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• Title: 
  The day we learned to think: The evolution of language and cognition
• Add. Author/Contrib.: John Shrapnel; Dan Clifton; BBC Education & Training.; British Broadcasting Corporation.; BBC Active (Firm); Films Media Group.; Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
• Subjects: Human evolution; Language and languages -- Origin; Brain -- Evolution; Thought and thinking;Anthropology; Archaeology; Television programs for the hearing impaired; Video recordings for the hearing impaired; Nonfiction television programs
• Notes: "Was there a 'big bang' in human language and cognitive development, or did speech and abstract thought evolve slowly-perhaps across 200,000 years or so? Surveying prehistoric burial sites and other archaeological finds, including what might be the world's oldest work of art, this program attempts to locate the junction of creativity and communication at which human intelligence was born."--Container. 
  Close-captioned. 
  Documentary. 
  Originally broadcast in 2003 as part of the television program, Horizon. 
  Camera, Neville Kidd, Paul Otter ; videotape editor, Richard Haywood ; film editor, Ben Giles. 
  Narrator: John Shrapnel. 
  DVD, NTSC. 
• Publisher: United Kingdom : BBC Active ; Hamilton, NJ : Distributed by Films Media Group, Films for Humanities & Sciences 
• Creation Date: c2008 
• Description: 1 videodisc ( 51 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.. 
• Language: English
• Format: Audio/Visual Material ; Videorecording ; DVD 
• Located at Kendall Campus Call Number: GN 281.4 .D39 2008