Becoming human

Resource Information

The work Becoming human represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Becoming human

Statement of responsibility

produced by Shining Red Productions for Nova ; WGBH Educational Foundation

Title variation

Unearthing our earliest ancestors

Contributor

• Lewman, Lance
• WGBH Educational Foundation
• Townsley, Graham
• Shining Red Productions
• Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
• PBS Distribution (Firm)
• White, Jennifer Beman
• Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Director

• Townsley, Graham

Film distributor

• PBS Distribution (Firm)

Narrator

• Lewman, Lance

Producer

• White, Jennifer Beman
• Townsley, Graham

Production company

• WGBH Educational Foundation
• Corporation for Public Broadcasting
• Shining Red Productions
• Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)

Screenwriter

• Townsley, Graham

Subject

• Science television programs
• Social evolution
• Video recordings for people with visual disabilities
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Biological Evolution
• Climate Change
• Cultural Evolution
• Documentary television programs
• Feature films
• Fossil hominids
• Hominidae
• Homo erectus -- Evolution
• Human evolution
• Neanderthals
• Nonfiction films
• Paleoanthropology
• Primates -- Evolution

Genre

• Science television programs
• Documentary television programs
• Feature films
• Nonfiction films
• Video recordings for people with visual disabilities
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Language

• eng
• eng
• eng

Summary

"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

Member of

• Colección NOVA
• Nova (Television program)

Cataloging source

NLM

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

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

Dewey number

599.938

Language note

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

LC call number

GN281

LC item number

.B43 2010

NLM call number

• 2010 AV-0005
• GN 281

PerformerNote

Narrator, Lance Lewman

Runtime

180

Series statement

Nova

Technique

animation and live action