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Americas
S1 Ep1 | 54m 41s

Learn why a discovery in Mexico may rewrite the story of early migration to the Americas.

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Africa
S1 Ep2 | 54m 41s

Examine research that suggests we humans are patchwork species of hybrids.

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Asia
S1 Ep3 | 54m 42s

Discover a type of ancient human whose genes helped us face down extinction.

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Australia
S1 Ep4 | 54m 42s

Learn how Homo sapiens, new in Australia and truly alone, managed to survive and flourish.

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Europe
S1 Ep5 | 54m 42s

Find out why Neanderthals, with whom early humans in Europe interbred, went extinct.

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Official Trailer
2m 4s

See how the mixing of prehistoric human genes led the way for our species to thrive.

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The Dangers of Genetic Isolation
2m 5s

Witness the dangers of genetic isolation exemplified by the duck-billed platypus.

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An Impossible Task
2m 34s

Scientists demonstrate the challenges in reconstructing DNA from a Neanderthal bone.

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Eva of Naharon – The First American?
S1 Ep1 | 1m 2s

Eva of Naharon was discovered in 2008 on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.

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The Clovis Point – The First American Invention
S1 Ep1 | 48s

The Clovis point is an amazing piece of Stone Age technology used to hunt animals.

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Next on Episode 1 | Americas
S1 Ep1 | 30s

Learn why a discovery in Mexico may rewrite the story of early migration to the Americas.

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Omo 1 – The World’s First Modern Human
S1 Ep2 | 59s

195,000 years ago, Omo-1 was a hunter prowling the east African savanna.

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The Secret to Our Success – Connectivity
S1 Ep2 | 2m 19s

200,000 years ago, a new species appeared on the African landscape.

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Next on Episode 2 | Africa
S1 Ep2 | 30s

Examine research that suggests we humans are patchwork species of hybrids.

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The Curious Species
S1 Ep3 | 1m 22s

Explore what motivated early human migration to Asia.

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The Denisovans – A New Type of Human Discovered by Genetics
S1 Ep3 | 1m 25s

Discover the ancient humans living across Asia when Homo sapiens arrived.

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Next on Episode 3 | Asia
S1 Ep3 | 30s

Discover a type of ancient human whose genes helped us face down extinction.

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My Ancestors
S1 Ep4 | 2m 4s

The close cultural and genetic link between early Australians and modern-day Aborigines.

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Next on Episode 4 | Australia
S1 Ep4 | 30s

Learn how Homo sapiens, new in Australia and truly alone, managed to survive and flourish.

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The First Modern European
S1 Ep5 | 2m 14s

Archaeologists uncover a modern human in a European cave.

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A Human Hybrid?
S1 Ep5 | 1m 28s

When Homo sapiens turned up in prehistoric Europe, they ran into the Neanderthals.

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Next on Episode 5 | Europe
S1 Ep5 | 30s

Find out why Neanderthals, with whom early humans in Europe interbred, went extinct.

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Archaeological evidence of Neanderthal ingenuity
3m 7s

Neanderthal used lissoir tools in ways similar to contemporary leather workers.

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The Max Planck Institute
7m 43s

The Max Planck Institute is a leader in the study of ancient DNA.

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Archaeologist João Zilhão explains how Oase-1 may have died
5m 40s

Oase-1 is the oldest definitively modern human found anywhere in Europe.

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Discovering Eva of Naharon
5m 9s

Eva of Naharon dates 5,000 years before homo sapiens were thought to have enter America.

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“The Way In” with John Erlandson
4m 43s

Jon Erlandson believes the first Americans came by boat as early as 16,000 years ago.

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What the remains of Kennewick man reveal with Doug Owsley
6m

One of the most complete prehistoric skeletons in North America is known as Kennewick Man.

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DNA evidence of the Australian migration
2m 11s

Archaeology tells us that humans were present in Australia at least 40,000 years ago.

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How Mungo Man was discovered
4m 51s

42,000 years ago a man was buried by a lakeside in Australia.

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Ancestral and modern cultures connect
3m 19s

A sense of connectedness is still engrained within Aboriginal culture.

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Archaeologist Jeff Rose
5m 8s

Archaeologist Jeff Rose pieces together the route taken by the first people out of Africa.

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Meet the woman from Tam Pa Ling
5m 21s

The woman from Tam Pa Ling was living in the hills of Laos 63,000 years ago.

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Meet Homo erectus, the first inhabitants of Asia
4m 58s

Homo sapiens are now the only humans on the planet. But it wasn’t always this way.

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How did interbreeding help modern humans survive in Asia?
5m 1s

Just how influential were the genes we inherited from our evolutionary cousins?

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What do we know about Omo-1’s life?
5m 3s

Omo 1 was discovered in 1967, but scientists didn’t realize he was 195,000 years old.

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Where in Africa did our species arise?
2m 21s

In the early days of our species, different groups must have been connected in some way.

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When modern humans left Africa, who did they meet?
3m 33s

In 2010 geneticists managed to crack the genetic code of a Neanderthal.

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Israel Hershkovitz at Manot
1m 52s

Specimens found in Israel reveal interbreeding between modern humans and Neanderthals.