Dr Alice Roberts (Coast Don't Die Young) travels to the ends of the earth to trace the extraordinary beginnings of the human story in The Human Journey a landmark series for BBC Two. Using the latest genetic climate and archaeological evidence she will discover the five epic routes our ancestors took across the globe and the obstacles and brutal challenges they encountered along the way. She will discover where we came from how our ancestors colonised the world and how their journeys changed us. Today's global population is extraordinarily diverse; yet we all share... one thing in common: DNA that tells us one astonishing message - we are all closely related. In this series Alice Roberts will show how most of us descend from a tiny group of men and women who left Africa in a perilous crossing - and then went on to colonise the rest of the world. She will explain how all Europeans living today are descended from just a handful of women why different ethnic groups look the way they do what makes some of us able to tolerate milk and alcohol and why others are great at conserving heat. Alice Roberts will interrogate the evidence to address mysteries including how our ancestors reached Australia without boats and what happened when they came face-to-face with other human species like Homo erectus. She will also explore how they overcame extraordinary challenges - from supervolcanoes to climatic disaster - to become the people we are today. [show more]
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play How did we get here? Following a trail of clues from the latest scientific research Dr Alice Roberts re-traces the greatest ever journey taken by our ancestors Thousands of years ago one small group of our species Homo sapiens crossed out of Africa and into the unknown Their descendants faced baking deserts sweat-soaked jungles and frozen wildernesses and risked everything on the vast empty ocean Within 60000 years they colonised the whole world How did they do it? Why do we their descendants all look so different? And what did we have that meant we were the only human species to survive? Using the evidence from genetics fossils archaeology and climatology Dr Alice Roberts uncovers five epic routes our ancestors took across the globe and the obstacles and brutal challenges they encountered along the way It reveals how our family tree grew and spread out across the world producing all the variety we see in the human species today – but despite all that diversity Alice reveals how astonishingly closely related we all are
All five episodes of the BBC2 documentary series presented by Alice Roberts. Using the latest genetic, climate and archaeological evidence, the series examines the five epic routes that our ancestors took across the globe, and the obstacles and brutal challenges they encountered along the way. It also looks at where the human race came from, how our ancestors colonised the world, and how their journeys changed us, and shows how most of us descend from a tiny group of men and women who left Africa in a perilous crossing - and then went on to colonise the rest of the world.
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