NOVA's groundbreaking investigation explores how new discoveries are transforming views of our earliest ancestors. Becoming Human explores the origins of us -where modern humans and our capacities for art, invention, and survival came from, and how our social history led to 3-5% of our genetic heritage being Neanderthal. Featuring interviews with world-renowned scientists, footage shot in the trenches as fossils were unearthed, and stunning computer-generated animation, Becoming Human brings early hominids to life, examining how they lived and how we became the creative and adaptable modern humans of today. In gripping forensic detail, we meet: 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; Turkana Boy -a tantalizing fossil of Homo erectus, the first ancestor to leave Africa and colonize the globe. What led to this first great African exodus?
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Documentary following a team of technicians in Italy as they reconstruct a number of historic Middle...
Filmed in IMAX, a young Mayan boy who lives close to the ruins becomes acquainted with an archaeolog...
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The events and coincidences that led to rapid advances in human intelligence 50,000 years ago.
A feature documentary about the journey of mankind to discover our true force and who we truly are. ...
Professor Alice Roberts follows a decade-long historical quest to reveal a hidden secret of the famo...
For centuries, Stonehenge has been cloaked in mystery. Who built it? How did they do it? Why did the...
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