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"The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," featuring Jeffrey Brown, Gwen Ifill, Jim Lehrer, Margaret Warner, and Ray Suarez.

The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

The country's most distinguished source for televised news.

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An actor portraying a member of the tiny population of Homo sapiens from whom we all sprang. Geneticists have traced our ancestry to a bare 600 individuals who lived on the shores of Pinnacle Point, South Africa, learning to read the moon to exploit a rich marine resource.

NOVA: Becoming Human: Unearthing Our Earliest Ancestors

NOVA investigates new discoveries that are transforming the picture of how humans developed from early hominids.

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Based on the popular books by Susan Meddaugh, Martha Speaks follows the adventures of Martha, a beloved family dog, whose appetite for alphabet soup gives her the power of human speech.

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