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Chimp Politics In this video from the PBS series The Human Spark, host Alan Alda and scientist Franz de Waal observe and compare two alpha-male chimpanzees’ different approaches to sharing at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
A Day in the Life of a Neanderthal In this video segment from The Human Spark, host Alan Alda looks at some of the similarities and differences between the Neanderthal way of life and that of modern humans. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
The Developing Brain This video from The Human Spark illustrates the difference between the brain growth of man’s early ancestors and today’s modern infant. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Dinosaurs This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K shows us what paleontologists think dinosaurs looked like, what they ate, and why they might have disappeared. We see paleontologists at work studying dinosaurs fossils. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Evolutionary Roots of Language This video excerpt from NOVA scienceNOW looks at how language and tool-making may have coevolved. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	6-12	Video
Floral Arrangements Explore a few of the ways plants pollinate each other in this video segment from Sexual Encounters of a Floral Kind. Accessibility features: Audio Description, Caption, Transcript	6-12	Video
Fossils This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K explains how fossils are formed, discusses the Hagerman Horse fossil found in Idaho. It describes the tools Paleontologists use and why they study fossils. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Human Nature This video segment from The Human Spark looks at the ways in which monkeys and apes are similar to humans, not just biologically but mentally and socially. Accessibility features: Transcript	5-12	Video
If It Ain't Broke Archaeologist John Shea explains the context and construction of one of the early humans' first tools--the stone hand ax. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Insight and Imagination Get an overview of how insight and imagination distinguish humans from others in this segment from The Human Spark. Accessibility features: Transcript	5-12	Video
Investigating Neanderthals This video excerpt from NOVA scienceNOW looks at how head shapes of Neanderthals and modern humans differ. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	6-12	Video
Links in the Evolutionary Chain In this segment, Alan Alda, host of The Human Spark, explores some of the characteristics that distinguish different branches of the hominid “family tree,” such as brain and face size, ability to make tools, and location.. Accessibility features: Transcript	5-12	Video
The Living Fossil In this video from Nature, learn about the horseshoe crab, a creature that has survived for 350 million years. Accessibility features: Transcript	4-8	Video
Masters of Disguise In the face of danger, what's a spineless animal to do? This video segment introduces the concept of camouflage -- how animals achieve it and how this form of disguise benefits both predators and prey. Footage from NOVA: "Animal Impostors." Accessibility features: Audio Description, Caption, Transcript	K-12	Video
Ratty Old Genes This video from The Human Spark explores the extraction and interpretation of Neanderthal DNA. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
A Social Network Alan Alda explores the relationship between social and technological change, specifically in Neanderthal and modern human populations in this video from The Human Spark. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Talk of Life Using the FOXP2 “language gene” as an example, this video from The Human Spark explores how similar genes evolve differently in different animals. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
To Make a Spear About 100,000 years ago, humans began to develop the spear, representing the beginnings of projective technology and organized hunting. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
A Variety of Hummingbirds Learn about different traits and adaptations in various species of hummingbirds in this video from Nature. Accessibility features: Transcript	6-12	Video
What's the Difference? This video segment from The Human Spark discusses how certain aspects of Neanderthals’ diet and development set them apart from modern humans. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video