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Network: BBC Two
Episode Runtime: 45 min.
Season Runtime: 90 min.
Status: Ended
Certification: TV-PG

Neanderthals - Meet Your Ancestors (2018)

Season 1 (May 13, 2018, midnight)

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.

poster

Neanderthals - Meet Your Ancestors (2018)

Season 1 (May 13, 2018, midnight)

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.

70
?
IMDb
7.1
/139/
Trakt
70
/8/
TMDb
70
/2/
Ella Al-Shamahi
Ella Al-Shamahi
Herself - Presenter
Andy Serkis
Andy Serkis
Himself - Presenter

May 13, 2018, midnight 7.0

S1E1 - 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.
May 20, 2018, midnight 7.0

S1E2 - 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.
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Network: BBC Two
Episode Runtime: 45 min.
Season Runtime: 90 min.
Released: May 12, 2018
Last Air Date: May 20, 2018, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: TV-PG / 10+

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