The Incredible Human Journey

There are seven billion humans on Earth, spread across the whole planet. Scientific evidence suggests that most of us can trace our origins to one tiny group of people who left Africa around 70,000 years ago. In this five-part series, Dr Alice Roberts follows the archaeological and genetic footprints of our ancient ancestors to find out how their journeys transformed our species into the humans we are today, and how Homo Sapiens came to dominate the planet.

First Aired

May 10, 2009

Last Aired

Jun 14, 2009

Episode Runtime

1h 0m

Created By

Michael Mosley

Network

BBC Two

Country

GB