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About The Incredible Human Journey

The Incredible Human Journey is a documentary TV series that premiered on BBC Two on May 10, 2009. It has 1 season and 5 episodes so far and has ended. The latest episode, Season 1 Episode 5 "The Americas", aired on June 14, 2009.

There are seven billion humans on Earth, spread across the whole planet. Scientific evidence suggests that most of us can trace our origins to one tiny group of people who left Africa around 70,000 years ago. In this five-part series, Dr Alice Roberts follows the archaeological and genetic footprints of our ancient ancestors to find out how their journeys transformed our species into the humans we are today, and how Homo Sapiens came to dominate the planet.

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Episodes

5 episodes · 1 season

Season 1

2009 · 5 episodes · Last episode: 17 years ago

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    5. The Americas

    Finale

    How did Stone Age people reach North and South America? Dr Alice Roberts discovers evidence for an ancient corridor through the Canadian ice sheet that may have allowed those first people through. But some very ancient finds in southern Chile seem to suggest a very different way into the Americas; an ancient human skull discovered in Brazil even points to an Australasian origin of the Americans. Could a route from Australia across the Pacific have been possible?

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    4. Australia

    Alice looks at our ancestors' seemingly impossible journey to Australia. Miraculously preserved footprints and very old human fossils buried in the outback suggest a mystery: that humans reached Australia almost before anywhere else. How could they have travelled so far from Africa, crossing the open sea on the way, and do it thousands of years before they made it to Europe?

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    3. Europe

    When our species first arrived in Europe, the peak of the Ice Age was approaching and the continent was already crawling with a rival: stronger, at home in the cold and even (contrary to the popular image) brainier than us. So how did the European pioneers survive first the Neanderthals and then the deep freeze as they pushed across the continent?

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    2. Asia

    In this programme, the journey continues into Asia, the world's greatest land mass, in a quest to discover how early hunter-gatherers managed to survive in one of the most inhospitable places on earth - the Arctic region of Northern Siberia.

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    1. Out of Africa

    Dr Alice Roberts travels the globe to discover the incredible story of how humans left Africa to colonise the world - overcoming hostile terrain, extreme weather and other species of human. She pieces together precious fragments of bone, stone and new DNA evidence and discovers how this journey changed these African ancestors into the people of today.

Cast & crew

Created by Michael Mosley

  • Kyle Brown

    Self

  • Raj Ramesar

    Self

  • Jeffrey Rose

    Self

  • Xinzhi Wu

    Self

  • Jin Li

    Self

  • Bruce Bradley

    Self

  • Nicholas Conard

    Self

  • Metin Eren

    Self

  • Katerina Harvati

    Self

  • Clive Finlayson

    Self

  • Richard Neave

    Self

  • Michel Lorblanchet

    Self

  • Jiří Svoboda

    Self

  • Klaus Schmidt

    Self

  • Robert Bednarik

    Self

  • Robert Bednarik

    Self

The Incredible Human Journey FAQ

Will there be new episodes of The Incredible Human Journey?

The Incredible Human Journey has ended, so no new episodes are scheduled. The final episode aired on June 14, 2009.

When did the latest episode of The Incredible Human Journey come out?

The most recent episode of The Incredible Human Journey, Season 1 Episode 5 "The Americas", aired on June 14, 2009.

How many seasons of The Incredible Human Journey are there?

The Incredible Human Journey has 1 season with 5 episodes in total.

When did The Incredible Human Journey first air?

The Incredible Human Journey first aired on BBC Two on May 10, 2009.

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