Human Ape

Human Ape

great apes. The award-winning independent production company Pioneer Productions of London

was commissioned by National Geographic Channels International to produce Human Ape.

Pioneer’s expertise with

Human Ape was executive produced by Stuart Carter for Pioneer Productions and directed by Martin Gorst. It was commissioned by Sydney Suissa, Executive Vice President (Content), National Geographic Channels International, and distributed by National Geographic Channel and

Granada International

.

The show was aired on both the US and internationally on National Geographic Channel beginning in March 2008.

Human Ape includes brief actual footage of

cognitive abilities, communicate through emotions and language, use violence and sex, and utilise tools

to manipulate their environment.

Panbanisha and orangutans Knobi and Azy are extensively shown in the film, with detailed inputs from the Great Ape Trust scientists, Dr. Rob Shumaker, director of orangutan research, and William Fields

, director of bonobo research.

The Pioneer Productions crew filmed at Great Ape Trust in April 2007, where footage included mirror

counter-intuitive

and offer great deal of insights into the inner wiring and workings of the human and simian brains.

The film also briefly touches upon the relationship between the modified FOXP2 gene and the human language development. It documents a British family with a mutated FOXP2 gene which severely affects speech of its members.^{[citation needed]}

References

^ "Human Ape". National Geographic. NGC Asia. Archived from the original on May 13, 2013. Retrieved 26 April 2017.

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_{"... featured in cover stories in Time, Newsweek, and National Geographic ... subject of a "NOVA" documentary ... directly responsible for discoveries ... forced the scientific community ...recast its thinking ... nature of the mind and the origins of language ... Kanzi ... overturned the idea that symbolic language is unique to our species..."}

The 'Human Ape' documentary

[1] "Human Ape". National Geographic. NGC Asia. Archived from the original on May 13, 2013. Retrieved 26 April 2017.

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