Series · 2018 · Documentary

Neanderthals - Meet Your Ancestors

Name: Neanderthals - Meet Your Ancestors
Genre: Documentary
Rating: 4.0
Cast: Ella Al-Shamahi, Andy Serkis, Nick Kellington, Cecily Fay

★4.0 2018 1 Season TV-MA

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.

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Seasons & episodes

1 season · 2 episodes

Episode 01

Episode 1

May 13, 2018 · 45 min

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.

Episode 02

Episode 2

May 20, 2018 · 45 min

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.

About the series

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Audience score

★ 4.0 /10

based on 4 votes

Synopsis

Documentary

Cast

4 principal cast

Ella Al-Shamahi

Self - Presenter

Andy Serkis

Self - Presenter

Nick Kellington

Self - Ned

Cecily Fay

Self - Nelly

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