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The Incredible Human Journey

Episode 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. Alice travels to Africa in search of the birthplace of the first people. They were so few in number and so vulnerable that today they would probably be considered an endangered species. So what allowed them to survive at all? The Bushmen of the Kalahari have some answers - the unique design of the human body made them efficient hunters and the ancient click language of the Bushmen points to an early ability to organise and plan. Humans survived there, but Africa was to all intents and purposes a sealed continent. So how and by what route did humans make it out of Africa? Astonishing genetic evidence reveals that everyone alive today who is not African descends from just one successful, klix group which left the continent in a single crossing, an event that may have happened around 70 thousand years ago. But how did they do it? Alice goes searching for clues in the remote Arabian Desert.

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Episode 2 - Asia

Anatomist Dr Alice Roberts follows in the chilly footsteps of our ancestors who left Africa 70,000 years ago for Siberia, one of the coldest places on Earth. Not that they knew that's where they were going at the time. And judging by the harsh lifestyle of the contemporary Siberian nomads she visits, they'd have turned back if they knew what lay in store. But what puzzles Roberts most is why - if we really did all descend from just one small band of homo sapiens - do the world's populations all look so different from one another? The Chinese have a controversial theory that they don't share our ancestry but, although she listens politely, she's not convinced. But then neither is the team of Chinese geneticists she subsequently meets.

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Episode 3 - Europe

Anatomist Dr Alice Roberts follows in the chilly footsteps of our ancestors who left Africa 70,000 years ago for Siberia, one of the coldest places on Earth. Not that they knew that's where they were going at the time. And judging by the harsh lifestyle of the contemporary Siberian nomads she visits, they'd have turned back if they knew what lay in store. But what puzzles Roberts most is why - if we really did all descend from just one small band of homo sapiens - do the world's populations all look so different from one another? The Chinese have a controversial theory that they don't share our ancestry but, although she listens politely, she's not convinced. But then neither is the team of Chinese geneticists she subsequently meets.

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Episode 4 - Australia

It's one thing trekking from Africa to Europe, but how on earth did our ancestors make the long and dangerous journey to Australia? And when did we arrive Down Under? Frustratingly, these ancient travellers left behind precious few artefacts (and not a hint of a prehistoric raft), so klix their movements is tricky. But plucky Dr Alice Roberts isn't put off. She endures blistering heat, an annoying number of flies and a precarious water crossing to find out. Much of what she finds is inconclusive, although DNA samples and a clever computer program that shows climate changes going back 70,000 years throw up revealing information. And, however unlikely it seems, she's now convinced that Aboriginal Australians, just like her, are descendants of that first group of humans in Africa.

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Episode 5 - The Americas

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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