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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Approximately 30,000 years after the last Neanderthals vanished from Europe, this documentary brings them back to life. Combining computer imaging, knowledge from excavated skeletal pieces, and a meticulous sculptural process, the program showcases an astonishing physical reconstruction that embodies almost everything cumulatively known about Neanderthals-their musculature, the way they moved,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: "The human race is here today because of its abilitiy to adapt ... Episode 5 walks us down the incredible pathway that has brought humans to their dominant position on the planet and openly questions our role in the future development of life on Earth."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Ambrose Video 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MIRDarnton, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1996
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DARDarnton, John.
Summary: Two anthropologists who are currently academic rivals join forces to discover the reason their mentor has disapeared while on an expedition, leading them to discover a tribe of prehistoric beings.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DARSlimak, Ludovic
Summary: For over a century we saw Neanderthals as inferior to Homo Sapiens. More recently, the pendulum swung the other way and they are generally seen as our relatives: not quite human, but similar enough, and still not equal. Now, thanks to an ongoing revolution in paleoanthropology in which he has played a key part, Ludovic Slimak shows us that they are something altogether different--and they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2024
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Summary: 40,000 years in the past, the last family of Neanderthals roams the earth. After a crushingly hard winter, their numbers are low, but Girl, the oldest daughter, is just coming of age and her family is determined to travel to the annual meeting place and find her a mate.But the unforgiving landscape takes its toll, and Girl is left alone to care for Runt, a foundling of unknown origin. As Girl...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMWragg Sykes, Rebecca
Summary: Our perception of the Neanderthals has undergone a metamorphosis since their discovery 150 years ago, from the losers of the human family tree to A-list hominins. Spanning scientific curiosity and popular cultural fascination means that there is a wealth of coverage in the media and beyond - but do we get the whole story? The reality of 21st century Neanderthals is complex and fascinating, yet...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Sigma 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 569.986 WRATattersall, Ian
Summary: Argues that a long tradition of "human exceptionalism" in paleoanthropology has distorted the picture of human evolution. Drawing partly on his own career-- from young scientist in awe of his elders to crotchety elder statesman-- Tattersall offers an idiosyncratic look at the competitive world of paleoanthropology, beginning with Charles Darwin 150 years ago, and continuing through the Leakey...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 569.8 TATBrown, Jeffrey
Summary: "Lucy and her goofball brother Andy, two Neanderthal siblings living 40,000 years ago, take on a wandering baby sibling, bossy teens, cave paintings, and a mammoth hunt. But what will happen when they encounter a group of humans? Includes a special paleontologist section that helps to dispel common Neanderthal myths"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BROCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J GRAPHIC LUCBrown, Jeffrey
Summary: After the humans leave their cave, Lucy and Andy decide to start an explorer's club with their new friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J GRAPHIC LUCBrown, Jeffrey
Summary: "Lucy and her goofball brother Andy, two Neanderthal siblings living 40,000 years ago, take on a wandering baby sibling, bossy teens, cave paintings, and a mammoth hunt. But what will happen when they encounter a group of humans? Includes a special paleontologist section that helps to dispel common Neanderthal myths"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J GRAPHIC LUCSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Contents: The Andromeda strain / Sergio Pistoi -- Virtual reality and man-machine interface in Disclosure and The terminal man / Ray Kurzweil -- Shock to the system / Steven Gulie -- Neanderthals and wendols / Ian Tattersall -- Primate behavior and misbehavior in Michael Crichton's Congo / Dario Maestripieri -- We still can't clone dinosaurs / Sandy Becker -- Crichton travels in time / Joel N. Shurkin --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BenBella Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 SCISchutt, Bill
Summary: "Eating one's own kind is completely natural behavior in thousands of species, including humans. Throughout history we have engaged in cannibalism for reasons relating to famine, burial rites, and medicinal remedies. Cannibalism has been used as a form of terrorism but also as the ultimate expression of filial piety. With unexpected wit and a wealth of knowledge, Bill Schutt, a research...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 394 SCHSummary: Does a hominid holdover from the Stone Age still walk the Earth? Mainstream science tells us that Neanderthals went extinct about 30,000 years ago, but could a few still exist today? This program looks into anecdotal accounts of a neolithic "wildman" or "man of the forest" surviving in the remote mountains of Russia and Mongolia. Viewers meet an investigator claiming to have skulls and hair...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Bright, Michael
Summary: Explores the history of human origins, highlighting such early humans as Ardipithecus, Homo habilis, Neanderthals, and Homo erectus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: words & pictures 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 569.9 BRIKennedy, Jonathan
Summary: "A sweeping look at how the major transformations in history--from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth of capitalism--have been shaped not by humans but by germs. According to the accepted narrative of progress, humans have thrived thanks to their brains and brawn, collectively bending the arc of history. But in this revelatory book, professor Jonathan Kennedy argues that the myth of human...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2023
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Summary: Humanity's last major source of food from the wild, and how it enabled and shaped the growth of civilization In this history of fishing-not as sport but as sustenance-archaeologist and best-selling author Brian Fagan argues that fishing was an indispensable and often overlooked element in the growth of civilization. It sustainably provided enough food to allow cities, nations, and empires to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 639 FAGMichel, Lincoln
Summary: "Kobo has some problems. His cybernetics are a decade out of date, he's got a pair of twin sister loan sharks knocking on his door, and his work scouting for a baseball league run by pharmaceutical companies is about to go belly-up. Things couldn't get much worse. Then his childhood best friend--Monsanto Mets slugger J.J. Zunz--is murdered at home plate. Determined to find the killer, Kobo...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MICCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MICSummary: "This unrivaled illustrated guide to human evolution brings you face-to-face with your ancient ancestors. Traveling back in time almost eight million years, the book charts the development of our species, Homo sapiens, from tree-dwelling primates to modern humans. Evolution investigates each of our ancestors in detail and in context, from the anatomy of their bones to the environment they lived...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2018
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 599.938 ROBGreen Day
Contents: Brutal love -- Missing you -- 8th Avenue serenade -- Drama queen -- X-Kid -- Sex, drugs & violence -- A little boy named Train -- Amanda -- Walk away -- Dirty rotten bastards -- 99 revolutions -- The forgotten.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Reprise 2012
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Summary: Thursday Next, Head of JurisFiction and ex-SpecOps agent, returns to her native Swindon accompanied by a child of two, a pair of dodos and Hamlet, who is on a fact-finding mission in the real world. Thursday has been dispatched to capture escaped Fictioneer Yorrick Kaine but even so, now seems as good a time as any to retrieve her husband Landen from his state of eradication at the hands of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hodder & Stoughton 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFOSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010