Caveman

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May 16, 2010

Is your knowledge Cavemen based on TV commercials? In this hour of To The Best Of Our Knowledge, Caveman. We'll discover how the Ice Age gave birth to the first modern humans. And, the real secret of evolution -- cooking. Also, the founder of today's caveman movement. He grunts in a more modern way.

John Hawks on Neanderthals & Us

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A recent study of DNA from Neanderthal bones changed everything we thought we knew.

Brian Fagan on Cro-Magnon & Ice Age

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If human beings are part neanderthal, Brian Fagan tells Jim Fleming the rest of us is something else - Cro-Magnon.

Michelle Paver on "Chronicles of Ancient Darkness"

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Sir Ian McKellen is heard first, reading from the novel "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver. It's part of her "Chronicles of Ancient Darkness" series, set 6000 years ago.

Arthur De Vany on Modern Cavemen

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Not all cavemen are in the past. The Modern Caveman Movement involves men in urban gyms, grunting and sprinting on all fours, lifting heavy stones, and running barefoot.

Richard Wrangham on How Cooking Made Us Human

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Harvard anthropologist Richard Wrangham says the big question is WHEN did we become human? He tells Steve Paulson it's clearly when we started cooking.

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Guests: 

John Hawks

Paleontologist

Brian Fagan

Anthropologist

Michelle Paver

Author

Arthur De Vany

Professor

Richard Wrangham

Anthropologist
Categories: 
Science
Nature
Last modified: 
August 02, 2024