Shaping Humanity: How Science, Art, and Imagination Help Us Understand Our Origins [Full Teaser]

Watch paleoartist John Gurche’s vision of his own direct ancestry in under 2 minutes. Learn how he draws on fossil discoveries and forensic techniques to create transfixing reconstructions of long-lost human ancestors. Shaping Humanity: How Science, Art, and Imagination Help Us Understand Our Origins, Yale University Press, November 2013. Video copyright © 2013 by Yale University.