Neanderthals - Meet Your Ancestors - Season 1 - 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.
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: 7/10 (from 2 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 1
Total Episodes: 2
Network: BBC Two
Genres: Documentary
Production Companies: Unknown
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
Herself - Presenter
Andy Serkis
Himself - Presenter
