Big History: The Big Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity. Episode 20 Threshold 6 - What Makes Humans Different?
(2025, original release: 2008)

Nonfiction

eCourse

Provider: Kanopy

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PUBLISHED
The Great Courses, 2008
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2025
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (streaming video file) (31 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

ISBN/ISSN
15881019
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Title from title frames

Human beings represent a new threshold of complexity in the story of life on Earth. In this episode, we examine two things that make us unique: use of symbolic language and collective learning

Film

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David Christian

Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2008

Mode of access: World Wide Web

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