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Walking with Cavemen
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Professor Robert Winston meets Lucy, the first upright ape, and follows her ancestors on the three-million-year journey to civilisation.
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- S01E01First AncestorsMarch 27, 2003—Journeying millions of years into the past, Winston goes on the trail of Australopithecus afarensis, an ape who took the first step towards
- S01E02Blood BrothersApril 3, 2003—Two species of ape-man feature in the second of Professor Robert Winston's series on human ancestry: the gentle, root-munching Paranthropus
- S01E03Savage FamilyApril 10, 2003—An extraordinary new breed of ape-man called homo ergaster has taken over Africa. They are expert tool-makers, food-finders and travellers,
- S01E04The SurvivorsApril 24, 2003—A focus on a group of Homo heidelbergensis, advanced tool users who lived in family units but who were incapable of imagination, and their d
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