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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.
Last Episode Aired
2003-04-24
S1E4 — The Survivors
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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Robert Winston
Himself - Presenter
Andrew Sachs
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