Duke anthropologist Brian Hare is one of the stars of an upcoming three-part PBS documentary on the links between humans and other primates: The Human Spark.In a nutshell, the show asks, what makes us so different from our nearest relatives? What makes us special? Hare studies chimps, bonobos and domestic dogs in an effort to figure out some of these questions.
Yes, Brian got to meet host Alan Alda, comic actor turned science journalist. In fact, he took Alda to the North Carolina Zoo to meet some chimps.
Social psychologist Tanya Chartrand of the Fuqua School of Business also spent some time with the PBS crew, but it doesn't appear that her segments survived the editing process. You can see what they talked about on the show's blog, however.
The series airs locally on WUNC at 8 p.m. on Jan. 6, 13 and 20. The local PBS affiliate is also doing added programming and a special website.
The National Science Foundation, which underwrote some of the program, prepared this short webcast interview with Alda and the show's producers shortly before the holidays. (46 Minutes)
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