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Program Three: Brain Matters: Video: Full Episode

Full Episode

January 19th, 2010
Program Three: Brain Matters: Video: Full Episode

Peer into Alan Alda's head as we uncover where our most human abilities reside. Watch the full episode now.

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Video Excerpt: Social Networks and the Spark

January 17th, 2010
Video Excerpt: Social Networks and the Spark

Alan Alda finds out how human social networks compare to those of chimps and watches babies pick cooperative puppets over those that won't play.

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Video Excerpt: Kermit Loves a Bucket

January 16th, 2010
Video Excerpt: Kermit Loves a Bucket

Cognitive psychologist Elizabeth Spelke tests the representational thinking skills of children by asking them to relate a map to the real world.

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Hollywood Chimps – The Debate

January 13th, 2010
Hollywood Chimps – The Debate

Some chimp experts have concerns about how media portrayals could affect chimpanzee welfare in the United States and abroad.

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Program Two: So Human, So Chimp: Video: Full Episode

Full Episode

January 12th, 2010
Program Two: So Human, So Chimp: Video: Full Episode

Alan Alda explores how much humans and chimps have in common, and what sets us apart. Watch the full episode now.

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Web-Exclusive Video: Mirror Neurons

January 12th, 2010
Web-Exclusive Video: Mirror Neurons

What in the world are mirror neurons? And why might they be important for humans to possess?

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Web-Exclusive Video: The South African Spark

January 11th, 2010
Web-Exclusive Video: The South African Spark

Was the area that is now the coast of South Africa once an important site of innovation for early humans?

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Web-Exclusive Video: Belgian Neanderthals

January 8th, 2010
Web-Exclusive Video: Belgian Neanderthals

Take a look at the excavations at Scladina, a deep cave only recently discovered outside Liege, Belgium, where Neanderthals lived 100,000 years ago.

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Program One: Becoming Us: Video: Full Episode

Full Episode

January 7th, 2010
Program One: Becoming Us: Video: Full Episode

Alan Alda confronts the puzzle of why our ancestors got the Spark and evolved into us, while the first humans to leave Africa for Europe--the Neanderthals--never did.

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Web-Exclusive Video: First Neanderthal Find, Before Its Time

January 7th, 2010
Web-Exclusive Video: First Neanderthal Find, Before Its Time

In this video, archaeologist Michel Toussaint describes how the first discovery of a Neanderthal skull in 1829 was ahead of its time.

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What is the nature of human uniqueness