"Where did we come from? What makes us human? NOVA's...investigation explores how new discoveries are transforming views of our earliest ancestors. Featuring interviews with world-renowned scientists, footage shot "in the trenches" as fossils were unearthed, and...computer-generated animation, [these programs] bring early hominids to life, examining how we became the creative and adaptable modern humans of today...In the first episode...encounter..."Selam,...

This series explores the startling new map of the brain that has emerged from the past decade of neuroscience and shares a revelatory view of this most complicated organ, which now contradicts much of what we previously believed. Narrated by actress Blair Brown, the series tells stories through a mix of personal histories, expert commentary and cutting-edge animation. Viewers will not only learn startling new truths about the brain, they will voyage...

Transcendent Man explores the theories of inventor, futurist, and best selling author Ray Kurzweil (The Singularity Is Near), who predicts that in the not-so-distant future, the science fiction behind The Terminator; Blade Runner; Total Recall; The Matrix; and I Robot will become science fact. The film follows Kurzweil as he journeys the world sharing his mind-bending vision of a future in which we merge with our computers.

In this illustrated presentation, astrophysicist Dr. Jason Lisle disscusses the nature of the "distant starlight problem" and some of the strengths and weaknesses of various proposed solutions. He also shows why light travel-time arguments (such as "distant starlight") cannot logically be used to support the big bang.

"Join two leading biologists on an exploration of how key developmental genes, natural selection, and time fuel the evolutionary process"--Cover.

Twelve lectures by Edward J. Larson on human evolution.

Disc 1: Tour the surface of Earth's life-giving star. Mars may be the future of humanity - uses data collected from probes and robotic rovers. Scars on the planet's surface and in its fossil record illustrate the threat posed by meteorites, comets, and asteroids that routinely collide with Earth. Two and a half times the size of all the other planets in the solar system combined, and half a billion miles from Earth, Jupiter is a colossal riddle. Disc...

In the year 2055, a team of time travelers accidentally changes the course of evolution and must race against time to repair the damage to the timeline that may erase the human race from ever existing.

Bill Nye compares primordial to present when he dabbles with Darwin and looks at his genes in this evolutionary program.

"Prepare to be transported to strange worlds within worlds where it seems as if Nature has thrown the rule book out the window. Go in for a closer look, and see how the magic of evolution and the forces of nature have together shaped eccentric animals, eclectic lifestyles, and unorthodox patterns of behavior. Includes 6 episodes"--Science Channel web page.