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: 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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Summary: 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...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010