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Back up to: The Ascent of Man

1. The Long Childhood

   13/13 Dr Jacob Bronowski takes stock of man's complex and often precarious ascent.
2. Generation upon Generation

   12/13 Dr Jacob Bronowski traces the history of genetics, from Gregor Mendel to DNA.
3. Knowledge or Certainty?

   11/13 Dr Jacob Bronowski considers how absolute certainty is beyond our grasp.
4. World within World

   10/13 The ideas that gave expression to the invisible, intangible structure beneath all matter.
5. The Ladder of Creation

   9/13 Dr Jacob Bronowski recounts the adventures of Alfred Russell Wallace and Charles Darwin.
6. The Drive for Power

   8/13 Dr Jacob Bronowski reflects on the Industrial Revolution.
7. The Majestic Clockwork

   7/13 Dr Jacob Bronowski explores how Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein are connected by light.
8. The Starry Messenger

   6/13 Dr Jacob Bronowski looks at the life, work and trial of Galileo.
9. Music of the Spheres

   5/13 Dr Bronowski gives his own novel proof of Pythagoras' famous theorem.
10. The Hidden Structure

    4/13 Jacob Bronowski examines man's probing of the hidden structure below the visible world.
11. The Grain in the Stone

    3/13 Jacob Bronowski discovers the origins of science in the interaction of hand and brain.
12. The Harvest of the Seasons

    2/13 Jacob Bronowski looks at mankind's move from nomadic pasturage to settled agriculture.
13. Lower than the Angels

    1/13 Jacob Bronowski opens the first programme at the Great Rift Valley of East Africa.