{"id":1133,"date":"2009-11-01T20:52:24","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T00:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1133"},"modified":"2009-11-01T20:53:37","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T00:53:37","slug":"nova-series-becoming-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1133","title":{"rendered":"Nova Series “Becoming Human”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nova’s new three part special “Becoming Human”<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0airs this coming Tuesday, November 3rd and for the\u00c2\u00a0following two weeks November 10th and 17th (See your local PBS for listings and times)<\/p>\n

Part 1. “First Steps” examines the factors which caused us to spilt from the\u00c2\u00a0other great apes and includes the recent discovery of Ardipithecus ramidus fossils.<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 Part 2. “Birth of Humanity”, profiles the early species of humans and Part 3 “Last Humans Standing”\u00c2\u00a0trys to answer why\u00c2\u00a0only “our kind” of humans remain.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nova’s new three part special “Becoming Human”\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0airs this coming Tuesday, November 3rd and for the\u00c2\u00a0following two weeks November 10th and 17th (See your local PBS for listings and times) Part 1. “First Steps” examines the factors which caused us to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-ih","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1141,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1141","url_meta":{"origin":1133,"position":0},"title":"Becoming Human Part 3","author":"Jonathan Smith","date":"November 17, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The last episode in the \"Nova\" series \"Becoming Human\" airs tonight. In \"Last Human Standing,\" NOVA examines the fate of the Neanderthals, our European cousins who died out as modern humans spread from Africa into Europe during the Ice Age.\u00c2\u00a0 \"Last Human Standing\" examines why \"we\" survived while those other\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1138,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1138","url_meta":{"origin":1133,"position":1},"title":"Nova Series \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Becoming Human\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Part Two Updated","author":"Jonathan Smith","date":"November 10, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Nova\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new three part special \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Becoming Human\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0part two airs tonight.\u00c2\u00a0 Part 2. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Birth of Humanity\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, profiles the early species of humans. 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