M*A*S*H* Star Been...Gone
Yes, Alan Alda was here Tuesday.
Yes, I knew he was coming.
Yes, I haven't blogged about it until now. (He didn't need to be distracted by "M*A*S*H*" and "The West Wing" fans.)
He was doing important work on an upcoming PBS special "The Human Spark", a three-part documentary about what makes us human, due to air next year.
Alda, who also met with researchers at Duke University on Monday, started filming last week and said he will tape additional segments in France, England and South Africa, as well as in the Pacific Northwest. Duke primatologist Brian Hare suggested the NC Zoo as a shooting location, zoo spokesman Rod Hackney said.
As Alda explained, humans and chimps share 98 or 99 percent identical DNA. The documentary will examine the 1 or 2 percent difference.
"What really is it that makes us, us? How are we different from these chimps that we're going to see out here? Chimps are our closest cousins in the animal world... but that one percent makes a gigantic difference."
Yes, I knew he was coming.
Yes, I haven't blogged about it until now. (He didn't need to be distracted by "M*A*S*H*" and "The West Wing" fans.)
He was doing important work on an upcoming PBS special "The Human Spark", a three-part documentary about what makes us human, due to air next year.
Alda, who also met with researchers at Duke University on Monday, started filming last week and said he will tape additional segments in France, England and South Africa, as well as in the Pacific Northwest. Duke primatologist Brian Hare suggested the NC Zoo as a shooting location, zoo spokesman Rod Hackney said.
As Alda explained, humans and chimps share 98 or 99 percent identical DNA. The documentary will examine the 1 or 2 percent difference.
"What really is it that makes us, us? How are we different from these chimps that we're going to see out here? Chimps are our closest cousins in the animal world... but that one percent makes a gigantic difference."
Labels: Alan Alda, Brian Hare, chimpanzee, Duke university, M*A*S*H*, NC Zoo
posted by Russ Williams at
12:03 PM
1 Comments:
This is great news, I think this could be very beneficial start to getting us out to more people. Cant wait to hear more about this.
Brian
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