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Savage Family

Robert Winston explains why Homo ergaster are unlike anything that has walked the earth before, with their advanced life skills.

It is one and a half million years ago and an astonishing apeman has come to dominate Africa. On its trail is Robert Winston, continuing his journey back in time, to meet the creatures who became you and me. He discovers the extraordinary people on the mysterious salt-pans of Southern Africa, and reveals how Homo ergaster are unlike anything that has walked on earthbefore. Hunter, tracker, toolmaker - they have an ability to understand the world around them that is so advanced it lives on in only one animal today - You! We see how they live, love, feed and fight together - how men and women pair-up and rely on one another, and how the basis of the soap-opera of our modern lives is forged in the crucible of their pre-historic home.

30 minutes

Last on

Thu 17 Apr 2003 20:00

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