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Neanderthals - Meet Your Ancestors

Neanderthals - Meet Your Ancestors

★ 4.0/10•2018•45m•TV-PG•Documentary
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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.

Vikram Jayanti · Director

StatusEnded
Runtime45m
LanguageEN
First Air DateMay 13, 2018

Episodes

Episode 1 - Episode 1E145m

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.

May 13, 2018

Episode 2 - Episode 2E245m

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.

May 20, 2018

Actors

Ella Al-Shamahi

Ella Al-Shamahi

Self - Presenter

Andy Serkis

Andy Serkis

Self - Presenter

Nick Kellington

Nick Kellington

Self - Ned

Cecily Fay

Cecily Fay

Self - Nelly

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