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This film explores the evolutionary connection between an infectious disease, malaria, and a genetic condition, sickle cell disease.

This animated short video illustrates the life and work of paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey, including her discovery of the Laetoli footprints.

This film explores what human hands, vision, and brains reveal about our evolution from ancient primate ancestors.

This film explores the hypothesis that different tones of skin color in humans arose as adaptations to the intensity of ultraviolet radiation in different parts of the world.

This video describes how stone tools reveal a critical transition in the lives of our early human ancestors.

This film explores the major fossil finds from Africa that provide insights about the evolution of humans from other primates.

This film describes the discovery of Tiktaalik, a key fossil that illuminates the evolutionary origins of four-legged animals.

This animation provides an overview of the greenhouse effect, a process that warms the atmosphere and surface of Earth.

This film explores the genetics and evolution of lactase persistence in humans.

This animation shows how varying concentrations of a signaling molecule activate different transcription factors to determine cell fate.

This animation shows how stem cells from early mammalian embryos can be grown and studied in a laboratory.

This animation describes the formation and fates of the three germ layers in a human embryo.