DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Becoming human / produced by Shining Red Productions for Nova ; WGBH Educational Foundation.

[Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Distribution, ©2010.

1 videodisc (approximately 159 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

"Where did we come from? What makes us human? NOVA's ... investigation explores how new discoveries are transforming views of our earliest ancestors. Featuring interviews with world-renowned scientists, footage shot "in the trenches" as fossils were unearthed, and ... computer-generated animation, [these programs] bring early hominids to life, examining how we became the creative and adaptable modern humans of today ... In the first episode ... encounter ... "Selam," the amazingly complete remains of a 3 million year-old child, packed with clues to why we split from the apes, came down from the trees, and started walking upright ... [T]he second episode investigates the riddle of "Turkana Boy"--A tantalizing fossil of Homo erectus, the first ancestor to leave Africa and colonize the globe ... [T]he final episode ... explores the origins of "us"--where modern humans and our capacities for art, invention, and survival came from, and what happened when we encountered the mysterious Neanderthals"--Container.

Nova

Colección NOVA.

Human evolution.

Homo erectus -- Evolution.

Primates -- Evolution.

Fossil hominids.

Neanderthals.

Paleoanthropology.

Social evolution.

Evolution (Biology)

Climatic changes.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.

Science television programs.

Documentary television programs.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Feature films.

Lewman, Lance, narrator.

Townsley, Graham, director, producer, screenwriter.

White, Jennifer Beman, producer.

WGBH Educational Foundation, production company.

Corporation for Public Broadcasting, production company.

Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), production company.

PBS Distribution (Firm), film distributor.

Shining Red Productions, production company.

Subtitle on container: Unearthing our earliest ancestors

Nova (Television program)

Originally broadcast as episodes of the public television series Nova in 2009.

Camera, Reuben Aaronson, Michael Anderson, Stan Barua, Chris Cox, Gary Grieg, Oliver Gurr, Tony Miller, Richard Slater Jones, Gordy Waterman ; animation/special effects, People's Republic of Animation, Pixeldust Studios ; editors, Jennifer Beman White, Barbara Burst, Paige Smith Lee ; original score, Joe Delia.

Narrator, Lance Lewman.

DVD ; NTSC, Region 1 ; widescreen ; stereo.

Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired; optional audio description for the visually impaired.

First steps / produced by Jennifer Beman White ; written and directed by Graham Townsley (ca. 53 min.) -- Birth of humanity / written, produced and directed by Graham Townsley (ca. 53 min.) -- Last human standing / written, produced and directed by Graham Townsley (ca. 53 min.).

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DVD 599.938 Becoming