The Nature of Things
Season 3 Episode 12 - The Descent of Man
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1960
Documentary
Recent fossil discoveries in Africa have shed new light on the ancestry and evolution of man. Guest Dr. L.S.B. Leakey, renowned British anthropologist and paleontologist, unearthed fossil remains in the Olduvai Gorge that have extended the time scale of human evolution from 500,000 to two million years or more. A deductive story in anthropology and paleontology is told as Dr. Leakey describes his finds and interprets their significance
Episodes in Season 3
1
Episode 1
2
Brainwashing
3
Tubes To Transistors
4
From Water To Land
5
Chemistry Of Salt
6
Ear Operation
7
The Way The Ball Bounces
8
Lie Detectors
9
Smoking And Lung Cancer
10
Science Museum
11
Tornadoes
12
The Descent of Man
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13
Isaac Newton
14
New Atoms For Old
15
Car Crashes
16
Bird Migration
17
Fact & Fiction
18
Code of Life
19
The Chemistry Of Bread
20
The Infra-Red
21
Human Overpopulation
22
Mars
23
Spiders
24
