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Americas

Season 1 Episode 1
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Africa

Season 1 Episode 2
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Asia

Asia

Season 1 Episode 3
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Australia

Season 1 Episode 4
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Europe

Season 1 Episode 5
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Episode 5: The Calling

The Calling

Season 4 Episode 5
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When Whales Could Walk

When Whales Could Walk

Season 51 Episode 1
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First Peoples

My Ancestors

There is a close cultural and genetic link between early Australians and modern-day Aborigines; here the ancient and modern story intersect as nowhere else.

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Find out why Neanderthals, with whom early humans in Europe interbred, went extinct.
Australia
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Learn how Homo sapiens, new in Australia and truly alone, managed to survive and flourish.
Asia
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Discover a type of ancient human whose genes helped us face down extinction.
Africa
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Examine research that suggests we humans are patchwork species of hybrids.
Americas
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Learn why a discovery in Mexico may rewrite the story of early migration to the Americas.
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