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First Face of America
Season 45
Episode 4
One unlucky day 13,000 years ago, a slight, malnourished teenager missed her footing and tumbled to the bottom of a 100-foot pit deep inside a cave in Mexico’s Yucatán. Rising seas flooded the cave and cut it off from the outside world—until a team of divers chanced upon her nearly complete skeleton in 2007.
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Explore the promise and perils of new A.I. technologies.
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Follow the quest to recover DNA millions of years old for the very first time.
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Explore the engineering behind Paris’s iconic landmark, the tallest structure of its time.
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New evidence reveals the real story of Easter Island and the builders of its stone heads.
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Giant fossils uncovered in the Sahara Desert reveal new secrets of how whales evolved.
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A family turns to science in their struggle to rediscover a history obscured by slavery.
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Follow the quest to create a lifesaving malaria vaccine.
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The inside story of China’s meteoric rise to the forefront of global innovation.
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How did Earth give rise to humans? See what made our species' existence possible.
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How did life bounce back after a cataclysmic extinction wiped out some 90% of all species?
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See how life made the leap to land, turning a barren landscape into a lush, green world.
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How did life survive on a planet covered in ice from pole to pole?