Neanderthals - Meet Your Ancestors

Name: Neanderthals - Meet Your Ancestors
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2018-05-13T00:00:00.000Z
Duration: 45 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Ella Al-Shamahi, Andy Serkis

According to recent science the Neanderthals are not the knuckle-dragging apemen of popular imagination. In fact they are our distant ancestors. About 2% of the DNA of most people is of Neanderthal origin—and it continues to affect us today. Ella Al-Shamahi enlists the skills of Andy Serkis, the master of performance capture, and a group of experts to investigate Neanderthals.

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Neanderthals - Meet Your Ancestors

First Air Date

May 13, 2018

Last Air Date

May 20, 2018

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English

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BBC Two

S01E02

Episode 2

For around 400,000 years Neanderthals live and thrived right across Europe and Western Europe. But about 40,000 years ago they disappeared. In this second episode in the series, Ella Al-Shamahi - with the help of Hollywood actor Andy Serkis - explores the fate of the Neanderthals, asking why they became extinct, and discovering how they live on inside of us today.

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