Horror Express (1972) tells the tale of an anthropologist who discovers a frozen hominin in China which, unbeknownst to him, is possessed by a telepathic extraterrestrial life form. It’s basically The Thing on a train. Ross was so excited when he discovered this one that he couldn’t wait until Halloween.
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In this episode:
Optography – How Forensic Scientists Once Tried to “See” a Dead Person’s Last Sight: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-forensic-scientists-once-tried-see-dead-persons-last-sight-180959157/
Early calculations of the age of Earth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Earth#Early_calculations
How the human brain gets its wrinkles: https://www.livescience.com/47421-human-brain-wrinkles.html
Dmanisi – the first humans outside Africa: https://www.science.org/content/article/meet-frail-small-brained-people-who-first-trekked-out-africa
The history of human origin studies (Including Java Man, the Piltdown hoax, and the Taung Child): https://evolution-outreach.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1007/s12052-010-0248-7
