Man on Earth: The Triumph of Homo Sapiens

Tony Robinson explores how a small group of our earliest African ancestors were rescued from extinction by the last great global warming 130000 years ago. The barren landscape surrounding the oases in which they lived was transformed to lush savannah enabling them to traverse the continent and eventually make it to Europe.As temperatures rose so they would also later fall: in the Russia steppes Dr Joy Singarayer finds out how the European Homo Sapiens adapted to survive the last great Ice Age.But not all humans coped so well. In Gibraltar Tony finds the last resting place of our Neanderthal cousins. Lacking our social brains which enabled us to trade and get help from outsiders the Neanderthals starved dying out in lonely communities and even resorting to cannibalism.

Movie Genres: Anatomy, Geography, Nature, Science-Technology, Society

Movie Released: 7 Dec, 2009

Video Length: 47 min

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