Revealing powerful anatomical changes that gave humans the edge over all life on Earth, from walking to jaw shape and thumb movement, while exposing the surprising costs and consequences of our evolutionary journey.
Episode List
S1 • E1
Bones
Revealing the advantages our skeleton has brought us as we learned to walk on two feet; from hunting to tool use.
S1 • E2
Guts
A look at why women and cooking vegetables, rather than men and hunting, enabled one of humankind's greatest evolutionary leaps.
S1 • E3
Brains
The final episode looks at how the human brain evolved, giving us a unique insight into how we relate to each other today.
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Cast
Alice Roberts
Self - Presenter
Brian Richmond
Self - The George Washington University
Svante Pääbo
Self - Max Planck Inst. for Evolutionary Anthropology
