
The Incredible Human Journey (2009)
Follow in the footsteps of our ancestors and discover how the first humans became you.
There are seven billion humans on Earth, spread across the whole planet. Scientific evidence suggests that most of us can trace our origins to one tiny group of people who left Africa around 70,000 years ago. In this five-part series, Dr Alice Roberts follows the archaeological and genetic footprints of our ancient ancestors to find out how their journeys transformed our species into the humans we are today, and how Homo Sapiens came to dominate the planet.
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1. Out of Africa2009-05-10 · 1h 0mDr Alice Roberts travels the globe to discover the incredible story of how humans left Africa to colonise the world - overcoming hostile terrain, extreme weather and other species
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2. Asia2009-05-17 · 1h 0mIn this programme, the journey continues into Asia, the world's greatest land mass, in a quest to discover how early hunter-gatherers managed to survive in one of the most inhospit
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3. Europe2009-05-24 · 1h 0mWhen our species first arrived in Europe, the peak of the Ice Age was approaching and the continent was already crawling with a rival: stronger, at home in the cold and even (contr
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4. Australia2009-05-31 · 1h 0mAlice looks at our ancestors' seemingly impossible journey to Australia. Miraculously preserved footprints and very old human fossils buried in the outback suggest a mystery: that
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5. The Americas2009-06-14 · 1h 0mHow did Stone Age people reach North and South America? Dr Alice Roberts discovers evidence for an ancient corridor through the Canadian ice sheet that may have allowed those first
Cast
Alice RobertsSelf - PresenterTessa WojtczakNarrator (voice)
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