Neanderthals - Meet Your Ancestors (2018)
Synopsis
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.
First Air Date: 2018-05-13
Last Air Date: 2018-05-20
Number of Seasons: 1
Number of Episodes: 2
Networks: BBC Two
Top Cast
- Ella Al-Shamahi as Self - Presenter
- Andy Serkis as Self - Presenter
- Nick Kellington as Self - Ned
- Cecily Fay as Self - Nelly
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None (2018)
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Ep. 1: Episode 1
Ella Al-Shamahi, a rising star in Neanderthal research, enlists the skills of Andy Serkis, the master of performance capture, and a group of experts to create, for the first time ever, a scientifically accurate 3D Neanderthal. They discover that Neanderthals were more like us than we ever thought.
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Ep. 2: 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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