The Rise of Humans: Great Scientific Debates

The Dietary Hypothesis

Documentary Jul 15, 2011 33 min The Great Courses Signature Collection

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S1 E5: Explore the relationship between diet and morphology in this lecture on Australopithecus robustus and Australopithecus africanus. The teeth and jaws of these two species, you’ll discover, offer intriguing windows into the fierce debate surrounding the dietary hypothesis and the true adaptive differences between robust and gracile hominids.

Documentary Jul 15, 2011 33 min The Great Courses Signature Collection

TV-PG

Information

Released: 2011
Run Time: 33 min
Rated: TV-PG

Languages

Original Audio: English
Audio: English (AAC), English (United States)
Subtitles: English (CC)

Accessibility

: Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.