Documentary Description
There are seven billion humans on earth, spread across the whole
planet. Scientific evidence suggests that most of us can trace our
origins to one tiny group of people who left Africa around 70,000 years
ago. In this five-part series, Dr Alice Roberts follows the
archaeological and genetic footprints of our ancient ancestors to find
out how their journeys transformed our species into the humans we are
today, and how Homo sapiens came to dominate the planet.
In this programme, the journey continues into Asia, the world's
greatest land mass, in a quest to discover how early hunter-gatherers
managed to survive in one of the most inhospitable places on earth -
the Arctic region of Northern Siberia. Alice meets the nomadic Evenki
people, whose lives are dictated by reindeer, both wild and
domesticated, and discovers that the survival techniques of this very
ancient people have been passed down through generations. Alice also
explores what may have occurred during human migration to produce
Chinese physical characteristics, and considers a controversial claim
about Chinese evolution: that the Chinese do not share the same African
ancestry as other peoples.
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