Spark Blog: Video – Making Stone Tools Is Sooo Millions of Years Ago
John Shea at Stony Brook University is keeping alive the stone toolmaking technologies used by our most ancient ancestors.
Nov 20th, 2009
Archive for November, 2009
In the News
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.
Nov 10th, 2009
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