Walking with Cavemen

Walking with Cavemen

Eye-to-eye with your ancestors.

Ended First aired 27/Mar/2003 United Kingdom English 1 season(s) 4 episode(s)
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Professor Robert Winston meets Lucy, the first upright ape, and follows her ancestors on the three-million-year journey to civilisation.
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Season 1 · Series 1
4 episode(s) · Air date: 27/Mar/2003
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S1E4
The Survivors
Air date: 24/Apr/2003 · Time: 21:00 · Runtime: 25 min
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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.

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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.

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Savage Family
Air date: 10/Apr/2003 · Time: 21:00 · Runtime: 25 min
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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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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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Blood Brothers
Air date: 03/Apr/2003 · Time: 21:00 · Runtime: 25 min
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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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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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First Ancestors
Air date: 27/Mar/2003 · Time: 21:00 · Runtime: 25 min
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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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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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Robert Winston
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Andrew Sachs
Andrew Sachs
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Jenny Bowers
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Mark Walters
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Tim Goodchild
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Andre Birgisson
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Bret Harding
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Barrie Gower
Barrie Gower
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Julian Murray
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Chris Lyons
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Susan Howard
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Pierre de Lespinois
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Richard Dale
Richard Dale
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