Human
Into the Unknown
Season 1 Episode 2 of 5
Around 60,000 years ago, a small group of Homo sapiens migrated into the Middle East, with recent DNA discoveries revealing that every human alive today whose origins are from outside Africa are descendants of this group. Palaeoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi visits the rainforests of Sri Lanka to examine how humans became the only hominid species to make the unforgiving jungle a home using innovative techniques like hunting monkeys with arrowheads made from bones. On the Indonesian Island of Flores, she finds out about the tiny Homo floresiensis and she asks how our ancestors became the first human species to make the 60-mile journey across open ocean to Australia around 45,000 thousand years ago
Human airs on BBC Two England at 9:00 PM, Monday 21 July. (Subtitles, new, audio description.)
Topics
Education ➝ Science ➝ Factual Topics
General
Ella Al-Shamahi
Presenter
Ben Wilson
Director
Matt Barrett
Series Producer
Paul Overton
Executive Producer