Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Humanity on Earth: Human Evolution Overview
A video investigating human evolution from the extinction of the dinosaurs to humanity today. [12:25]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Crash Course Big History: Human Evolution
A video from Crash Course investigating human evolution. [15:41]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Evolution: Human Evolution Overview
From the extinction of the dinosaurs to humanity. [12:25]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: A New Human Relative, From a Dna Sample?
Genetic analysis of DNA from a single prehistoric finger bone may point to a new branch of the human family tree.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: A New Species, or Just Small Humans?
The discovery of unusual skeletal remains on the islands of Palau suggests that the so-called 'hobbits' found several years ago in Indonesia may have been dwarf humans, not a separate species.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: How Cooking Made Us Human
An interview with primatologist Richard Wrangham, the author of Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human. He believes that cooking food led to humans' evolutionary success. Aired Aug. 28, 2009 [28:02]
California Academy of Sciences
California Academy of Sciences: Human Tool Use
The Academy's Zeray Alemseged's recent discovery pushes human tool-use back over 800,000 years. [2:57]
Crash Course
Crash Course Big History #7: Migrations and Intensification
A crash course about humanity conquering the Earth. As human beings spread out across the world and populations grew, humanity reached a critical mass of innovators, and collective learning ensued. [13:41]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Genealogy and Human Ancestry
Explore human migration from over 60,000 years ago with this video! Listen to Henry Louis Gates, Jr. story of how his own family history has helped scholars explore human migration. [4:53]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Threshold 6: Humans and Collective Learning
A video investigating the important force that cause man to evolve. Learn what makes man so different from other living things. [2:42]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Early Evidence of Collective Learning
A video reviewing over the early evidence of how humans learned together. John Shea will discuss stone tools, changes in the human skull, and mutant genes. [3:32]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Making Stone Tools
Early humans used stone tools that were simple but effective. On this video, explore these tools that were found in Africa. [7:48]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: How Did the First Humans Live?
Get a picture of the life of early humans by examining evidence they left behind with this video! Find out how the lived and ate. [10:52]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: From Foraging to Food Shopping
A video discussing what it was like for hunters to gather their favorite foods. [4:11]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Early Hominid Fossil Find
Researchers unveiled several studies of an early hominid known as Ardipithecus ramidus. We'll find out how those studies affect our understanding of human evolution. [9 mins. 34]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Almost Chimpanzee
Rather than focusing on how similar humans are to chimpanzees, can more be learned by examining how we're different? This audio lecture discusses the research that explores what sets humans apart from chimpanzee like language and...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Are Humans Still Evolving?
Has access to modern medical care thrown a wrench into the 'survival of the fittest' basis of evolution? New research says no -- we're still evolving.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Meet Your Ancient Relatives the Denisovans
Scientists sequenced the genome of a Denisovan -- a distant cousin to modern humans and Neanderthals.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Discovering Your Inner Fish
Evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin takes us through the evolutionary story of how the human body evolved from our fish and reptilian ancestors.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Modern Humans Still Evolving, and Faster Than Ever
Recent evolution has given humans the ability to break down starch and digest cheese. Bon appetit!
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: New Fossil May Trim Branches of Human Evolution
Could Homo erectus, Homo habilis, and the rest of the Homo genus be one species?
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: An Earlier Departure Out of Africa?
Learn how the discovery of a stone toolkit may push back the date when humans first left Africa in this audio lecture. [0:48]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Richard Leakey Reflects on Human Past and Future
Leakey talks about the origins of Homo sapiens, and their uncertain future.
PBS
Pbs Teachers:laetoli Footprints
Compare ancient biped prints with those of modern humans and chimpanzees to infer the existence of bipedal hominids on earth more than 3.5 million years ago. Discover what sequence of natural events occurred to preserve the Laetoli...