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| View Larger Image | Journey of Man | DVDStarring: Dr. Spencer Wells
Directed By: Clive Maltby
Also With: Gregers Sall (Editor)
| List Price: | $24.99 | | Price: | $18.99 | | You Save: | $6.00 (24%) | | | Available: | Usually ships in 1 to 2 days |
| | Binding: | DVD | | Rating: |  | | Run Time: | 120 minutes | | Format: | Color, DVD, NTSC | | Studio: | PBS (Direct) | | Number of Discs: | 1 | | Aspect Ratio: | 1.33:1 | | Release Date: | August 05, 2003 | | Sales Rank: | 9,774th |
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Product Description
Studio: Pbs Release Date: 05/05/2009 Run time: 120 minutes |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 50 reviews)
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Beautiful and Eye-opening by Ramkumar Balaraman (Boston, MA)  4 Stars
November 18, 2009
This is a beautiful video, with breathtaking landscape and a good flow of narrative. It was also very eye-opening in terms of the theories of how human migration may have occurred in pre-historic times. I've always wondered how humans existed in Africa, Eurasia and the Americas long before ship-building could be perfected. Eurasia and Africa not so much, but the Americas just seemed too far away. I admit to never really looking this up; it was just idle wonder about how people could have accomplished more than 10,000 years ago the same kind of things that Columbus and Vasco Da Gama were considered heroes for repeating barely 600 years ago. This video was priceless to me in just being able to provide theories that address these questions better than my imagination of a bunch of enterprising pre-historic humans that built an enormous raft and just floated themselves across the Atlantic.
The video also ends on a very important contemporary note, which addressed a lot of the puzzlement I felt about the simplistic presentation throughout. This video aims to reach the widest audiences possible, and for that, a lot of emotional and personal content seems to have been included. Far more than I'm comfortable with, but understandably so. I would probably have rated it at 3 stars if not for that closing note that sort of justified the travelogue-like presentation for a supposedly scientific discovery narrative.
In summary, I would have loved for there to have been a companion edition of this DVD with much more details on the discovery process (sorely lacking here) and much less footage of pleasantries being exchanged and of Wells 'spreading the message of science'.
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Journery of Man DVD by Bonnie Case (Ohio)  5 Stars
July 09, 2009
Wonderful educational DVD. Fast service packaged very well and the price was excellant, thank you so much. I will plan to do more shopping thru Amazon.
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Tracing mankind around the world by John Reavis Jr. (Haymarket, VA, USA) 5 Stars
June 26, 2009
This is an amazing video. What Dr Wells has done is mind-blowing. I highly recommend this DVD.
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The DNA Genographic Project video by Alice Macdonald Long (Bar Harbor, Maine) 5 Stars
April 04, 2009
This is a very important video that should be shown to all school children and people who have any curiosity about the origins of people. This video explains how National Geographic's Genographic Project has been able to study through DNA, archeological and historical knowledge how people have migrated around the world.
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Educated eye opener by PsyD Student (Philadelphia, PA) 5 Stars
December 29, 2008
I first saw this video in class and was amazed. The history of the research conducted by Dr.Wells and his mentors speaks to the dedication and empirical base behind their results. I bought it for a Human Diversity course I am teaching as I believe it speaks to how interrelated humans are and took from the video the message to appreciate the evolutionary differences in others. I recently also bought a copy for my sister who is studying sociology and anthropology - she continues to thank me...
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