronicling milestones such as hunter-gatherer, farmer, builder, and city organizer. Reveals how humankind managed to survive and conquer the world. Explores the motivation of early humankind and its epic transformation to reveal the inspiring story of he...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BIRBerger, Lee
Summary: "This thrilling book takes the reader into South African caves to discover fossil remains that reframe the human family tree"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Riddle, A. G.
Summary: Northern Morocco: Dr. Kate Warner cured a global pandemic, and she thought she could cure herself. She was wrong. And she was wrong about the scope of the Atlantis conspiracy. Humanity faces a new threat, an enemy beyond imagination. With her own time running out and the utter collapse of human civilization looming, a new hope arrives: a coded message from a potential ally. Arecibo Observatory:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.G. Riddle 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RIDKing, Barbara J.
Summary: Twenty-four 30 minute lectures detailing the evolution of humanity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.93 KINBraden, Gregg
Summary: "Human by Design invites you on a journey beyond Darwin's theory of evolution, beginning with the fact that we exist as we do, even more empowered, and more connected with ourselves and the world, than scientists have believed possible. In one of the great ironies of the modern world, the science that was expected to solve life's mysteries has done just the opposite. New discoveries have led to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hay House, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 128 BRARiddle, A. G.
Summary: In Marbella, Spain, Dr. Kate Warner awakens to a horrifying reality: the human race stands on the brink of extinction. A pandemic unlike any before it has swept the globe. Nearly a billion people are dead--and those the Atlantis Plague doesn't kill, it transforms at the genetic level. A few rapidly evolve. The remainder devolve. As the world slips into chaos, radical solutions emerge....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kindle Direct Publishing] 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RIDWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: "Written in the voice of Mother Africa, who speaks to her children--human beings--this stunning picture book thrums with the love between mother and child as it celebrates humanity's common roots. Before words or tools or fire, Mother Africa's caves sheltered us and her forests fed us. She could not protect us from all dangers, but, like mothers everywhere, she gave her children all she could...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Astra Young Readers, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WEABrown, Dan
Summary: In keeping with his trademark style, Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code and Inferno, interweaves codes, science, religion, history, art, and architecture into this new novel. Origin thrusts Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon into the dangerous intersection of humankind's two most enduring questions, and the earthshaking discovery that will answer them.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BROCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Brown 2017Rooney, Anne
Summary: How did our extraordinary species go from living as simple apes to becoming the planet's dominant life-form? This beautifully illustrated book traces the journey of humanity from prehistory to the silicon age. People love to tell stories, and this fascinating book tells the greatest tale of them all--how we came to be who we are today. Explore how we developed into modern humans, and how we've...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcturus 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 909 ROOBerger, Lee R
Summary: "This first-person narrative about an archaeological discovery is rewriting the story of human evolution. A story of defiance and determination by a controversial scientist, this is Lee Berger's own take on finding Homo naledi, an all-new species on thehuman family tree and one of the greatest discoveries of the 21st century. In 2013, Berger, a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 569.8 BERStringer, Chris
Summary: Outlines a reassessment of human evolution that draws on recent fossil findings and challenges current theories to say that humans coexisted and competed across the African continent while exchanging genes, tools, and behaviors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books, Henry Holt and Company 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.93 STRSummary: Assume, for the sake of argument, that our species has created everything it needs-all the comfort and protection that technology can provide. Does that mean our biological evolution has come to an end? Not necessarily, says anatomist and anthropologist Alice Roberts. In fact, technology may be driving human evolution, and at breakneck speed. Dr. Roberts meets scientists who are detecting and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: In this TEDTalk, geneticist Svante Paabo offers biological proof that early humans mated with Neanderthals after migrating out of Africa. Paabo also provides an overview of mutations and genetic variance, giving audiences a clear picture of the types of early hominids that lived in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East 100,000 years ago. Paabo explores human genetic evolution by analyzing DNA...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Riddle, A. G.
Summary: Dr. Kate Warner left California for Jakarta, Indonesia to escape her past. She has yet to put her life back together, but she has made a remarkable discovery: a cure for autism. But when two children in her research study are abducted, Kate is plunged into a world of intrigue and conspiracies. She quickly learns that her work is not what it seems. Her research could rewrite everything we know...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.G. Riddle 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RIDSummary: Marking the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species, this program shows how Charles Darwin developed his theory of evolution and explores its ramifications in today's scientific community. Renowned natural history interpreter David Attenborough travels the globe, examining fresh evidence for Darwinian thought and illustrating why it is more relevant than ever. Viewers...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: The use of heat and utensils to process food may be more than a by-product of human evolution. According to theories presented in this program, cooking began much earlier than previously thought and ignited a series of changes that shaped our physical and mental abilities. Viewers visit South African caves containing evidence, including tools and charred bone material, that pushes back the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Geroulanos, Stefanos
Summary: "In this remarkable and enlivening study, Stefanos Geroulanos traces the development of our modern fascination with humanity's deep past, and lays out that fascination's deadly costs." --Amia Srinivasan, author of The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century An eminent historian tells the story of how we came to obsess over the origins of humanity--and how, for three centuries, ideas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.DeSilva, Jeremy M.
Summary: A Dartmouth anthropologist whose team discovered two ancient human species explores how our evolution toward bipedalism rendered us dominant, innovative, more compassionate, and more susceptible to health problems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.93 DESRapace, Noomi
Summary: Explorers discover a clue that may point to the origins of mankind on Earth and leads them to a distant planet.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PROCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Prometheus 2012Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRO RATED RSummary: Could we all be descendants of an Adam-like ancestor? And if he existed, who was he, where did he live, and what did he look like? This program uses sophisticated DNA testing methods to, in effect, trace humanity's family tree. Guided by renowned geneticist Dr. Spencer Wells, viewers learn about the primary tool that propels this quest for a common ancestor-the Y chromosome, which is...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Traveling backward 35,000 years, this program visits a time when glaciers stretched across the Eurasian continent and a highly intelligent and adaptable hominid species roamed the landscape. The Neanderthal was an early ancestor-or, according to some experts, a rival-of human beings; a bulky creature with the intellect to survive an ice age, create art, and practice religion. But over a period...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: British biologist Richard Dawkins is blunt in his support for evolutionary theory as opposed to "special creationism. This program, inspired by Dawkins' book, allows each side to present its best arguments-with some bias toward Darwinian evolution. The evidence is well-organized and current. Creationist ideas are vividly contrasted with contradictory data through observation, computer...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2001