The human spark

Episode one. Becoming us:

Our earliest ancestors

Our Neanderthal cousins

Flickerings of the human spark

Stone-age social networking

Crash course in primitive tool making

New theories about our origins

Episode two. So human, so chimp:

Our closest living relatives

Thinking like a chimp

Monkey business : concepts of mind

Apes vs. humans

Chimp see, chimp do

A helping hand

Episode three. Brain matters:

Welcome to Alan's brain

The spark ignites

Seeing the spark

Is language genetic?

The best intentions

The essential human spark.