Neanderthals - Meet Your Ancestors

Season 1

2018 · 2 episodes · 1h 30m in all · 4.0/10

Episodes

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   1. Episode 1

   13 May 2018 · 45 min · 4.0/10

   Ella Al-Shamahi, a rising star in Neanderthal research, enlists the skills of Andy Serkis, the master of performance capture, and a group of experts to create, for the first time ever, a scientifically accurate 3D Neanderthal. They discover that Neanderthals were more like us than we ever thought.

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   2. Episode 2

   20 May 2018 · 45 min · 4.0/10

   For around 400,000 years Neanderthals live and thrived right across Europe and Western Europe. But about 40,000 years ago they disappeared. In this second episode in the series, Ella Al-Shamahi - with the help of Hollywood actor Andy Serkis - explores the fate of the Neanderthals, asking why they became extinct, and discovering how they live on inside of us today.