HUMANITY FROM SPACE
PBS, 8:00 p.m. ET
In shaping history, perspective is everything. This new PBS documentary looks at the evolution of human history, and looks at it from the perspective from outside our planet. This allows for some interesting computer work, and also some very egocentric thinking: Man may be the dominant global species, but the best one for the planet? Arguments could be made for the bees. Or, as both Douglas Adams and Kurt Vonnegut have suggested, the dolphin. Check local listings.