Peer into Alan Alda's head as we uncover where our most human abilities reside. Watch the full episode now.
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January 19th, 2010
Program Three: Brain Matters: Video: Full Episode
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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