Becoming Human: Unearthing Our Earliest Ancestors

Season 1

2009 · 3 episodes · 2h 41m in all

Episodes

1. 

   1. First Steps

   3 Nov 2009 · 53 min

   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.

2. 

   2. Birth of Humanity

   10 Nov 2009 · 56 min

   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.

3. 

   3. Last Human Standing

   17 Nov 2009 · 52 min

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