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By Chelsie Vandaveer

December 17, 2003

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Galapagos: Beyond Darwin DVD

Discovery Channel®

Takes a scientific and photographic look at marine and terrestrial life of the Galapagos Islands. The inspiration behind Charles Darwin's boldest theories of evolution, the Galapagos Islands may be more provocative than Darwin originally expected.

Explore the fascinating world of the Galapagos archipelago that Charles Darwin couldn't explore in his 1835 visit. Using underwater footage and state-of-the-art scientific equipment, marvel as new discoveries are made about marine and terrestrial life. Click here.

Blue Planet DVD Set

Discovery Channel®

Five years in the making, with a budget of over $10 million, Blue Planet: Seas of Life is the most comprehensive series of the Earth's oceans to date. Plunge into the mysterious deep with eight, full-length episodes from the highly acclaimed series. Join Pierce Brosnan and Sir David Attenborough as they lead an unprecedented exploration of the ocean, exposing stories of survival against the odds and revealing new species, habitats and behaviors never before caught on camera. Click here.

The Real Eve DVD

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Narrated by actor Danny Glover, "The Real Eve" reveals that our shared genetic heritage links every living person on earth and traces the expansion of modern humans throughout the world. The discovery of the Eve gene stunned the world. It seems we could all be descended from just a few females – or even just one.

In this telling anthropological video, we access the very latest DNA reconstructions, and for the first time, tell conclusively the story of where, when and how the human race came about and then populated the world. Click here.

In the Footsteps of Eve

National Geographic®

For Lee Berger, a young American scientist, the story began in 1989 when he first encountered the rich fossil fields of South Africa. Later, along the limestone-rich shores of a South African lagoon, Berger first discovered the unmistakable fossilized footprints of a modern female human. The monumental surprise—and the impetus for this enthralling narrative—comes when Berger realizes that the prints are at least 117,000 years old. Immersing himself in the controversial debate on human evolution, Berger's In the Footsteps of Eve establishes a new view of our origins.

Has Berger stumbled upon the proverbial missing link—the elusive connection between our earliest ancestors and the modern world? If so, then his discovery calls for a complete revision of the story of evolution. It is traditionally accepted that most fossils have been discovered in East Africa, but BergerÆs steadily mounting evidence suggests that the central events in human evolution and, in fact, modern humans themselves, actually emerged in South Africa and then spread north, eventually migrating to Asia and Europe and beyond. So to whom do these footprints belong? Was she really the original ''African Eve,'' the one common ancestor of all living humans?

A spellbinding detective story that manages to fuse the craft and tension of the best suspense writers with the acumen and thoroughness of Richard Leakey, Berger's In the Footsteps of Eve goes head to head with the prevailing theories of human evolution and marks the accomplished debut of an extraordinarily intelligent and fast-rising young scientist. Click here. [New Products...]