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Becoming Human: Series Overview. Becoming Human – Hour 2 PBS Airdate: November 10, 2009 NARRATOR: Humans: without a doubt, the smartest animal on Earth. Yet we're unmistakably tied to our ape origins. Millions of years ago, we were apes, living ape lives in Africa. So how did we get from that to this? The questions are huge. At the threshold of humanity, one ancestor contains tantalizing secrets. RICHARD WRANGHAM (Harvard University): Homo erectus had a slightly smaller brain, slightly bigger jaw, but it's basically us. NARRATOR: Basically us, almost 2,000,000 years ago. New finds are revealing the truth about the ancestors at the heart of our evolution. JOHN SHEA (Stony Brook University): These creatures were capable of analyzing possible uses of tools and coming up with a technological solution to the problem: how do you kill a big, dangerous animal without getting killed yourself.

NARRATOR: Homo erectus pioneered what it means to be human, colonizing whole continents and creating the first human societies. And David H. Becoming Human. Human Evolution by The Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program. Parent Trap. The Top Ten Daily Consequences of Having Evolved. ADW: Home. Welcome to AAPA — American Association of Physical Anthropologists. OMIM - Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man. Home. Web of Science. SEEDMAGAZINE.COM. Genetic Testing for Health, Disease & Ancestry; DNA Test - 23andMe. Family Tree DNA - Genetic Genealogy Starts Here. ScienceBlogs - Where the world turns to talk about science.

Course: ANTHR-1-L1(40515)-INTRO TO PHYSICAL ANTHRO. Aye-aye video - Daubentonia madagascariensis - 08d. BBC Nature - Aye-aye videos, news and facts. Lascaux. Cave painting of a dun horse (equine) at Lascaux Modern entrance to the Lascaux cave Lascaux (Lascaux Caves) (English /læsˈkoʊ/,[1] French: [lasko][2]) is the setting of a complex of caves in southwestern France famous for its Paleolithic cave paintings. The original caves are located near the village of Montignac, in the department of Dordogne. They contain some of the best-known Upper Paleolithic art. These paintings are estimated to be 17,300 years old.[3][4] They primarily consist of images of large animals, most of which are known from fossil evidence to have lived in the area at the time. History Since Rediscovery[edit] In the late summer of 1940, the entrance to Lascaux Cave was discovered by 18-year-old Marcel Ravidat. Reproductions of some Lascaux artworks in Lascaux II Geographic setting[edit] The Lascaux valley is located some distance from the major concentrations of decorated caves and inhabited sites, most of which were discovered further downstream.

The images[edit] Lascaux. The discovery of the monumental Lascaux cave in 1940 brought with it a new era in our knowledge of both prehistoric art and human origins. Today, the cave continues to feed our collective imagination and to profoundly move new generations of visitors from around the world. To celebrate this prehistoric wonder, the French Ministry of Culture and Communication's is pleased to present its latest multimedia publication – an update of the original Lascaux website, which was first put on line in 1998. The new site has been entirely reworked in both form and content, reflecting the latest advances in archaeological research.

Visitors to the site are presented with a three-dimensional digital version of the cave, which allows them to go from room to room, completely immersed in the site. You are currently on the XHTML version of the website. Cow with collar. Top of page. The Cave Art Paintings of the Lascaux Cave. In collaboration with Noël Coye, Conservateur du patrimoine, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, France. spaceplay / pause qunload | stop ffullscreen shift + ←→slower / faster (latest Chrome and Safari) ←→seek . seek to previous 12…6 seek to 10%, 20%, …60% Lascaux is famous for its Palaeolithic cave paintings, found in a complex of caves in the Dordogne region of southwestern France, because of their exceptional quality, size, sophistication and antiquity.

Red Cow & First Chinese Horse Photograph N. Sections have been identified in the cave; the Great Hall of the Bulls, the Lateral Passage, the Shaft of the Dead Man, the Chamber of Engravings, the Painted Gallery, and the Chamber of Felines. Of the animals, equines predominate [364]. Great Black Bull Additionally, the bulls appear to be in motion. Lascaux Cave Introduction Lascaux Cave Paintings Symposium | Page | 1 | 2 | Lascaux Cave Symposium Conclusions Lascaux Cave Symposium Results Lascaux Cave Paintings - The Future. HapMap Homepage. Introduction to Physical Anthropology. Faces of America: Know Thyself | Faces of America. Evolution. Creation - The Story Of Charles Darwin (?) CREATION official movie trailer. Intelligent Design on Trial. Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial PBS Airdate: November 13, 2007 NARRATOR: Dover, Pennsylvania: like much of the United States, Dover has become a town divided.

ALAN BONSELL (Dover School Board Member): I personally don't believe in Darwin's theory of evolution. ROBERT ESHBACH (Dover Science Teacher): Saying that you don't believe in evolution is almost saying, for us, well, "We don't believe that the Civil War ever took place in the United States. " NARRATOR: Dover is split between those who accept Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and those who reject it. Signs of trouble first appeared after a Dover High School student painted a mural showing the evolution of humans from ape-like ancestors. BERTHA SPAHR (Dover Science Teacher): It was a lovely piece of artwork, very well done artistically, and it did not offend me in any way.

NARRATOR: But some in Dover were offended by the idea that humans and apes are related, and that mural was removed from the classroom and destroyed. About. “The Panda’s Thumb” is many things… First, it is an example of jury-rigged evolutionary adaptation made famous by the late Stephen Jay Gould in an essay of the same name. Second, it is the legendary virtual bar serving the community of the legendary virtual University of Ediacara somewhere in the Ediacaran hills of southern Australia, growing out of the lore of the Usenet talk.origins newsgroup. And now it is a weblog giving another voice for the defenders of the integrity of science, the patrons of “The Panda’s Thumb”. Much as in any tavern serving a university community, you can expect to hear a variety of levels of discussion, ranging from the picayune to the pedantic.

The authors are people associated with the virtual University of Ediacara (and thus the talk.origins newsgroup), and various web sites critical of the antievolution movement, such as the TalkOrigins Archive, TalkDesign, and Antievolution.org. So, here’s a virtual pub crawl that you might actually learn something from. Creation.com. Answers in Genesis - Creation, Evolution, Christian Apologetics.

Creation Records « Doing It For The Kids. Creation Museum - Creation, Evolution, Science, Dinosaurs, Family, Christian Worldview | Creation Museum. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Robert Chambers. The Autobiography of Charles Darwin by Charles Darwin. Charles Darwin: A Biography, Vol. 2 - The Power of Place: Janet Browne: 9780691114392: Amazon.com. Darwin's Armada: Four Voyages and the Battle for the Theory of Evolution: Iain McCalman: Amazon.com. Why Evolution Is True: Jerry A. Coyne: 9780143116646: Amazon.com.