| Description |
1 videodisc (DVD) (ca. 80 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in |
| Series |
Lost worlds |
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Lost worlds (Television program)
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| Summary |
"Until recently, the oldest known ancestor of mankind was a 3.4-million-year-old female hominid found in Eastern Africa. But in 2001, Professor Michel Brunet's team of palaeontologists discovered the skull of a 7-million-year-old male biped - the oldest ever found - in the Chad desert. This documentary follows the discovery of the artefact, and the subsequent four years of research involved in understanding Toumai's social behaviour, diet and habitat. Sculptor Elisabeth Dayne reconstructs Toumai's head using his fossilised skull as a blueprint, and computer-generated images recreate how he may have looked and moved. Digital recreations based on the African ecosystems of Okavango delta in Botswana attempt to place Toumai in what could have been his natural habitat 7 million years ago." (From France, in English and French, English subtitles)-- website |
| Notes |
Off-air recording of SBS-TV broadcast June 11, 2006, June 14, 2007 Copied under Part Va of the Copyright Act |
| Credits |
Produced by Stéphane Milliere; written under the scientific direction of Professor Michel Brunet |
| Performer |
Narrated by Geoffrey Bateman |
| Notes |
Rated: PG |
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DVD. Region unspecified |
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Available for Deakin University staff and students only |
| Subject |
Primates -- Evolution
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Fossil hominids
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Human evolution
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| Author |
Milliere, Stéphane
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Brunet, Michel
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SBS-TV
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