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| How do you find a fossil? (Clip) | |||||||
 Running Time: 00:01:31 | Anthropologist Katarina Harvati explains how scientists from various disciplines work together to find fossilized human remains. Project: Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know? | Browse all programs for this project Date: August 26, 2008 Type: Interview Category: Popular Science Academic Disciplines: Life Science/Biology, General Science
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| Why have a fossil cast collection? (Clip) | |||||||
 Running Time: 00:01:18 | Anthropologist Katarina Harvati explains the importance of cast collections to the study of human evolution. Project: Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know? | Browse all programs for this project Date: August 26, 2008 Type: Interview Category: Popular Science Academic Disciplines: Life Science/Biology, General Science
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| The Pencil Test (Clip) | |||||||
 Running Time: 00:01:35 | Various features of a fossil skull help anthropologists determine what species it belongs to. Here, anthropologist Katarina Harvati explains how a pencil can be used to distinguish between ancient human species. Project: Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know? | Browse all programs for this project Date: August 26, 2008 Type: Interview Category: Popular Science Academic Disciplines: Life Science/Biology, General Science
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| Why Did the Neanderthals Disappear? (Clip) | |||||||
 Running Time: 00:01:29 | Some 35,000 years ago, Neanderthals became extinct. Climate change and a taste for steaks may be to blame. (Sound familiar?) Anthropologist Katarina Harvati explains. Project: Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know? | Browse all programs for this project Date: August 26, 2008 Type: Interview Category: Popular Science Academic Disciplines:
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| Neanderthals: Fact vs. Fiction (Clip) | |||||||
 Running Time: 00:00:57 | Anthropologist Katarina Harvati dispels popular myths about Neanderthals. Project: Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know? | Browse all programs for this project Date: August 26, 2008 Type: Interview Category: Popular Science Academic Disciplines: Life Science/Biology, General Science
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| Did Humans and Neanderthals Mix? (Clip) | |||||||
 Running Time: 00:02:47 | Anthropologist Jean-Jacques Hublin gives evidence suggesting that humans and Neanderthals exchanged culture and technologies. Project: Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know? | Browse all programs for this project Date: August 26, 2008 Type: Interview Category: Popular Science Academic Disciplines: Life Science/Biology, General Science
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| Humans, Chimps, and Culture (Clip) | |||||||
 Running Time: 00:01:35 | Evolutionary geneticist Svante Pääbo explains that culture—long thought to be an exclusively human characteristic—is evident among other primates as well. Project: Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know? | Browse all programs for this project Date: August 21, 2008 Type: Interview Category: Popular Science Academic Disciplines: Life Science/Biology, General Science
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| Chimpanzees: Leaf Clipping (Clip) | |||||||
 Running Time: 00:02:00 | Primatologist Christophe Boesch demonstrates and discusses a leaf clipping, an aspect of chimpanzee behavior. Project: Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know? | Browse all programs for this project Date: August 21, 2008 Type: Interview Category: Popular Science Academic Disciplines: Life Science/Biology, General Science
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| Chimpanzees: Ant Dipping (Clip) | |||||||
 Running Time: 00:01:30 | Primatologist Christophe Boesch demonstrates and discusses ant dipping, an aspect of chimpanzee behavoir. Project: Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know? | Browse all programs for this project Date: August 21, 2008 Type: Interview Category: Popular Science Academic Disciplines: Life Science/Biology, General Science
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| Chimpanzees: Nut Cracking (Clip) | |||||||
 Running Time: 00:01:40 | Primatologist Christophe Boesch demonstrates and discusses nut cracking, an aspect of chimpanzee behavior. Project: Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know? | Browse all programs for this project Date: August 21, 2008 Type: Interview Category: Popular Science Academic Disciplines: Life Science/Biology, General Science
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