Season 1

2009-11-03 · 53m

This episode explores the fossil of "Selam," also known as "Lucy's Child" and examines the factors that caused us to split from the other great apes.

2009-11-10 · 56m

This episode investigates the first skeleton that really looks like us - "Turkana Boy" - a complete specimen of Homo erectus, examines the key innovations that helped early humans thrive, and tells these early humans' migration out of Africa.

2009-11-17 · 52m

This episode examines why modern humans (Homo sapiens) survived while our other ancestral cousins like the Neanderthals died out.