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3. Last Human Standing
This episode examines why modern humans (Homo sapiens) survived while our other ancestral cousins like the Neanderthals died out.
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Becoming Human: Unearthing Our Earliest Ancestors is a documentary TV series that premiered on November 3, 2009. It has 1 season and 3 episodes so far and is still airing new episodes. The latest episode, Season 1 Episode 3 "Last Human Standing", aired on November 17, 2009.
Becoming Human: Unearthing Our Earliest Ancestors is a three-part NOVA's documentary series investigating the recent discoveries transforming our understanding of our human origins. In the first episode, it explores the fossil of "Selam," also known as "Lucy's Child" and examines the factors that caused us to split from the other great apes. In the second episode, it investigates the first skeleton that really looks like us - "Turkana Boy" - a complete specimen of Homo erectus, examines the key innovations that helped early humans thrive, and tells these early humans' migration out of Africa. And in the third episode, it examines why modern humans (Homo sapiens) survived while our other ancestral cousins like the Neanderthals died out. The final episode also examines whether modern humans interbred with Neanderthals by decoding of the Neanderthals genome.
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3 episodes · 1 season
2009 · 3 episodes · Last episode: 16 years ago
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This episode examines why modern humans (Homo sapiens) survived while our other ancestral cousins like the Neanderthals died out.
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This episode investigates the first skeleton that really looks like us - "Turkana Boy" - a complete specimen of Homo erectus, examines the key innovations that helped early humans thrive, and tells these early humans' migration out of Africa.
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This episode explores the fossil of "Selam," also known as "Lucy's Child" and examines the factors that caused us to split from the other great apes.
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The most recent episode of Becoming Human: Unearthing Our Earliest Ancestors, Season 1 Episode 3 "Last Human Standing", aired on November 17, 2009.
Becoming Human: Unearthing Our Earliest Ancestors has 1 season with 3 episodes in total.
Becoming Human: Unearthing Our Earliest Ancestors first aired on November 3, 2009.
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