The Nature of Things · SEASON 3
The Descent of Man
Episode 12 · 1963-03-31
- Documentary
Episode overview
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
Season 3 episodes
1. Episode 11963-01-06
2. Brainwashing1963-01-13
3. Tubes To Transistors1963-01-20
4. From Water To Land1963-01-27
5. Chemistry Of Salt1963-02-03
6. Ear Operation1963-02-10
7. The Way The Ball Bounces1963-02-17
8. Lie Detectors1963-02-24
9. Smoking And Lung Cancer1963-03-03
10. Science Museum1963-03-10
11. Tornadoes1963-03-24
12. The Descent of Man1963-03-31
13. Isaac Newton1963-04-07
14. New Atoms For Old1963-04-14
15. Car Crashes1963-04-21
16. Bird Migration1963-05-05
17. Fact & Fiction1963-05-12
18. Code of Life1963-05-19
19. The Chemistry Of Bread1963-05-26
20. The Infra-Red1963-06-02
21. Human Overpopulation1963-06-09
22. Mars1963-06-16
23. Spiders1963-06-23
24. Hypnosis1963-06-30
