The Incredible Human Journey (2009)

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 5 episodes

Rating

7.7 of 10 from 19 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A presenter travels to different continents to show evidence that early humans migrated out of Africa. Each episode focuses on a different region and the fossil and genetic clues found there.

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What happens

The Incredible Human Journey is a five-episode, 300-minute, science documentary film presented by Alice Roberts, based on her book by the same name. The film was first broadcast on BBC television in May and June 2009 in the UK. It explains the evidence for the theory of early human migrations out of Africa and subsequently around the world, supporting the Out of Africa Theory. This theory claims that all modern humans are descended from anatomically modern African Homo sapiens rather than from the more archaic European and Middle Eastern Homo neanderthalensis or the indigenous Chinese Homo pekinensis. Each episode concerns a different continent, and the series features scenes filmed on location in each of the continents featured. The first episode aired on BBC Two on Sunday 10 May 2009. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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