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Evidence: Who Is (Clip)
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00:03:07
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Geneticist Mark Stoneking discusses a special type of genetic material called mitochondrial DNA gets passed directly from mother to child. Largely unchanged from generation to generation, this genetic material gives researchers a way to track populations back in time.
Project: Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know? | Browse All
Date: November 11, 2008
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology, General Science
Keywords: mitochondrial dna
Project: Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know? | Browse All
Date: November 11, 2008
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology, General Science
Keywords: mitochondrial dna
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Evidence: Learning from Neanderthal DNA (Clip)
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00:01:30
00:01:30
Evolutionary geneticist Ed Green discusses the key questions researchers hope to answer by analyzing the Neanderthal genome.
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Date: November 11, 2008
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): General Science, Life Science/Biology
Keywords: neanderthal genome
Project: Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know? | Browse All
Date: November 11, 2008
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): General Science, Life Science/Biology
Keywords: neanderthal genome
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Evidence: What Can We Learn from a Tooth? (Clip)
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00:00:59
Anthropologist Tanya Smith explains that invisible microstructure inside teeth creates a durable record of life history, including events such as birth, illness, famine, stress, and death.
Project: Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know? | Browse All
Date: November 11, 2008
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology, General Science
Keywords: teeth
Project: Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know? | Browse All
Date: November 11, 2008
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology, General Science
Keywords: teeth
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Evidence: How Do Bones and Teeth Grow? (Clip)
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00:01:53
00:01:53
Anthropologist Jean-Jacques Hublin explains that unlike teeth, bones undergo a lifelong process called remodeling, in which they are constantly being destroyed and recreated.
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Date: November 11, 2008
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology, General Science
Keywords:
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Date: November 11, 2008
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology, General Science
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Evidence: Virtual Skull Reconstruction (Clip)
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00:02:25
00:02:25
Anthropologist Philipp Gunz explains the process of virtual fossil reconstruction, a technique that can reverse the damage done to fossils by time and the elements.
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Date: November 11, 2008
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology, General Science
Keywords: fossil, fossil reconstruction
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Date: November 11, 2008
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology, General Science
Keywords: fossil, fossil reconstruction
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Evidence: Why Are Fossils So Rare? (Clip)
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00:00:57
00:00:57
Anthropologist Katerina Harvati explains the rare convergence of circumstances that are necessary for the discovery of a fossil specimen.
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Date: November 11, 2008
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology, General Science
Keywords:
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Date: November 11, 2008
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology, General Science
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Evidence: When Scientists Disagree (Clip)
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00:00:48
00:00:48
Anthropologist Jean-Jacques Hublin discusses the role of conflict and argument in the scientific process.
Project: Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know? | Browse All
Date: November 11, 2008
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology, General Science
Keywords:
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Date: November 11, 2008
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology, General Science
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Iron Science Teacher: Halloween: Bats (Webcast)
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00:37:58
00:37:58
Halloween Special Edition! In this zany competition teachers have ten minutes to create a science activity from a special Halloween secret ingredient... bats!
Project: Iron Science Teacher | Browse All
Date: October 31, 2008
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Physics, General Science, Life Science/Biology
Keywords: iron science teacher, competition, experiments, demonstrations, secret ingredients, contest
Project: Iron Science Teacher | Browse All
Date: October 31, 2008
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Physics, General Science, Life Science/Biology
Keywords: iron science teacher, competition, experiments, demonstrations, secret ingredients, contest
Ice Stories: Interview with McMurdo Station's Waste Management Supervisor (Clip)
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00:02:29
00:02:29
Ice Stories correspondent Howie Koss interviews James Van Matre, Waste Management Supervisor at McMurdo Station. We talk about Antarctica's waste management practices of the past and present, and why it's important to recycle.
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: October 27, 2008
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s):
Keywords: trash, recycling, waste, antarctica, mcmurdo station, environment
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: October 27, 2008
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s):
Keywords: trash, recycling, waste, antarctica, mcmurdo station, environment
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Evidence: Reconstructing Neanderthal DNA (Clip)
Running Time:
00:01:38
00:01:38
Evolutionary geneticist Svante Pääbo explains that analysis of ancient Neanderthal DNA is very tricky work, thanks to fragmentation and contamination of genetic material.
Project: Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know? | Browse All
Date: October 26, 2008
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology, General Science
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Date: October 26, 2008
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology, General Science
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