Human

BBC Two England

9:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Monday 28 July

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Ella Al-Shamahi looks at the demise of modern humans' sister species the Neanderthals, with new insights revealing Homo sapiens's possible role in their downfall. Around 55,000 years ago, Homo sapiens ventured into Europe, only to find it was already occupied by Neanderthals, who had lived there for almost 400,000 years. Ella Al-Shamahi finds out just how close the two species became when she sees evidence of interbreeding and reveals how during the Ice Age in Europe, Neanderthals held the evolutionary upper hand with a physiology better built for the cold