Ultimate Survivor: The Mystery of Us (Part 1)

  • 10 years ago
Feature-length overview of the various leaps and cul-de-sacs of human evolution. This part takes us from the 3 million year-old ape-like hominids Lucy (Australopithecus Afarensis) and Flatface (Kenyanthropus Platyops) to the more human-like Homo Erectus, and its less-successful competitor Paranthropus Robustus.

Similar but more concise than PBS' Becoming Human; Robert Winston's Walking with Cavemen might be my pick for telling the story of human evolution in bitesize chunks though. Still, worth a look.

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