John Shea at Stony Brook University is keeping alive the stone toolmaking technologies used by our most ancient ancestors.
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November 20th, 2009
Spark Blog: Video – Making Stone Tools Is Sooo Millions of Years Ago
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November 10th, 2009
In the News: 2009 Kistler Prize to Dr. Svante Pääbo
Dr. Svante Pääbo, an evolutionary biologist featured in The Human Spark, was recently awarded the 2009 Kistler Prize. Watch video of Dr. Pääbo with Alan Alda.
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October 6th, 2009
Spark Blog: Working (and Playing) with Primitive Technology
Larry Engel and the crew head to Stony Brook, where Alan Alda gets a lesson in primitive weapon- and bead-making from experimental archaeologist John Shea.
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September 18th, 2009
In the News: What Does Ape Behavior Say About Us?
Scientists are attacking the question of how we became human from a number of new directions – in addition to analyzing the evidence of ancient fossils.
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September 16th, 2009
Web-Exclusive Video: Chimp Emotions
Check out this video to learn more about Lisa Parr's studies on chimp emotions and what these studies can tell us about the human spark.
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September 4th, 2009
Spark Blog: Alan Alda’s “King Kong” Encounter
Alan enters the lab at Yerkes hoping to learn about chimpanzees and facial recognition. But instead, the chimps show Alan and the crew who's boss.
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August 26th, 2009
Spark Blog: Chimpanzee Culture?
Psychologist Vicky Horner discusses research into chimpanzee cultural transmission. Do chimps have "culture" like humans?
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August 20th, 2009
In the News: Video – Pyroengineering
Pyroengineering. A big word for what early modern humans learned to do with silcrete at least 72,000 years ago, according to researchers.
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August 18th, 2009
In the News: Oldest Musical Instruments
Talk about "oldies" music! Scientists recently uncovered the oldest musical instruments, in the form of carved bone and ivory flutes.
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August 11th, 2009
Spark Blog: Twitter Trivia
Can you use Google and Twitter? If so, wrangle with these trivia questions to receive free science DVDs.
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