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Great Human Odyssey (full video)
Great Human Odyssey Follow our ancient ancestors’ footsteps out of Africa and into every corner of our planet.

PREMIERED: 10/5/16RUNTIME: 01:53:07TOPIC: EVOLUTIONEVOLUTIONNOVA

Our ancient human ancestors once lived only in Africa, in tiny bands of a few thousand hunter-gatherers. Then we moved out of our African cradle, spreading rapidly to every corner of the planet. How did we acquire the skills, technology and talent to thrive in every environment on earth? How did our prehistoric forebears cross the Sahara on foot, survive frigid ice ages, and sail to remote Pacific islands? “Great Human Odyssey” is a spectacular global journey following their footsteps out of Africa along a trail of fresh scientific clues. With unique glimpses of today’s Kalahari hunters, Siberian reindeer herders, and Polynesian navigators, we discover amazing skills that hint at how our ancestors survived and prospered long ago. (Premiered October 5, 2016)

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/great-human-odyssey/ 1:53:07

Becoming Human
Becoming Human a 3 part series on NOVA: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/series/becoming-human/episodes/

Becoming Human Part 1
Becoming Human Part 1 Unearthing our earliest ancestors.

PREMIERED: 11/3/09RUNTIME: 2:06TOPIC: EVOLUTION

PREMIERED NOVEMBER 3, 2009 AT 9PM ON PBS Where did we come from? What makes us human? An explosion of recent discoveries sheds light on these questions, and NOVA's comprehensive, three-part special, "Becoming Human," examines what the latest scientific research reveals about our hominid relatives.

(This program is no longer available for online streaming.) Part 1, "First Steps," examines the factors that caused us to split from the other great apes. The program explores the fossil of "Selam," also known as "Lucy's Child." Paleoanthropologist Zeray Alemseged spent five years carefully excavating the sandstone-embedded fossil. NOVA's cameras are there to capture the unveiling of the face, spine, and shoulder blades of this 3.3 million-year-old fossil child. And NOVA takes viewers "inside the skull" to show how our ancestors' brains had begun to change from those of the apes.

Participants
Zeresenay Alemseged, Michel Brunet, Peter deMenocal, Yannick Garcin, Ralph Holloway, Donald Johanson, Annett Junginger, John Kingston, Daniel Lieberman, Mark Maslin, Daniel Melnick, Rick Potts, Todd Preuss, Brian Richmond, Mark Stoneking

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/becoming-human-part-1/ (video is a 2:06 trailer)

Becoming Human Part 2
Becoming Human Part 2 Unearthing our earliest ancestors.

PREMIERED: 11/10/09RUNTIME: 51:27TOPIC: EVOLUTION

PREMIERED NOVEMBER 10, 2009 AT 9PM ON PBS (This program is no longer available for online streaming.) In "Birth of Humanity," the second part of the three-part series "Becoming Human," NOVA investigates the first skeleton that really looks like us–"Turkana Boy"–an astonishingly complete specimen of Homo erectus found by the famous Leakey team in Kenya. These early humans are thought to have developed key innovations that helped them thrive, including hunting large prey, the use of fire, and extensive social bonds.

The program examines an intriguing theory that long-distance running–our ability to jog–was crucial for the survival of these early hominids. Not only did running help them escape from vicious predators roaming the grasslands, but it also gave them a unique hunting strategy: chasing down prey animals such as deer and antelope to the point of exhaustion. "Birth of Humanity" also probes how, why, and when humans' uniquely long period of childhood and parenting began.

Participants
Jordi Agustí­, Susan Antí³n, Viktor Deak, Christopher Dean, Ralph Holloway, Sarah Hrdy, Donald Johanson, Susan Larson, Meave Leakey, Richard Leakey, Daniel Lieberman, David Lordkipanidze, Rick Potts, Brian Richmond, John Shea, Mark Stoneking, Abesalom Vekua, Richard Wrangham

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/becoming-human-part-2/ (video is 2:12 trailer)

Becoming Human Part 3
Becoming Human Part 3 Unearthing our earliest ancestors.

PREMIERED: 11/17/09RUNTIME: 51:32TOPIC: EVOLUTION

PREMIERED NOVEMBER 17, 2009 AT 9PM ON PBS (This program is no longer available for online streaming.) In "Last Human Standing," the final program of the three-part series "Becoming Human," NOVA examines the fate of the Neanderthals, our European cousins who died out as modern humans spread from Africa into Europe during the Ice Age. Did modern humans interbreed with Neanderthals or exterminate them? The program explores crucial evidence from the recent decoding of the Neanderthal genome.

How did modern humans take over the world? New evidence suggests that they left Africa and colonized the rest of the globe far earlier, and for different reasons, than previously thought. As for Homo sapiens, we have planet Earth to ourselves today, but that's a very recent and unusual situation. For millions of years, many kinds of hominids co-existed. At one time Homo sapiens shared the planet with Neanderthals, Homo erectus, and the mysterious "Hobbits"–three-foot-high humans who thrived on the Indonesian island of Flores until as recently as 12,000 years ago.

Participants
Juan Luis Arsuaga, Dominique Bonjean, Viktor Deak, Katerina Harvati, Christopher Henshilwood, Ralph Holloway, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Donald Johanson, Daniel Lieberman, Curtis Marean, Svante Pí¤í¤bo, Michael Richards, John Shea, Michel Toussaint, Spencer Wells

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/becoming-human-part-3/ (video is 2:39 trailer)