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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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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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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May 27th, 2009
In the News: A Fossil Called “Ida”
The media has jumped all over this beautifully preserved 47-million-year-old fossil, with some even calling it a “missing link.” What do you think?
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May 22nd, 2009
Spark Blog: Video: Humaniqueness
Harvard's Marc Hauser has coined his own term for what we’ve been calling the Human Spark – humaniqueness.
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May 20th, 2009
Spark Blog: Video: Ancient Dental Cleaning
Amanda Henry showed us how she very gently scrapes dental plaque from the Skhul 5 skull’s molars to find out what our ancestors may have eaten.
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May 6th, 2009
Spark Blog: Larry Engel: Running Better in “Non-sneakers”
Harvard's Dan Lieberman argues that we humans evolved to become the best long-distance runners on earth -- and we did it barefoot!
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April 13th, 2009
In the News: Evolution and Color Vision
The colors a species can perceive is dictated by the types and number of visual pigments found in the retina. How might our color vision system have evolved?
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