Neanderthals - Meet Your Ancestors - Season 1 - 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.
About Neanderthals - Meet Your Ancestors
Title: Neanderthals - Meet Your Ancestors
First Air Date: 2018-05-13
Last Air Date: 2018-05-20
Status: Ended
Rating: 4/10 (from 4 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 1
Total Episodes: 2
Network: BBC Two
Genres: Documentary
Production Companies: VIXPIX Films, BBC
Synopsis
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.
Cast
Ella Al-Shamahi
Self - Presenter
Andy Serkis
Self - Presenter
Nick Kellington
Self - Ned
Cecily Fay
Self - Nelly
