Walking with Cavemen (2003)

March. 27,2003

7.6

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Walking with Cavemen, 2003, 1 Seasons

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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Walking with Cavemen

March. 27,2003 | 7.6

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Seasons & Episode

Seasons 1 : 2003

4 Episode

Episode 4 - The Survivors

April. 24,2003

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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Episode 3 - Savage Family

April. 10,2003

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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Episode 2 - Blood Brothers

April. 03,2003

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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Episode 1 - First Ancestors

March. 27,2003

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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