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Origins of Us (2011) | ecco

Origins of Us

Origins of Us

1

Season

2011

UK

8.1

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

Bones

S1 • E1

Bones

Revealing the advantages our skeleton has brought us as we learned to walk on two feet; from hunting to tool use.

Guts

S1 • E2

Guts

A look at why women and cooking vegetables, rather than men and hunting, enabled one of humankind's greatest evolutionary leaps.

Brains

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

Alice Roberts

Self - Presenter

Brian Richmond

Self - The George Washington University

Svante Pääbo

Svante Pääbo

Self - Max Planck Inst. for Evolutionary Anthropology

Clive Finlayson

Clive Finlayson

Self - Gibraltar Museum

Rick Potts

Self - Smithsonian Institution

Daniel Lieberman

Daniel Lieberman

Self - Harvard University

Peter Ungar

Self - University of Arkansas

Jeremy DeSilva

Self - Boston University

Elizabeth Herrelko

Self - Edinburgh Zoo

Kris Hern

Self - Zoo Manager, Twycross Zoo