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Walking with Cavemen

Eye-to-eye with your ancestors.

Documentary

Professor Robert Winston meets Lucy, the first upright ape, and follows her ancestors on the three-million-year journey to civilisation.

Mar 27, 20031 seasons4 episodesEndedEN

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Robert Winston

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Andrew Sachs

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Seasons

Series 1

4 episodes

Premiered Mar 27, 2003

Episodes

1–4 of 4

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Ep 1

First Ancestors

Mar 27, 2003

25m

Journeying millions of years into the past, Winston goes on the trail of Australopithecus afarensis, an ape who took the first step towards modern man.

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Ep 2

Blood Brothers

Apr 3, 2003

25m

Two species of ape-man feature in the second of Professor Robert Winston's series on human ancestry: the gentle, root-munching Paranthropus boisei and the enterprising scavenger Homo habilis. Who had the best strategy for survival in their prehistoric world?

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Ep 3

Savage Family

Apr 10, 2003

25m

An extraordinary new breed of ape-man called homo ergaster has taken over Africa. They are expert tool-makers, food-finders and travellers, but where they differ most from their predecessors is in their communal lifestyle. The third instalment of Professor Robert Winston's series on human ancestry travels back one-and-half million years to explore this innovative creature.

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Ep 4

The Survivors

Apr 24, 2003

25m

A focus on a group of Homo heidelbergensis, advanced tool users who lived in family units but who were incapable of imagination, and their descendents the Neanderthals and Homo sapiens, who came to conquer the world.