Walking with Cavemen

2003 • BBC

3.6

14 reviews

Rating

Eligible

Season 1 episodes (4)

1 Walking With Cavemen - First Ancestors

3/27/03

Journeying millions of years into the past, Professor Robert Winston goes on the trail of Australopithecus afarensis, an ape who took the first step towards modern man. See how bi-pedalism opens the door to an astonishing set of new skills and abilities that change the shape of human life on Earth.

2 Walking With Cavemen - Blood Brothers

4/3/03

Two specimens of ape-man feature in the second of Professor Robert Winston's series on human ancestry - the gentle, root-munching Paranthropus boisei and the enterprising scavenger Homo habilis. Who had the best strategy for survival in their prehistoric world?

3 Walking With Cavemen - Savage Family

4/10/03

An extraordinary new breed of ape-men called Homo egaster has taken over Africa. They are expert tool makers, food-finders and travellers, but where they differ most from their predecessors is in their communal lifestyle. The third instalment of Professor Robert Winston's series on human ancestry travels back one and a half million years to explore this innovative creature.

4 Walking With Cavemen - The Survivors

4/17/03

The path of human evolution split into two 300 000 years ago. While the Neanderthal had adapted to the European Ice Age, his African cousin faced a devastating drought. Professor Robert Winston traces our most recent evolutionary history in the last of the four-part series.

About this show

This is a journey of life, death and drama from millions of years ago. This is the inheritance of every man, woman and child on the planet today. Spanning both the immense time-scale of evolutionary change, and the intimacy of individual lives, Walking with Cavemen brings us eye-to-eye with our ancient ancestors. This is the story of how a powerful cocktail of extraordinary traits combined to produce an animal that came to dominate the world. State-of-the-art special effect techniques bring to life scientifically accurate reconstructions of our human ancestors, while computer graphics and innovative digital technology recreate the environment in which the drama of our ape-men unfold. This is the definitive story of human evolution - told in a revolutionary way.

Ratings and reviews

3.6

14 reviews

Samira Daif

December 5, 2015

It was alright I guess but not the best movie I'd like to see

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Rainb0wkid_YT roblox xDgamer

October 20, 2016

Really cool movie

Shelly Machin

May 16, 2020

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