Walking with Cavemen
2 Episodes
Professor Robert Winston meets Lucy, the first upright ape, and follows her ancestors on the three-million-year journey to civilisation. Broadcast in 2003, Walking with Cavemen combined special effects with the latest scientific theories, to show us what it really means to be human.
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Walking with Cavemen: Episode 1 - First Ancestors
Episode 1
It's 3.5 million years ago and in East Africa a remarkable species of ape roams the land. Australopithecus afarensis has taken the first tentative steps towards humanity by standing and walking on two legs.
This film follows a close-knit troop of afarensis, and in particular, Lucy and her young ...
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Walking with Cavemen: Episode 2 - Blood Brothers
Episode 2
The Africa of two million years ago is a crossroads in human evolution. Half a dozen or more different species of ape-men exist alongside one another. Each of them has exploited the environment in a different way and has developed their own strategy for survival.
'Blood Brothers' follows the liv...
