Season 1

Becoming Human: Unearthing Our Earliest Ancestors

3 Episodes Premiered November 3, 2009

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Episodes

First Steps
EP 1

First Steps

Nov 3, 2009

This episode explores the fossil of "Selam," also known as "Lucy's Child" and examines the factors that caused us to split from the other great apes.

View Details 53 MIN
Birth of Humanity
EP 2

Birth of Humanity

Nov 10, 2009

This episode investigates the first skeleton that really looks like us - "Turkana Boy" - a complete specimen of Homo erectus, examines the key innovations that helped early humans thrive, and tells these early humans' migration out of Africa.

View Details 56 MIN
Last Human Standing
EP 3

Last Human Standing

Nov 17, 2009

This episode examines why modern humans (Homo sapiens) survived while our other ancestral cousins like the Neanderthals died out.

View Details 52 MIN